Some movies have maverick directors.. Some movies have brilliant actors…Some movies have awesome technicians… and finally some movies attract even more with cleverly cut trailers… And thus they become most expected movies of the season. Now Shanker-Vikram's I has everything we talked just now and so obviously is most awaited. But will all expectations turn into accolades !!
Plot: It all begins with the an ugly ogre(Vikram) kidnaps Diya(Amy) from her wedding. Then story slowly unlocks as how a model Diya falls for a body builder Lingesa … and how their love is being destroyed by bunch of villians.. and then why this hunch-back man is taking the revenge…
Actors..
I was admired by Vikram’s immense effort for ‘I’ . He brilliantly transforms into various forms… from an aspiring body-builder to super model to a hunch-back man to a monster in a song… But due to this excess transformations.. one can see his age in form of wrinkles when he is seen as model.. Though he does well.. I could not be his best because of the stretchiness and over-elaborate narration.
Amy Jackson is beautiful. Her role is given a great importance. Upen Patel is fresh for a south Indian film and is adequate. SureshGopi, a normal audience could easily imagine the twist behind his role.
Srinivas Reddy’s voice over matches’ santhanam’s comic timing perfectly.
Expectations misfired!!!
Various stories on the making of the film… falsification of excessive budgets… luring with sleek trailers successfully tortured the first day watchers. It is such a simple story that was dragged to extreme…
Growing up watching such a great films of shanker, everyone is bound to imagine that each every moment in shankers movie is so precious. So when the director starts narrating the story in back and forth narration… Though there is nothing striking in the flashback.. but due to periodic appearance of hunch back Vikram, one keeps on thinking there is something “More than that” than seen on screen. But as things become clear by interval… the great director himself has nothing to say further.. and he repeats whatever is being told in first half.. now more elaborately testing the patience of audience.
Sprinkles of brilliance…
As mentioned, while everyone would admire the hard work made by Vikram, feel sad that his pain is not properly used. Popular song “Issaq taari”/Pareshanayya where bike, TV , phone .. everything transforms into heroine. A duet pictured in beautiful tulip gardens in China is superb. Beast song which comes as dream sequence is sort of cheating the audience via trailer!! it seems Rahman is not interested much in providing music for Indian films. By the way Fight sequences, Wrestlers raw fight, cycle fight in China, Train sequence in pre-climax are good. And the punishments given to the villains remind me Anniyan/Aparichitudu !!
Finally..!!
Sometimes it will be not as bad for second day watchers as the expectations are then set right. If you can’t wait to see Shanker and Vikrams combination on screen.. do watch the movie for few sparkles and put away all guesses.. Predictions and watch as if you could not guess what next scene is .. and who the secret villain is!!!
Rating
50/100
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