Here is our review with some ignorable spoilers.
There is a scene where a boy cries looking at something. Another adult character comes near him and sees the boy is looking at a mother bird feeding her hatchlings, which reminds him of his dead mother. Understanding this, the adult also starts crying. If you are done cringing, let’s analyse the movie a little.
The title card copied the same as Vijay in Goat but zero impact with terrible music. Cinematography is the worst at places. For example, in the same scene, when they show different characters in separate frames, the color of the forest changes. Edit cuts are terrible, as sometimes it seems like what the heck are we watching.
They said the movie is made on a huge budget, and Surya is not a big hero who eats up half of the budget as salary, but still, CGI is at worst even in a scene where they toss a wine bottle. And about the crocodile scene, it was poorly shot and worked. They could’ve cut it off as it was just a filler. Even for a children’s cartoon, they are putting in much better efforts these days.
Along with the plot (there isn’t any, by the way), dialogues are also so predictable that you can talk along, and inspired by Japanese, everyone in the village calls each other San. Such a globalised inclusive tribe.
Acting wisely, everyone is just shouting. Happy, sad, death, war, shout everywhere. If it is a bad guy, he will just shout even louder. We get it, Bobby Deol likes to show off the wide beard; it doesn’t mean you have to show a top wide angle shot every time you show him. In the name of gore, everything they do looks childish. Not even a single memorable performance from any of the actors.
The biggest con I see is that director Siva usually makes good fight scenes, but in this one everything seems off and we can’t even see anything clearly during action sequences. Background artists are dancing during war scenes, and it is only the hero who is doing the war, where the entire village is supposed to be warriors.
Interval card only lacked Michael Cole commentary. Apart from that, it looked entirely ripped off from the WWE Monday night raw match card.
As expected, DSP disappointed in both the background score and songs. But man still tried something to save this ship, which started sinking the moment it set sail into pre-production.
Overall, Kanguva is a major disappointment that can be skipped without a thought on big screens if you don’t want to waste your money.
Instead, go to Lucky Bhaskar. It was damn good.
Additionally, I want to address a main issue that people complain about. When bahubali-like movies are made in Tamil (e.g., Kanguva), people don’t support them as they do other language movies. People will always support a good movie, irrespective of the language, as long as they feel their money and time spent are justified. Kantara is a prime example: you don’t need a big budget or stars across the country to make a huge success. Content only matters.
Ram
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