Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Sri Venkateshwara Creations
Cast: Prabhas, Kajal, Taapsee, K Vishwanath, Prakashraj, Sayaji Shinde, Nasser, Murali Mohan, Brahmanandam, Raghu Babu, Master Bharat etc
Music: Devisri Prasad
Cinematography: Vijay K Chakravarthy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Director: Dasaradh
Producer: Dil Raju
Release date: 22/04/2011
Prabhas is back and after almost a year. He paired up with Kajal and it is also a crucial big budget venture for producer Dil Raju. Let us see how perfect this gets..
Story
Vicky (Prabhas) who lives in Australia grows with a rule that he would never compromise for anything he doesn’t like. Given his practical thinking, he wants everything to be perfect, even in relationships. The marriage of his sister gets him to India and here he meets Priya, daughter of his father’s friend (Murali Mohan). As such, Vicky’s father (Nasser) wants him to get married to Priya.
Initially, both Vicky and Priya feel repulsive but in no time, Priya starts falling in love. She begins to change herself to suit Vicky’s life and thoughts. However, when the moment comes, Vicky gives his practical outlook and returns to Australia.
Here, he meets Maggi (Taapsee) through a competition and feels she is the perfect one. How perfect is Maggi for Vicky? How true is Priya’s love for Vicky? How correct is Vicky in his thoughts? All this forms the rest of the story.
Performances
Prabhas has given a decent performance. He scores in his outfits and timing of dialogues but he should have reduced the mannerism of keeping his hand in pant pocket in almost all scenes, might look like fashion and style but felt like an overdose.
Kajal Agarwal is expressively beautiful and is drop dead gorgeous in sarees. She is a visual treat to the audience and steals few more hearts with her endearing smiles. Performance wise, she was apt.
Taapsee looks hot and fits the bill rightly given her character. The dubbing suited her expressions and she fills the glamour quotient.
K Vishwanath was elegant, Prakashraj was matured, Sayaji Shinde was noisy, Nasser was natural, Brahmi tried to bring few smiles, Raghu Babu was jarring, Master Bharat was regular. The ladies did their bit to support.
Highlights
Prabhas- Kajal screen chemistry
Locations and cinematography
Costumes
Theme of the film
Screenplay
Drawbacks
Prabhas hair style
Second half
Weak emotional scenes
Overdose of moral preaching
Analysis:
The film comes across as a clean, family entertainer and the intention of the makers must be appreciated. Their attempt to reiterate the values of love, life, relationships in today’s world is acknowledged. However, dealing with such human subjects requires humane feel and a deft handling of the script, that was missing here.
As such, the protagonist goes with the flow of destiny but there is nothing significant he does to perfect the situations. He is more on the receiving end most of the time. On the other hand, the idea of a girl willing to adapt herself like that was rather unconvincing (of course, finding a girl like that in today’s times is jackpot fortune).
First half comprises with good humor and flow of drama. And second half also continues in similar fashion recalling the blend of Santhosham and Bommarillu but with weak handling of emotions. Required emotion is not carried in the fag end of the film and hence it appeared weak.
The film deals with the understanding of relations between younger generation and the older ones. The plus point in the film is that all the songs are good with pleasing music and sensible lyrics. But all are situational songs and no duets are seen in this genre of film, surprisingly.
Having said that, the film appeals largely due to the conviction in the belief of love, sharing and how few things in life cannot be got merely by rational thinking. At the box office, this is a treat for the family audience and given the craze for Prabhas and Kajal, the openings will be strong. Overall, this would be anywhere between an average and profit grosser.
Bottomline: Appeals For a particular section of family audience because of over sentimental drama
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Behind the Movie Mr. Perfect: The recent soft lover boy image of Prabhas secured after ‘Darling’ will be examined once again with this flick in direction of Dasaradh. As usual producer ‘Dil’ Raju keeping too many hopes with presence of two beautiful heroines Kajal Agarwal, Tapsee and music from Devi Sri Prasad, here arrives ‘Mr. Perfect’ today into theatres. Let us see, how perfect is this film?
In the Movie Mr. Perfect: Vicky (Prabhas) is a modern day perfect young boy dreaming high about future. He is working in Australia on dream project to start own animation (video games) industry. Vicky doesn’t believe in old ideologies. In order to stay victorious in life, he doesn’t mind hurting others by disrespecting their values and sentiments. He feels himself as ‘Mr. Perfect’ with no adjusting attitude.
One fine day, Vicky’s father (Nazar) asks him to arrive in India for attending sister’s marriage in their native village in a Coastal district. Other purpose of this visit is to make Vicky meet Priya (Kajal Agarwal), his old school mate and fix their marriage. Priya is a girl of self respect who finds her joy in happiness of others. Although Vicky and Priya are initially quarrelsome, they soon patch up and love buds between the two. Finally when Priya changes her priorities and interests getting ready to marry Vicky, he disapproves her reasoning incompatible mentalities.
On his way back in Australia, Vicky meets Maggie (Tapsee) whose thought of mind is exactly same as him. When both of them get ready for marriage and approach Maggie’s industrialist father KP (Prakash Raj), he keeps an interesting test for Vicky to win his daughter. Vicky on his way to win Maggie by passing this test understands the true meaning of life. How did KP’s family change the thinking and attitude of Vicky? How did Vicky win back his true love Priya? forms the heavy climax.
Values of the Movie Mr. Perfect: In shorter version producer ‘Dil’ Raju’s team has once again relied on an emotional story line comparing the beliefs and mental outlooks of past and present generations. Shades of ‘Orange’ and ‘Brindavanam’ are easily observable in the film. Apparently story was thin but script was burdensome. Dasaradh tried his best to make patrons glued to his emotions. Unfortunately slow narration and old pickled boiling family drama have taken a toll and director Dasaradh failed in these aspects. Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are quite interesting which can be considered as life line for ‘Mr.Perfect.’ Music by Devi Sri Prasad was good work for two songs and background sensed like a copy of ‘Bommarillu.’ Cinematography by Vijay Chakravarthy was fine while editing by Marthand K Venkatesh became weak in second half. Production values of ‘Dil’ Raju are definitely remarkable.
Performance wise Prabhas got a new character with two different shades. The macho man well balanced the both and excelled in spelling lengthy dialogues with utmost feel. Surely Prabhas raised his acting standards appreciably shouldering the movie in compliance with beautiful Kajal Agarwal who looked awesome. She undoubtedly won the hearts of audience with cute looks and sweet expressions. Tapsee enters in second half with a typical character quite matching to her energy standards. Self dubbing of Tapsee left a bad remark damaging her role. Comedy by Brahmanandam as Jalsa Kishore was a laughter riot. His presence saved the first half to maximum extent. Among others Naazar, K. Vishwanath, Prakashraj, Sayaji Shinde, Pragathi, Sameer, Kasi Vishwanath, Master Bharath, Raghu Babu etc well handled their roles.
Out of the Movie Mr. Perfect: ‘Dil’ Raju’s confidence on sticking to his own psychology of repeatedly relying on emotional story lines hasn’t worked totally this time. Although there are few glitches of interesting and heart touching episodes but this is not a Perfect package to shine at Box Office. Prabhas and Kajal gave a delightful performance with superb chemistry which was not alone enough to pull the movie for two and half hours. Especially missing of emotional efficacy and depth of scenes in second half might cause adequate problems for movie’s success.
All the village episodes with enough fun generating ingredients mixed in first half worked very well. Of course story moved hardly by an inch. Yet first half is easily passable with an expected interval bang. Second half is where actual movie unfolds which lagged to entertain audience with inconsistence and slow storytelling. In particular lengthy, exhaustive second half served negative for entire film.
BO wise a section of family audience might like the overdosed emotional and sentimental scenes with Prabhas leading from front. Other wise ‘Mr. Perfect’ is age old wine in new bottle.
Verdict of Mr. Perfect: Not totally Perfect!
Director Dasarath has a fetish for stories revolving around relationships and he showed his forte while executing Santosham, a mix of love and the inter-personal relations in a family. You are reminded of this film while watching Mr. Perfect but there is quite a lot of difference between both the movies despite a common point. In Santosham there is a lot of emotion and expression from every character in the film and the characters allow themselves to speak mostly through silence, the sermonizing is there but it's thrown in subtle quantities after the love story develops.
In Mr. Perfect the lessons on give and take begins even before love is allowed to bloom and goes on till the last frame. While Santosham was a perfect blend of expressions, emotions, dialogues and love, here the dialogues take precedence. There is a lot of depth and meaning in each dialogue but what should be interspersed comes in regularly, briskly not giving you time to savour the expression of each character and understand what they said. Also the film winds up very fast after a logical and a predictable ending leaving you wondering with a something missing feel. Especially for audiences who are used to the fights, conflicts, twists and turns watching a simple film with no high points and tense moments gives you a feeling that it has been abruptly ended.
The story, concept is nice to read and listen but while watching it on screen, one needs that something to make it complete. What was it? The humour that centres around Viswanath, Raghu Babu was juvenile, the subject caters to family audiences alone, there is no romantic feel between either Taapsee and Prabhas or Kajal and Prabhas.
One should be able to come out with the right expression and match it with a dialogue such as those in Mr. Perfect. The director didn't give too much time between each of the couples to establish their relationship, either they were very casual or very emotional and kept walking in and out. One is expected to gather the feeling from a song or a duet. While on paper everything seemed perfect, it was the performances that weren't perfect. Welling up eyes doesn't sum up to emotion or showing pearly whites doesn't tantamount to happiness.
The concept of the film is actually good, about people debating if they should marry a certain person based on a certain quality. Vicky (Prabhas) is a man who believes in living his dreams and doesn't believe in a relationship that is based on adjustments and compromise. When he is asked to marry his childhood friend, he is game to it though the couple differ in thinking.
On family advice they change their approach but the hero thinks that both of them are just putting their best foot forward and the process of impressing each other might not last long; so even while admitting he likes the girl he calls it quits amicably. The parents are shocked and the girl sad because she has actually started liking him and has come to terms with his likes and dislikes.
She says towards the finale, "You like yourself the best so I thought let me tune myself to your likes and dislikes and you'll like me and we can be harmonious together." Coming back to the story, the hero meets a girl in Oz and thinks she is a perfect match because their thinking matches, but the moral of the story is 'a perfect couple is one whose hearts meet.' The film is slow and lacks the excitement and euphoria of love. Music is good and so is cinematography.
Kajal is ravishing, she has always been a good performer, Taapsee is a revelation, she is capable of giving her best which is based on her role in the film. The past two films she appeared frivolous but in this movie despite a fairly simple role she was able to project her character. Kajal has done such roles before, it is high time she tries something more superior. Prabhas is correctly dressed but when it came to his performance, he could have been more vibrant.
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