Tripura Review Tripura Movie Review...Horror films are the pick of the season with movies like Prema Katha Chitram, Geethanjali, Ganga, Raju Gari Gadhi and Mayuri becoming money spinners at box office. Even talented girl Colors Swathi turned to horror with "Tripura" where she plays the central character. As the film is directed by 'Geethanjali' fame Raj Kiran, expectations are little high.

The CONTENT:

Tripura (Swathi) hails from a village and bridegrooms escape from marrying her because of her dreaming abilities. She dreams about other people and reveals them the truth. When her parents send to doctors in Hyderabad, young doctor Naveen (Naveen Chandra) gets flattered by Tripura and marries her. By that time, Tripura starts getting premonitions about various people getting killed and they become true in real life. In parallel, an investigation goes on about missing doctor Eesha, who happens to be Naveen's colleague. At the same time, Tripura gets a dream that her husband Naveen getting stabbed to death. So, what happens from there? That's what the mighty Tripura is all about.

The EFFORT:

On-Screen:

Swathi looks plump and little unconvincing but B & C centres audiences may find her apt for village belle role. She has turned good in emotions and dialogue delivery still sounds cute. However, she hasn't pulled off bigger 'ghost' acts like her predecessors have pulled. 

Naveen Chandra is okay as an actor, but he has to improve a lot. It's Saptagiri who stole the show as 'mavayya' of Swathi. Throughout the film, it's his comedy that makes audiences sit in theatres. Other actors like JP, Shakalaka Shankar and others are quite routine. Rao Ramesh is good as a professor, but his role too turned out a simple one.

Off-Screen:

Director Raj Kiran has once again chosen his own Geethanjali like script and tried to make similar horror film. Except for the premise that heroine gets premonitions of deaths, nothing else is new. Direction wise, still he has to churn out many emotions well, while his comedy timing extraction is good.

Dialogues written by Raja are good in parts, but they are not remarkable. One gets a doubt, what kind of screenplay Kona Venkat and Veligonda Srinivas have written for this film. For horror films, music and re-recording should be huge asset but Kamran has disappointed here. Even songs are also not impressive. Editing is slick, but with not so intense content, what magic it could do?

The PLUSES:

Saptagiri's comedy scenes

Swathi, sometimes.

The MINUSES:

Routine story

Weak & predictable 2nd half

Poor narration

BREAKDOWN:

Almost all these ghost and horror films are becoming same in Tollywood these days. A girl gets killed and she becomes a ghost. That ghost takes various forms to torture her murderers. Finally it enters heroine and kills them. Telugu makers don't want to think beyond it.

Film starts with the murder of a girl, who gets cemented inside a wall. From then it's obvious that her soul comes out and takes revenge. As scene shifts to Tripura and her village, comedy takes centre stage. And the whole plot looks interesting as her dreams turn into reality. By interval itself, the story and all loop holes will be totally opened up. Still, as the heroine reveals that she dreamt about hero getting stabbed, it creates some interest. Otherwise, we feel like watching some known film again with new set of actors.

The decoction turns much bitter in the second half as director starts testing patience as he fails to understand to which way he should turn the movie. As the film moves away from Swath's character to various other sub plots, we tend to loose interest. But Saptagiri enters at right time to create some laughs. Though the scenes are routine, he stands out like a hero of the film after Swathi. Finally as the film reaches pre-climax, audiences will feel proud for guessing the villain correctly. A routine pre-climax and then a routine climax will end the film. There is nothing like we've learned about big secret, explored an unknown scientific stuff (like premonitions about future) or watching something so intense.

Horror lovers in B & C centres may enjoy this routine passable stuff, but multiplex audiences find it boring. Especially Swathi's fans will get bored because she's not even sounding like a central character in the movie's second half. This is a good script, had the director focused much on dreams and premonitions part, but it has fallen flat miserably due to illogical cinematic liberties. At least, hilarious moments should have been strong such that comedy would have run the whole scene. The film looks like a re-run of films like Geethanjali and Karthikeya sans such excitement.

These are days where horror films that don't even have minimum cinematic values are scoring blockbusters at box office. Even Tripura might get such a run, but only for a week until next film proves on next Friday.

Final words: Tripura fails to scare audiences

RATING: 2.5/5