Banner: RR Movie Makers
Producer: Venkat
Director: Srinivas Reddy
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Casting: Nagarjuna, Anushka, Prakash Raj, Ravi Shankar, Charmee, Ganesh Venkatraman and Others
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Story
After repeatedly getting postponed, ‘Damarakum' is finally released all over the world today. It is a socio-fantasy movie directed by Srinivas Reddy on R R Movie Makers banner. Let's see how this small time director handled the big film and Nagarjuna fans.
(Mallikarjun)Nagarjuna is a taxi driver fall in love with Maheshwari(Anushka) who is born an auspicious day. Andhakasura (Ravi Shankar) with supernatural powers tries to kill Anushka to become more powerful to gain control over the Panchabhutas . Not knowing all this, Nagarjuna tries to save his lady love with the help of Sambaiah (Prakash Raj) who is Lord Shiva in disguise of a human being. How Mallikarjun saves Maheshwari and the world from the supernatural evil is crux of the story.
Performance
Nagarjuna who is featuring in different genre chose a socio fantasy film for the first time. He completely did justice to his role. His six pack body is perfectly suited for the role of a savior. Hats off to his dedication. No need to mention about his looks and style. He always Rocks.
Anushka is looking beautiful and sizzled in songs. Unfortunately, there are not many scenes for her to showcase her acting talent.
Ravi Shankar who is known for his dubbing skills excelled in Villain role. His dialogue delivery and diction suited very well for the role. This film will bring him more and more films in future.
Ganesh Venkatraman as Anushka Brother in Law, Prakash Raj as Sambaiah and Nagaiah justified their selection.
Brahmanandam, Raghu Babu, Krishna Bhagawan, M S Narayana and Duvvasi generated few laughs.
Charmee sizzled in item song as ‘Sakku Bhai’.
Technical
Director Srinivas Reddy who directed small budget comedy films so far hit a jackpot when Nagarjuna agreed to act in his direction. Srinivas Reddy selected a wonderful script and showed the world he can do the justice to big films too. However, screenplay and editing should have been better in first half. Second half is excellent with gripping narration and tight screenplay. He should have written a better climax for the movie which is a big letdown.
Devi Sri Prasad rocks again. Music and background score is highlight for the movie. Chota K Naidu cinematography is excellent. There was lot hype about the VFX in the movie, but it is not up to the mark. Dialogues are good. Editing should have been better.
Plus Points
Script, Nagarjuna, Ravi Shankar Performance, Music
Minus points
Few Illogical scenes, Screen play, weak climax
Analysis
‘Damarukam’ is a socio fantasy film about a common man taking on an evil with super natural powers. Director needs to do lot of home work to connect different time periods and convince the audience. Director Srinivas Reddy succeeded to large extent with few hiccups. There are some illogical scenes hard to understand.
Sambaiah revealing his identity to Brahmanandam, Lord Shiva who comes to earth to protect world from evil goes back to Kailash for a simple reason and Andhakasura marrying Maheshwari forcibly will not serve his purpose, yet he does it.
First half of the movie is little slow with comedy scenes and too many songs. Story picks up towards interval and picks up in second half though in predictable note. But, the climax is very week given the duel between Powerful hero and supernatural powers viln.
Overall, ‘Damarukam’ is definitely one time watch for one and all. The movie would have been even better had the director worked on Nagarjuna heroism, first half, and climax.
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