teluguatoz Points : 4 / 5
Film: Kick
Banner: R R Movie Makers
Cast: Ravi Teja, Ileana, Shaam, Ashika, Kota, Venu Madhav, Brahmanandam, Sayaji Shinde, Ali, Jayaprakash Reddy, Banerjee, Chalapathi Rao etc
Music: S S Thaman
Lyrics: Rama Jogayya Sastry
Dialogues: Vakkantham Vamsi
Editing: Gautham Raju
Cinematography: Rasool Ellore
Director: Surender Reddy
Producer: Suresh Reddy
Release date: 8th May 2009
Story:
A well knit tale, the story begins with Kalyan (Ravi Teja) a guy who loves challenges and cannot live without getting a ’kick’ out of doing things. He falls in love with Naina (Ileana) but then she leaves him since Kalyan takes up jobs and keeps leaving them.
He also gets the support of his father (Sayaji) in this. Naina goes to Malaysia and there she gets the alliance of the tough cop Kalyan Krishna (shaam). However, Kalyan Krishna comes there on a mission. He is there to catch a notorious thief who has been stealing money from the rich people in India and has got away with it.
Meanwhile, Kalyan also comes to Malaysia and he stages a drama which confuses Halwaraj (Brahmi), Naina and others. Why does he do that? What is the motive of Kalyan and how does he get his ’kick’? All this forms the rest of the story.
Presentation:
The director has come up with a thoughtful storyline and though the presentation was neat, the narrative could have been better. The dialogues were good, the script was written neatly and the screenplay was effective.
Background score was good but all songs did not have energy, melody content was high on them. Cinematography was impressive, editing was crisp, costumes were perfect and the art department did their job to the standard. Ravi Teja was the energy for the film and his expressions and acting have brought him back to form.
Ileana was mind blowing and she looked really delicious after putting on weight. Shaam looked handsome but he could have worked more on his expressions, Ashika was alright, Brahmanandam was excellent, Sayaji was regular, Ali managed few laughs, the others like Banerjee, Chalapathi Rao, Kota came and went.
Performance
Ravi Teja was his energetic best and gave a good performance, Ileana was drop dead beautiful and she has really shown her oomph.
Brahmanandam was neat, Shaam looked competent and he has charming looks, Ashika can work on her figure a bit. The others like Chalapthi Rao, Banerjee, Prabha etc did their bit and contributed to the film.
The director has come up with a storyline that could have been stitched more tightly and though the presentation part was fine, the narrative could have been better. The dialogues were written neatly and they were fair, script was written without any hitches and screenplay was executed.
The background score was neat and songs like ‘ I Don’t Want Love…’ ‘Manase Thadisela…’’ are something worth humming and can be taken home. Cinematography was neat and it captured the foreign locales in a good manner, stunts were good at few places. Costumes were trendy and art department was apt.
Plus Points: The cast does an impressive job of their roles. Ravi Teja, Ileana and Brahmanandam have done so many roles like these that they sail through their characters effortlessly. Rasool’s cinematography is a revelation as is his song picturization. As usual the comedy sequences between Halwa Raja and Kalyan are hilariously funny. Nothing thoughtful but you will laugh heartily. The first half of the movie especially the first 40 minutes raises expectations that this is going to be a mega hit.
Minus Points : And then director Surender Reddy simply sinks the movie in the second half. He adds too many twists in the tale and introduces a lengthy flash back of Ravi Teja’s Robin Hood avatar of robbing rich and helping poor. This flash back lasting for about 20 minutes drags and almost kills the second half of the film. The climax too has been picturized trying to elevate the hero image and the audience will surely have their "god-when-will-this-movie-end" moments. The director tries to elevate Ravi Teja’s image without elevating Kalyan’s character. Ultimately this proved to be the movie’s undoing.
Conclusion:
The film has got all the ingredients for a masala movie and then there was tinge of thriller element in it. However, the makers should have worked on the tempo of the film to make it more gripping. The first half does not have any idle moment and passes off peacefully.
The second half gets very slow and it not until sometime that the story picks up again and culminates into a neat climax. Technically, the film has been made well but it could have worked more on the intense scenes and also on the pace.
Overall, this is a good one to run at box office since there are no other movies in sight now.
Final Touch : Surender Reddy focuses on comedy rather than his brand of action. Kick is presented in entertaining movie. Entertaining first half and Ravi Teja - Brahmanandam comedy episodes are main strength in this movie. Music is big letdown but the film is good time pass for this time...
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