Once in a while a movie comes and stands
apart from the rest for its narration and characterisation. Mukunda is clear
winner in the category of intelligent movies. The tempo is as slow as real life
but the conversations are sharper and deeper. If you can bear the motion and
immerse yourself with the characters around you, then it’s spot on.
Commercially this product might not be in
the fascinated crore clubs and a great masala launch pad for Mega lad but a
vibrant sign for Telugu intellectual/interesting cinema culture. The trend is
here again, where we started focussing on title cards for writers and
technicians. It is too early to start comparing Srikant Addala with the likes
of Vishwanath and Balachander for real/revolutionary & simple cinemas but
he and a bunch of new directors have started the journey towards meaningful
movies. However the fascination (of production houses) for quick moolah might
be a big hurdle for this journey. Temporary has been a good friend of trends so
far, hence the thrust behind the collections and exorbitant first week screens
should be passing by very soon.
Coming back to the movie, the narration and
dialogues are strong enough to stop you from craving for routine commercial
ingredients…. Do we really need them or forced up on us movie after movie? The
songs are decent but the need of the hour for Mickey is to come out of his
Happy Days/Godavari set of chords.
On the performance front Mega boy was
decent within the scope and Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh are perfect fit. Unfortunately the heroine is a weak thread in
the whole plot except for some songs and second half sequences.
This new breed of director will keep
entertaining us till the time good/not so good cinemas are the only categories
of assessment and not the exaggerated collections.
The upcoming venture with Prince tentatively
titled Brahmotsavam is real acid test for Addala, would he be still interested (after
subtle success of Mukunda) in real cinema or get tempted towards box office
attraction!!!Mukunda Dailogues
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