OnjiMooteDaMarle

The film begins depicting a guy from a middle-class family and his 2 friends. Their day-to-day life is shot well. However, once we go through the conflict scene, everything is poorly written and edited as some scenes feel they have been edited, and a bit of flow is missing. Certain scenes weren't needed in the script, be it Rocky's GF scene, Shetty with his girl, etc. They had no conclusion.

The acting by everyone was great, especially Rakesh taking the lead. Sathisha's mother and father were wonderful.

The music was average.

The beginning of the first half was slow but well-written. Everything later was downhill.

Watched it on Prime.

An idiot forced me to watch the film and I did. The one liner was good and I expected it to be at least good but the moment the step sister enters the screen I realized this is going to be painful. Grewig's trying to be hilarious or funny doesn't work at all. Her dialogue delivery is so bad that it feels she has memorized the lines and speaks like a decade old robot. Other actors were at least average if not good. 30+ minutes later the setting is one house and everything that happens there including everyone's dialogue delivery is very 'acting' and that too very medieval theatre acting. The dialogues were horrible. There are moments which probably was funny in the writer's mind but the same scene/ dialogue/ body language on screen is meh. It was a 80+ minutes irritating torture. Skip this and go take a nap instead.

That's what the film is about: Shivarajkumar walking in slow motion, holding a machete and swinging it around criminals who can't even touch him even if they are holding machine guns. This is where the Kannada film industry has fallen. Every other film is about machete or gun violence. But the story is the same. If not this, then it's blind romance with cringe dialogues.

The screenplay of the movie is yuck. The acting too. The actress is a waste. She has absolutely nothing to do in the film. Her character doesn't help the script at all. Someone wrote this film will be Shivanna's career best. LOL. Has these lockdown kids even watched Shivarajkumar films of the 90's and beyond? None of the villains have any strength. They are not scary, they haven't hurt the 'hero', the same Tamil style where poor people are killed and the hero rises to the occasion and easily kills every bad person. I really feel sad on watching Shivarajkumar signing such pathetic scripts. Why would you do so?

How out Kannada film industry was shining in the 60's and 70's with directors like Girish Kasarvalli, Girish Karnad being as good as (if not better than) Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak. The likes of Puttanna Kangal, Nagabharana, Shankar Nag brought the industry to such a point, that it's hard to believe that we have fallen into the gutters.