‘Bhola Shankar’ movie review: Chiranjeevi’s stardom doesn’t help this stale, unimaginative tale directed by Meher Ramesh – The Hindu
Watching the Telugu film Bhola Shankar, headlined by Chiranjeevi and directed by Meher Ramesh, is like going again in time by just a few many years however not in a great way. The movie repackages outdated, formulaic tropes and presents them with the arrogance that star presence — Chiranjeevi, Tamannaah Bhatia and Keerthy Suresh — is sufficient to salvage a listless narrative. Meher Ramesh, credited with ‘story growth’, adapts an eight-year-old Tamil movie Vedalam starring Ajith, which was no nice shakes both. What unravels is a cocktail of a sappy brother-sister bond, cardboard-ish villain characters, a number one woman who is meant to contribute to absurd enjoyable and comes throughout as totally foolish, a whole lot of tasteless humour and loud, forgetful music.
Bhola Shankar is ready in Kolkata. The town is immaterial, as a result of, other than a smattering of Bengali, visuals of the Hooghly bridge and Durga puja festivities, loads of scenes have evidently been filmed on units. Shankar (Chiranjeevi) arrives within the metropolis along with his sister Mahalakshmi (Keerthy Suresh), whom he enrolls in a fantastic arts stream. Later within the movie, I believe, there’s a point out of her finding out structure in her commencement. By no means thoughts. We aren’t supposed to recollect and query such issues. Her character goes by way of reminiscence loss, so possibly we also needs to let it’s. In the meantime, the narrative is busy with its nods to the opposite well-known Shankar enacted by Chiranjeevi — Shankardada.
Bhola Shankar (Telugu)
Shankar takes up a job as a taxi driver in an organization run by Vamsi (Vennela Kishore), whose vibrant characterisation and the equation he shares along with his spouse and father-in-law (Pradeep) paves the best way for some campy enjoyable. An incident that happens within the opening phase adopted by a personality’s assertion concerning the arrival of a monster-like saviour makes it greater than evident that Shankar’s harmless act as an extraordinary man is a farce. It doesn’t take lengthy earlier than the narrative progresses right into a revenge drama mode, giving ample scope for Chiranjeevi to tackle any variety of baddies with maniacal glee.
The bond between Shankar and Mahalakshmi is saccharine candy and the narrative brings in an equally good-hearted Srikar (Sushanth) into the combo, other than Lasya (Tamannaah Bhatia) as a foolish legal lawyer, accompanied by her juniors (Viva Harsha and Hyper Aadhi). There’s additionally Brahmanandam in a cameo, Murali Sharma and Tulasi later within the story, Sreemukhi, Rashmi Gautam and a complete lot of comedy actors, from Venu Yeldandi to Satya, however none of them make a mark. They should be content material with merely being current in a ‘Boss’ film.
The Boss himself doesn’t have something recent to chew on. There are many references to his older movies resembling Annaya and Aapadbandhavudu. There are additionally ample references to Pawan Kalyan’s Kushi and Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam. All this nostalgia, moderately than contributing to the starry aura, solely falls flat within the absence of a story that evokes empathy. The story offers with trafficking, a principal character is at risk and but, it doesn’t evoke an emotional connection.
Shankar’s characterisation additionally stays on the floor degree. Within the authentic, Ajith is proven as a shrewd thug who would do something for cash and his change of coronary heart doesn’t occur simply. However Shankar’s character, pandering to the larger-than-life superstardom of Chiranjeevi, holds again from going all out to indicate him as morally skewed. Therefore, his change of coronary heart additionally doesn’t make an affect.
As soon as the movie lays naked its revenge motives, all that’s left is the confrontation. Shankar’s run-ins with Shawar Ali, Tarun Arora and others who’re solid as caricaturish villains are marked by unimaginative motion set items, punctuated with forgetful songs.
The 160-minute movie is an ordeal to sit down by way of. We now have seen much better work from Chiranjeevi and Keerthy Suresh. To an extent, it’s Tamannaah who appears to have had enjoyable taking part in an outlandish character.
It’s excessive time Chiranjeevi acts in new, modern narratives and embraces his age. The actor-star with an enviable physique of labor wants a reinvention and even the fan service can do with recent concepts.
Bhola Shankar is at present operating in theatres
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