Kshanam Movie Review
on Feb 26, 2016
Producer PVP and hero Adivi Sesh need a hit badly. Never these two got a real hit and they are hoping for best on "Kshanam" movie. Meanwhile, Adah Sharma and Anasuya also need a hit and a break. Will all these people get what they want?
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The CONTENT:
Some goons attack Swetha (Adah Sharma) and she falls into coma. After 5 months, scene shifts to USA, as it is revealed that Rishi (Adivi Sesh) broke up with Swetha 4 years back and still living in her dreams. Suddenly after getting a call from Swetha now, he packs bags to India. Once he's here, she seeks Rishi's help to find her missing daughter Riya. So, what happened to Riya in fact? The pointers lead to suspecting investigating police personnel, Swetha's husband (Satyadev), brother-in-law (Ravi Varma) and others. You have to watch the film to find out who's real culprit.
The EFFORT:
On-Screen:
Adivi Sesh tried to play subtle, but he's not convincing in many scenes. He tried to play a romantic and energetic lover, a disappointed lover and then a lover on revenge-mode. But in all the three types of scenes, he sounded pretty same. One wonders how come his character is so intelligent and finds out every single clue easily, while he has neither any police or forensic background.
Adah Sharma has single emotion through out the movie. Wearing couple of bruises on the face, she portrays the same artificial expression. Once in a while, we feel like she's trying to act, but wonder what's problem with her. Except her big round eyes and thick eye lashes, never she made use of her good looks to emote well.
Probably Anasuya would have thought that this is the perfect ever negative role she could use to make her debut. She's a police officer, an ACP rank cadre, and still she carries free flowing long hair like those models in hair oil ad. Never she wears police dress, because her fitness levels will not make us believe that she's a police in the first place. Acting wise, Anasuya needs to improvise a lot and uttering dialogues without any expression on face is uneasy for audiences to accept.
Satyam Rajesh is the complete show-stealer in the movie as he plays the role of ACP Chowdary, with style. His toned dialogue delivery without a touch of comedy and his serious body language has stunned everyone. Comedian Vennela Kishore also tried similar stuff, but failed miserably. In no scene, his Muslim role of Babu Khan looked believable.
Other actors like Ravi Varma, Satyadev and others did a simple job, nothing to boast about.
Off-Screen:
Newcomer director Ravikanth Merepu got a simple script in hand, which is inspired from Hollywood movie "Following" and then coated with the tone of Mahesh's "1 Nenokkadine" movie. However, he failed to create impact with the flash back love story and the breakup scene, such that audiences could understand the deep connect of hero's character to her ex-lover. Also, leaving many loopholes in thrillers will leave audiences disappointed in the end. Will any lover (at least in a movie) accept the offer of sex on a parting note? For such scene, the emotions between lead pair should have huge strength. Also thrillers should have huge twists (most recently Malupu movie), but here the narrative goes flat.
International technician Shaniel Deo's cinematographer is the biggest saviour of the film. Because of his camera work, the Hollywood feel has come easily. Coupled by nice Color Grading during Digital Intermediate (DI) process, film sounds like something shot with hefty budget, though the production cost in below 1.5 crores.
Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are good at parts. Thrillers need some hook lines, such that people will connect to characters well. Coming to music, Sricharan Pakala has tried new but he failed to identify where the re-recording should actually lift movie to new level. Songs are okay, background score should have been better.
The PLUSES:
Overall plot
Satyam Rajesh character
The MINUSES:
Huge drag in starting 20 mins
Expected climax
Linear and twist-less thrills
BREAKDOWN:
At one look, Kshanam will sound like a Hollywood movie (of course, the base plot of kidnapping a kid and erasing the traces of that kid's existence from mother are lifted from Hollywood only), but while the logics are being concluded, it sounds like a typical Telugu masala film.
First half of the film is literally the trailer of the film itself. Suddenly a housewife Swetha whose daughter goes missing, calls her ex-BF Rishi and he lands in Hyderabad (India) to solve the crisis. With this question on, the director has narrated us a flashback love story, which we expect it to be kick ass and highly romantic, but there is nothing such here. Everything is flat in narrative, with strong bonding between lead pair never felt by the audiences. Cut to present, Rishi inquires about the kid at every place, asks every person and suspects every little thing, he too starts feeling that Swetha has some traumatic disorder where she is imagining that she has a kid. That leads to an expected twist, (interval block) and the director promises a superb second half at least.
As second half opens, unknown miscreants start targeting Rishi and try to kill him. Suddenly a car garage businessman Vennela Kishore becomes a good-boy-good-samaritan kind and vows to help the hero. While the graph is okay till now, some high twists are expected at least. But with introduction of other characters and their fancies, film sounds dragged. By the time Anasuya drops us a hint that she's clicking hero's picture, the whole climax is understood. Still it may give some food for thought, as we know 'who', but 'how' and 'why' are the things we should know. Those reasons for Riya's kidnapping might sound logical, but there is neither a strong emotion nor any conviction behind them.
Narrating a thriller needs some love for twists and turns. Problem with "Kshanam" is, everyone understands right from first frame that heroine's husband is the culprit. Her husband's brother is another villain. With every clue opened, how this thriller will actually thrill? Film may sustain at box office until a happening film arrives, but will not see a long run due to its cliched story, missing of cinematic elements and more importantly some interesting performances.
Final words: Predictable Kshanam.
Rating: 2/5
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