Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Das Das Kalidas... A Review

Title:- Because movie is named Kalidas, Hero was made illiterate or because of the story itself they named movie so is not known to me. They fit the title to movie. First half hero is shown as illiterate and disconnect with academics. Second half hero fights for academics, mind you, he literally fights.

Storyline :- Another movie with flashback. However some suspense hidden in the flashback was handled well. There are bits and pieces missing in flashback and was completed in a hurry. Kali(Hero), Dev and Ali (sunil) are good friends. Story starts with a flashback of how they became friends. Kali becomes an orphan and at the tender age he kills one who kills his Police father (Nagababu). This part of flashback is unnecessary and as it is no way connected to story line. Kali was brought up by Dev’s mother and works for Ali’s father in stealing cars. Kali sponsors for Dev’s education. Kali finds heroin in a car he steals and she acts mad for entire first half.

Just before second half Ali gets killed by villains (Vinod Kumar and Ajay) when they kidnap heroin. Hero discovers that Dev and Tamanna are friends and villains killed Dev when he fights for Tamanna’s property in court. Then he starts his fight for education of students by saving institutions run by Tamanna. In the process faces problems from villains and minister and finally kills villains.

Item Song:- Unfortunate Nikhita with zero success in Tollywood is trying to test her luck as item song girl. I wish her all luck.

Analysis:- Old story in a new vessel. Changing the background does not make it fresh. Hero is average looking and does not inherit as much of acting skills from his Grand Pa as he has done of wealth. He is okay with routine dances and fights. Heroin has done some skin show in second half. Vinod kumar has got a promotion from a bad hero to a good villain. Direction is not too bad. I was glad to see that he did not create a duet for heo and heroin until they fall in love. How ever he dragged the story in first half so that he can reveal the suspense at interval and that costed him lot of time and had to abruptly end the movie with out any logical conclusion. Also some songs are abruptly started with out any context.

Conclusion:- Not worth it. If he is not Akkineni’s grand son we would not have seen him any where near the camera. (Same applies for many rising stars

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