Positives --------- 1. Cinematography mostly well done 2. Captured beautiful natural sceneries as well as some of the rich cultural heritage of Southern India through film lenses 3. Very interesting first half and the special ending at intermission made me wondered if it can surprise me similarly to the "Sixth sense" movie. 4. Good acting from - Karthi Rao kordale (Rafiq), Nirup Bhandari (Siddhartha or Gautham), Radhika Chetan (Harini or Indu), Arvind Rao (Inspector)
Negatives --------- 1. Complex ideas were mixed and made the second half of the film a potpourri masala - ideas such as bhoota (almost a equivalent to ghost) bungalow, serial killer, memory loss, change of identities, sand mafia etc. all were mixed, grinded and confused 2. Some songs were unnecessary. Some songs such as Kele Cheluve could even brought out more of the cultural heritages 3. Some actors were given a south canara roles but did not fit their character to it (including the language) - bit disappointed with Kalinga bhatta, School Master etc. played be veteran actors 4. Some dialogue errors - e.g. in the first half, hero tells the police that he lost his wife since two days and then few minutes later he says that he last saw her on the previous evening. 5. Some characters had no significance - such as Pandu & his wife. Should have brought Pandu with the journalist to Kamarottu. 6. Second half story leads to several unrealistic lines : i) After the car accident how some one can so easily change identities and survive for so many years ii) How the bhoota, apparently a one man show manages to scare people in the car like a ghost (has the ability to appear & disappear). Even for the first scene, how this one man knows a pregnant lady is traveling through these roads in the night alone, especially when she landed up in this road because she mistakenly took a different diversion. (does this criminal has super natural powers to know all this in advance?) iii) How in such a small village of Kamarottu, the hero and his journalist friend can roam around freely for many days when the police is hunting for them. iv) How one murderer of 11 people mostly pregnant women in a small village escape for 12 years when every one knows the killing screams were heard from the kalinga's ancestral property v) Not sure who tells the audience the incident of killing of Angara. Anusuya bhat and Angara were dead and Kalinga bhat does not disclose his crimes. vi) The haunted home has little to do with acts of the serial killer, so unnecessary mixing of elements leads to confusion vii) There is also a cultural error - At times it felt like yakshagaana and bhoota (or thaiyyam)concepts seems to have mixed.
All these made me feel that the story was stitched in short pieces and the overall flow and reality checks were lacked.
With respect to other Kannada films I can rate this as 4 to 5, but in the global film standards it can be rated between 2 to 3.
It is a brave effort from the director and the cast and I would be very happy to see the improved efforts in their next projects with respect to reality checks, overall flow to rectify the mistakes of the current project. It will be useful to think each character and its cultural background and psychological state while depicting it. The film may not need many characters but if the ones depicted are made real it appeals a lot (here Rafiq was so naturally played that it connected with the audience immediately).
The film made me to believe Kannada film has the capacity to go in the right direction.
Thank you
Negatives --------- 1. Complex ideas were mixed and made the second half of the film a potpourri masala - ideas such as bhoota (almost a equivalent to ghost) bungalow, serial killer, memory loss, change of identities, sand mafia etc. all were mixed, grinded and confused 2. Some songs were unnecessary. Some songs such as Kele Cheluve could even brought out more of the cultural heritages 3. Some actors were given a south canara roles but did not fit their character to it (including the language) - bit disappointed with Kalinga bhatta, School Master etc. played be veteran actors 4. Some dialogue errors - e.g. in the first half, hero tells the police that he lost his wife since two days and then few minutes later he says that he last saw her on the previous evening. 5. Some characters had no significance - such as Pandu & his wife. Should have brought Pandu with the journalist to Kamarottu. 6. Second half story leads to several unrealistic lines : i) After the car accident how some one can so easily change identities and survive for so many years ii) How the bhoota, apparently a one man show manages to scare people in the car like a ghost (has the ability to appear & disappear). Even for the first scene, how this one man knows a pregnant lady is traveling through these roads in the night alone, especially when she landed up in this road because she mistakenly took a different diversion. (does this criminal has super natural powers to know all this in advance?) iii) How in such a small village of Kamarottu, the hero and his journalist friend can roam around freely for many days when the police is hunting for them. iv) How one murderer of 11 people mostly pregnant women in a small village escape for 12 years when every one knows the killing screams were heard from the kalinga's ancestral property v) Not sure who tells the audience the incident of killing of Angara. Anusuya bhat and Angara were dead and Kalinga bhat does not disclose his crimes. vi) The haunted home has little to do with acts of the serial killer, so unnecessary mixing of elements leads to confusion vii) There is also a cultural error - At times it felt like yakshagaana and bhoota (or thaiyyam)concepts seems to have mixed.
All these made me feel that the story was stitched in short pieces and the overall flow and reality checks were lacked.
With respect to other Kannada films I can rate this as 4 to 5, but in the global film standards it can be rated between 2 to 3.
It is a brave effort from the director and the cast and I would be very happy to see the improved efforts in their next projects with respect to reality checks, overall flow to rectify the mistakes of the current project. It will be useful to think each character and its cultural background and psychological state while depicting it. The film may not need many characters but if the ones depicted are made real it appeals a lot (here Rafiq was so naturally played that it connected with the audience immediately).
The film made me to believe Kannada film has the capacity to go in the right direction.
Thank you