Suicide note of a cinephile:
Any movie is not extra-ordinary. It
boils down to the audience who makes it extra-ordinary. It’s better if directors
and writers stop bombarding on social media that their movie is extra-ordinary.
Every time when a promotional activity goes overboard, it kills a film rather
than saving it. So, my humble request is to stop all the blah blah lines and
learn the art of making of a good film.
Of late, it’s difficult to find a decent story line in most of the films even if you look through a telescope. And director Meher Ramesh
is a living testimony to this adage. Sir, please make ordinary movies, at least
they have some content and story. Don’t trouble the audience every time with
a game of Treasure Hunt, err, Story Hunt. You have all the state-of-the-art
faculties who can pen down a perfect script. So, use them to their optimum and
deliver a palatable meal.
Always remember that the gloss and
candy floss enhances the beauty but don’t make the film beautiful. When you
want to make a style sans substance ensemble you are digging your own grave and
in this case you are also digging mine. The china
pillala comedy you showed on screen, always, hit more and more nails in my
coffin. Aa comedy china pillalaki kooda
chiraaku teppinchindi. All the CGI, extravagant set design, exotic locales
can’t hide poor writing. Loose ends can’t make a tight narration. So, please focus on writing and work on scene
composition. By doing this you can
also save a lot of suicides from the audience.
Dookudu is just an entertaining film. It’s not a textbook film on
which you base your thesis. Please stop emulating the comedian characters or
the laughter-induced climax. It worked for it but bombed for all the later
films that tread the same path. Can’t you understand the plight of a recent
flick that bit the dust by taking the same approach? Oh, I missed a vital link.
The writers of all these films are same – Gopi Mohan and Kona Venkat, so no
comments. They are stuck in a mold and can’t push the envelope, but their
shoddy work will definitely send poor souls like me to gallows.
When an average individual like
me can point so many bloopers in the film, why can’t intelligentsia who are part
of the crew point them out? A cop sees a criminal running through the grave
yard. He can’t see his face but can see the cross he is wearing so clearly that
he re-designs it from his memory. Then I expected a Gentleman type connect-the-dots storytelling format. But this clue gets
killed midway. The way a new Mercedes E-class pops out in a 1993 scene opens a
bundle of anachronisms. And sir please, a medical doctor is a psychiatrist and
not a psychologist. I don’t know how a psychiatrist can be a postmortem or autopsy specialist. Doctor friends please help me break this enigma. Suicidal tendency grows with every passing scene.
A major reason for my suicide – I
couldn’t see my favorite hero ‘Victory’ Venkatesh in such a disastrous role. Meher
Ramesh promised that he will re-invent Venky and show us a new him. Kaani
prapramchamlo intha chandaalamayina image make-over evaru chesundaru. Thanks
sir. We shower all the accolades on you and bestow all the available honors on
you for killing our star. You played with our senses and made us forget who the
hero is? At times, we thought M S Narayana is the hero and not Venky. OMG, why should
Venky fall on youngsters – Mahesh, Pawan, NTR and Prabhas – always in the
comedy scenes? That’s another yaaaak moment. That’s the genius of Meher Ramesh. He was not economical in terms of production, but was economical in
dressing, err, undressing Tapsee.
The one who hit the final nail in my coffin
is music director (for lack of a better term we are still bound to call him
that) S S Thaman. The same title track was repeated to death and to boredom of audience
all through the film. Ee vetakaaraniki malli Auro 3D 11.1 sound ane
prachaaram. My question – when you have only one track to play all through the
film why the hell you need 11 channels.
Bottom-line: Paina raasinave
chaala ekkuva. Inka naaku opika ledu. Ayinaa chaava boye mundu chivari maata –
Gaalini muttukoleru , Mantanu tattukoleru
ee Shadow ni choodaleru.
P.S. Please share this suicide
note with everyone who wants to watch Shadow. And, my obituary will be
published at the time of the release of Shadow 2.
My Rating: Expectation – 6/10;
Reality – 3/10
