Wednesday, May 28, 2008

BujjiGadu - storylo konchem weak ayyadu

It is so easy to put the blame for weak collections in tollywood on scorching heat, the big success of IPL etc., we should not forget the fact that, the movies of late have to blame themselves for this situation. Infact we are reaching mid-2008, still, we donn have a pokiri , simhadri ,a samara simha erddy or a tagore yet this year that set box office ringing and stands out as contender for the year's best . Like Okka Magaadu,Jalsa,kantri,parugu - Bujjigadu was another movie, which if it got its basics right would have been the first big hit of the season.( Jalsa collected lot of money, but as everybody accepts, it is more a 50-day movie ).
Bujjigadu has all the inputs to make it big- The macho man Prabhas, cute Trisha, Mohan babu - the legend ( or say, the celebrity) and above all- the pokiri director in tollywood- one and only Puri.
But , if you go with the expectation of Union of all these talents- there you are , watch your leg now, it is already in the mud. It is not even intersection,to say the least.
Stroy line is wafer thin, hero(Bujji) , native of vizag, leaves his parents in his childhood, as his childhood friend(chitti) asks him not to talk with her anymore , a reason which they themselves call silly-so we can conclude for a silly reason only to spend the rest of his childhood in chennai beating up goons -again for no reason, etc., . After 12 years, how bujji retruns back to vizag and wins chitti forms the rest of the film.
First half is fairly simple and entertaining with good hummable songs with elegant picturisation ( esp. the song with trisha, shown in multiple frames on the screen)
Second half is a painful drag, as the screenplay looks lost and the story doesn't seem to go anywhere( infact, it neednot go anywhere , we can have climax immediately after the interval)
Prabhas is really cool and goadavari accent suited him well.
Mohan babu is wasted in the movie, some there is no energy at all in his character.
Trisha and sanjana has nothing much to offer.
sandeep chowta , has given some peppy numbers .
Comedy track is forgetable to say the least.

The strenghts of the movie : Prabhas, first half of the movie
The Weakness : Mohan Babu, very weak villany, and poor screenplay in second half, worst comedy
The biggest flaw :
The main villains in the movie machireddy ( kota ) and his sons, by nature they are weak and cannot handle sivanna ( mohan babu) alone and request bujji to do this favour for them.
Now just imagine bujji joining hands with sivanna by end of first half to eliminate these alrady weak fellows.
Overall yet antoher much expected movie turned dud.
With not much happening in movie front,and deccan chargers ousted in IPL, the by-election in some regions of Telangana is the happening topic in AP right now, with All political parties keeping their fingers crossed .
Tommorow I am going to vote. Long live democracy.

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