Movie Review : Ek Niranjan
Rating : 3/5
Banner : Aditya Ram Movies
Cast : Prabhas, Kangana Ranaut, Sonu Sood, Mukul Dev, Tanikella Bharani, Bramanandam, Ali, Brahmaji, Posani Krishna Murali and Others
Music Director : Mani Sharma
Cinematography : Shyam K Naidu
Producer: Aditya Ram
Director: Puri Jagannadh
Released Date: October 29, 2009
Review :
Story Line :
A regular tale, the Flick begins with Chotu (prabhas) who works for the police department, unofficially. He keeps tracing out criminals, getting them and takes his commission from the cops. On the other hand, he is also on the lookout for his parents and for that, he looks after Chidambaram (makrand) the man who brought him up since he knows about the parents. The story takes a turn when Sameera (kangana) enters into his life and after whatever hide and seek, they fall in love. Johnny Bhai (sonu sood) is a dreaded don and he is on the lookout for Kailash (mukul) and his paths cross with Chotu due to a sequence of events. What happens from there forms the rest of the story.
The story? Now make the film into two halves, use the first half for introducing the hero and his contacts and the second half fill it with violence, blood shed and once in a while bring in Ali or Brahmanandam with weird get-ups may be like eunuch or a priest/ascetic for comic relief.
Now the rest of the characters:
Posani was as usuall like in all films . sonu sood played a sadist type of role with a different attitude . sonu sood dialogue on recession makes you think actually if husbands have begun sleeping with their wives just because it’s recession time. If he stole the show in Super, Arundathi this is one more film that brought out his flair for light-hearted acting. He kept the audience wondering if he still is a hero or a villain
Now the story is all about why he is not Ek Chotu but Ek Niranjan. He plays the role of a kid who’s abducted, grows up yearning for a family and relationships and catches criminals for a living. He keeps catching them till he discovers that one of the criminal is his brother and his love Sameera (Kangana) is another criminal’s sister. There is more to it. Lot of bone crunching stunts, a heroine who looks pale in the first half and almost dead in the second half inspires him to finish off the drama. But the story goes on without him finding his family..so it has to be Ek Niranjan, this is strictly for Prabhas’s fans.
Presentation:
The director has come up with a formula storyline and though the presentation was okay, the narrative was not upto the mark. The dialogues are good in places, the script was inconsistent and the screenplay was alright. Background score was good and songs were nice. Cinematography was standard. Editing could have been better, costumes and art department did their taste as required. Prabhas gave a good performance but he must be careful not to get repetitive with his embody language and dialogues, Kangana looks course but she is not that good looking, make up was a defect, Sonu Sood was worth watching and he has given a good performance, the comedy road of Ali, Brahmanandam, Abhinayasri was dull, Sunil was brief, Venu Madhav was regular, Makrand was underutilized, Posani was eccentric, Tanikella was as usual. The others just came and went.
“Ek Niranjan” is clearly divided in to two halves. The first that focuses on the lighter aspects like the introduction of the lead pairs as well as all the other characters of the movie, to the audience. The second half of the movie follows a different note all together. It portrays action and oodles of violence.
Puri Jagannath has done a commendable job as a director. Known for his stylish ventures, he chose not to let down his target audience in terms of expectations. In previous cases too, the Puri- Prabhas combo has proved to be quite a hit and this time, from all the positive airs surrounding it, it is easy to say that the film would score well with the audience. Certainly Kangana Ranaut will be an added attraction for “Ek Niranjan“. She does good in some parts and she is really pretty .
