Thursday, January 13, 2011

Parama Veera Chakra - Fails to pull the attention of audience

Cast: 

Balakrishna, Sheela, Ameesha Patel, Jayasudha, Murali Mohan, Ravi Kumar, Nagineedu, Neha Dhupia, Ali, Brahmanandam, Hema, Seetha, Kalyani etc

Music: 

Mani Sharma

Story, Screenplay, Dialogue, Direction: 

Dasari Narayana Rao

After the commercial block buster ‘Simha’ in the year 2010, Nandamuri Balakrishna has come up with his first film in 2011 with the title ‘Parama Veera Chakra’. And this film is directed by Dasari Narayana Rao who made a disaster called ‘Young India’.

Story:

Chakradhar (Balakrishna) is a renowned Telugu film actor. A girl (Sheela) gets attracted to him and wishes to get close to her. Chakradhar’s mother (Jayasudha) never likes her son getting into films. She wishes to see him in Indian Army as Major. But things take different turn and Chakradhar continues as actor playing varied roles like Ravana, Komaram Bheem, labor leader etc.

A team of Army officers come to Chakradhar to narrate a story. An officer (Murali Mohan) narrates him the character of a great Army officer Major Jayasimha. Listening for a while Chakradhar gets Major Jayasimha into him. He started carrying that character with him after getting inspired to the maximum.

Then what happens? Will that story becomes a film or a reality? Who is Major Jayasimha? Why Army officers come to meet Chakradhar? That forms rest of the story with various twists.

Performances:

There is nothing to point out Balakrishna. He attained his trade mark in acting and getting continued with that. On a whole he is marvelous in the role of Ravana and labor leader. He also showed his prowess while delivering a dialogue on film actors.

Sheela has no proper role. She appears just for some glamour sake. Indeed, it is not used properly.

Ameesha Patel has some character but that too very small.

Coming to the comedy part the Robo spoof appeared like a rotten egg. Nasty comedy with C grade taste disgusts the audiences. Brahmanandam, Ali and Hema carry in that spoof till the end.

Raghu Babu and Krishna Bhagwan got wasted as they got no role at all.

Highlights:

A portion of Ravana Brahma’s scene
Balakrishna’s dialogue as trade union leader
Dialogue while elucidating the importance of film actors
Sensible dialogue in court at climax

Drawbacks:

Weakest comedy
Dull music
No gripping screenplay
Feeble dialogues
Outdated histrionics of 1980s
Predictable line
Artificiality in make up and background
Technically dull

Bottom Line:

PVC stands for Vexing and Confusing & entire blame goes to Dasari Narayana Rao.