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EDITOR'S PICK
"Aithalakadi" - a painful watch (IANS Movie
Review)
Before the release of "Aithalakadi", Bullet Prakash, one of the
producers of "Aithalakadi", and its lead actor had claimed that the
film is unique as it has more than 108 Kannada film artists including five
established heroes in special roles. Unfortunately, this uniqueness is totally
spoiled by slipshod work by artists and technicians who seem to have not taken
their work seriously.
"Aithalakadi" is certainly the most absurd Kannada film seen in recent
times. It is just a hotchpotch of many sequences and does not have any
particular story line. The film has plenty of inane and meaningless dialogues
making it a tedious watch.
Director J.G. Krishna should be squarely blamed for writing an amateur script
and giving full freedom to artists.
The role of five heroes - Ravichandran, Jaggesh, Sudeep, Vijay and Vijaya
Raghavendra - are not related to the storyline and they have been used mostly in
irrelevant sequences.
It is very difficult to pin point even one positive element in the film - even
the music and other technical work are not up to the mark.
In the film, Raghu, an assistant director in Kannada films,, accidentally meets
Prakash who has just come to Bangalore from his village.
Raghu wants to make it big in the movies and even succeeds in his first attempt
as a director. But he is shattered when he comes to know about his wife`s extra
marital affair. He loses interest in work. But later make amends.
Prakash is saddled with a sick mother but his problems are solved too in the
end.
Talented artists like Rangayana Raghu, Bullet Prakash and Sreenivasa Murthy are
made to act like buffoons. All the top stars are wasted, so is Neetu.
Sadhu Kokila fails as an actor and also as a music director.
Krishna`s camera work is of low quality which makes him doubly culpable as he is
also the director. In short "Aithalakadi" is a painful watch.