Puli Meka Series Review: A satisfying experience for crime drama fans – cinemaexpress
Crime drama is a style the place everyone’s consideration is pinned majorly on the climax. The story can succeed or fail, relying on how efficient the closure is for each the characters and the viewers. The character of a narrative and its construction however, each thread within the narrative should lead us to solutions, about those that lie behind the crime in query. The previous few minutes of a sequence or a movie are normally reserved for this revelation. However in Puli Meka, we all know who the killer is, midway into the sequence. Regardless of that, the sequence emerges as a winner as the remainder of the story is an attention-grabbing, interconnecting sequence of occasions that retains the viewer engrossed.
Creator – Kona Venkat, Director – Chakravarthy Reddy
Forged – Lavanya Tripathi, Aadi Saikumar, Suman, Goparaju Ramana, Raja Chembolu
Puli Meka begins as a serial killer story. A person is on the free and kills a number of cops in Hyderabad. We meet IPS officer Kiran Prabha (Lavanya Tripathi), who’s requested to resolve the case by a senior commissioner in Telangana Police (Suman). Kiran, who’s an MA prison psychology graduate and has prior expertise in placing a serial killer behind bars, is transferred to town and he or she types a particular investigation staff together with forensic officer Prabhakar Sharma (Aadi Saikumar)to resolve the crime.
There’s a HIT 2-style purple herring, the place somebody harmless will get captured first, solely to be let off later. The serial killer angle within the first place proves to be all smoke and mirrors, as we get a private vendetta subplot behind the string of murders, a la Imaikkaa Nodigal/Anjali Vikramaditya (2018). The Puli Meka alluded to within the title retains us guessing, because the hunter turns into the hunted and vice versa. Whereas the subplots involving Kiran’s previous, Prabhakar’s household and Kiran-Prabhakar’s engagement initially come off as a distraction, they regularly discover a solution to easily combine themselves into the principle homicide. Each supporting character within the story and their personas in two completely different timelines play a task in transferring the story ahead, making Puli Meka an pleasing binge-worthy expertise. Whereas the contrasting ethical compasses of Karunakar (Raja Chembolu) and Pallavi (Siri Hanumanthu) come off as unrelatable to somebody from a youthful demographic, they do their bit in embellishing the bigger narrative at hand.
Puli Meka as an online sequence in an trade the place OTT is as a format of storytelling is comparatively new, is a peculiar, paradoxical beast. The OTT-isms of Puli Meka, outdoors of its writing, are largely restricted to the dialogue, the place we hear the characters communicate extra in English and use cusswords extra freely than they might in your common Telugu movie. The sequence, operating for 8 episodes of half an hour every, is visually paying homage to CID and the Crime Patrol sequence. Puli Meka has no qualms about spoon-feeding its viewers. Take, for example, a scene the place Suman’s character finds out the identification of the principle killer. The digital camera does a dolly zoom of his shocked face. Whereas that alone is sufficient to inform us what he’s pondering, we additionally see him inform the identify of the killer out loud. That type of detailing, redundant to sure viewers however important to others, is what retains Puli Meka a step above Tv soaps and lots of notches beneath worldwide sequence.
Lavanya Tripathi takes the centre-stage in Puli Meka, one thing uncommon for mainstream Telugu cinema. She will get not one however two introductory motion sequences which can be pleasant to look at. As a viewer, you retain guessing what she is as much as subsequent, and that’s fairly spectacular. Aadi Saikumar’s efficiency was sadly the sequence’s weakest hyperlink, his performing is uninteresting and unconvincing. This isn’t a sequence you’ll look ahead to performing, cinematography or modifying – the buck stops right here with the writing. Puli Meka leaves individuals with an thrilling cliffhanger ultimately, and the sequence will proceed to have a successful run so long as it retains its stakes excessive and twists sharp.
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