Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Magadheera VS Moogamanasulu

Magadheera - What a grand and feast to the eyes... for a simple 2 janma love story... it is exact opposite of Mooga Manasulu...

The hero remembers his past janma by the touch of a the heroine... He has no contradiction... no confusion... nothing in his mind... he remembers his past life..just like that...however, the heroine doesn't remember anything.......The bad remains bad and the good remain good... no change in characters, intentions, nothing at all.. between the janmas... except for SRIHARI/SharekHan's role..
The first janma's focus was on dances and feats by Ram Charan. He did that superbly..He has a great body and danced with great ease.. he carried off the stunts and feats quite convincingly..
Second half - past janma's focus was on sets and costumes. There are 4 major scenes in second half... all of them inspired/copied from various English movies... superbly copied...

The audience remain spellbound in the movie watching the sets and costumes... the movie is nothing but sets and costumes... larger than life image of the hero...
I was particularly shocked at the following meaningless scenes:
1. The hero tracking the heroine based on her white dress... and not being able to look at the white bottom... and this is not the silliest anyway..
2. The most disturbing/illogical one is in the second janma when the villan pulls off the duppatta (which was not doing anyhting) of the soon to be queen - and the queen behaving like a cheap heroine - covering herself and feeling shy/ashamed rather than attacking the villan or ordering an attack... more silly is villan convincing the king about why he did what he did to drive a point that woman can not rule the country...
3. The villan asking the hero "telisipoinda" - two people talking about their previous janma's... hilarious...
all in all... larger than life sets...projection of the hero... was the name of the game and the audience loved it!!!!!!!!! I couldn't see anyhting in the script/story that showed love or logic or any feeling with conviction.... I was thinking about Moogamanasulu... where every scene between hero and heroine depicts love, emotion, feelings un explained.... the journey...
Today, we as audience, do not expect any logic or script or any meaning... we like fantasy and screen presence... the film makers are getting best at it...
Raja Mouli deserves kudos for delivering a technically brilliant movie!!!!! Rama did great with costumes...