STALIN - Man for the Society
After dabbling with almost full-length commedies in his previous two movies, Chiranjeevi returns to a line which only can do justice to his image. Expectations for any Megastar movie would be sky-high, and when you know the directorial reins are with the dimunitive but explosive director Muruga Doss, they become mani-fold. Stalin, the deliverer,delivers.
Muruga Doss getting inspired by the multitude that gathered for the INDRA 175 days function and preparing a story for Chiru is now part of the cine folklore. What people are eager to see is, how the director will handle the Megastar and it turned out be picture perfect. He wanted to give the sound division to his Gajini team-mate Harris Jayaraj, but Megastar roped in his Court-Musician ManiSharma.There is some truth in the talk, that music is not that great.But the picturization compensates. "Paraare.. Paraare" as any one would have guessed is the racy opener.Anuskha sizzles in the item "I want my spiderman.." "Siggutho Cheechee.." is refreshing with beautiful locales. Lawrence's "Thoba Thoba" composition stands out,as usual. Finally, the sequencing (rather.. fragmentation) of the "Suryude Selavani.." song is very meaningful. The background score is simply superb.
The movie sees the return of two yester-year starlets of South India.Urvasi Sarada as Mega mom and an erstwhile Tamil screen-goddess Khushbu as sister have secured meaty roles. Particularly, Khushbu has got a powerful role and she does full justice to it.( Family audience completely taken care of..hehe) And then yes.Trisha! Her role is highly insignificant and appears promptly for songs.Barring some commedy scenes she does not have much to emote.Prakash Raj, as a crooked politician, for a change, appears in a variety get-up and with a Nellorean accent and does a very good job.Sunil plays an important character.
Comparisons to Tagore are common place, as this is also a serious subject. But as Megastar himself has put "Tagore as a concept is not practical in a day-to-day world". But STALIN is." The formula STALIN uses is simple and is highly accomplishable. No, I am not going to disclose it.You got to see it on the screen. The much publicized Kargil episode which features chiru as Major Stalin is very short, but the repercussions that part had on the over-all story is interesting; and the elevation it brings to the character is tremendous. I personally feared Paruchuri Brothers dialog may go overboard but they proved me wrong. Fights by Kannan are well choreographed.The story goes on gathering emotional momentum through out the length of the film and explodes right at the climax.
Of late, there have been some excellent patriotic movies up north like Rang De Basanti, Lage Raho Munnabhai.I perceive STALIN as a Tollywood style reply to the Bollywood feel-good movies.
STALIN is fantastic and realistic, at once.
To sign-off ....
Yuddham bedire sabdham – Stalin!
Nippai ragile nethram – Stalin!
Sathyam saripe yagnam – Stalin!
Visvam yedalo dhairyam – Stalin!
He’s the one and the only one
Stalin’s got the evil on the run
Stalin, Stalin’s got the nerves of steel
Mess with him and you will know the feel
Muruga Doss getting inspired by the multitude that gathered for the INDRA 175 days function and preparing a story for Chiru is now part of the cine folklore. What people are eager to see is, how the director will handle the Megastar and it turned out be picture perfect. He wanted to give the sound division to his Gajini team-mate Harris Jayaraj, but Megastar roped in his Court-Musician ManiSharma.There is some truth in the talk, that music is not that great.But the picturization compensates. "Paraare.. Paraare" as any one would have guessed is the racy opener.Anuskha sizzles in the item "I want my spiderman.." "Siggutho Cheechee.." is refreshing with beautiful locales. Lawrence's "Thoba Thoba" composition stands out,as usual. Finally, the sequencing (rather.. fragmentation) of the "Suryude Selavani.." song is very meaningful. The background score is simply superb.
The movie sees the return of two yester-year starlets of South India.Urvasi Sarada as Mega mom and an erstwhile Tamil screen-goddess Khushbu as sister have secured meaty roles. Particularly, Khushbu has got a powerful role and she does full justice to it.( Family audience completely taken care of..hehe) And then yes.Trisha! Her role is highly insignificant and appears promptly for songs.Barring some commedy scenes she does not have much to emote.Prakash Raj, as a crooked politician, for a change, appears in a variety get-up and with a Nellorean accent and does a very good job.Sunil plays an important character.
Comparisons to Tagore are common place, as this is also a serious subject. But as Megastar himself has put "Tagore as a concept is not practical in a day-to-day world". But STALIN is." The formula STALIN uses is simple and is highly accomplishable. No, I am not going to disclose it.You got to see it on the screen. The much publicized Kargil episode which features chiru as Major Stalin is very short, but the repercussions that part had on the over-all story is interesting; and the elevation it brings to the character is tremendous. I personally feared Paruchuri Brothers dialog may go overboard but they proved me wrong. Fights by Kannan are well choreographed.The story goes on gathering emotional momentum through out the length of the film and explodes right at the climax.
Of late, there have been some excellent patriotic movies up north like Rang De Basanti, Lage Raho Munnabhai.I perceive STALIN as a Tollywood style reply to the Bollywood feel-good movies.
STALIN is fantastic and realistic, at once.
To sign-off ....
Yuddham bedire sabdham – Stalin!
Nippai ragile nethram – Stalin!
Sathyam saripe yagnam – Stalin!
Visvam yedalo dhairyam – Stalin!
He’s the one and the only one
Stalin’s got the evil on the run
Stalin, Stalin’s got the nerves of steel
Mess with him and you will know the feel
posted by SOPETI at 2:56 AM
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