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Movie:Okka Magadu
Banner:Bommarillu Art Productions
Rating:2.00
Released On:Jan 11, 2008
Raghupati Raghava Rajaram(Balakrishna) is a doctor during british reign.Britisher's kill his entire family and the doctor becomes revolutionary titled as Okka Magadu.While declaring independence Britishers ask indian leaders to surrender Okka Magadu along with some other indian revolutionaries as Prisoner of War.They torcher him for 60 years and Okka Magadu returns home expecting the home land as he dreamed earlier.But the things are other way around where there is no value for life.So he starts his mission to clean the society teaching the value of life to the perverted leaders,media and other irresponsible professionals.How he progresses is the rest of the story.
Analysis :
Though YVS Choudary claimed that he has prepared a good story, the Telugu film lovers can easily identify that it is a rehash / free-make of Sardar Paparayudu with a touch of Bharateeyudu. Even Choudary had kept a song on the lines of Bharateeyudu, where Kamal Hassan and Surekha participate in a song sequence during their wedding scene in the form of various State cultures – like a Marathi, Gujarati, Tamilian and Malayalee and so on and so forth. A similar song is choreographed on Balakrishna and Simran Nanu Paalimpagaa. The film might appease the mass audiences in B, C centres but could not attract the youth or city audiences. The timing of songs in the first half killed the tempo a lot. The director has unnecessarily wasted lot of time for chivalrous scenes and to show the glamour of heroines. Priyanka Kothari and Anushka absolutely has no role to play in the film and they are kept only to fill the glamour slot and for dance sequences. There is a lot of thread work in the action scenes and it looks too cinematic.
TeluguOne Perspective :
Technically too it lacks punch. The so-called makeup by Hollywood technicians looks bawdy. Camera work by Madhu A Naidu and Ram Prasad is substandard. Unnecessary effects and graphics incorporated. In some scenes, dialogue writer Chintapalli Ramana has shown his spark although much of them have already been heard or seen in YVS's earlier movies - Lahiri Lahiri Lahiri Lo and Seetaiah. But one dialogue about caste politics is good. Okka Magadu is without doubt another badly made big budgeted film. Rehash of Bharateeyudu, the film shatters all the hopes of NBK fans who believed YVS because he is die-hard fan of NTR. Except NBK's sincere performance, none of the aspects are praiseworthy. Okka Magadu falls flat. YVS should be blamed for the fiasco.