#KGF KANNADA MOVIE NEAR 19083 MOVIE#
But for the northern states, I'll have to say that please go and watch this movie if you love action dramas! This isn't a dull gangster movie or a long documentary, it's just intelligent, smart, stylish, stunning fun with a heart! KGF is a win for the whole Kannada film industry. I don't need to say that this film will set the Box Office down the southern states, on fire. I hope to see more films along the lines of 'Lucia', 'Lifeu Ishtene', RangiTaranga', 'Kirik Party', and 'Thithi' instead of 'K.G.F'. This may be a benchmark for the Kannada film industry, but it's high time they realize they're still way behind when it comes to quality content and story-telling, because well, a brilliant technical crew can only do so much to elevate a mediocre screenplay. Yash sleepwalks through the role of Rocky - one which thankfully doesn't require the greatest acting capabilities. I'm not exactly sure if it's the packaging that impressed audiences or the frequent massy reminders it definitely isn't the screenplay. I agree that a gangster movie needs its share of crowd-pleasing moments and even then, K.G.F Chapter 1 isn't a lot beyond an overly indulgent star vehicle. I wish the director spent less time trying to write scenes glorifying Rocky and instead, focused on telling a more compelling story with well-rounded characters. K.G.F Chapter 1 certainly has a better second half (once the film shifts to the gold mine), though that it isn't saying much. At the end of the day, they're just brawny halfwits who are not worthy of even tying the hero's shoelaces. However, none of them manages to leave an impression. The villains? I like how Prashant Neel tried to bring to the forefront not one, but a whole array of them. Well, here's hoping she has something more to do in the sequel. In fact, the protagonist's mom (who appears in flashbacks) and a struggling pregnant mother at the gold mine receive better treatment than the heroine. In a film such as this, it would be criminal to even consider a well-written role for the heroine. She shows up in a couple of scenes (and a song) that do nothing but stretch the film's first half. The heroine, unfortunately, is a mere prop. Where Neel lacks in the screenplay, he tries to compensate with cinematic gimmicks. Prashant Neel attempts the same he's supported greatly by his cinematographer Bhuvan Gowda (who assigns splendid colours to frames, often giving it a neo-noir touch), composer Ravi Basrur (the songs are bathroom-breaks but the background score was pretty epic), and the fine-looking production values (the set designs are elaborate).
This is something good old Shankar tried more than a decade ago and emerged a winner at. Basically, the film uses the tired formula of one-man-against-many to build hype around the character of Rocky. When Rocky grows older, he beats even more people up. Even Rocky's childhood is just a collection of massy moments: he is pushed to the limit his mom utters philosophical nonsense, and the next thing you see, he's beating people up in a jiffy. We have more than a dozen (main) characters being introduced but none of them (and I repeat, none of them) are well-fleshed out. Character-building is one area that the film lacks terribly in. Everyone speaks as if they've been preparing their cheese-filled quotes/monologues for years, just waiting to spit them out at first given instance. It's like no one in the film speaks normally.
The dialogues too are some of the campiest I've heard in recent times. Yet, the director chooses to drive the point home over and over again. It's clear from the very first scene that he's in. There are a bunch of scenes that try to reinstate the fact that Rocky (Yash) is unbeatable. Prashant Neel has packaged the film with all necessary massy ingredients: there are slow-motion intro sequences, exquisitely staged yet pointless fights, and excessive hype created around the protagonist's indomitable aura. This, in turn, makes K.G.F Chapter 1 a less than exciting experience. The problem with films that have invincible heroes is that none of the challenges that the screenplay poses turns out to be engaging enough. But, honestly, it is little beyond an overstretched exercise in hailing the protagonist as invincible. K.G.F Chapter 1 might be an astonishing wonder for one section of film-goers who haven't yet been exposed to world cinema.
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