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Gajaraju Movie Review
- 1/2/2013 6:17:10 AM
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Generally speaking, if most Telugu filmmakers may be said to write the songs and fights situations first and then the rest of the story, and most Kannada filmmakers may be said to watch Telugu (or even Tamil and Mallu movies) and then write a story, some characteristically realistic (but not always necessarily intelligent) Tamil filmmakers of our day seem to write the climax first and then start conjuring up the remaining part of the story.
The last thing a viewer who likes an apparently raw, rural-based and realistic Kollywood film would like to see in it is irresponsible story-writing. When you are watching a second-rate Telugu director's film, you know what to expect: cheap frills, over-the-top crassness, exaggerated action, a bit of voyeurism. Tamil directors, especially Prabhu Solomon who is definitely a good talent, do not resort to any gimmicks at all.
Or so we thought till recently. Maybe, it is time we wake up to the fact that sometimes, some of them are gimmicky - but only a bit differently. A violent character or two, a self-defeatist character or two, a loyal sidekick or two, one innocuous girl, one mad-in-love boy (preferably both should be as poor as poverty can get), a comedian who is blissfully self-deprecatory, a dialogue or two on the greatness of being fanatical and/or self-delusional in love, a climax that is either a tragedy or a semi-tragedy. Gajaraju, in addition to some of these, has a sentimental animal
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