10-05-2022, 11:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2022, 09:48 AM by Drunk Monk.)
This was another SS Rajamouli film - his earlier big budget blockbuster.
Watched on YouTube. YT has a lot of foreign films. I found several full length versions in Telugu or dubbed to Hindi - none had subs. Turns out that like so many martial arts films, it’s not absolutely necessary to know what is being said.
It’s another tale of reincarnation. The protagonist is Ram Charan who was in RRR only here he reminded me of Jack Black (if he was svelte, buff and Indian… and wore mascara). His rival has a mullet and side chops which are universally villainous - he’s a rich Sikh who kills people at his random whim. The love interest is Kajal Aggarwal, who is a major tollywood star but new to me and she was adorable and alluring with gorgeous huge eyes and lovely lips that could handle the overacting style of Tollywood flirty coyness with a panache.
It’s a modern day tale of a love triangle where one courter is a stud on a motorbike and the other kills the girl's dad and blames the stud. But they are all reincarnations of royalty from 400 years ago and halfway through (which is an hour and a half in - the length of most Hollywood movies) it flashes back to the last and I could see the primordial ventures into what would become Bahubaali - outrageous CGI architecture with overdone pomp and absurd fight choreo enhanced by copious buckets of digital blood.
Here is SS in a raw form. He’s still sorting his vision and it’s not fleshed out yet. It’s gravity defying and once again, his comments about flying when I interviewed him ring true. It also defies logic. Here’s a taste - the first dance number (note that this is Ram but not Rajal - this gal disappears after this scene).
So that boob blast that turns men into stone is never explained. It just happens. I don’t know why. The film never comes back to it.
The CGI is remarkably bad considering how advanced India is in tech, but that enhances the cheesiness of it all. My fav part was the last half when they were in the 400 years ago cgi overkill. That was such the Bahubaali precursor. There’s some decent sword fights and the villain has a brutal golden spiked mace worthy of his villainy.
Not D00M recommended, even for my fellow indocinemaphike cf. it’s not coherent enough on the whole. While it has its moments (I mean who can resist Medusa-like boob blasts) and I’d push you towards RRR first.
Watched on YouTube. YT has a lot of foreign films. I found several full length versions in Telugu or dubbed to Hindi - none had subs. Turns out that like so many martial arts films, it’s not absolutely necessary to know what is being said.
It’s another tale of reincarnation. The protagonist is Ram Charan who was in RRR only here he reminded me of Jack Black (if he was svelte, buff and Indian… and wore mascara). His rival has a mullet and side chops which are universally villainous - he’s a rich Sikh who kills people at his random whim. The love interest is Kajal Aggarwal, who is a major tollywood star but new to me and she was adorable and alluring with gorgeous huge eyes and lovely lips that could handle the overacting style of Tollywood flirty coyness with a panache.
It’s a modern day tale of a love triangle where one courter is a stud on a motorbike and the other kills the girl's dad and blames the stud. But they are all reincarnations of royalty from 400 years ago and halfway through (which is an hour and a half in - the length of most Hollywood movies) it flashes back to the last and I could see the primordial ventures into what would become Bahubaali - outrageous CGI architecture with overdone pomp and absurd fight choreo enhanced by copious buckets of digital blood.
Here is SS in a raw form. He’s still sorting his vision and it’s not fleshed out yet. It’s gravity defying and once again, his comments about flying when I interviewed him ring true. It also defies logic. Here’s a taste - the first dance number (note that this is Ram but not Rajal - this gal disappears after this scene).
So that boob blast that turns men into stone is never explained. It just happens. I don’t know why. The film never comes back to it.
The CGI is remarkably bad considering how advanced India is in tech, but that enhances the cheesiness of it all. My fav part was the last half when they were in the 400 years ago cgi overkill. That was such the Bahubaali precursor. There’s some decent sword fights and the villain has a brutal golden spiked mace worthy of his villainy.
Not D00M recommended, even for my fellow indocinemaphike cf. it’s not coherent enough on the whole. While it has its moments (I mean who can resist Medusa-like boob blasts) and I’d push you towards RRR first.
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