Mahamkali Review
Mahamkali (2013)
Cast & Crew :: Rajasekhar, Madhurima, Pradeep Rwat, Raghu and others
Music Director :: Chinna
Producers :: Eluru Surender Reddy and Parandhama Reddy
Director :: Jeevita
Cinematography :: Madhu A Naidu
Editing :: Murali Gurappa
Dialogues :: Krishna Mohan Challa
Release Date :: 08/03/2013
Rating :: 1.5/5
Dr. Rajasekhar was quite a force to reckon with in the Telugu Film Industry
at one point of time. During the late 80′s and early 90′s, Rajasekhar
had a number of super hits to his credit and most of them happened to be
cop dramas. With ‘Mahankaali’, Rajasekhar tried his hand once again at the tough cop formula.
Jeevitha is the director of this movie and Madhurima is the heroine.
Chinna has composed the music. Let us see if ‘Mahankaali’ is worth a
watch
Story :
The movie is set in Hyderabad. Harshad Bhai (Pradeep
Rawath) is a Dubai based Don who controls the ‘pathabasthi’ with an
iron fist with the help of his associates Jayakka (Nalini) and Laddoo.
Apart from running various extortion and murder rackets, Harshad Bhai
also indulges in acts of terrorism. Another local Don named Nayak Bhai
(Venu Gopal) also tries to gain control over Hyderabad by clashing with
Harshad Bhai’s gang.
To salvage the deteriorating law and order situation in the city,
encounter specialist Mahankaali (Dr. Rajasekhar) is brought in.
Mahankaali is a man who believes in instant justice and he sets about
eliminating the bad guys.
Just as things seem to be coming under control, the
Police Commissioner (Chalapathi Rao) teams up with Harshad Bhai’s gang
and implicates Mahankaali in a series of false cases. How does
Mahankaali come out? Will he succeed in eliminating the bad guys? That
forms the story of ‘Mahankaali’.
Performances:
Rajasekhar got tired playing police roles thousand times. Even Sai Kumar who gave voice for him for many films is out of that job now. There is no force of Anuksam days in Rajasekhar's face. There is no punch in the dubbing voice. There is no scope even for any hard core fan of Rajasekhar to whistle at least for a single scene or dialogue.
Madhurima is used just to fill the gap as heroine. She was never successful as heroine, but got a role of 'successful heroine' in it. She must be happy for it.
There are countless villains on screen. As it is difficult to mention every name, let us recall a few. Pradeep Rawat is the main villain who lives abroad but his get up is very cheap. He appears like a street goonda in Malakpet area but not like a rich villain abroad. Nalini appeared in lady villain role. Jeevita dubbed her voice. Villains like Panda (Gharshana fame) and all appeared on screen just to die for the bullets of our hero when time comes.
No one knows what was told to music director Chinna. He filled the theatre with cacophonic noise. And apart from that he also incorporated some sounds like 'Mahhammkahleee' that frightens audience without even letting them take a nap in theatre. And coming to cinematography, it brings nauseate jerky feeling. There are no scene divisions and all that happened is all the shots were shot and just compiled in linear order.
Jeevita must have done just 'action -cut' job and nothing more was reflected on screen. There are many instances in the film where the audiences get the doubt if there is really a director for the film.
Rajasekhar got tired playing police roles thousand times. Even Sai Kumar who gave voice for him for many films is out of that job now. There is no force of Anuksam days in Rajasekhar's face. There is no punch in the dubbing voice. There is no scope even for any hard core fan of Rajasekhar to whistle at least for a single scene or dialogue.
Madhurima is used just to fill the gap as heroine. She was never successful as heroine, but got a role of 'successful heroine' in it. She must be happy for it.
There are countless villains on screen. As it is difficult to mention every name, let us recall a few. Pradeep Rawat is the main villain who lives abroad but his get up is very cheap. He appears like a street goonda in Malakpet area but not like a rich villain abroad. Nalini appeared in lady villain role. Jeevita dubbed her voice. Villains like Panda (Gharshana fame) and all appeared on screen just to die for the bullets of our hero when time comes.
No one knows what was told to music director Chinna. He filled the theatre with cacophonic noise. And apart from that he also incorporated some sounds like 'Mahhammkahleee' that frightens audience without even letting them take a nap in theatre. And coming to cinematography, it brings nauseate jerky feeling. There are no scene divisions and all that happened is all the shots were shot and just compiled in linear order.
Jeevita must have done just 'action -cut' job and nothing more was reflected on screen. There are many instances in the film where the audiences get the doubt if there is really a director for the film.
Highlights:
- Nothing
Drawbacks:
- Everything
There is a caption beneath the title 'Mahamkali' on poster. That's 'The Punisher'. Had anyone seen this, he would have returned home without second thought. But that was given in small letters. But still, the Telugu people those can't read Telugu are considered to be blessed here as they can directly read the caption and take necessary steps not facing actual punishment. Mahamkali is just not a punisher but finishes everyone on screen with bullets and audience in theatre with noise and nonsense.
And the irony is, this master piece was not indigenous. It's remade from Hindi film 'Risk'. Finally it ended up as risk for audience to face this film.
The much hyped satires on Pawan Kalyan are nil in this film. So there is no hook to show interest on this film for audience. There can be no more analysis than this for this film.
Not just first half and second half, the punishment is in full.
Bottom Line: Not Third Degree...It's Thirty Degree Torture.
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