Have you ever felt happy walking out of a theatre thinking that this was the least that you could have blown up on a movie and even that amount forcing you into a sense of regret?
Have you ever felt happy that the movie has finally ended, putting an end to the roughshod that the director rode on you and has the gall to say ‘Thanks’ for watching the movie?
Have you ever felt both the contrasting emotions on a same movie? If your reply to all these questions is in affirmative, then you have watched Puri Jagannath’s latest offering ‘Nenu Naa Rakshasi’. If it is in the negative then you haven’t
The only reason that prevents you from rushing towards the exit doors is the reputation of the director and the fervent hope of something unexpected happening. That this sort of a movie has come from a person, who in the past has wielded megaphone for movies like Idiot, Pokiri, Neninthe, ANOTA is baffling
When the titles are rolled, you can notice on the extreme right in the bottom corner the name of the person who conceptualised the idea. Yeah you guessed it correct. He is the man who has sent the audience into a mass hatred drive against him from January onwards
When he forces his protégés into making mindless movies like this, you tend to totally backaway from the man’s offerings. Yes it is indeed Ram Gopal Varma
Coming back to the movie itself, the only positives in the movie are the performances by the kid and Subba Raju. When the entire humour thread in the movie is woven around entendre and so-called jokes that hit below the belt, you can realise the levels the movie has stooped down to
The less said about the lead cast the better. It is entirely the director’s fault as they are made to repeat their acts till the interval. In fact Rana should consider himself lucky that this was just his second movie. If it was a movie made when he would be an established actor, then he would have laid the foundation for his destruction. Illeana needs some serious career options as after the blockbuster KICK she has delivered four duds in the form of Saleem, Rechipo, Shakthi and now NNR
During the promotion of the movie, Rana asserted that it was a different movie and it was not made keeping the commercial aspects in mind, which was what the trailers suggested. He also stated that after Puri narrated him the story, he went back and wrote down the scenes. Rana also stated once this was done, he was impressed with the story on hand. Now the question to him is if the same script was made into a movie?
Well in his defence, though the critics allege him to be wooden faced, there is not much scope for him to emote in this movie too. You don’t expect snipers to be animated, do you? Well when Mahesh Babu acted in a similar kind of role in Athadu, his acting was called as subtle. So what is the problem in setting the same standards for Rana?
Puri needs to go back to either Ravi Teja or Prabhas to get his range back. What might gladden him is the fact that he has a movie on hand with Mahesh Babu. One more request to the directors is to sincerely keep away from RGV for foreseeable future.
As an audience, you can easily make out that the final scene was not a part of the original script and only added as a ‘feel good’ factor. What was the saying ‘Ab Pachtane se kya laab jab chidiya chug gayi khet ( roughly translated as ‘ no use in crying over split milk’)
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