Cast: Mouli Tanuj Prashanth, Sushmitha Shetty, Ali, Rajitha, Raghu Babu, Gundu Sudharshan, Babloo
Crew:
Music Direction by Sinjith Yerramilli
Cinematography by Surya Balaji
Edited by Sreedhar Sompally
Written & Directed by Sreenu Kambala
Produced by Naveen Yerneni, Y. Ravi Shankar
DNK aka Donga Naa Koduku movie stars Little Stars fame Mouli in the leading role. He acquired good name and fame with his Youtube videos and Little Hearts established him as a box office actor. Now, he is testing the waters with DNK, that too, in the production of Mythri Movie Makers. The movie released today and let's discuss about it at length.
Plot:
Eeshwar (Mouli), son of Aadi Narayana (Ali), is a carefree guy and doesn't take anything serious in life. He wants to earn loads of cash in less time and chooses betting as his only pursuit. He loses money but still he keeps trying his luck. His lady love, Deepa (Susmitha Shetty), who is smitten by him, helps him to sell off her gold rings and further bet. Her father, Pullaiah (Raghu Babu) finds out and confronts him to return Rs.10 lakhs.
Aadi Narayana works at a Gundu Boss (Gundu Sudharshan) Jewellers shop. He introduces Eeshawar to his boss but he fails to impress him for a job. But Gundu Boss offers him a robbery job to steal jewels from his ship. Before he could, another group completes the job and he is left in the custody of police. What will he do next? Who robbed the shop before he did? Why Gundu Boss needed to set up this robbery in first place? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Mouli is good in few scenes with his usual comic timing. But he fails to rise above the script and amplify the writing material. He tried his best to turn the routine gags funny but the crude humor turns more crass and farce with each passing scene. Mouli seems to have understood that there is nothing to salvage after a point. Sushmita Shetty is used as eye-candy and nothing much is offered to her.
Babloo tries his usual style comedy which he does pull off in his Youtube sketches. Nothing substantially works in his favor or movie's favor and there are few lines which he could land in the second hour. But the makers failed to utilise Ali, Rajitha kind of senior actors. Even Raghu Babu, Gundu Sudharshan are wasted. The jokes on each one of them are so crass that it is hard to even sit through at times.
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The surprise or not so big surprise cameo and gay comical scenes are so poorly written and so outdated that it is hard to even tickle a funny bone to laugh at these lines. Sreenu Kambala tried to infuse every scene with some sort of a punchline and the attempt at dark comedy is visible yet the taste of humor is not at all good. Not that every punch needs to be clean but this sort of a film, did not warrant for over usage of double meaning innuendos.
Overall, music by Srinjith Yerramilli, production values of Mythri Movie Makers are also passable. The movie felt like a low effort output from start to finish. Little Hearts had all sorts of comedy coming together and working for all groups of audiences. But this one is stark opposite to it all. A complete misfire from Mouli and his gang.
Positives:
Mouli's one-liners at places
Sushmita Shetty's appearance
Few punchlines here and there
Negatives:
Lethargic Screenplay
Low effort writing
Too much double meaning innuendos
Jokes poking at LGBTQ preferred people
Crude and crass humor in the name of dark humor
Bottomline: Crude and crass unfunny humor makes it unbearable!
Rating: 2/5
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