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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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KANNADA NISHEDAJNE
EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: *
"Nishedajne" (Curfew) adds to
list of amateurish Kannada films based on politician-police-criminal nexus. The
film has nothing new to offer and is just a rehash of what has been told in many
films before. It also suffers from lack of logic and tangible elements in the
script.
Anantha Padmanabha, who has taken too many responsibilities for his first film,
has tried to add too many things in the script which adds to the confusion. Not
only the sequences, even the dialogues are predictable and shows that the
director has just basic knowledge about politics and administration.
The story of "Nishedajne" starts off with riots and ends in a riot.
Padmanabha claims the story is based on an incident that took place after former
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi`s assassination. But it`s difficult to find any
realistic element in the narrative.
Padmanabha should have done his home work to write the script to make the
narrative interesting. Dialogues sounds like an amateurish political
conversation in a tea shop.
"Nishedajne" starts off with police officer Azeem rescuing a child
during riots. Azeem adopts the child whose parents are killed in the riots.
He christens him Bharat Azeem. When he grows up, Bharat too becomes a police
officer. He is posted to Kolar where he gets many challenging assignments. The
senior Azeem is posted to Bhatkal where he counsels the Hindu and Muslim leaders
to burry the hatchet to prevent communal riots.
Thereafter, Azeem is posted to Bangalore where he dies in an accidental police
firing during the Cauvery riots. A controversy brews up over Azeem`s last rites,
but Bharat prefers to give the body to medical search.
As earlier said, there are too many things in the script.
Ex-police officer and politician Abdul Azeem makes his acting debut as police
officer Azeem in the film. Aadi Lokesh plays his adopted son. Padmanabha seems
to have given full freedom to both Azeem and Lokesh to perform in their
respective roles, but neither of them impress. Shankar Aswath is too theatrical
in the villain`s role. Less said about the new artists, the better.
Technically, the film is poor.
See "Nishedajne" only if you do not have any option.
