Nepali – Unimposing Flick
Great philosopher of all times Sir Harry Firestone had his famous saying that you get the best out of others when you give the best of yourselves. Well, if you agree with this statement, we are sure you will disapprove of it once after watching Nepali. Despites Bharath coming up with a stunning performance in three different roles has the adverse results. Director VZ Durai had his best with his debut flick Mugavari followed by great flops like Kadhal Sadugudu and Thotti Jaya. Undoubtedly, Nepali can be added to the flop lists of the director whose entire work unimpressive. In spite of a different narration in screenplay, there is a blatant lack in finesse in it.
Fine! Taking a glimpse through the synopsis of Nepali and analyze its plus and minus.
The film is carried through different parallel lines with three different youngsters. Karthik (Bharath), a software engineer by profession reaches the town of Ooty where he meets Priya (Meera Jasmine). Followed by usual conversancy, they both fall in love and as a cliché factor, oppositions are thrown from both the parents. Soon eloped from their places, they enter into nuptials leading a happy life. But not for a long time, the scenario remains same till a lascivious cop arrives and eyes for Priya. In attempt to molest her, Priya is polished off and in retaliation Karthik seeks revenge by killing the cop.
The other parallel story takes to a prisoner (Bharath) being greatly influenced by Govind Namdeo who gets imprisoned for raising his voice for a woman who was sexually oppressed at workplace.
Within fraction of minutes, the scene hops to a Nepali (again played by Bharath) putting down a police officer, software engineer and a doctor to death by injecting them a poison.
With the entire network of police department perplexed with the serial murder, DCP Gowtham (Karuthamma fame Prem) takes the chance of cracking down the mystery. Does the level-headed police officer able to disentangle things forms crux of the story?
As mentioned earlier, Bharath in three different roles as software engineer, prisoner and Nepali strides with a mind-blowing performance. Meera Jasmine in no way goes lesser than her usual performance. Be it an emotional sequences or an intimate one, she does justice to her role. Karuthamma fame Prem on the latter part steals the show with a naturalistic deliverance of acting.
We are still confused with why Sangeetha was added to part of cast? Nothing great to praise on her part, for she appears not more than couple of scenes and it is a big question mark on Director Durai.
Seems like Durai hasn’t carried on with proper pre-production works in crafting a powerful screenplay? Though the storyline seems to be a sort of old and already seen ones, if proper concentration was centered on the narration, the film would have hit the bull’s eyes.
With these negative attributes, Srikanth Deva contributes a lot more to the part. Don’t know the reason why directors are opting for a man whose scoring for music will affect the eardrums badly. A copy cat indeed, Srikanth Deva has grabbed the romantic theme music of a Japanese movie The Road Home.
As of technical aspects, cinematography has something adding to the visual quality and editing doesn’t help for it.
On the whole, Nepali adds one feather to Bharath’s cap for his stunning performance, but its an adverse effect on Director VZ Durai for a improper work. Next time he makes a movie, he has to get it clear that audiences aren’t chumps and it’s not an easy task to fool them.
One can feel the movie is a mix of Anniyan, Manmadhan, and Ghajini..
Cast & Crew:
Banner: OST Films
Direction: VZ Durai
Starring: Bharath, Meera Jasmine, Sangeetha, Govind Namdeo, Prem and many others
Music: Srikanth Deva
Verdict: Pay money for nothing; if you are gonna watch it…
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2 Responses
I am also a karthik
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
good film , good acting barath , super direction………
Posted on April 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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