"MESTHRI" Movie Review
Just because your dog is named tiger it doesn’t become one. Just because you talk of great people, you don’t become one. These are just examples of the lines spoken by Dasari in his just released film Mestry. He goes on to pass remarks on Ganji Benji, humanist dialogues, on social equality goal etc. By now it is evident the actor has weaved a story on his political rival and once upon a time friend in film industry.All these and more draw saratorial applause but when it comes to the story, you are left wondering even after you watch the film, if there really existed one. It works sometimes when you make a film and throw a satire like we had MS Narayana in Krishna. People kept guessing and talking about it for weeks, it generated interest. But here the movie is made with an intention to poke fun at Chiranjeevi. Since three hours is a long time to exhaust all that, the actor uses the last twenty minutes and sometimes dialogues here and there to tell the audience that’s there something more interesting on the way.
Dasari Narayana RaoBut where is the story? It’s wafer thin line of a worker joining a ship yard for a reason which will draft the second half of the story. Palakollu (Dasari) has a dalit disciple Devaraj (Mohan Babu) in the military but he dies while saving his daughter engulfed in fire. There are two brothers Pradeep Rawath and Sayaji Shinde in meaningless roles.
There is a social worker, gandhian by nature, white robed Vijay Kumar whose utopian dream is to squat on the CM’s chair atleast once. The CM is Yaralgadda Lakshmi Prasad. Next what you see is all hotch potch. Dasari attempts to take revenge because someone has killed his disciple, next he pledges to show the real colour of Vijay Kumar who has immense fan following interestingly they include handicapped persons, he is also helping workers in Vizag ship yard get their home and finally the gospel, a song on how it is a crime not to exercise your franchise.
It’s quite strange getting used to the idea of Mohan Babu having a daughter as old as Sujita and calling him nana. Sujita looks good. Srihari does his part well but one can’t understand why they had to make a small girl speak such crap to him. There are some things that test your patience.
Dasari and Mohan Babu sing a song, a panegyric on the telugu language. They really did restore the pracheena hodha if they think so by including a dance that looked like a cultural programme that one sees on television. MS Narayana as Guruji and his colleague Kondavalasa’s episodes is like a bucket of black paint splashing on white wall. At the end of the show notwithstanding the lovely songs the common man cannot understand what he is set to gain through Dasari-Chiranjeevi rivalry. There is neither a beautiful woman nor some rib-tickling humour. Just some fights in which Dasari punches the goons without moving his body, tummy and they go jumping out of the sugar-paned windows. This film is made with an agenda not for entertainment.
End Credits :
Starring : Narayana Rao, Mohan Babu, Srihari, Sujitha, Vijay Kumar, Pradeep Rawath, Rahul Dev, Sayaji Shinde, Chandramohan, MS, Giri Babu and Others.
Art: B.V. Rao.
Cinematography: CH Ramaraju.
Editing: Gautham Raju.
Music: Vandemataram Sreenivas.
Producer: K. Rama Krishna Prasad.
Director: Suresh Krishna.
Story & Screenplay: Dasari Narayanarao.
Banner: Siri Media Pvt. Ltd.
Labels: Mohan Babu, Narayana Rao, Pradeep Rawath, Srihari, Sujitha, tollywood, Vijay Kumar
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