Movie Review: Shourya
on Mar 4, 2016
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The CONTENT:
A Harvard graduate Shourya (Manoj) and an MP's daughter Nethra (Regina) fall in love. As expected, Nethra's family doesn't approve her love, which forces the love birds plan to relocate to USA and live there. On their way to airport, they visit Lord Shiva temple and spend a night there. By the time Shourya wakes up, he finds Nethra's throat slit. Afterwards police take Shourya into custody, and the rest of film is an edge of seat thriller. What happened to Nethra, and is Shourya the real culprit forms the crux of story.
The EFFORT:
On-Screen:
Manchu Manoj kept his usual effervescent nature at home this time and tried to play a subtle on. He has also grown weight to look chubby and sound like a Harvard graduate. But it takes for a while to digest his characterisation. Though the whole story revolves around Regina's role, it's sad that she is limited to few scenes. Apart from not giving scope for her to emote well, there is neither any glamour touch to her role. Prakash Raj shines at his usual best, while comedians like Prabhas Seenu and Brahmi irritated too much.
Off-Screen:
Deviating from his usual style, Dasarath picked up a thriller movie this time. While people expect some kind of romantic emotions and fun, the movie is devoid of all such. Also Dasarth lost that midas touch, if we have to say in etching brilliance out of simple scenes. His dialogues along with writer Kishore are partly impressive.
Dasarath's brother Veda delivered average background score for this thriller while the film should have something thrilling and hair rising. But his songs are good though they are placed at wrong times in the film. Other technicians did their best.
The PLUSES:
A new-type thriller
Manoj's sensible performance
The MINUSES:
Comedy in second half
Slow narrative
BREAKDOWN:
Taking up thriller stories itself is a big challenge and Dasarath made a terrific attempt with his choice of script. But what upsets film lovers is, he failed to adapt the racy pace needed to narrate such stories. He picked his usual style of slow narration like a Santosham and Sambaram.
First half begins with heroine's throat slit and that sets whole pace to a new level. But the momentum is not maintained by Dasarath with him showcasing more love towards comedy and romance without focusing on the thrill elements. Boring love track in the first half actually tests patience of audiences. Only after Prakash Raj's entry, the film gained that missing momentum. Interval bang is a stunner and raises expectations on second half.
While the second hour is exciting, what acted as a big spoiler is the unwanted comedy put on by Brahmi. Though Prabhas Seenu succeeding in bringing heavy laughs, sometimes his antics are loud and irritating. Hero's drama to teach a lesson to villains is interesting. Though we can't find pure logic in the explanation about man killed in Delhi zoo, it gets well related to story. Though story is good, an interesting screenplay would have done huge favor for the film.
Shourya is an intelligent script that is marred by few unneeded elements. For such thrilling stories, there should be racy screenplay like in Kshanam and Express Raja. That's where Dasarth took the yorkers and failed to through the bouncers. On a whole it looks like him trying all bookish shots on a flat track, though there are fours and sixes occasionally.
Final words: Intelligent, yet slow 'Shourya'
Rating: 2.5/5
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