TheOneWhoAbides Review of 1: Nenokkadine

1: Nenokkadine (2014)

Way better than the present mindless telugu cinema.

[1/10 · 15 January 2014]

I have to admit that this film was way better than the present usual mindless telugu cinema. Best thing about this movie is that it does not deviate from it's plot with so called "comedy track" and nonsense like that. But this movie has lots of fun and comedy which goes along with the plot. The first half is good and neatly written, the sequences between the lead actor and actress gives loads of fun. Songs are properly placed so to speak and do not let the film deviate from it's plot. One brilliant scene near the end of first half, the one in the washroom, the scene was so entertaining but the continuity error was so clear in the scene, the slider of the gun goes back even though it's loaded and in a brief cut it gets normal and in the next cut it goes back again. The second half was not so gripping like the first one. When i watched the movie it was edited out for 20 minutes because of excessive run time, the cuts were so bad they looked like jump cuts. By the time it comes to the end the story gets too complicated and one can actually wonder if that much of a complication is really required. The scene in which Nasser gets killed was badly made. The stunt sequences are good at times but the bad CGI makes them look unrealistic. The background score was fine. One scene at the end where the lead actor finds his way home by recollecting that rhyme he used to sing, he actually travels miles and miles. Did he used to travel all that distance everyday to reach the school bus?! Anyway, the scene was well made. All those average audiences who are into watching potboiler kind of cinema may not like this movie. But it wasn't intellectually superior either. The twisted screenplay camouflages so many errors. For instance, a huge monstrous truck runs into a car in which the lead actors travel but they manage to survive with almost no injuries. And the lead actor is a popular celebrity but the media or police don't even care when he unleashes chaos on roads, on the top of the buildings and when he goes on shooting people near police stations and roads, not to mention the mass killing at the end of the movie. But then again, its a ray of hope for different cinema in an industry which relies so much on mediocrity