Sometimes -but rarely- it happens that while watching a film you feel that silently farting is an easier job than watching the film. Yesterday was one such happy moment for me. Of course the cosmos was in full light of it. The film is called Varudu. A even rare eventuality is when a person close to the actor playing protagonist is present in close vicinity. The cacaphony post exit doors was missing. I overheard a guy from a group of six -as he was the only person who spoke-saying "Speechless". It verymuch sums up the film for you.
The director seems to be in a complex hangover of MI-series, Spiderman and X-men, in that particular order. First the hero makes entry in Tom Cruise style bike riding, then flies/jumps like Tobey McGuire (Kobe Bryant, Shaq, Kevin Garnett are no match for him) and finally he kicks the balls out of villan in Hugh Jackman style. The director also made efforts to arrange the final fight on two colling towers (usually seen in nuclear/thermal power stations) as it was in Wolverine, so that you don't keep scratching your head and other body parts and say "Where did I see this?" I had few expectations till the Act-1 as the story has some scope. Probably it could have been Tollywood's first Coming-of-age flick.
A rather unusual outcome from this farty-flick was that its opponent/villan was finely developed and was a match for the hero. The song's aren't great and interrupt the flow of film all the time. Editor deserves a pat err.. kick on his you know where. Production designer, dude where are you? There were as many flaws as one can rememeber. The story has two marriage scenes in one place but, in the second scene the set suddenly comes up with two huge chimneys near them. And when the time of final fight comes miles of flower farms disappear only to form barren land with few large rocks. Hero and villan refuse to die time and again the final fight. May be they had said to each other "Hey, we are not common folks, we can take a lot of time to die. Or not die at all."
Despite all the ranting there was a good element, audience was deprived of Sneha Ullal's acting. She appears in the very first scene and you kind of expect her to be hero's love interest. But it never happens, an A+ to casting director for this. Such films offer enormous scope for fun for group goers. You get the licence to create nuisance in theatre and get claps for that. I kept my composure throught out the film but when the fight sequence on cooling towers came, I booed and wistled, not caring for social obligations and the civic sense thursted on me.
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