Son of India review: An amateurish experiment with an old story

son of india Duration is 1 hour 42 minutes, and that’s the only saving grace of the film. The story tells of the many vengeance and vigilante dramas that have come to the fore in director Shankar’s later years. Bharathidu (Indian) And Aparichittudu (Annies), The story is told in a format that the film team considers experimental, but amateurish.

As for the opening credits role, veteran actor Mohan Babu, who heads the film, explains that the experimental narrative is built on the idea that he once explored in stage plays, when his mono-acts served as the basis for storytelling and audiences. Worked to join. He informs that son of indiaThe audience will mostly get to see him and a few actors who play the role of television anchors, while the identities of the rest of the cast will be revealed at the end.

Next, a voiceover introduces Mohan Babu’s character (let’s not name him yet) as a puzzle. The opening song places the actor among a collection of stock footage and sub-par visual effects. Mohan Babu sets out on a mission after a mysterious message comes after a devotional song.

Soon, a Union minister (Srikanth) is kidnapped and the National Investigation Agency gets to work. Since we’re told that for the most part, we won’t see other actors, we get a lot of top angle shots, point-of-view shots from random objects, and a lot of blurry scenes. We identify actors playing officers through their ID cards and sometimes through voices. Pridhvi Raj always sports a PPE kit, Mangli breaks into a folk song amid the investigation and Pragya Jaiswal as the officer has to do with sub-par dubbing Airavathi.

The film does not rely on the intelligence of its audience to understand what is unfolding on screen. Voiceover depicts every action immediately after an event unfolds, even when the characters themselves have explained things. It goes, ‘Oh, you thought he was an NIA officer, then you assumed he was a makeshift driver, and now you’re wondering if he was a kidnapper. What should be his purpose?’. You get the drift…

Part of the plot revealing Virupaksha’s (Mohan Babu) backstory takes place after the intermission. A peace-loving man who owns a printing press embarks on a path of vengeance after losing his family, and later seeks revenge on behalf of other jailed victims like himself.

Sure, the story is old and clumsily told. What makes the experience all the more harrowing is how the camera treats some of its women. The film doesn’t reveal the faces of the actors, but the gym has no problem tracing the curves of female officers. Elsewhere, a corrupt and sinister doctor is shown more pathetic as he engages in homosexual relationships for money. Again, the camera lusts after him. Later it is the same with the woman depicted with Posani Krishna Murali.

Ali, Venela Kishore and Sunil are lucky enough to play television anchors as their identities are exposed and they get to deliver some dialogues in their trademark manner.

son of india Ends up as a pointless, indulgent exercise that made me wonder what the film’s team was thinking, if they were thinking at all. ? The mission is clearly unfinished and there is much more to come. The hint at a sequel seemed like a punishment.