Larencce breaks Nag’s Dec sentiment
After the success of ‘Mass’ everyone expected something special from the combination of Nag and Larencce. Moreover, ‘Don’ movie stills and promos increased the heat among the public. ‘Don’ is the last big Telugu movie being released in 2007 and December is an all-time lucky month for Nagarjuna. Hence everyone is expecting one more blockbuster from him. Now the results were unfolded, and unfortunately the result is in a different way.
Suri (Nagarjuna) establishes himself as ‘Don’ with the help of some orphans, who follow him since their childhood. He starts helping poor people who face problem from bigwigs in society. Ragava (Larencce), who was also an orphan, stays with him since childhood and both grow up as brothers. Ragava wants his brother to get married and finds a right girl (Anushka). On the other hand, there is a new don called Stephen (Kelly Dorge) enters the show. He was in the habit of occupying each state and runs mafia through his henchmen. He finally arrives in Andhra and plans to capture it. But Suri faces him and challenges him no that one can beat a Telugu man, off course the Don. The rest of the story deals with the war between both the dons and who wins the race and how had to be seen on the silver screen.
Nagarjuna, the evergreen Manmadhudu of Tollywood, appeared aged in many scenes of the movie for the first time. His hairstyle did not suits him well and he was not very impressive in his attire. Surprisingly, the audiences who generally go to his movies to watch his glamour feel disappointed as for the first time he got less marks for his looks. Even with regard to performance his character was not properly established. His Don’ism’ restricted to only praising but his character was not established in a proper way, which is a director’s mistake. Anushka, who was a yoga teacher off the screen need to take care about her physique on the screen and should cut the fat drastically. There is nothing much to perform in her role and she tries her best to expose glamour and did not feel shy in kiss scenes. A major portion of the film was devoted to the praise of ‘Don’ by Ragava Larencce by playing a full length character exclusively for the purpose. Not only as brother he also took responsibility of comedy track also and avoided comedians but things worked against him. Nikitha played a small role amidst good twist. Introduction of a new villain to the Telugu film industry is good and there is a little freshness in the villainy. Chalapati Rao and Jeeva acted as followers of Nagarjuna and the important cast ends with this list.
S Gopal Reddy’s cinematography is good like all his previous movies. DI [Digital Intermediate] elevated his cinematography and gave stylish and richer look. Producer ML Kumar Chowdary, though spent a lot on the film, failed to concentrate on the script. Though he felt that the combination would repeat the history and become a big hit, the film had become an entire one man show by Larencce. He personally tried his hand in several departments like, story, screenplay, choreography, music and direction besides playing a role as well. As a whole, he failed to do justice to any of the departments. As Lawrence was the only chef and he dished out a whole tasteless dish. The story is very delicate and it needs very interesting narration which is lacked miserably. The music of the movie is also not up to the mark. Larencce, who choreographed several hit tunes, failed to give a hit music or a good dance in the film. He had also failed in elevating the hero’s character properly. The love track between the hero and heroine and also himself and another heroine was very weak and his comedy timing failed to tickle the funny bones of the audiences.
The movie’s soul is missing. The one-man show of Larencce turned a failure. It was Larencce who was completely responsible for the flop show. The craze among the audiences on Nagarjuna would be the only saviour of the movie. The box office situation of the movie suffers with all the above drawbacks and only Nagarjuna and festival vacations should help the movie.
Cast & Crew:
Banner: Sree Keerthi Creations
Cast: Nagarjuna, Anushka, Raghava Lawrence, Nikitha, Kelly Dorjee, Jeeva, Nazar, etc.,
Direction: Raghava Lawrence
Producer: M L Kumar Chowdhary
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