I found the movie engaging and very well made. The movie provides good entertainment without resorting to vulgarity. I give it a 'thumbs up'. As many have already noted it should have been reduced by 20 to 30 minutes and some just did not like it. So your mileage may vary.
It takes special talent to make something really silly. The maker needs to convince the audience that what (s)he created looks silly but will be entertaining and demonstrates that a lot of effort and creativity went into making it. If the audience believes this, then it is willing to suspend or entirely check out disbelief and simply enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts. I think this might explain the popularity of the latest Kannada hit film 'avane srimannarayana'. It was dubbed in four other languages and I heard that the movie is a already a hit in Telugu.
The story is a mash up of folklore, fantasy, Hollywood westerns, Tarantino-ish cinema tricks and our own good old hero worshiping stories. I hope I can use this term 'Magic realism' for the genre of this movie. The dictionary explains it as 'a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy'. A scene which fits this description in the movie is the dance sequence with the drama troupe - it is dream like.
Many times you feel the hero does stunts which are ridiculously unbelievable but hey if Avengers and John Wick can do it and make money why not Rakshit Shetty?
Congratulations to the director Sachin and the entire team on the commercial success of this movie. But soon they should come out with their own style which is not heavily influenced by foreign movies.
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