It has been a long time since Mahesh Babu played a role with a comic touch. Madhie's camerawork has brought luminous texture. "Kalavaathi" and "Ma Ma Mahesha" stand out in Thaman's compositions. Thaman and R Madhie are the main pillars among the technicians. Nadiya's role is hardly worth mentioning. Vennela Kishore as Mahesh Babu's friend is okay. Samuthirakani, who wowed with his villainy act in 'Krack' and 'AVPL', doesn't create much impact due to a weak character. But she hardly appears in the second half, and when she does for a moment, she gets a cringe sequence. The scenes between Mahesh Babu and Keerthy are hilarious in the beginning. Keerthy Suresh does her best in the first half.
Mahesh Babu's star power and his comic timing are the main strength of this film. With his histrionics and dialogues, Mahesh Babu has provided the required mojo. Mahesh Babu carries the movie on his shoulders and tries to lift it when the graph goes down. The rest of the movie is all about Mahi fighting for a bigger social cause? Rajendra Nath also happens to be a person who owes Rs 10000 crores to banks. Her father turns out to be a businessman named Rajendra Nath (Samuthirakani) in the Vizag region, Mahi's hometown. To recover the money from her father, he rushes to India. Mahi (Mahesh Babu), a private money lender in the USA, gives 10k dollars to the studious Kalaavathi (Keerthy Suresh) for her college fees, only to realize that she duped him. Let's find out whether the film lives up to the expectations. "Geetha Govindam" director Parasuram has successfully presented Mahesh Babu in a new avatar. Irrespective of the director, Mahesh Babu's movies create a lot of interest. Mahesh Babu's "Sarkaru Vaari Paata" is another Telugu biggie that has generated huge hype post-pandemic. Ravi Shankar, Ram Achanta and Gopi Achanta This one, sadly, is not.Banner: Mythri Movie Makers, GMB, 14 Reels PlusĬast: Mahesh Babu, Keerthy Suresh, Samuthirakani, Vennela Kishore, Subbaraju and others Giannoli's 2006 movie, The Singer, with Gerard Depardieu as a fading lounge singer, was shrewd and interesting on the subject of celebrity. It's a decent performance by Kad Merad, but the whole film is just so redundant and fundamentally unconvincing – and the growing relationship between Martin and Fleur is almost insultingly phoney. Martin becomes an emblem of ordinariness, a tribune of the people, accosted by excitable shoppers in supermarkets in awkwardly scripted scenes that are neither funny nor convincing – and then, inevitably, he morphs from hero to villain as the mob interprets his reclusive fear as starry arrogance. Well, having ignored the real point, the film, like the meretricious TV show at its centre, asks a lot of dull and obvious questions about celebrity: is there too much of it, are we too obsessed with it, what do we think of someone who "refuses" it? (But wait: he's not refusing it – he's trying to find out how he got it.) Of course, it is possible that the mystery is intentional, like Haneke's Hidden, but the fact that no one behaves as they would in real life makes it valueless both as satire and drama. At one stage, the movie hints at the possibility that Martin's woes originate from having joined an internet dating site. Infuriatingly, it doesn't occur to anyone here to ask or answer these obvious questions. But how did they get his name? And how did they get the childhood photos of Martin that are posted online? He is famous, then famous for being famous, exploited by a reality TV show produced by worldly cynic Jean-Baptiste (Louis-Do De Lencquesaing) and his beautiful but troubled colleague Fleur (Cécile de France) who develops a soft spot for their poor, panicky chump.Īt first, the movie interestingly suggests that Martin has experienced a kind of spontaneous combustion of web celebrity, a SuBo phenomenon originally caused by mischief-makers in the same spirit as people who decide to bully school-contemporaries online. One morning, he wakes up to find he has undergone a Kafkaesque metamorphosis into a celebrity: people demand his autograph and take his photo.
Kad Merad plays Martin Kazinski, a bald, middle-aged guy who leads a humble, decent life working for a firm that recycles old computers and also provides employment for people with learning difficulties. X avier Giannoli's latest movie is an unsatisfying satire on the subject of celebrity.