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good movie in 2010 ...

good movie in 2010

Nagarjuna is interrogated by an upright cop (Sayaji Shinde) who extracts details of the former's roller-coaster journey. After a disturbed childhood and unhappy love affair, the protagonist begins life afresh and becomes a gambler, thief as he grows up. He arrives in Goa and works for a don (Ankur) and also helps a foreign tourist (Liinda) to reunite with her sister. In order to steal an expensive necklace, he makes a stranger (Mamta) play act to be his wife and later even allows her and her child to live with him. She begins to fall for him and wants him to mend his ways, but he ignores her advice. Nagarjuna gets the shock of his life when he discovers the real identity of Mamta, but not before he's put her life in danger.

Director Kiran fails first in showing the hero as a smart character who outwits his opponents. The way he builds the story is uninteresting, and you keep wondering why the villain exclaims or why ACP Shekar (Sayaji Shinde) behaves as if he`s been hoodwinked and one ends up missing the gregarious character that Nagarjuna played in Hello Brother. Harshavardhan is a poor choice as the hero`s friend. The power in the camera work and music is missing and only the songs shot in Greece is good.

This time around Nag has given newcomer Kiran Kumar a chance to direct Kedi. The Telugu film marks the return of the superstar to movies (his last film King released in December 2008). So how does Kiran fare? Well, he has put together a film showing Nag as a conman who lives in the present. But the movie isn`t only about gambling, rummy or casinos. Kiran attempts a slightly new screenplay technique wherein the film moves back and forth in time. He tries to present the debonair Nag in new light. But, somehow, the film based on a slender premise, fails to hold our attention in large parts.