Ramaa - The Saviour Hindi Movie
The basic idea of Ramaa The Saviour without a doubt is very interesting. The passion with which some children play video games almost seems like they will actually get into game themselves and live the adventure. But the idea never translated into a good script leave alone it being made into good film.
The film starts with a game video, where the giant Kaali (Taleb Ibrahim) killing some unknown man. The video is tagged as "About 10000 gaming years ago". And then the director moves to reality. The first shot shows a school names 'Tell Me Y International' and you know that the writer and director have been trying too hard to be innovative. The results however, throughout the movie, end up being as corny as the name of the school.
The biggest problem in the movie is similar to the problems in most of the movies we see - Screenplay and dialogues. The writer never seems to attempt to bring in any reasoning and the director is too happy creating nice looking visuals. Characters come and go at the writer's convenience. Also the dialogues never make sense. There is no explanation to scenes, for example the first scene of the film. The lines that the kids are given to speak are random. They rarely serve a purpose in the story apart from reinstating every now and then that they are kids.
The film does a few positives. The animation used to narrate some parts is well done. Also the action sequences are done well. There is a fair amount of Hong Kong influence as characters fight on water and cliffs. These are thoroughly enjoyable for kids. In fact a few kids that were present at the screening where I saw the film enjoyed these bits and also the huge Khali. For them the fight between a smaller person and a gigantic devil is exciting enough an experience to enjoy the film. But older children, who fall into the reason seeking category, will find this movie as disjointed as we adults found it.
Actors draw an average. Dilip Singh Rana's (Khali) voice has been dubbed but he manages no expression in his tidbit role. Sahil Khan shows off all he has got - muscles and is not given much to speak. Tanushree does fine but she took needs to work on her dialogue delivery. But she can surely rest proud that she did so much action on her own. The kids get irritatingly and loud at points but are good otherwise. All that Taleb Singh gets to show is his red eyes and huge biceps.
As a whole Ramaa the Saviour will be an experience young kids will like. Never try to find any reasoning in case you end up watching the film with the kids, else you will end up needing a saviour for yourself.
