Nivetha Pethuraj and Ajay shine in this passable thriller
Assessment: Chandoo Mondeti of Karthikeya, Premam and Savyasachi fame debuts on OTT with Bloody Mary (written by Prashanth Kumar Dimmala) – a movie that desires you to consider it’s cleverer than it truly is. What begins off as against the law thriller quickly turns right into a business hotchpotch and earlier than it, you’re watching cool gradual movement pictures whereas questioning the place all that is heading.
Mysterious Mary (Nivetha Pethuraj), listening to impaired Raju (Rajkumar Kasireddy) and mute Basha (Kireeti) have come a great distance from being orphans taking part in carom board at an orphanage in Vizag to 3 adults chasing their goals. Whereas Mary’s motives aren’t made clear instantly, she’s fiercely protecting of her associates and is clearly trying to obtain one thing she’ll go any lengths for. Raju needs to be a cameraman and Basha needs to be an actor, traits which can be solely used to arrange the story and nothing past that. When the trio discover themselves witness to 2 murders, with CI Prabhakar (Ajay) sizzling on their heels for private causes, what follows is a sizzling mess.
The best way the story unfolds to start with, you actually surprise how this trio has managed to outlive this lengthy by themselves. Sure choices they take make no sense, particularly from individuals who’re used to combating for survival. What’s considerable nevertheless is that Prashanth doesn’t use the trio’s circumstances to garner sympathy. He nevertheless expects you to droop disbelief a bit of an excessive amount of because the movie progresses, particularly when all the pieces relies on happenstance, and as a substitute of peeling again the layers on the enigma that’s Mary by good writing, he decides to present her the ‘mass hero’ remedy. Mary’s face-off scenes with the CI sees her do issues which can be often reserved for her male counterparts within the business – which is refreshing – however the ending doesn’t have the specified impact. By the point Sekhar babu (Brahmaji) – Prabhakar’s foe – enters the fold, it’s all chaos.
Bloody Mary falls in need of being a posh and gray movie as a result of it does not go the additional mile to inform a novel story. To Chandoo’s credit score, his path is top-notch, so is Karthik Ghattamaneni’s camerawork, Kaala Bhairava’s music and Viplav’s modifying. The size of the movie is ideal for the style. It’s solely the fundamental story penned by Prashanth that you simply want may’ve been smarter as a result of it proves to be the movie’s largest downfall. Nivetha and Ajay shine of their roles. The movie relies upon lots on these two giving their finest they usually do, even when the position is a cakewalk for the latter. Rajkumar, Kireeti and Brahmaji are good too, however they don’t get the scope to carry out.
The OTT has given filmmakers the scope to inform distinctive tales, no matter whether or not they have the will impact or not. Bloody Mary is one such movie. Watch it this weekend with out expectations when you like crime thrillers. Simply don’t count on one thing logical.
