Mukunda Movie Review

Though Mega Heroes keep coming one after other, This Tall and handsome Varun Tej is most awaited among them. And though this director Srikanth Addala made just two films, He created for himself a special place among directors by bringing the sweet native flavor to his films. Altogether Mukunda is one last film of the year that is expected to bid a grand adieu to 2014.

Plot: The Director starts narrating the story as “I did not pen any story for this movie, Let me pick one passenger in this bus and tell his story”. As we see his past films, Srikanth does not believe in telling a very uncommon story, so here too... We have a small town boy, who talks just as much is needed…and is always there for a friend when needed!! Then there is a wicked Municipal Chairman who keeps winning election for past 20 years. So naturally there comes a conflict this time …

Let me talk about the Boy.. The reason we go to this movie..

Varun Tej is striking in a very first sight... Tallest in the clan. Especially his confident dialogue delivery with the senior actor like Rao Ramesh makes us believe he is here to stay. There is an ease in fights. Only the dances lack the punch considering he is related to awesome dancers like Charan and Bunny. Overall it is one of the promising debut.

Pooja hegde is so cute.. But she has only Songs in this film as one surprising factor in the movie is Hero and heroine won’t ever talk to each other.  Though we love to see her in more movies with our heroes, She has allotted all her dates to Hrithik-Asutosh Gowariker’s prestigious project Mohenjo-Daro.

We had four distinguished actors here to talk about.

Rao Ramesh… plays the Chairman. More than that, he plays orator. Continuously talks… seems like sensible.. But I could not sense it whether it made any sense, did I make any sense? Oh that’s what I sensed when he spoke!! ( You should listen to him in movie to get the es”sence” of what I told)

It’s a different role for Prakash Raj…An overly read scholar who speaks lot in depth. Sometimes I felt he got mad as his role was snatched by Rao Ramesh.

Nasser surprisingly is very cool and snatches the show from these two. Lastly Paruchuri garu made his presence felt. 

Seems Sekhar Kammula stopped making movies and started doing guest roles.

50/50

The director Srikanth is given an immense task of introducing this star kid and at the same time need to deliver what audience need. For the first part, he gets a convincing pass marks, as he could prove that his hero could speak well, fight superbly and of course looks pretty in the songs.

But for latter he could not get that pass marks. It starts promisingly setting up the premise, A Hero, his friend in trouble and so he fights for him. And the point is, it just got stuck there in a circle and same track keep coming till the end. And then we had so big intellectual discussions as movie is packed with 4 big actors/orators. Some discussions will make us say “wow”, but many won’t even register properly. As the pair is cute enough, it is convincing that boy-girl just talk through eyes. But in the process they wasted such a beautiful songs situation less. I remembered “Prema-Lekha” where the lovers meet at the climax. But were there duets there??

Finally..

If you are eager to watch the new kid in the block… Sure go watch it, as Varun won’t disappoint. There is inner beauty and sweetness in this semi-rural background one might admire. I love this girl and I was already big fan of these songs given by Mickey J Mayer, so I am convinced of 70% of my money spent. I think Srikanth extracts the best from Mickey than any other.

On the flipside, lack of proper clarity and over the head talk, and a very silent love track might be considerable disappointments.

Half century in the first match…!!

PK not OK

When I first saw Sarfarosh when I was young, I was immensely thrilled and started liking Aamir Khan. Known as Mr. Perfect in making his films. Whether it be Lagaan, Taare Jameen par, 3Idiots.. liked his every movie and one can say he is best of Khans in choosing the scripts. At the same time was in awe for the Rajkumar Hirani’s Munnabhai series. Naturally had lot of expectations when the duo are coming back as PK.

Story: An alien (Aamir) is dropped in the desert by a spaceship to research the life on earth. But immediately his valuable transmitter is being snatched by a thief. Now he has no way to call back his spaceship. So he goes in search of it. People suggest that, only God could save him. And now this alien known as PK, starts searching God. He gets confused with several religions and keeps questioning the Rituals mostly of Hindus. Good thing he exposes a fake sadhu in his journey. And finally somehow connects this to a love story of a Hindu girl(Anushka) and a Pakistani Muslim boy(Sushanth).

Why PK not OK…

Rituals in a religion has their significance and few date back to the social events in the past.

When PK questions why people pray to idols. I remember one thing. On Independence Day and Republic day, we do Flag hoisting and salute to the Indian Flag. Are we saluting to a Pole and a cloth or are we saluting to our motherland? He makes all fuss in temple and breaks coconut in a church.. But why is he stopped on streets itself, before he entering into mosque with the wine bottles?

Is there no better place for the director to showcase the encounter of PK with Lord Shiva than a restroom? And after the famous chasing of Lord shiva on streets, he announces on stage that he met the God in the Restroom. In a country, where many throw money on lavish parties, I could not first comment on few pints of milk used for Abhishekam and I neither support it too.

Questioning the fake sadhu and the concept of “Wrong Numbers” is perfect and had the entire movie on same lines, I would have filled all these paragraphs with praises on Aamir’s acting. But Atleast Sadhus don’t preach on killing innocent in the name of Religion.

The same questioning in OMG was never falsified... the intent of questioning is wrong here.

After watching all this, the enlightenment via a love story where the Boy calls the embassy every day at 9 for this girl too had some wrong signals and felt funnier than the gravity defying fight sequences in Dhoom3.

Powerful yet dumb Alien!!

PK represents a powerful alien, who can grab the entire language and read the mind by holding the hands of a person. And he comes in a space ship. So as we know the potential of his race, Can he not understand the significance of currency? As he foolishly brings in all notebooks, posters printed with Gandhi’s image for buying vegetables!!!! I really wonder how could a planet which had spaceships had no clothes?? 

Problem one has with PK is its partiality and mockery of ones belief without complete knowledge. There are many ways of enlightening people and PK took the wrong way. There are several other ways a movie on integrity of nation can be made. Doesn’t we love Maniratnam’s  “Mumbai” ? While Kamal hassan had so many troubles bringing out Viswaroopam, Aamir cleared the censor simple and minting crores.

By the way .pk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan. Like we use .in for some of our websites, edu.pk, org.pk are used by educational institutes/ non-profit organizations in Pakistan (Please refer to the Wiki of PK).  Whatever it is Aamir lost a fan with his PK is what all I could say. 

0/5