Aug 09, 2015 06:19 PM
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Recently, I have seen the movie Bahubali, which has been the talk of the town for quite some time now. The movie is good for more reasons than one – photography, selection of the cast, narration and the direction were all excellent and the music scores reasonably good. But, the fact remains that the movie-goer is taken for a ride. When one chooses to see a movie, one expects a complete storyline and one does not normally return midway through.
But, in Bahubali, the movie ends without the story coming to a logical end. The villain remains in his illegal possession of the kingdom. The hero does not even know why his father has been killed by the trusted lieutenant/slave. The vow of the hero’s mother to see the funeral pyre of the villain is not fulfilled. And the movie ends abruptly, with a message that Bahubali-II would be ready in the year 2016.
The fare that is dished out is incomplete and the audience, therefore, is disappointed. It is as though one pays for a plate of idly, is served only one idly and chutney and promised another idly and sambar the next week and that too, on payment all over again.
If the story-line is not complete, it should have been announced beforehand and the choice should have been given to the film-goers whether or not to watch an incomplete film. They cannot just say that at the end of the film. It is not a sequel that they are promising in 2016, like so many other popular films. It can be a sequel only when the first version has a narration that has a logical conclusion. A sequel constitutes only an extension of a story and any remainder of a story is never called a sequel.
