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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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KANNADA DEVARANE
EDITOR'S PICK
`Devarane`
- watch for it`s comic moment
Rating:
**
Lucky Shankar`s "Devarane" is a sarcastic commentary on how innocent
people are exploited by fake god man and politician nexus. It has its moments of
entertainment mainly in the first half, but later the narration takes a serious
turn even making the audience to introspect over the current developments.
Yet, he has many failings in the film.
The film is fully loaded with dialogues and lacks visual strength. The dialogues
are lengthy, preachy and sometimes boring. Shankar, who wrote some crispy
dialogues in his previous film "90", has taken a different path this
time only to make a negative impact.
Though he claims that he has written an imaginary story for this entertainer,
comparisons are bound to be made with some controversial god men, who were in
news for all wrong reasons.
Shankar ridicules the penchant of the channels to bring in astrologers,
so-called god men, to studios and in process reinforce their superstitious
beliefs.
The story revolves around Chitteswamy who loses all hopes of survival when all
his attempts to earn money and lead a good life fail. He decides to end his
life. But he is saved by a crooked, but intelligent person named K.K., who
publicly announces that Chitteswamy is a god man with mythical powers.
Chitteswamy becomes very popular. K.K. builds up an ashram, where Chitteswamy
starts meeting his devotees. Meanwhile, he falls for the charms of Sheela. A
politician wants to exploit the situation to his advantage and induces K.K. to
break with Chitteswamy.
A piquant situation is created when Chitteswamy has to bury himself alive.
Ravishankar comes and rescues Chitteswamy and exposes the politician-god man
nexus.
He has done a great job in his role of the controversial god man. His dialogue
delivery, body language and expressions perfectly suit to give some credibility
to the character. The film`s heroine Neethu has a brief role.
Sadhu Kokila, Bullet Prakash, Tabala Nani and Raju Thalikote, who bring in a few
laughs in the theatre make a mark with their lively performance.
The retro song "My name is Chitteswamy" had become already popular
before the film`s release, while the other songs are ordinarily composed. The
camera work is good.
Shankar could have made a good film if he had worked out a good script
eliminating all the lengthy, preachy sequences.
"Devrane" can be watched for it`s comic moments.
