Saw prasthanam today, and i was dissapointed. deva katta is no exciting talent to look out for. i read a lot about prasthanam. unfortunately the depth and intensity was found missing in the movie which was otherwise aplenty in the paper's. and yet once again trailers did the trick for me. they deceived me. read in a interview in which MR.katta claimed that he never thought about the commercial success of the movie and that he made an uncompromising attempt. but, dear sir why do you have to include three shitty songs and a highly irritating love angle to the film which you've claimed to be made without any compromise.
Except For the extraordinary hair raising first scene and the brilliance of the cameraman sprinkled at selective places through out the movie. the rest is what we've already been watching throughout the years. on the whole not so enjoyable " Prasthanam ".
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honestly....i didnt expect this from you
ReplyDeleteLOL,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.
ReplyDeleteNice to hear some frank talk,Been missing them lately...............
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.
ReplyDeleteHey 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.
ReplyDeletebut 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"
ReplyDeleteWhat'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 tere lies the whole fucking essence. it is the smaller aspects which build or destroy a movie.
ReplyDeleteSandeep 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.
ReplyDeleteDalapati 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
ReplyDeleteDalapathi Is the masterpiece and Prasthanam was a
ReplyDeletesmall attempt to reach that goal.
Even mani rathnam was relatively new to cinema when he made dalapathi.
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ReplyDeleteHey Sandeep about the Songs and a few shitty elements he was forced by the producer otherwise he wouldnt have included in the first place this was confessed by katta himself. Rest of the cinema was just good.
ReplyDelete@ sandy, There is no wrong in your reaction as you have watched 3 shitty songs, I m glad I didn't and not even the love angle,
ReplyDeleteHey brother I heartily welcome you to Tollywood,
There are 2 versions of Prasthanam
1. for A centers without unnecessary songs,
2. for B n C centers with songs n shit.
No doubt u watched 2nd one..! n of course HYPE always creates these problems.
& Sandeep, You have serious self contradictory problems.
ReplyDeleteYou vary your definitions which are usually perspective and controversial.
And 2 Dalapathi is 1991 release and Mani was not even close relatively New to cinema, It was his 10 th movie and he had experience of working with Actors like Kamal hassan..! and
waht are you talking they both are different persons..! Mani have been in sets since childhood..! So fuck that comparison.
What we are talking about his "Convey" did Deva Katta conveyed what he was trying to..?
To evaluate that first u need to understand what he is trying to say..! and I dont think u really understood the Dialogs which are based on deep telugu literature.. [ Sri sri, Tilak, Yandamoori types ]
Yeah Yeah Yeah you are correct, but anna there definetly was no one called sri sri visible in the dialouge. I've read some sri sri. The reason i've brickbatted the movie is after a highly international first few minutes the intensity wasn't carried forward. May be the budget was one of the reason's for what i've cited above. but i've to admit that i failed to understand the parallel he was trying to draw.
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