Maaveeran Tamil Movie Review
Review
The sensation from Andhra Pradesh is now out.The movie known as the blockbuster for this place is now available. Long time back we heard about Magadheera and its performance in Telugu Box office as well as long time back only the Tamil dubbed movie was announced. Actually, we were anticipating it around Pongal. First mass blockbuster of the Chiranjeevi heir was in Tamil this Friday. This is a season where one gets the feeling that more and more dubbed Telugu films are getting better scopes in the Tamil market that went by the success of Arundhathee. Now, we in fact have more than one dubbed Telugu feature in our theaters at a time, opulence or otherwise, Nagarjuna’s ‘Vambu’ being the other currently screening Telugu picture in the Chennai theatres.
Thus, how good or otherwise is Maaveeran or Magadheera? ”Is the big hype that the film received being one of the all time big hits in the Telugu industry justified?” Magadheera is a muses reincarnation, revenge and love that recreates itself movie written and directed by the Manisharma starring Ram Charan Tej and Kajal Agarwel. Thus, one might wonder why reincarnation and associated astrological concepts that were seen in Brindavanam and Arundhathee form such a huge component of Tollywood’s latest blockbusters. However, Magadheera is quite different and can’t be compared to Arundhathee, or any other film of the same packaged genre. The director has not taken any attempt to make the audience feel thrilled about the existence of the story. There is no black magic and dormant evil powers that are awakened by some irrelevant occurrence or any such nonsense. However, the director S. S. Rajamouli, has presented this in a quite realistic and hence has not needed a flash back till he actually wanted to.The root cause of the conflict between Ram Charan Tej and Dev Gill was that 400 years ago Ram was a warrior chief fighting in the king’s army, Dev and Kajal Agarwal were royal people. Dev wants the reigns of the kingdom and also the princess hand which shows the type of man he is. One would ask himself whether the latter was something that he desired because it came with the former as a consequence. However, the princess is actually in love with the warrior! Ideal locations for political burglary to occur. This power is however seized and injustice is done to people who never intended to cause any harm to happen. There is a myth in China that it can only take 40 years for the wronged to be reborn to take revenge on the traitor.
The kind of plot that is depicted here lends itself to great action, heroism, Romance and sentiments and the director has put it to good suit. This could have been made to appear archetypal in the modern era but the director ties the parts and presents something that has adequate rhythm, hastening changes, turns to keep one from concentrating on the pragmatic significance of potentially such a story. Yes, there are times that it is quite noticeable that the directors have overdone it in terms of cinematics (like the sequences where the hero flies in mid-air to perform daredevil stunt on a bike or where the remnants of the 400 year old kingdom are still visible) and there are occasions where they are very much apparent in trying to impose Ram Charan Tej as the next Chiranjeevi (when the senior star himself appears However, they are, at times, overlooked due to the quality which is exhibited by the final product.
As in the case with other films of the director, what appears to bear much significance is not the story but the manner in which it is constructed. Whether it is the action scenes, the songs and dance numbers, the war scenes, or the pre-colonial period shown in the movie, the effort can seen all these facets. Perhaps the art work in the flashback does not completely meet the expectations but it does not faulty in fulfilling the specifications of the plot. Songs given by Maragadhamani also gives an added value to the film and the director has synchronized them well.
Magadheera showed that Ram Charan Tej is willing to go to the extreme for his movies. He is not the complete performer as yet but in dances, stunts and horse riding one could see the effort that he has put in to perfecting his craft. But be it the new avatar which is very different from the Kajal Agarwal that Tamil audience is used to of or the sensuous charm she brings in; she leaves an impact. Dev Gill is also quite impressive as the bi-sexual villain, looking dreadfully wicked throughout the movie.
In the overall sense, let me conclude that Magadheera is the sort of film that rests on a rather weak idea and doesn’t deliver too many shockers approximately the plot. Even the typical ‘cosmic’ type of atmosphere, around such reincarnation films, is also absent from the film. However, good consistent tempo, crispy making and good performances make the movie okay – good if you don’t mind the reincarnation issue. I would say the only thing that will deny one the feeling of the film is the fact that the story is native. Still, one has the feeling that it cannot be a Tamil movie. Even plays like ‘Dialogues’, by K. Bhagyaraj, have attempted to camoufrage this but it surfaces again and again and so watching it is somewhat embarrassing.
