My review: Edegarike
"Edegarike" is an interesting tale of a friendship between two gangsters one killer and the other to-be-killed. The moral dilemma and the clash of personalities, one a ruthless killer without any morals and the other a righteous man who gets into the profession by quirk of fate. It makes up for a riveting watch with the movie under just two hours.
The movie moves at a steady pace and keep one engaged throughout. There are no undue melodrama or over the top action sequences. Interestingly though it deals with the underworld and gang-wars there is only one action sequence. The movie explores more on the psyche of these people, their thought process, differing personalities, etc. So nice to see a movie that speaks about the humane aspect of the criminals without justifying their acts or glorifying the same.
Atul Kulkarni is brilliant as the morally correct Sridhar who is supposed to kill the protagonist but instead ends up becoming a good friend of him. The manner in which he has portrayed the mental agony and dilemma that he is faced with, reaffirms the fact what a great actor he is. Aditya is no match for Atul but tries to keep his end engaged. Most of the movie he has the same blank expressions. Akanksha is pretty and does a decent job as a social activist who falls in love with the gangster. Movie has a strong support cast and they have all delivered their parts with aplomb.
Deepak Pundit is the music director and movie has just one song which is a shooting melody. His background score is adequate. Movie is shot by Rakesh, in spite of the constraints of the budget has done a pretty decent job.
Sumana needs to brush up her directorial skills. Such an enthralling script ought to have made more convincingly. Nonetheless the end product is way better than the other Kannada movies that got released in the recent times.
On the whole, "Edegarike" has gripping story and fine acting that warrants one time watch.
Bottomline: Gutsy
3/5
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