This review is Personal opinion of a Common film Goer.
First off the good points:
Cinematography is brilliant in most places. It was let down at few places(like Harini falling into well, etc..).BGM is apt and beautifully provided.LYRICS for all the songs 10/10.Saikumar's acting and screen presence just carried the script forward and is the saving grace for the film.
This being said I would like to say few points about the movie which just drops the movies standards drastically(reverse exponential).
1) Wrong Casting - Hero somehow forgot that acting is all about emoting. Dead expression throughout the movie. Zombies in some RPG games give better expressions than the hero. It gets even more evident when co stars are doing a good job and his expression is a dud. All he did was smoke some 50 odd cigarettes in the movie. Coming up next is the first heroine(the killer).Though she was far better in emoting than the Hero, probably due to the directors request or to not make the hero look bad she was not giving the right expressions and there was a disconnect. She definitely did not act like a 8 month old pregnant lady. The second heroine(the reporter) on the other hand did give some expressions here and there and it felt she could have essayed the role of the first heroine. The directors cameo in the Heroine's flashback creates confusion as to whether it is the hero who is in the flashback.(Marriage song seq. n thereafter).He could have easily casted some other actor for this role and avoided this.
2) Unnecessary twists/turns throughout/Poor storyline - Twists and turns in the movie should be provided to fit the story. "Rangitaranga" felt like the story was revolving around these forcefully written twists and turns.
3) Heroine commits a murder and no one even cares what happened after that??!!!!
4)Hero loses memory in the accident. What happened to his family/friends? No one even tried to find out what happened to him ??Did he live/die?? Forget it. The Heroine(reporter) who was so so deeply in love with the hero does not even try searching for him?? OK just imagine she "ASSUMES" he is dead. When you meet a person after 5 years whom you so dearly loved and presumed dead, what would the reaction be?? Just a faint suspicion??She doesn't even have a drop of tear in her eye??Forget about love.Finally when Harini's dairy is read she remembers "OH S**T!!" I have to cry now. This is were the scripts weakness is openly visible.
5)Saikumar's role gets psycho only during particular month of the year and for his luck he finds pregnant ladies during this time to kill. Rest of the year he is a cool person leading a normal life.
d)Kamarottu is such a small place and even though the police cannot catch the Hero and Heroine going about freely in their car.
6)Flashback scene: Hero's bike and Heroine's Audi car meet with an accident. The Audi is in flames and the bike just has a broken rear view mirror. Worst still heroine jumps out of the Audi miraculously and saves herself. At least could have used a Nano/Maruthi 800 to make it believable to the audience.
7) Harini just assumes that Hero will lose his memory after the accident and spins a story that she is his wife. Such a huge gamble pays off well for her and she ends up escaping getting convicted for murder and lives a happy life thereafter.
8)What was the point of Hero writing novels in the name of "ANASHKU". Was it the heroines plan to avoid detection? I mean a normal author would any day want to know his readers and be famous.
9) Saikumars character clearly sees a guy(with clothes in hand) escaping the house when he comes home. Even then he assumes a skinny guy like Angara who is nowhere built like the person who escaped is the guy his wife is having an affair.
10)The doctor easily accepts and tells that he has nothing to do with death of "Anasuyya" even without the slightest of persuasion by the main lead.
11)Dialogues are a huge letdown.Heroine asking hero to get a monkey tattoo on hand as representation of father was a new down in dialogue writing.
12)Some Song sequence(Yakshagana song) felt like it was just fitted in the storyline and did not go along with the sequence.(adding to it the hero ruining Yakshagana in that song :X :X)
13) The Yakshagana makeup made for the Hero could have made for Saikumar's role as it would have added more value to the scene.(Climax scene Saikumar's forehead looked void on the big screen).
14) Records in the police station are so neatly arranged and easily accessible. Yeah they just keep all the records in order so that anyone can access it hassle free. Deaths are happening in village at the same time every year and police don't crack the pattern. While our hero does it with Élan.
Even though "Rangitaranga" brings new wave in Kannada film industry it is high time directors stepped up and avoid loopholes making cult movies which would propel the fame of Kannada films to its previous glory.
Audience also needs to be responsible enough while praising movies as this is the image it creates throughout India/World and what our films are about. Praising a movie for its attempt is completely different from calling it a cult movie. With a little bit of effort in preproduction work,this could well have been a CULT movie like Lucia, Ulidavaru Kandathe, Jatta.
PS: Have watched this movie 5 times and the audience are restless to get out of the theater due to various factors of the film. Still the movie garners 87% rating in book my show and 9.5 rating on IMDb. Mind = Blown. Just saying.
First off the good points:
Cinematography is brilliant in most places. It was let down at few places(like Harini falling into well, etc..).BGM is apt and beautifully provided.LYRICS for all the songs 10/10.Saikumar's acting and screen presence just carried the script forward and is the saving grace for the film.
This being said I would like to say few points about the movie which just drops the movies standards drastically(reverse exponential).
1) Wrong Casting - Hero somehow forgot that acting is all about emoting. Dead expression throughout the movie. Zombies in some RPG games give better expressions than the hero. It gets even more evident when co stars are doing a good job and his expression is a dud. All he did was smoke some 50 odd cigarettes in the movie. Coming up next is the first heroine(the killer).Though she was far better in emoting than the Hero, probably due to the directors request or to not make the hero look bad she was not giving the right expressions and there was a disconnect. She definitely did not act like a 8 month old pregnant lady. The second heroine(the reporter) on the other hand did give some expressions here and there and it felt she could have essayed the role of the first heroine. The directors cameo in the Heroine's flashback creates confusion as to whether it is the hero who is in the flashback.(Marriage song seq. n thereafter).He could have easily casted some other actor for this role and avoided this.
2) Unnecessary twists/turns throughout/Poor storyline - Twists and turns in the movie should be provided to fit the story. "Rangitaranga" felt like the story was revolving around these forcefully written twists and turns.
3) Heroine commits a murder and no one even cares what happened after that??!!!!
4)Hero loses memory in the accident. What happened to his family/friends? No one even tried to find out what happened to him ??Did he live/die?? Forget it. The Heroine(reporter) who was so so deeply in love with the hero does not even try searching for him?? OK just imagine she "ASSUMES" he is dead. When you meet a person after 5 years whom you so dearly loved and presumed dead, what would the reaction be?? Just a faint suspicion??She doesn't even have a drop of tear in her eye??Forget about love.Finally when Harini's dairy is read she remembers "OH S**T!!" I have to cry now. This is were the scripts weakness is openly visible.
5)Saikumar's role gets psycho only during particular month of the year and for his luck he finds pregnant ladies during this time to kill. Rest of the year he is a cool person leading a normal life.
d)Kamarottu is such a small place and even though the police cannot catch the Hero and Heroine going about freely in their car.
6)Flashback scene: Hero's bike and Heroine's Audi car meet with an accident. The Audi is in flames and the bike just has a broken rear view mirror. Worst still heroine jumps out of the Audi miraculously and saves herself. At least could have used a Nano/Maruthi 800 to make it believable to the audience.
7) Harini just assumes that Hero will lose his memory after the accident and spins a story that she is his wife. Such a huge gamble pays off well for her and she ends up escaping getting convicted for murder and lives a happy life thereafter.
8)What was the point of Hero writing novels in the name of "ANASHKU". Was it the heroines plan to avoid detection? I mean a normal author would any day want to know his readers and be famous.
9) Saikumars character clearly sees a guy(with clothes in hand) escaping the house when he comes home. Even then he assumes a skinny guy like Angara who is nowhere built like the person who escaped is the guy his wife is having an affair.
10)The doctor easily accepts and tells that he has nothing to do with death of "Anasuyya" even without the slightest of persuasion by the main lead.
11)Dialogues are a huge letdown.Heroine asking hero to get a monkey tattoo on hand as representation of father was a new down in dialogue writing.
12)Some Song sequence(Yakshagana song) felt like it was just fitted in the storyline and did not go along with the sequence.(adding to it the hero ruining Yakshagana in that song :X :X)
13) The Yakshagana makeup made for the Hero could have made for Saikumar's role as it would have added more value to the scene.(Climax scene Saikumar's forehead looked void on the big screen).
14) Records in the police station are so neatly arranged and easily accessible. Yeah they just keep all the records in order so that anyone can access it hassle free. Deaths are happening in village at the same time every year and police don't crack the pattern. While our hero does it with Élan.
Even though "Rangitaranga" brings new wave in Kannada film industry it is high time directors stepped up and avoid loopholes making cult movies which would propel the fame of Kannada films to its previous glory.
Audience also needs to be responsible enough while praising movies as this is the image it creates throughout India/World and what our films are about. Praising a movie for its attempt is completely different from calling it a cult movie. With a little bit of effort in preproduction work,this could well have been a CULT movie like Lucia, Ulidavaru Kandathe, Jatta.
PS: Have watched this movie 5 times and the audience are restless to get out of the theater due to various factors of the film. Still the movie garners 87% rating in book my show and 9.5 rating on IMDb. Mind = Blown. Just saying.