Movie Review: VARNA (By Hapra)
Rating: 1/5
Cast: Anushka, Arya and others (people not known to Telugu audience)
Cinematogrpaher: Ramji
Music: Harris Jayaraj
Background Score: Anirudh
Screenplay-Direction: Sri Raghava (Selva Raghavan)
Producer: PVP Pictures
Release date: 22nd November 2013
Known for his realistic subjects and stories that touch hearts with loads of emotion, Sri Raghava generally dominates the silver screen with ease. He is coming up with big budgeted Varna now, and a socio-fantasy concept in it. So let us see how it went.
The CONTENT
Two stories start parallel in the movie with a spectacled Madhu Balakrishna (Arya) being loved by a doctor Ramya (Anushka) for his unusual good qualities of serving everyone with love. At the same time in a distant planet, an arrogant Varna (Anushka), who doesnt want to become slave of men by marrying them, is loved by Mahendra (Arya), a wandering aimless muscular dud.
The EFFORT :
On-Screen:
Anushka, is not as super as hyped and not as performing as she has delivered earlier. She looks okay in the roles of both Varna and Ramya, but never excelled in bringing out anything new or fresh to the characters. Also, she looked like an aged aunty but not a heroine kind.
Arya should be given some votes, if at all we have to really rate the characters of this flick. As a muscular man without brain, and as a brainy guy with lots of love, he brought intense changes to his character graph. Surrounded by poor screenplay, his acting is all covered up with mud for sure.
Frankly speaking, all other actors have done a worst job and people who are acting in Youtube short films are literally better than them.
Off-Screen:
Let us save this part of talking about director Sri Raghava to our analysis mode. Otherwise, we should say that he has chosen a good concept, but failed completely in execution. Though logic-less screenplays are okay in fantasy flicks, Sri Raghava made Varna as the king of brain eating flicks.
If we have to talk about other technicians, two people really stand in this otherwise life-less drama. Background score given by Anirudh at least creates intensity while watching for the kind of percussions he used and the live recording he has done in Budapest, Hungary. Other than him, Cinematographer Ramji did a fantastic job as per directors requirements. Though the locations are not as riveting as hyped, Ramji made them look a little bit interesting with his lighting techniques.
Rest of the people like art-director and costume designer have made fun of audiences with their illogical setups and clownish costume designs.
The PLUSES:
· Background score (If we close eyes)
· Visuals (If we close ears)
The MINUSES:
· Everything
BREAKDOWN:
The basic storyline of Varna is simple. If you love someone and they die, then you need not panic, as you can witness them in another world, another planet. Of course, this is what Indian mythology says that we meet the dead ones in Heaven again. But what matters to make such stuff into movies is a strong conviction, creative visualization and a racy screenplay that can hold tight.
Right from the start of the flick, one gets boring to see how director Sri Raghava establishes his conflict and setup. Just in the beginning scene, we see Anushka hitting out a big beast (imitated from Hollywoods Avatar) with her legs like hitting a football, and that itself proves that this movie is going to be quite artificial. From then, all the graphic work resembles Hollywood in early 90s, for which modern generation never connects.
With movie progressing, the story turns more and more clichéd, and the screenplay more horrible, and our patience comes to zero level. A talented director like Sri Raghava missed out the essence of storytelling by inflicting too much drama and insane dialogues (maybe in Telugu version), with a touch of spineless action episodes and romance less love episodes.
All in all, Varna is going to be a 60 Crore blunder ever made on South silver screen, for its boring moments throughout the 2 hours 40 minutes of its length.
The FINISHING Line: Varna Dont Catch A DVD Too!
Review By: Hapra
Rating: 1/5
Cast: Anushka, Arya and others (people not known to Telugu audience)
Cinematogrpaher: Ramji
Music: Harris Jayaraj
Background Score: Anirudh
Screenplay-Direction: Sri Raghava (Selva Raghavan)
Producer: PVP Pictures
Release date: 22nd November 2013
Known for his realistic subjects and stories that touch hearts with loads of emotion, Sri Raghava generally dominates the silver screen with ease. He is coming up with big budgeted Varna now, and a socio-fantasy concept in it. So let us see how it went.
The CONTENT
Two stories start parallel in the movie with a spectacled Madhu Balakrishna (Arya) being loved by a doctor Ramya (Anushka) for his unusual good qualities of serving everyone with love. At the same time in a distant planet, an arrogant Varna (Anushka), who doesnt want to become slave of men by marrying them, is loved by Mahendra (Arya), a wandering aimless muscular dud.
The EFFORT :
On-Screen:
Anushka, is not as super as hyped and not as performing as she has delivered earlier. She looks okay in the roles of both Varna and Ramya, but never excelled in bringing out anything new or fresh to the characters. Also, she looked like an aged aunty but not a heroine kind.
Arya should be given some votes, if at all we have to really rate the characters of this flick. As a muscular man without brain, and as a brainy guy with lots of love, he brought intense changes to his character graph. Surrounded by poor screenplay, his acting is all covered up with mud for sure.
Frankly speaking, all other actors have done a worst job and people who are acting in Youtube short films are literally better than them.
Off-Screen:
Let us save this part of talking about director Sri Raghava to our analysis mode. Otherwise, we should say that he has chosen a good concept, but failed completely in execution. Though logic-less screenplays are okay in fantasy flicks, Sri Raghava made Varna as the king of brain eating flicks.
If we have to talk about other technicians, two people really stand in this otherwise life-less drama. Background score given by Anirudh at least creates intensity while watching for the kind of percussions he used and the live recording he has done in Budapest, Hungary. Other than him, Cinematographer Ramji did a fantastic job as per directors requirements. Though the locations are not as riveting as hyped, Ramji made them look a little bit interesting with his lighting techniques.
Rest of the people like art-director and costume designer have made fun of audiences with their illogical setups and clownish costume designs.
The PLUSES:
· Background score (If we close eyes)
· Visuals (If we close ears)
The MINUSES:
· Everything
BREAKDOWN:
The basic storyline of Varna is simple. If you love someone and they die, then you need not panic, as you can witness them in another world, another planet. Of course, this is what Indian mythology says that we meet the dead ones in Heaven again. But what matters to make such stuff into movies is a strong conviction, creative visualization and a racy screenplay that can hold tight.
Right from the start of the flick, one gets boring to see how director Sri Raghava establishes his conflict and setup. Just in the beginning scene, we see Anushka hitting out a big beast (imitated from Hollywoods Avatar) with her legs like hitting a football, and that itself proves that this movie is going to be quite artificial. From then, all the graphic work resembles Hollywood in early 90s, for which modern generation never connects.
With movie progressing, the story turns more and more clichéd, and the screenplay more horrible, and our patience comes to zero level. A talented director like Sri Raghava missed out the essence of storytelling by inflicting too much drama and insane dialogues (maybe in Telugu version), with a touch of spineless action episodes and romance less love episodes.
All in all, Varna is going to be a 60 Crore blunder ever made on South silver screen, for its boring moments throughout the 2 hours 40 minutes of its length.
The FINISHING Line: Varna Dont Catch A DVD Too!
Review By: Hapra