Nee Tata Na Birla Kannada Movie
This is supposed to be a full length fun and thriller film, but it ends up a hotch potch work and disjointed combination of many sequences of some successful bollywood starrers.
Director Pandu Magadi who has been credited with the story and script of the film has exhibited his knack of basing his scripts on sequences of non Kannada films. In plain terms this film may not be the remake of some non Kannada films as in the case of his previous films like Olu saar Bari Olu, Honey Moon Express and Tenali Rama, but the remix version of many Hindi films like Priyadharshan's Garam Masala and Haseena Maan Jaayegi.
Nagendra Magadi seems to be oblivious of the fact that today's generation of cine goers have access to many films made in different languages and are intelligent enough to source the sequences to the films that they have already seen. Perhaps that is one reason why he manages to credit the story and the script of the film to himself. And even in narrating the story of this film, his lackadaisical approach becomes too apparent. He lacks the knack of telling the story in an engaging way. The same sequences and theme are repeated all over again and again. And this repetition creates jarring notes in the entire film. And even the dialogues of the film are ordinary. Some double meaning dialogues could have been avoided.
The story of the film revolves around two youngsters Ravi and Jaggu (both forty five plus artists) who have no seriousness in life. They want to make easy money and spend them. These two pranksters are kicked out of their house by their rich father. And they land up with a cunning politician who hands out an assignment to them. That they have to woo two young girls and obtain a secret code from them to facilitate acquiring huge property. How these two pranksters fall in love with the girls and expose the designs of villain form the rest of the story.
The main weak link of Tata Birla is that the laughter comes once in a while and the same type of sequences are seen over and over again. And the technical team has also not supported Magadi's efforts to provide a 150 minute entertainer. Guru Kiran's music composition is ordinary compared to his works in films like Aramane, Bindaas etc.
Ravichandran has done similar roles many number of times earlier, and his disinterest in the project becomes obvious in many sequences. Though he is seen in different type of get ups and has tried to be as natural as possible in the comical situations, the weak script does not help him to add something extra to the role. Jaggesh simply over acts and his monotonous dialogues seen in many films earlier becomes quite repetitive. Like his mimicry of Dr. Raj Kumar's voice and Prabhakar's voice. Pooja Gandhi and Jennifer are for the glamour quotient and even the other girls who come and go by have little to do than making their presence on screen and disappear later.
Tata Birla is an ordinary fare. You can see it or miss it.
