The conversation that follow's below is the conversation that took place between myself, vikrant, and deekshith after i made my stand on prasthanam public.
Deekshith: honestly....i didnt expect this from you.
Vikrant: LOL,I knew you didn't like the movie and iam not complaining because after watching it the second time even I didn't like it.The first half till the interval could have been avoided or filled with Mr.katta's awesomeness but Life is a Bitch.But the climax was intense,it clarified some inner dilemma within me.
Nice to hear some frank talk,Been missing them lately...............
Sandeep : When you watch 30 world movies a week. your expectation tend to soar high. when people talk about a particular movie. some reach it and some dont. unfortunately prasthanam didn't. we were told in the beginning " herolu undaru villanlu undaru etc etc" what would you call the character of sharwanand it had all the traits of a person who's called by the name " Hero " in tollywood.
Sandeep: Hey vikranth thought you would disagree with me. yeah forgot to mention the ending. the scene where saikumar kill's himself was not just good it was fantabulous. the mirrors in the background added the intense flavour to the scene.
Deekshith: but its a pretty daring and honest attempt made by Mr.Katta in this time and this situation where our "cinema" is running out of a "cinema"
Sandeep: What's fucking honest about it. it's a work of fiction. I would have called it a daring attempt if Mr.katta had taken up or travelled a less troden and beleivable path. there's this scene where hero asks a third grade illiterate rowdy not to talk about his family hierarchy. Shit man can you beleive that!!!!. This is negligible but there lies the whole fucking essence. it is the smaller aspects which build or destroy a movie.
Vikranth: Sandeep tell me any cinema which explored the characters personality and drew parallels to Mahabharata or any epic while concentrating on political drama set in India. At least the effort is worth appreciating because when you compare it to the likes of chalaki or GoliMaar,It is a "better" watch.Not everyone is lucky enough to watch 30 world movies a week.Think of this a good omen which marks the arrival of better movies in Telugu.
Sandeep: Dalapati for example is an exemplary take on the characters of karna and duryodhana. no film till date has been able to draw such a parallel to mahabharata. now, that is what i call a daring move and that is why over the years rathnam has been a lone torchbearer for quality cinema in india. atleast chalaki and golimaar do what they tell. they dont publicise those films as a movie which comes " once in a while " or a movie made "swimming against the tide of tollywood current" etc etc
Vikrant: Dalapathi Is the masterpiece and Prasthanam was a
small attempt to reach that goal.
Sandeep: Even mani rathnam was relatively new to cinema when he made dalapathi......
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