Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Tollywood shining!
2 movies. 2 fantastic efforts. And 2 movies that demand your ‘critic’ sensibilities to be left behind. Which I duly did. The result is this: I present to you an analysis of these two movies, not reviews per se.
1. Gudumba Shankar
An out and out Pawan Kalyan movie. One that sees the arrogant younger brother of Chiranjeevi at his absolute best in comedy. Pawan Kalyan carries the entire movie on his shoulders and unsurprisingly pulls it off. The story (if at all, it has one...) is very simple. The protagonist Shankar is a small time crook with a golden heart. The heroine falls for him left, right and center, when they go on an adventure together but has to marry the villain to save her family. The rest of the movie is about the protagonist donning the role of a wedding planner and playing tricks by the dozen to make the villain actually fear the heroine! That’s it. As simple as that. But between the starting and the ending of the movie are sandwiched numerous hilarious scenes, 2 superb fight sequences, 6 great songs and the eccentricities of Pawan Kalyan in his dialogue delivery and screen presence.
Being an unabashed, proud fan of this guy, I have embraced the movie for all its plus points and negative points. Even though he is regularly panned in the media for his arrogant attitude, I would urge them to look at his flair for composing fight and song sequences. In the top class “Khushi” movie, he took responsibility for these two departments and excelled in it. In “Gudumba Shankar” too, he dons the mantle again and once again demonstrates to the world that when it comes to conceptualizing fight or song sequences, he is second to none.
The remaining 500 odd (shouting, cheering, whistling) people in the theater with whom I watched this movie will gladly agree with me on this. And am very sure that a large majority of telugu people too will agree with me on this. All in all, a must watch for his fans and for anybody who is looking forward to non stop entertainment!!
2. Sye
Sye means challenge. I went to the movie hall purely on the strength of the trailers. (Go to this link http://www.idlebrain.com/movietape/index.html and download sye’s trailer I and trailer IV. You will understand.). The trailers are an absolute rocker. Very few trailers have that knack of raising your expectations about the movie by having arresting visuals with cool music. These trailers had both the qualities and I was absolutely captivated by them. Would have seen at least 25 – 30 times before I finally took my seat in Jayaprada theater and waited for the movie to start with tremendous expectation. And boy! Was I not treated to a 170 odd min spectacle?? Before we proceed, let me warn you that this movie is only for the young, especially the college going youth. Now, with that firmly set in our mind, let me take you through the wafer thin storyline.
Two gangs in college. Love to slug it out with each other through a game of rugby. A rowdy sheeter gang grabs their college land legally and throws a challenge. A challenge to play a game of rugby with them. If the college wins, they get back their land. If not, they will have to forgo the same. Sounds similar? Does it remind you of lagaan? Yep, the spirit of the story is the same, but that’s not the point here.
The point is that hell lot of credit should go to the director Rajamouli for taking a huge risk by weaving the entire story around the machoism of a totally alien game - rugby. And he weaves it brilliantly. By taking the common elements of “desire to win” and “courage” and interspersing them within the dynamics of a rough, alien game like rugby, he creates an engaging drama (liberally helped by awesome photography) that is bound to delight the audiences. My gut feel is that this will become one of the biggest hits of the season!
2 movies. 2 fantastic efforts. And 2 movies that demand your ‘critic’ sensibilities to be left behind. Which I duly did. The result is this: I present to you an analysis of these two movies, not reviews per se.
1. Gudumba Shankar
An out and out Pawan Kalyan movie. One that sees the arrogant younger brother of Chiranjeevi at his absolute best in comedy. Pawan Kalyan carries the entire movie on his shoulders and unsurprisingly pulls it off. The story (if at all, it has one...) is very simple. The protagonist Shankar is a small time crook with a golden heart. The heroine falls for him left, right and center, when they go on an adventure together but has to marry the villain to save her family. The rest of the movie is about the protagonist donning the role of a wedding planner and playing tricks by the dozen to make the villain actually fear the heroine! That’s it. As simple as that. But between the starting and the ending of the movie are sandwiched numerous hilarious scenes, 2 superb fight sequences, 6 great songs and the eccentricities of Pawan Kalyan in his dialogue delivery and screen presence.
Being an unabashed, proud fan of this guy, I have embraced the movie for all its plus points and negative points. Even though he is regularly panned in the media for his arrogant attitude, I would urge them to look at his flair for composing fight and song sequences. In the top class “Khushi” movie, he took responsibility for these two departments and excelled in it. In “Gudumba Shankar” too, he dons the mantle again and once again demonstrates to the world that when it comes to conceptualizing fight or song sequences, he is second to none.
The remaining 500 odd (shouting, cheering, whistling) people in the theater with whom I watched this movie will gladly agree with me on this. And am very sure that a large majority of telugu people too will agree with me on this. All in all, a must watch for his fans and for anybody who is looking forward to non stop entertainment!!
2. Sye
Sye means challenge. I went to the movie hall purely on the strength of the trailers. (Go to this link http://www.idlebrain.com/movietape/index.html and download sye’s trailer I and trailer IV. You will understand.). The trailers are an absolute rocker. Very few trailers have that knack of raising your expectations about the movie by having arresting visuals with cool music. These trailers had both the qualities and I was absolutely captivated by them. Would have seen at least 25 – 30 times before I finally took my seat in Jayaprada theater and waited for the movie to start with tremendous expectation. And boy! Was I not treated to a 170 odd min spectacle?? Before we proceed, let me warn you that this movie is only for the young, especially the college going youth. Now, with that firmly set in our mind, let me take you through the wafer thin storyline.
Two gangs in college. Love to slug it out with each other through a game of rugby. A rowdy sheeter gang grabs their college land legally and throws a challenge. A challenge to play a game of rugby with them. If the college wins, they get back their land. If not, they will have to forgo the same. Sounds similar? Does it remind you of lagaan? Yep, the spirit of the story is the same, but that’s not the point here.
The point is that hell lot of credit should go to the director Rajamouli for taking a huge risk by weaving the entire story around the machoism of a totally alien game - rugby. And he weaves it brilliantly. By taking the common elements of “desire to win” and “courage” and interspersing them within the dynamics of a rough, alien game like rugby, he creates an engaging drama (liberally helped by awesome photography) that is bound to delight the audiences. My gut feel is that this will become one of the biggest hits of the season!
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