DHOOKUDU Movie Review by sRi
DHOOKUDU DARING & DASHING
Review
Rating: 3.25/5.0
Banner: 14 REELS Entertainment (p) Ltd.
Presented by: G.Ramesh babu
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Samantha, Kota Srinivas Rao, Sonu Sood, Shayaji Shinde, Naazar, Prakash Raj, Brahmanandam, M S Narayana, Dharmavarapu,Tanikella Bharani,Sonia, Subba Raju, Chandra Mohan, Master Bharath, Baby Shreya Varma, Giridhar, Supreeth, Shafi, Sudha, Pragathi, Satyakrishna, Surekha Vani
Lyrics: Rama Jogaiah Shastry, Bhaskara Bhatla, Viswa
Story: Gopi Mohan
Script Associate: Kona Venkat
Art: A.S.Prakash
Action: Vijay
Editing: M.R.Varma
Cinematography: K.V.Guhan
Music: Thaman. S.S
Producers: Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta, Anil Sunkara
Story-Screenplay-Dialogues- Direction: Sreenu Vaitla
CBFC rating: U/A
Release date: 23-09-2011
Story: G Ajay Kumar IPS (Mahesh Babu) is a sincere and angry police officer, he gets suspended for the death of a criminal who is in his custody, Ajay and his team goes to ISTANBUL to trace out the criminal link. Ajay falls for Prashanthi (Samantha) a fashion designer. Ajay is on a mission to seek revenge on those who made his father (Prakash raj) to go through a trauma. Will Ajay succeed in his mission forms the remaining story?
Performances: Mahesh Babu suited to the role well and he performed it with much ease. Samantha’s role is limited to songs only, she is okay. Prakash raj is fantastic as usual. Brahmanandam, M.S.Narayana came out with some good comedy scenes. Sonu Sood played the role of Mafia don. The remaining supporting cast fitted the roles well. Cinematography is good. Editing is okay but can be better. Music by Thaman is good. The Story has no novelty. The screenplay is good in few Scenes. The Direction is good.
Analysis: Mahesh has come up with some fantastic performance yet again after Khaleja, his comedy timing and dialogue modulation has changed a lot in the recent movies. Samantha doesn’t have much scope to perform as she is confined to only a couple of scenes and few songs only. The Chemistry between the lead pair is okay but they hardly have any combination scenes. Sonu Sood has donned yet another role as baddie (Mafia Don), he is okay. Prakash raj is good as usual. Tanikella Bharani, Chandra Mohan are okay. M.S.Narayana, Brahmanandam share more screen Presence in the comedy department. At times they even dominated Mahesh in few scenes.
Cinematography is good. The songs picturised in the abroad looked good on the screen. KV Guhan(cinematographer) worked for ATHADU movie also, so most of the action episodes /Frames reminds us of ATHADU. Editing is okay but the duration is long. Fight Sequences are well choreographed. Music by Thaman is Average on Audio but looked good on the Screen. The Background Score is also good. The first two songs looked great on the Screen.
Sequence of Songs: The sequence of the songs is in the same order as they are in the Audio.
1) Nee Dhookudu
Singer: Shankar Mahadevan, Lyrics: Vishwa
Picturised on hero as an introduction song, the song looked stylish.
2) Guruvaram
Singer: Rahul Nambiar, Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
The Song is picturised on Mahesh and Samantha, Mahesh tries to convince her and the song came out well.
3) Chulbuli
Singers: Karthik, Rita, Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
Picturised in the locations at the rann of Kutch. The tribal costumes remind us of ROBO movie.
4) Poovai
Singers: Ramya, Navin Madhav , Lyrics: Ramajogayya satry
The song was picturised as a Club/item song on Parvathi Melton and Mahesh.
5) Dethadi Dethadi
Singers: Ranjith Divya , Bhaskarabatla
Picturised as a mass song on Samantha and Mahesh. Samantha danced well.
6) Adara Adara
Singers: Karthik, Koti,Ramajogayya,Vardhini Megha
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
The song comes as a marriage song similar to the one in READY Movie.
The Dialogues are good. Some dialogue punches really suited well for Mahesh’s body language. Some Dialogues which came out well are…
“Mind lo fix ayithey Blind gaa Chesesthaa”
“Type-2 antaa Dheeniki yeh Typistoo dhorukuthaadu”
“Nenu Narakatam Modhalu pedithey narakam lo houseful Board pedatharu”
“Dhookudu lekapothey Police ki Postman ki Teda Vundadhu”
Mahesh with Sonia “Enti….Korruku thintaava…. Juice chesukoni Thaguthaava …..Nuvvu manishivaa man-eater vaa”
“Naaku okkanimisham time is the Aalochisthaa….Rendu nimishaalu isthe Action lo dhiguthaa Moodu nimishaalu isthey mugisthaa”
Brahmanandam with M.S “Kalla kinda Carry bag vesukuni hero antey ela nammavayya”
Brahmanandam got another significant role as owner of a bungalow who is trapped by Mahesh, Brahmanandam has done good job, he excelled in some scenes (especially the one in which he request for an SMS in a reality show). M.S.Narayana has done fine job, his spoofs on SIMHA, MAGADHEERA, YAMA DONGA, and ROBO are fun to watch.
Srinu Vaitla, Who has become the brand ambassador for entertainment in big budgeted commercial movies, is back gain with Superstar Mahesh in the lead. Vaitla followed the same old (his trade mark) Comedy episodes with bit of emotion here and there. The Director played safe game by selecting a simple story and narrated with more dosage of comedy. The First half is okay with some story and hero/heroine thread but second half is allotted completely to entertainment and revenge only. The second half is plain/Straight which moves on in expected lines only without a twist. Length has become a major problem in all the recent films of Srinu Vaitla KING, NAMO VENKATESA all the movies suffer from long Duration. This movie too runs more than 2hr. 40 min. A 20 minute editing could have helped more in shaping up the movie well. The film doesn’t offer anything new in terms of story or the plot.The director hasn’t gone out of the formula of our Telugu Mass-Masala movies, you should be able to guess the climax within the first ten minutes of the film and this movie doesn’t even have the twists you predict. The entertainment is familiar and has Srinu Vaitla’s mark in it. The movie has all the shades of Vaitla’s previous hits VENKY, DHEE, READY and KING, We have to wait and see for how long will the director keep beating the same bush with similar characterization and plot?
The hit range of the movie depends on how the Masses receive this entertainer.
Plus: Entertainment, Performances
Minus: Duration, thin Story line
Verdict: Mahesh Scores a Hit, A hardcore mass entertainer that fulfills the expectations of the Audience, Chances of becoming a HIT
Reviewed By
sRi
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