Mumait proves with performance

Films with action genre, involving heroines in lady-oriented films, are not new to the Telugu audiences. Especially, heroine taking revenge for the injustice done to her, is also not new. Vijayalalitha and Vijayanirmala of yester years had portrayed such roles some 30 years ago. The same was polished and was brought out by Ramesh Rajaa, with a different and novel narration. Especially, the director took special interest in extracting the acting talents of Mumait Khan, unlike other directors who tried to cash in on her physical glamour and oomph. She too was so cautious in delivering her performance in a balanced manner and it gained an above average and near success talk.

Rahul (Riyaz Khan) is an orphan, but has good interest in boxing. He turns a district champion and later reaches Hyderabad. After taking coaching in an institute, he turns out to be a state champion. After becoming a state champion, he gets killed by some unidentified person. Police could not get a clue how he was killed as there were no traces of fight or struggle. Moreover, not even a drop of blood could be seen. However, the police come to know that he died as someone used Marmakala (a typical martial art) and broke his backbone. ACP Madhu (Viswajit Pradhan) investigates the case and zeroes in on Mandakini (Mumait Khan), whose novel was found with Rahul.

However, Madhu too gets injured in an accident. So the CBCID authorities hands over the case to Bose (Sivabalaji) at the instance of Veda (Shraddha Das). Bose invites Mandakini for interrogation and finds nothing suspicious. But the way she described about the martial arts points a finger of suspicion on Mandakini. Bose continues to keep an eye on Mandakini. Incidentally, Mandakini gets stabbed during the condolence meet of Rahul and this makes Bose and Mandikini good friends. However, Bose continues to suspect Mandakini. After some time, Vasu (Krishna Bhagawan) and Veda were able to identify a person who attacked Mandakini. By the time, Bose and his team reaches his house, he gets killed.

Naturally the three suspect Mandakini and on finding her vehicle, they chase it but could not catch her. Surprisingly, they come to know that Mandakini was killed two years ago and the person whom they followed is Nandini, her sister, who writes novels in her sister’s name. What made Nandini to kill Rahul? Why she created an accident and injured Madhu? What are the reasons behind the death of Mandakini? Besides Rahul, who are the others involved in her death? Did Nandini takes revenge against the other person or not? Answers to all these questions form part of the climax.

PERFORMANCE:

Mumait Khan, who is well known among the Telugu audiences, as an item girl, turned an artiste with ‘Operation Duryodhana’ and later she was promoted as heroine. She played the lead roles in a handful of films, but none of them were commercial hits. Learning from the past experience that mere dances and exposure of glamour won’t help, Mumait concentrated on performance and did a neat job. Her expressions, body language and as usual her dances attracted the audiences well. Sivabalaji, who had very less image, but is a known face for the audiences, played the hero. He too puts up good performance in action scenes and dances.

Shraddha Das, though had not much scope to perform, tried to attract the audiences with her glamour and oomph. One of the songs involving her with Sivabalaji was choreographed in a romantic way. Comedy by Krishna Bhagawan, Vijaya Ranga Raju and Venumadhav is adequate. Other artistes including Malladi Raghava, Vizag Prasad, Raghunatha Reddy and others did justice to their roles.

TECHNICAL:

Most of the songs penned for the film had a mass touch with high decibel music. At the same time the lyricist chose to use choicest English and Hindi words while penning the lyrics. However, there are a couple of melody-based songs too. All the songs were tuned well by Koti. Dialogues by Veligonda Srinivas are adequate. Comedy track with Vijaya Ranga Raju, Krishna Bhagawan, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao is hilarious, which ensured relief to the audiences. Camera by Sureshkumar and editing by Ramesh were good. Choreography of songs and action scenes too suited well to the film.

REMARKS:

Though the storyline is old, the narration of the film is interesting and the director chose to reveal the secret before the interval bang. Surprisingly, that was not the real secret but only a part of it. The sudden twist where the police officer turning the villain raised the expectations on the film and the climax fight is ultimate. The director should have explained how the heroine learnt Marma Kala and had he kept a few scenes about her practice of that martial art would have attracted more audiences. That part may not increase the length much as the film was wrapped up in exactly two hours time. Finally, Mumait Khan was able to achieve a hit in her career as heroine.

Cast: Mumait Khan, Sivabalaji, Shraddha Das, Krishna Bhagawan, Riaz Khan, Venumadhav, Viswajit Pradhan, Venumadhav, Malladi Raghava, Vizag Prasad, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, Vallabhaneni Janardhan, Satyam Rajesh, Vijayaranga Raju, Raghunatha Reddy, Sarat, Raghava, Akshaya Aravind, Prasad, Gauthamraju, V. Madhu, Sairabanu, and others

Credits: Music – Koti, Dialogues – Veligonda Srinivas, Camera – VN Suresh Kumar, Editing – K Ramesh, Art – K Muralidhar, Action – Vijay, Story, Presents – Pratani Ramakrishna Goud, Producers – Sangisetty Dasarath and B Ramakrishna, screenplay and direction – Ramesh Rajaa.

Banner: Siri Sai Surya Movies

Released on: May 22, 2009