Except for having a company to admire the movie and his taste in movies ,it's prequel did not offer me anything in 40-45 mins watch .For mungaru male 2,I have been denied company which made it a difficult watch compared to the previous one. Madikeri and Rajasthan..few scenes involving rain brought back memories .Is it just me or his father looked like Vijay Mallya?The 'sure' guy displays FA characteristics and breaks up with girls after getting bored with them until he finds not-so-boring girl Nandini(fantasy bond to escape inner emptiness). I am sure he would have left Nandini also if Nandini hadn't had that preemptive breakup with him. He won't ever have longed for Nandini,it was not love, it was just some sort of novelty for him, the anxiety of being the dumped/chaser .The first girl reacted/handled surprisingly well when the hero dumped her. "6 din ladki in"...Nandini didn't have any reason to fall for him except for her subconscious setting her up for next exciting goal much like getting into the moving train... we don't value it if it is easy .A son seeking excitement and the father encouraging his motherless inept son's man child ways. Overuse of 'excitement' is sickening. Was the Race between BMW and Jaguar for value addition?Dirty trick of making a hero or man out of a rich spoiled brat by making him sacrifice did not let me sympathize with the character.While all the characters of the movie were after some excitement, I think I would have been content with my lazy Sunday afternoon without this movie. Unfesaible fighting sequences, caricatured dance steps and colour coordinated background and costumes should be overlooked in order to sit through the entire length .The writer seems to suffer from unhealthy bouts of sensation seeking impulses and both of his main protagonists inherit the same characters. Accidentally killing pregnant sister's lover and then giving away daughter's hand as repentance were necessary to give the story momentum...I really had difficulty connecting two different eras of unbridled independence shown by Nandini and scaring away a sister's boyfriend with a rifle.I have no idea how those ludicrous comedic characters contributed to plot or why there were multiple mentions of Sundar's son or what happened to the vehicle his father sent when Preetham boarded the train or why the psychiatrist scene was there without any outcome(blame it on incorrect eng subtitles).Strings of nonsensical scenes makes you realise at the end that those were carefully positioned scenes by juvenile mind in order to add masala. For example Nandini gets catcalled or sexually assaulted twice to show how the Hero's attitude has changed.The actors didn't get convincing roles to act on.A guy friend being accepted as a guest to stay, catching a moving train, having a rich dad to support son's every decision are certainly familiar concepts to us(rings a (cow)bell?).First half of the movie was inspired by contemporary bollywood romance and hollywood's "one day" movie(I felt so about the conditions put by Nandini) and second half inspired by typical south indian family drama. Perhaps they collected all tried and tested successful scenes by using junior team members and then arranged them in a sequence to come up with a formulaic south indian hit. The movie tried to keep it natural by capturing desert's yellow, Madikeri's green and some foreign locale's white and blue.(though the transition to snow cladded places seemed absurd).I am sure by the end of the movie,you can relate to this movie by reminiscing so many other movies. Sometimes a movie/scene needs to trust your audience's ability to get an obvious emotion, an explicit dialogue robs away so much from the scene and the audience.(For ex: the scene where he gives Nandini a chance to experience the excitement she wanted).The scene involving camel's milk reminded me of the story of babies needing camel milk during lockdown at that moment and helped me to sail through those 1-2 mins.one of the songs had 'interesting' lyrics.(shot in Rajasthan).This movie deserved so many eye rolls.the director hoped to get love puddle from the audience but ended up having a dry patch. I have no idea whether male 2 is better than male or not but I won't try to find out. Enough of sogginess !
Review of Mungaru Male 2
