My review: Balupu
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One thing has always intrigued movie lovers of the south. Telugu film industry is by far the richest industry down south, technically far superior and has the widest release among all the south Indian language movies. Yet sadly content wise they still languish at the bottom harping onto the same mass masala template from the 80's and 90's. Nothing seem to change over the years except the actors, actresses and the technicians.
Tamil film industry has always been known to have equal footing in both commercial mass masala as well as classy story oriented movies. In the past few years after repeated failure of mindless commercial movies, even those staring the A-list actors , it is going through a heartening phase of content getting more importance than anything else. Malayalam movies have always been meaningful and had content. Especially over the last couple of years there is a sea change in the manner in which script and scriptwriters are given more importance than anything else. These are exciting times there in Malayalam cinema industry. Even Kannada film industry is showing promise in the form new young directors trying out new subjects and themes in spite of the regular flow of remakes.
But the Telugu movies are still following the same age old template of a girl in the distress first scene followed by the Hero introduction who saves the girl from the group of gundas mouthing couple of corny punch lines along the way. Cut to the next scene, heroine introduction in a pub who is as always as dumb as you could get accompanied by a even dumber crony. Cut to the next scene a menacing sickle/pistol wielding Villain and then a loving sentimental father are introduced one by one.
Initial tit for tat game between the hero and heroine ends up invariably in Heroine falling in love albiet one-sided even after getting subjected to loads of insults. Then comes the Interval bang with stuntmen flying all over the place when the real identity of the hero is revealed. After the break comes the flashback where there would be another heroine purely for sentimental purpose who would invariable get killed. She would give a long sermon on why the hero should mend his ways and look out for another girl to marry in the ICU, before breathing her last...! After a fast dance number with heroine brandishing her midriff in flashy costumes and another couple of high octane over the top action sequences , movie ends with the entire cast flashing their Colgate smile on the screen...!!!
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Ridiculous is the word. Whether to blame the laziness of the makers or the inanity of the viewers which is resulting in movie of such banal nature getting released in Telugu Friday after Friday. Read somewhere that Shruthi Hassan has told that she is not getting enough challenging role in Tamil as the reason for not acting that much in Tamil. After acting in such a dumb character one wonders what she meant by "challenging". Is it that silly brandishing of your dancing skills for "jampak japang" at the most ridiculous of situation in the movie. Wonder what was the director thinking when he kept that "jampak japang " scene in the climax when the two gangs shake their hip tit for tat..!! sigh..!!!
Ravi Teja does what he is comfortable with but how long he plans to do the same thing time and again. Shruthi Hassan comes in a pedestrian "telugu glam " heroine role. It is a shocker from her considering her lineage. Anjali in another mundane "heart of gold, homily telugu" heroine role. Prakash Raj, Ashutosh Rana and his gang of Villains roam around the screen with menacing eyes and loads of weapons.
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Thaman continues from where he left in his umpteen Telugu movies. Couple of foot-tapping numbers, couple of melodies strictly adhering to the template.
Jayanan Vincent captures all the masala elements that need to be captured studiously.
On the whole, I don't know how the Telugu audience would take it, but for the rest of us it is pain sitting in the movie theater for two and half hours. May be it is my mistake to venture into the theater showing this movie for they make movie for their audience and hence this not nice on my part to barge into their territory and cry about it.
Bottomline: Ridiculously hackneyed.
1.5/5
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One thing has always intrigued movie lovers of the south. Telugu film industry is by far the richest industry down south, technically far superior and has the widest release among all the south Indian language movies. Yet sadly content wise they still languish at the bottom harping onto the same mass masala template from the 80's and 90's. Nothing seem to change over the years except the actors, actresses and the technicians.
Tamil film industry has always been known to have equal footing in both commercial mass masala as well as classy story oriented movies. In the past few years after repeated failure of mindless commercial movies, even those staring the A-list actors , it is going through a heartening phase of content getting more importance than anything else. Malayalam movies have always been meaningful and had content. Especially over the last couple of years there is a sea change in the manner in which script and scriptwriters are given more importance than anything else. These are exciting times there in Malayalam cinema industry. Even Kannada film industry is showing promise in the form new young directors trying out new subjects and themes in spite of the regular flow of remakes.
But the Telugu movies are still following the same age old template of a girl in the distress first scene followed by the Hero introduction who saves the girl from the group of gundas mouthing couple of corny punch lines along the way. Cut to the next scene, heroine introduction in a pub who is as always as dumb as you could get accompanied by a even dumber crony. Cut to the next scene a menacing sickle/pistol wielding Villain and then a loving sentimental father are introduced one by one.
Initial tit for tat game between the hero and heroine ends up invariably in Heroine falling in love albiet one-sided even after getting subjected to loads of insults. Then comes the Interval bang with stuntmen flying all over the place when the real identity of the hero is revealed. After the break comes the flashback where there would be another heroine purely for sentimental purpose who would invariable get killed. She would give a long sermon on why the hero should mend his ways and look out for another girl to marry in the ICU, before breathing her last...! After a fast dance number with heroine brandishing her midriff in flashy costumes and another couple of high octane over the top action sequences , movie ends with the entire cast flashing their Colgate smile on the screen...!!!
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Ridiculous is the word. Whether to blame the laziness of the makers or the inanity of the viewers which is resulting in movie of such banal nature getting released in Telugu Friday after Friday. Read somewhere that Shruthi Hassan has told that she is not getting enough challenging role in Tamil as the reason for not acting that much in Tamil. After acting in such a dumb character one wonders what she meant by "challenging". Is it that silly brandishing of your dancing skills for "jampak japang" at the most ridiculous of situation in the movie. Wonder what was the director thinking when he kept that "jampak japang " scene in the climax when the two gangs shake their hip tit for tat..!! sigh..!!!
Ravi Teja does what he is comfortable with but how long he plans to do the same thing time and again. Shruthi Hassan comes in a pedestrian "telugu glam " heroine role. It is a shocker from her considering her lineage. Anjali in another mundane "heart of gold, homily telugu" heroine role. Prakash Raj, Ashutosh Rana and his gang of Villains roam around the screen with menacing eyes and loads of weapons.
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Thaman continues from where he left in his umpteen Telugu movies. Couple of foot-tapping numbers, couple of melodies strictly adhering to the template.
Jayanan Vincent captures all the masala elements that need to be captured studiously.
On the whole, I don't know how the Telugu audience would take it, but for the rest of us it is pain sitting in the movie theater for two and half hours. May be it is my mistake to venture into the theater showing this movie for they make movie for their audience and hence this not nice on my part to barge into their territory and cry about it.
Bottomline: Ridiculously hackneyed.
1.5/5
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