Friday, May 4, 2012

Movie Review - Ishq (Telugu) - A visual treat!!

I've been waiting three years for his film. Finally, it's here and it's worth the wait. The uncanny camera angles, camera churn, patented BLUR effect, vignetting effect with a slight color aberration, giving a golden aura to the set, darkening the scene slightly and focusing the sunlight on the lead pair in a song, shooting a fight scene in pitch dark, appropriate use of steady cams. It has got them all. I've realized that an ordinary scene becomes an extra-ordinary one when "God of Indian cinematography" P C Sreeram nurtures it to perfection!!

That's about the camera part. Coming to the movie, it's a romantic comedy with subtle elements of emotion. Nitin and Nithya play their part perfectly and share an awesome on-screen chemistry. The icing on the cake is the music and phenomenal BGMs given by Anoop Rubens. The songs are already on top of the charts, which is evident from the audience doing a karaoke as the songs appear on screen. After listening to lot of noise created by composers in recent times (I am referring to the obvious ones who are making musicals), this comes like a whiff of fresh air. As every other Telugu movie this one has got some loop holes but they get shadowed with its technical department firing on all cylinders. After a long hiatus I've relived the "first day first show" moments.

P.S. As the end credits roll, one can see the camera department is larger than the direction department. That's the awesomeness of P C Sreeram.


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