RadheshyamPrabhas and Pooja in the film. (courtesy: actorprabhas,
Mold: Prabhas, Pooja Hegde, Sachin Khedekar
the director: Radha Krishna Kumar
Rating: two stars (out of 5)
All the pomp and show, Radheshyam It’s a godly fiery romantic drama that sucks the air out of style with crushing bursts of bang and fanfare. The plethora of beauty and relentless obscenity defeat the clear purpose of the film that the fate of man lies not in his palms but in the strength of his hands.
Lead actors Prabhas and Pooja Hegde are saddled with a script (written by director Radha Krishna Kumar) that leaves them little room for maneuver. Both are forced to play with their hands tied. The end result is sad.
Neither is able to rise above the wreckage of a film that brings a storm in the climax and leaves the protagonist to fight the raging elements on a sinking ship (literally and otherwise). They fail to make any emotional connect with the audience but certainly not for lack of effort. How far can actors go, who are not only empty but also confused?
Radheshyam, filmed simultaneously in Telugu and Hindi with two different soundtracks and released across the country, is touted as a big-budget extravaganza meant to sweep us off our feet. Few parts of the film come close to achieving that milestone. The bulk of it was shot in Europe, replete with gorgeous imagery and spectacular visual effects. But much of what the film does, it doesn’t deliver the sensory highs it aims for.
Radheshyam There is the beautiful pifal which is tried to be overcome as a solemn pursuit of life and death, fate and human endeavor, palmistry and science, and love and loss. Cinematographer Manoj Paramhans – apart from lending a part of his name to a major character in the film – delivers impeccable and impressive compositions, but in the absence of a clear and passable reference to all the superficial ‘beauty’, undeniably good work What he and the visual effects team do is ineffective.
Voiceover of Amitabh Bachchan Love-And-Fate The dichotomy sets the tone for the 140-minute film that doesn’t have the power to match the gravity of the narrator’s famous baritone. Of course, there’s no doubt that Prabhas’ screen presence is tremendous, but trapped in an environment that makes little use of what he brings to the table, he becomes sub-par.
climatic stretch of Radheshyam lets the star go into action-hero mode – though he’s not taking on a human villain here – and this is where Prabhas looks far more at home than at any other point in the film.
male protagonist of Radheshyam There is a prophet who is described in one of the early sequences as “Einstein of Palmistry” and, in a later scene, as “Nostradamus of India”. In case you are not suitably struck by these nicknames, the person named Vikramaditya has the urge to read the palm of Indira Gandhi and predict the arrival of emergency.
He runs away from the consequences of a daring forecast and ends up in distant Rome where he continues his business with success. During his Italian travels, he spies the beautiful and impulsive Prerna (Hegde) on a train that does not carry any other passengers and is not destined for a particular place on the railway map.
The courageous woman is a doctor who works in a hospital in Rome, led by her strict uncle (Sachin Khedekar), who on her part is determined to believe that Vikramaditya is a charlatan. Needless to say that the boy-girl moment doesn’t go in vain. Vikramaditya falls in love with Prerna, though he misses no opportunity to say that he is not the “relationship type” but the “flirt-ship type”.
No matter what ship the man is on, it’s easy to guess that neither he nor the film is headed in the direction of a smooth ride. Speaking of the ride, a chase, which begins after Vikramaditya, briefly tells a reluctant businessman (Jagapati Babu in a special appearance) that he has no future in politics, with the protagonist himself on a bus. Ends up with throwing down looking like, but later called a. patient vehicle.
Vikramaditya wakes up in bed in the same hospital where Prerna serves. Where else will he go when the film makes us believe that everything is written on the palm of a man? He is quick to point out to the heroine that he is never going to fall in love, get married and settle down because that’s what fate has for him.
the rest of Radheshyam Dedicated to proving the protagonist wrong. Fair enough, but the methods used in the film are painfully predictable and excruciatingly torturous.
Radheshyam There is a snappy affair that spends a lot of time establishing that Vikramaditya is a master of his craft and decides to change the message completely and completely – and confusingly. A change of heart takes the ghost of death and a terrible tsunami.
The palmist may be good at his job, but life is so precious that he cannot be left at the mercy of his forecast – that’s what the film is trying to convey to its audience. The heroine’s life – and destiny – becomes the test ground for that conjecture.
To strengthen the argument, Radheshyam Factor in a cameo for Riddhi Kumar as a young girl who aspires to make a name for herself in the sport of archery. Along the way, Vikramaditya makes some other spot-on predictions, cementing his reputation as an astrologer.
Key Cast Radheshyam Jayaram as a hypochondriac who refuses to vacate his hospital bed, Krishnam Raju as Nayak’s blind mentor, Bhagyashree as Nayak’s mother, and Nayak’s best friend. In Kunal Roy Kapur, who stands by him during his long absence. House.
Do any of them leave any mark on the film? well, they shouldn’t be doing that because the focus of Radheshyam Mumbo-jumbo is firmly on what masquerades as the sweet-naughty between lovers who swoon in concoctions swinging between infantilism and fatalism.
Radheshyam A wrongly made love story that is hard to fall in love with. If the devil is in the details, he’s everywhere in this movie, which is out to prove that the line between blockbuster and lackluster is precariously thin.