Rocky Movie Review
(1.5/5) Rocky – Shaky
Rocky Movie Review By Raju Shanbhag
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Cinematically, there is nothing primarily wrong with Rocky. The songs are shot well, the hero looks and acts well, and there is some semblance of story in the film, which in itself is a commendable achievement in today’s Kannada films. But the film suffers from one major drawback; its story and execution belong to the age when the lost and found story of twin brothers was considered to be a path breaking narrative.
It’s as if director Nagendra Aras went into a long hibernation two decades ago, woke up yesterday, and decided to make an earth shatteringly different triangular college love story. The handling of comedy sequences is ironical in a very uncomfortable way for the director. The story resembles so many films that in a strange way, it escapes from being a carbon copy of any one film!
Rocky is a sweet guy, who romances girls, beats up bad people, and gives free lectures about the meaning of life in his free time. His parents (Jai Jagadish and Padmaja Rao) are busy people (heck, they are. They are rarely seen in the movie!) and can’t give enough love to Rocky. Being the self dependent man he is, Rocky searches for love outside. He meets and befriends Biyanaka in the college (Oh yes, all the usual college ragging and romance are intact, don’t worry!)
But there is a twist in this dead tale. Biyanka loves a famous singer (sorry, I don’t know the actor’s name). A good friend indeed, Rocky first forces the singer to love her, and once its interval, he starts loving Biyanka and is in direct competition with his former friend.
Who gets Biyanka in the end? You won’t! So why do you care?
The narrative of the film is so typical, that you can’t even congratulate yourself for having predicted the whole story in the first five minutes, or having mere looked at the posters. There are no prizes for guessing the obvious, you see.
The music by Venkat-Narayan (they also play a cameo in the movie) is impressive, and so is Sudhakar’s camerawork. Dialogue is repetitive and story is boring.
Like a lone survivor in a wrecked ship, Yash impresses with his lively screen presence and acting. He may not threaten any superstars at the moment; but he is definitely way better than all those newcomers who stare at the camera as if they are afraid of their lives.
Other actors do their bit to the Kannada industry by starring in it.
You do your bit to Kannada industry by refusing to watch such lazy efforts.
Hero is nice. he has done action good