Khiladi Telugu Movie Review

Khiladi Telugu Movie Review  

 Movie Name: Khiladi
    Rating: 2.8
    Banner:G.K.Films
    Casting:Vishal Krishna, Neetu Chandra, Sarah Jane Dias, Tanushree Dutta, Santhanam, Prakash Raj, TSBK Mouli, Sneha, Mallika Kapoor, Mayilsamy, Sathyan and others
    Music:Yuvan Shankar Raja
    Director:    Thiru
    Producer:Vikram Krishna
    Released date : Mar 16, 2012

INTRO:

‘Playing safe' has become the new mantra these days for directors in any film industry. Not to mention the special bond that the Tamil technicians/actors share with the Tollywood since every week or the other, we get to see a dubbed film vying for the attention of the Telugu audiences with the straight ones.

Vishal too shares an irrevocable adoration for the Tollywood viewers for years now and is coming up as Khilladi, which actually is dubbed from 2010-released Tamil romantic comedy, Theeraha Vilaiyattu Pillai. Unlike his mass roles in other movies, this movie blends him in a lover boy’s character. Also, he is flanked with three gorgeous ladies that every onlooker would love to feast up on, with their eyes of course! Let’s have a look as to how far do the new look works for Vishal…

PERFORMANCES:

Vishal Krishna is definitely a good actor and came out with flying colors every time. Here, he played a lover boy and somehow appeared uncomfortable in pulling it off as convincingly as he does when it comes to mass characters. Neetu Chandra manages to showcase herself as a sex symbol and got the audience get glued to the screens and drool over her.

Tanushree Dutta is adequate and needs to go easy on her makeup; she looks fleshy but for the fact that the film released two years ago and thankfully, she burnt the extra kilos now (guess the reviews for the original too took a dig at her in this regard). The venture marked the acting debut for Sarah Jane Dias, who looked cute with her curly hairstyle and ethnic way of dressing. Agreed that she isn’t visually tempting, but justified her role.

Santhanam & co were good at delivering decent jokes. TSBK Mouli and Sudha as Vishal’s parents portrayed themselves well. Prakash Raj had nothing much to do, but his designed character as Tanushree’s brother suited him pretty nicely. Sneha and Mallika Kapoor flash for few seconds.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:

Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja is truly an asset. Every tune in the soundtrack makes us feel and breathe the delicacy of love. Locales in the songs were simply amazing and lifted the musical compositions. Another man who needs to be appreciated is Arvind Krishna for superb cinematography. Let it be fights or songs, every bit is captured fantastically. Editing by TS Suresh could have been crisper. But, I guess, director Thiru got confused with regard to the subject and hence clarity is in the end product. He allows the viewers to get little perplexed with the inexplicable screenplay. If given a good treatment to the script, the movie would have been better.

PLUS-POINTS:

Amazing cinematography

Melodious songs

High production values

Background score

Beautiful ladies of the film

Vishal’s acting talent

MINUS POINTS:

Hero’s perplexingly designed character

Story

Screenplay

Climax

VERDICT:

The movie starts off on an interesting note but the scenes and the script bears resemblance with Siddharth’s Chukkalo Chandrudu (2006). Vishal played it safe with different genre, but his character leaves the viewers bewildered. There are grey shades too in his character, actually stuffed with machismo and arrogance, and doesn’t allow the audience draw a conclusion about the same.

Thiru tried hard to toss in twists in the story here and there, but it all becomes too predictable. The story treatment is not gratifying since it fails to convey the right message. The way Vishal romances the three cronies, clowning around, is quite juvenile and silly. On the whole, Khilladi has some convincing elements but surely will not make it success, heart-touching music being the only saving grace. These kinds of films do look good on paper, but demand lot of conviction and knack to execute. Better wait for the DVD version!