Dasara Movie Review: Nani delivers a memorable performance in this slow burn – TOI Etimes
Dasara Story: Dharani (Nani), Suri (Deekshith Shetty) and Vennela (Keerthy Suresh) are associates since childhood. Their comparatively calm lives are upended for causes far past their management and issues won’t ever be the identical.
Dasara Overview: Debutant Srikanth Odela’s Dasara is a blended bag and there’s no two methods about it. On one hand, the movie is visually gripping, the characters seem to be they’ve extra to supply and the environment appears like every little thing is about to return undone at any second. Alternatively, Srikanth units up themes he by no means absolutely explores, or worse, wraps them up with hasty conclusions. Attributable to that, the sucker punches hit you onerous and the remaining…they simply don’t.
The setting is Veerlapally. Ingesting on the Silk Bar (an ode to the proprietor’s love for Silk Smitha) right here isn’t an habit, it’s custom. Regardless of everybody pumping cash into the bar, not everyone seems to be allowed inside resulting from casteism working rampant. However the males don’t appear to thoughts, a lot to the chagrin of the ladies within the village. Everybody appears coated always in a layer of soot because of the coal mining within the village. Rajanna (Sai Kumar), Shivanna (Samuthirakani) and the latter’s son Chinna Nambi (Shine Tom Chacko) tussle for energy, however the one in command of the liquor at all times wins.
Dharani (Nani) fears loads of issues since childhood. He’d somewhat not converse up in uncomfortable conditions and as a toddler, he loses bladder management if he hears a cat shriek close by. Sooner or later his grandma tells him that she drinks to maintain worry at bay, to nobody’s shock, Dharani is at all times discovered with bottles hanging off his waist at any given time. Suri (Deekshith Shetty) is his finest good friend and Dharani will do something for him. Even when it means ‘giving up’ his love for Vennela (Keerthy Suresh), who additionally has eyes for under Suri.
As a lot as Dharani and his tribe of underdogs wish to steal coal off trains, drink themselves to an early demise and be left alone of their tomfoolery, they’re dragged into one thing larger. A difficulty snowballs, hidden agendas revealed, physique rely racked up until Dharani should be taught to face his fears with out the assistance of his trusty associates – alcohol and Suri.
Srikanth spends a lot of the first half of the movie establishing the world of Veerlapally and the characters that reside in it. He spends ample time on the small moments. After one thing main upends everybody’s lives, you count on Srikanth to go full throttle within the second half. As a substitute, he lets his characters sit with their feelings. This doesn’t essentially translate to scenes that maintain you absolutely engaged. Some don’t maintain your consideration, some are too heavy, and the much-hyped tune Chamkeela Angeelesi simply comes out of nowhere. He additionally doesn’t dig deep sufficient into a number of the matters he explores.
Nevertheless, when Srikanth delivers, he does it with full assuredness. Few scenes in Dasara stick with you lengthy after the movie is finished. The pre-interval is chilling, it’s not your common ‘interval bang,’ you actually don’t know the place it’s going to go from right here. The climax is cathartic and bloody, with the director going full throttle and refusing to carry again. The massy, elevation scenes work, so do the emotional ones for probably the most half. Girls on this universe undergo because of the males’s selections, however additionally they generally get their say.
Nani offers his sweat, blood, and tears to taking part in Dharani. After Jersey, that is in all probability his heaviest movie until date and he carries it on his shoulders. Keerthy Suresh excels in some scenes and never a lot in others. She’s a delight to observe when she’s dancing at a baraat however you are feeling annoyed when she acts hammy in a key scene. Shine Tom Chacko will get the possibility to be unhinged in a scene, however he feels wasted in any other case. The identical holds true for Sai Kumar and Samuthirakani. Poorna and Deekshith play their components properly. Sathyan Sooryan’s cinematography is a significant plus for the movie, so is Santhosh Narayanan’s music.
Dasara shouldn’t be the movie that leaves you with a smile on the finish of all of it, it additionally doesn’t reinvent the wheel. May it have been higher? Certain. However Srikanth Odela and Nani make this sluggish burn work. So, credit score the place credit score is due.
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