A great piece by Jayasimha that unleashes the plot holes and bloopers in the movie Sahasam.
Disclaimer:
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This is not a review . With due respect to the unique director Chandrashekhar Yeleti, I don’t intend to question his directorial skills, this is a brief analysis of the plot holes in the movie - Saahasam. This content is meant for movie critics and reviewers. For an ordinary movie goer, the following content may look inappropriate. Please read the following after watching the movie :)
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I am an ardent fan of treasure hunt theme and this excitement made me watch the trailer of Sahasam a repeated number of times to know “what could be the story of this movie?”. As a result I wrote the following article (published in one of my friends blog) about my guess on the story of the movie Sahasam:
I am glad that more than 90% of my prediction has come true but what has disappointed me in the movie is its drag in the narration and a numerous plot holes. These are some unanswered questions. Please feel free to reply if you got answers:
1. When the main character believes in “Naadi kaanidi naakoddu, Naadi annadi adogoddu”, why does he rely so much on luck (by buying lottery tickets)? You can claim that something is yours when you earn it by working hard. What comes by luck is not yours. When he was so excited dreaming of 10 lakhs as reward, then he can negotiate for huge money when the terrorist asks for the locket. The contrasting point here is, if he believes in that dialogue then he cannot aspire for lottery money. This dialogue is justified at the end though, because he takes many pains to earn his ancestor’s diamonds.
2. Gopichand’s father doesn’t know what his father was doing? He even quotes that his father had an old cycle. I agree that if he doesn’t know about diamonds but at least the profession of his father should have been known.
3. How the heck the old bag containing the diary and the papers related to Suman’s property was hidden in the old house in Hyderabad? Suman hadn’t visited this house. Even if you take it as granted that Suman came to the house and hidden it in the rooftop, why the hell, he doesn’t inform his son/any other relative directly that he has property in pakistan and his son is sole owner after him? From the diary, his intention was to make sure his property reaches his son then why to hide it in the roof?
4. Suman gives the locket but not the diary having info about treasure. C'mon!!
5. The artificiality factors -
a. Taapsee organizing a camp to invite people to visit temple in Pakistan.
b. Calling friends by seeing Yellow Pages (in the times of FB, Twitter, WhatsApp etc).
On top of that, she says "Neeku devudante ishtam kada anduke adugutunna" - Hilarious :D
c. Parents giving permission to a girl to go to Pakistan with a stranger to visit temple.
d. Only one person accepts to visit (though his intention was different). Director should have sent at least 3-4 people and by seeing the danger with terrorists, those people should have returned and Gopichand should have carried it forward.
e. Ali’s character was introduced as a head of a security agency, but his behavior was like a regular resident.
f. The Hinglaj Devi temple was shown deserted without any devotees or pujaris though it was told that it was a famous temple.
6. Suman narrates that he saw the secret entrance only once but the traps to treasure were laid during the Kanisha dynasty time. So, how does Suman solve the traps to enter the door present in the well? Suman crosses the bridge, cracks the ‘sound room’ mystery to enter the place - a pillar with swans - that leads to the repository of Kanishka's treasure. He does all this without an iota of knowledge about the hidden dangers and comes out effortlessly.
7. This plot point has a missing logic. To open the box having the map, you need the Garuda locket which acts as its key. It is shown that while searching for the box (having map), one Britisher, David, died inside the cave (with locket on him). But how did he enter the cave? He can enter only if he sees the map and does the 5 stage alignment of the round rock present inside Hinglaj Devi temple. This is a major blooper in the film.
8. Any treasure hunt movie should get into the business as soon as it creates a quick premise but here there is no intense moments till the last 30 minutes of the movie. At some time after the interval, it feels like its not a hunt for treasure but villains hunt for Gopichand to get the locket..!
9. When Ali narrates the rules of Buzkashi sport, Gopichand was lying unconscious. He doesn't know the rules of the game that the game is won if the dead lamb is kept in the circle. When he wakes up, he rides the horse (quick learner!) and then, in an utmost heroic way, he puts Taapsee in the circle and says its your rules. He is not only quick learner but also good listener in unconscious state of mind..!
10. I didn't understand why did the director/story writers create the shortcut pipeline (that gets opened when appropriate weight was kept on swans) to the main treasure room? The main entrance to the treasure is just one room behind..! They show lot of machinery cranking when swans move. If the answer is to send all the things then how did a big golden statue went through that shortcut pipeline? If the answer is to send only small jewellery then why to maintain so much machinery when the main entrance is just behind it. OK..got it..Kanishka might be lazy enough to open the main locker every time to keep small jewellery? :)
On an ending note, I highly appreciate Chandrasekhar Yeleti for attempting this genre and the last 30 minutes in the movie proves his real talent. The writers of this movie deserve a special mention for sketching the traps and the way to solve them.This appreciation is again for last 30 minutes only...:)
