Mr. Bachchan Cast: Ravi Teja, Bhagyashri Borse, Jagapathi Babu, Sachin Khedekar, Satya, Nellore Sudarshan, Gautami
Crew:
Based on Raid(2018)
Editor: Ujwal Kulkarni
Music Director: Mickey J Meyer
Cinematography: Ayananka Bose
Producer: TG Vishwa Prasad
Writer – Director: Harish Shankar
Mr. Bachchan Movie Rating: 2.25/5
Harish Shankar has been able prove that he has a touch of his own in handling films. He prefers to give a certain attitude to his protagonists and antagonists. Now, with Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja, he came up with Mr. Bachchan after several years. With both needing good success at box office, they have decided to take Raid and give it Telugu commercial touch. Young Bhagyashri Borse’s glamour, Mickey J Mayer’s music bringing it good hype, Mr. Bachchan released on 15th August. Let’s discuss about it in detail.
Plot:
Bachchan(Ravi Teja) is a very honest IT officer. He lives for his duty and hates corrupt black money holders. So, he tries to eradicate them through system with a vengeance. But he gets suspended during one raid and then he goes back to his village as an orchestra singer. There he falls in love with Jikki(Bhagyashri Borse) and before their marriage, he gets reinstated to raid politician Muthyam Jagayya(Jagapathi Babu)’s properties. What happens next? Watch the film to know more.
Analysis:
Ravi Teja has become Mass Maharaja of Telugu Cinema because of his energy, ease, timing and characters. Once again, he tried to carry a single line plot film on his shoulders. But he could not even save the film after a point as the scenes seemed too over-the-top. But his imitation of Amitabh Bachchan is on point in many portions.
Bhagyashri Borse has been given one objective and she did it well. She just needed to follow some emoji face expressions and then dance her heart out while attracting male gaze. She did it all perfectly. Jagapathi Babu, Tanikella Bharani, Gautami, Satya did what has been offered to them well enough.
The problems lies in script and screenplay. Mr. Bachchan tries to be many things at a time from being a IT raid film to beig a homage to old songs to being a commercial potboiler to being a silly comedy. With it trying to be so versatile, the focus on main plot and thus impact are missing. We feel like watching a comedy movie at one time and then we are asked to take everyone seriously at another. The problem is tonal shifts are inorganic to the core.
Ravi Teja needed a blockbuster but he seems to be trying too much in every film. In trying to add every ingredient, some of his films are losing focus while some others are being too monotonic. He needs change and stronger scripts. As per technical values and production values, film offers decent output. Mickey J Mayer did his best in composing music for this one.
Again, it is Harish Shankar’s over indulgence in one flavor of scene depiction that becomes an issue. Some double meaning innuendos, references to old couple love and certain indignified scenes also work as road blocks. He needs a better script and screenplay for sure to work his way out of Mr. Bachchan. Overall, movie remains underwhelming.
Positives:
Ravi Teja’s energetic performance and persona
Few Satya one-liners
Music by Mickey J Mayer
Bhagyashri Borse
Negatives:
Lethargic Narrative
Draggy Screenplay
Lack of strong emotion
Too random at places
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Mr. Bachchan Movie Bottom-line: Falls Short of expectations
