It was pretty stirring to see a houseful on a work day (12:40 pm show). Like many, I was excited about this new Pawan Kumar film. A man I've been looking forward to, to bringing about a new wave in Kannada cinema.
Also produced and written by the "Lucia" director himself, this time, with U Turn, he directs a supernatural thriller set in namma Bengaluru.
Rachana is an intern aspiring to land a full-time position with "The Indian Express" daily. She works on a project that also gets her on the wrong side of the line, after becoming a suspect in a murder case. Soon, more deaths and killings are in store and one thing leads to another, thus making up a mystery of murders.
There is one plausible moment in the movie where you feel the chills down your spine, as sub-inspector Naik and Rachana leave the parking lot, after visiting with the lawyer.
The cons: Too much make-up makes it unbelievable on a journalist, of all the people. If Rachana were a person with a desk-job, it would have passed pretty convincingly. Also, their swanky apartments make you wonder about reality.
The film is technically sound, barring the sound and dubbing in places, but Bengaluru is shown with way too less traffic in the film. And as a guy that commutes 56 kilometres everyday, I can tell you that traffic is the number one thing synonymous with Bengaluru today, and someone like me cannot help but notice that.
The language is too polished and looks staged. Also, the bike scene had too many gears changed and it looked out of sync with what's happening on screen.
There was one scene between SP Naik and Rachana, where your's truly thought Jaggesh's line from Vaastu Prakaara, "Idhu case-ey" would have lifted the humour by heaps and bounds.
Poornachandra Tejaswi's background music is pleasing but seems inspired.
Amongst the cast, US-based Roger Narayan (as sub-inspector Naik) was moderately watchable. An interesting tit-bit about Roger is that he graduated from BITS, Pilani, and then studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in the US, thereafter moving to Hollywood to work in TV and films.
Shraddha Srinath (as Rachana) is pretty and passable, too, but needs to improve on her dialogue delivery, to match her emoting style which was pretty natural.
Radhika Chetan has a cameo but I was starting to hope she doesn't get typecast in tragic roles.
The concept was good. But the last half hour or so was too predictable. It could have been miraged by superlative acting or good screenplay, I felt.
Maya was the last enjoyable supernatural thriller that I thoroughly enjoyed. This one has a Maaya, too, but surely something was missing. Maybe it was the staged dialogue delivery and polished lines which makes it a little hard to connect to. Pawan also needs to improvise on his comic scenes as he has some good content but is unable to present it adequately.
Definitely watch this, though, as it is still decent fare compared to the average fare that comes out in Sandalwood.
My verdict: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Also produced and written by the "Lucia" director himself, this time, with U Turn, he directs a supernatural thriller set in namma Bengaluru.
Rachana is an intern aspiring to land a full-time position with "The Indian Express" daily. She works on a project that also gets her on the wrong side of the line, after becoming a suspect in a murder case. Soon, more deaths and killings are in store and one thing leads to another, thus making up a mystery of murders.
There is one plausible moment in the movie where you feel the chills down your spine, as sub-inspector Naik and Rachana leave the parking lot, after visiting with the lawyer.
The cons: Too much make-up makes it unbelievable on a journalist, of all the people. If Rachana were a person with a desk-job, it would have passed pretty convincingly. Also, their swanky apartments make you wonder about reality.
The film is technically sound, barring the sound and dubbing in places, but Bengaluru is shown with way too less traffic in the film. And as a guy that commutes 56 kilometres everyday, I can tell you that traffic is the number one thing synonymous with Bengaluru today, and someone like me cannot help but notice that.
The language is too polished and looks staged. Also, the bike scene had too many gears changed and it looked out of sync with what's happening on screen.
There was one scene between SP Naik and Rachana, where your's truly thought Jaggesh's line from Vaastu Prakaara, "Idhu case-ey" would have lifted the humour by heaps and bounds.
Poornachandra Tejaswi's background music is pleasing but seems inspired.
Amongst the cast, US-based Roger Narayan (as sub-inspector Naik) was moderately watchable. An interesting tit-bit about Roger is that he graduated from BITS, Pilani, and then studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in the US, thereafter moving to Hollywood to work in TV and films.
Shraddha Srinath (as Rachana) is pretty and passable, too, but needs to improve on her dialogue delivery, to match her emoting style which was pretty natural.
Radhika Chetan has a cameo but I was starting to hope she doesn't get typecast in tragic roles.
The concept was good. But the last half hour or so was too predictable. It could have been miraged by superlative acting or good screenplay, I felt.
Maya was the last enjoyable supernatural thriller that I thoroughly enjoyed. This one has a Maaya, too, but surely something was missing. Maybe it was the staged dialogue delivery and polished lines which makes it a little hard to connect to. Pawan also needs to improvise on his comic scenes as he has some good content but is unable to present it adequately.
Definitely watch this, though, as it is still decent fare compared to the average fare that comes out in Sandalwood.
My verdict: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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