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Predictable Narration
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Dragged screenplay
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Chemistry between the leads
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First Half
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Direction
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Forced comedy tracks for commerciality
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Editing
Bottom Line:Mosagallaku Mosagadu – made to cash on the original.
Story
Mosagallaku Mosagadu team has promoted the film
by saying it the sequel to the Nikhil – Swathi Reddy starrer Swami Ra Ra
but believe me, it’s nothing like the earlier film. This crime – drama
begins with Seeta – Rama Idols being stolen from Ramalayyam, Ayodhya.
These idols are pretty precious as they were made to showcase the
respect towards gods. On the other hand, Local conman Krish (Sudheer
Babu) starts liking innocent Brahmin Janaki (Nandini Rai), a librarian
in Hyderabad Central Library. The movie goes around the idols, movie
travels along with Ayodhya – Lucknow- Hyderabad upto Interval.
Unknowingly, Krish gets into the matter of Idols and steals for local
goon Guru (Jayaprakash). The story takes a turn around when Krish tries
to run away with the costly parcel and International Smuggler Rudhra
(Abhimanyu Singh) comes to Hyderabad to take care of Idols business.
What happens from there forms the rest of the storyline.
Star Performance
Speaking about performances, Sudheer Babu
handles his part well. And is pleasing with his distinctive witty conman
performance. Pankaj Kesari looks fantastic as a sincere investigative
officer and Abhimanyu Singh (Raktha Charitra Fame) is quite good as
well, but the screenplay doesn’t offer them any chance to perform.
Manchu Manoj looks good in massy beard look and cameo was sweet n short.
Duvvasi Mohan, with his skill to handle humor, surprisingly takes more
claps than Sapthagiri and Fish Venkat. Telugu girl Nandini Rai (Rowdy
Fellow & Maaya fame) steals the show with her innocent - pretty
looks and her performance is fine. Jayaprakash over acts in many
sequences, but is still funny and provides few laughs in the second
half. Chadhra Mohan is okay in his short role.
Techinical Team
Unorthodox – This is the very factor that defines
the core essence of Swami Ra Ra as a brand. This is what made the
original such a beguiling affair and this is exactly what one expects
from the sequel as well. The film kick starts with interesting Idol
history and set piece of action and good locales as they start to focus
on the romantic – drama movie starts getting diluted. If Swami Ra Ra was
about meshing intelligence with crappy fun, the sequel Mosagallaku
Mosagadu is about following the same path but the level of interesting
elements are much lower than the first. As much as it has a point to
conclude (" Chedu chesevadu aalochinchaali ... Manchi chese vaadu
chesukuntu povalanthe), but it fails to make an impact on the viewer’s
precisely because of muzzy script that doesn’t know where it is headed.
The abrupt end that it all comes to further delivers a few more blows to
the audience before calling it a day. The extended jokes towards the
end are not funny enough, atleast not funny enough to relieve the entire
film. Bose Nelluri (Dk Bose fame) has failed to add the kind of punch a
crime thriller demands. The sub stories take away the excitement at the
right places. And resemblance to many other movies makes the story more
predictable. The director should have worked a bit on the screenplay as
he leaves away too many loop holes. The local con men successfully
believes in Sudheer’s words and run for their life, but within a second
they realize even he was a conman; The investigative officer has
sufficient video proof to arrest Krish but he never cares about the
footage and tries to capture Rudhra before completing his deal about
idols; Sudheer Babu finds the cost of the artifact from an ancient book
with has an image of Rama-Seeta (seriously?)..etc.
The
sound track by Kannada musician Manikanth Kadri is average, though two
songs have been well shot. The Background Score is fine, and the
introduction scores for Sudheer Babu & Abhimanyu Singh deserve a
special mention. Cinematography by “Ummadisingu Sai Prakash” is good and
the usage of locales have given a fresh feel to the film. Editing of
the film is not upto the mark, he could easily cut short few forced
comedy sequences in the first half. Fight choreography is all right.
Production values of “Lakshmi Narasimha Entertainment” are appropriate.
Analysis
We have got a crime thriller with idols. We’ve
got Sudheer Babu signed up. Lets get a heroine. And tough looking actors
for investigation and Don characters. But how can we make it different?
Lets give the hero different job “conman” and a unrelated message to
conclude things. Let’s call it a sequel to Swami Ra Ra. I just gave you
the discussion that might have probably happened before making of
Mosagallaku Mosagadu. The script of the sequel comes nowhere near to the
original and loses its way just when things start to get interesting.
Director Bose Nelluri is like perverse driver, who slams brakes when
there is no need and drives in first gear, when final gear would have
been ideal. In a nutshell, The movie isn’t atrocious, but then it
doesn’t give you even one scene worth remembering as the original.
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