The Men in Blue decimated the Windies & clean swept the series while our shooters did the same in the World Cup in Rio. However, back home our economy was far from encouraging as many of the sectors especially automobile have faltered in the past few months. It is at this juncture that we had a movie made at a cost of 350 C that hit the screens last weekend. It happened to be "Saaho" which marked Prabhas's return to celluloid after the "Baahubali" series which skyrocketed his popularity across the nation. To be frank, I was far from impressed from the look of the trailer as it seemed like an over dosage of action sequences. So did my opinion change after I had viewed it for close to 3 hours???
Roy (Jackie Shroff) is the leader of the crime syndicate in the fictional land of Waaji & makes arrangements to move the assets to India. However, he gets killed in an accident & there is a tussle for the throne with Devraj (Chunky Pandey) announcing himself as the next leader. But before he could savour the taste of power, Roy's son Vishwank (Arun Vijay) turns up & takes charge much to the displeasure of the former. Around this time, the Indian police were in pursuit of a brilliant thief known as Shadow who had masterminded a 2000 C theft. The task is entrusted upon undercover agent Ashok Chakravarthy (Prabhas) & his team who try to untangle the mystery behind Shadow (Neil Nitin Mukesh) & soon realizes that he was linked to Roy's crime syndicate as well.
This is the second directorial venture of Sujeeth who made his debut a few years back with "Run Raja Run". However, with an opportunity to shoot on an elaborate canvas I would have to say that he has gone absolute bonkers. There are surely a couple of twists & turns in the script that he had penned & I am not a stickler for logic in these kind of movies but there has to be a method to the madness. The action sequences at times reminded me of the video-game 'NFS' & the henchmen looked like they were from "Mad Max". In addition, there are quite a few plagiarism accusations be it the poster from "Ready Player One", the movie from the French flick "Largo Winch" or the song poster from artist Shilo Shiv Suleman's work. With hardly any engrossing factors, the length of the movie does take a toll on our patience. R Madhi deserves praise for the visuals while the music done by a host of individuals was just about average. The action choreographers deserves praise as quite of them were impressively staged.
What was a guy like Prabhas doing in this movie? He was like a gentle giant who just didnt seem interested in the happenings around him . With the immense popularity that he garnered from Baahubali, he could have been more proactive in choosing his role. Shraddha Kapoor has done a decent job while the rest of the cast were ok.
Verdict: From a personal point of view, the movie didnt impress me at all & did induce yawns from me. Anywaz the makers will be more than happy as they have cashed in on Prabhas's popularity & have more or less recovered their investment. So that invariably mean majority of the people liked it isnt it? Hmm...I guess so. Anywaz I wont recommend it!!!
Rating: 1.75/5
Regards...Ben
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