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My long awaited Tryst with STALIN
Oct 16, 2006 02:30 PM 5069 Views

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I am a Punjabi to the core. Every time I used to hear about a South Indian Superstar (I am of strong belief from today onwards that Superstars are in South India only) movie getting released under tremendous fanfare, I tried to capture their mood in my imaginations. So, today it was a sort of ‘Dream come true’ when I went to watch “Stalin’ (1st Day 1st Show), the Chiranjeevi starer Telgu movie even though the ticket cost me a hefty 400 bucks.


I could already feel the adrenal rush in Ganesh (my colleague) who normally does not drive his bike more than 50Kmph but was beating my Bullet today morning.


The Experience


I hope I will be able to post the photographs tomorrow, but, what I saw was more than what I had expected.


Even before the movie started, the fans of the superstar had started the celebrations by offering their prayers beneath Chiranjeevi’s posters, Garlanding him wherever he (his poster) hung and celebrating the event (release of the movie) as if it was Ganesh Chaturthi or Holi.


And when the movie started, paper pieces were raining all across the hall. When you pay 400 bucks to see a movie you expect to see it amongst the die hard fans only. And this thing I realized just today.


When the moment of truth came (Chiranjeevi’s introduction), the celebrations reached their peak. With deafening shouts, whistles and clapping, people gave a dancing welcome to their hero. The ceiling of the theatre was nowhere to be seen. Only paper pieces were floating in the air. (I wish I could capture this moment in audio-visual to present it here.) But this tempo did not die down. The fans danced whenever their hero danced, they shouted with him, they cried with him and jumped from their seats clapping whenever he hit a catchy dialogue.


But what my friends who went along tell me is that this is just a glimpse of what happens in the mass theatres like ‘Vishwanaath” which sent me wondering.


The Movie


As a movie critic, I am of the firm opinion that Language is no barrier for understanding a movie. I remember one of my communication professors explaining me that words merely form 8% of the communication.


I would first of all like to appreciate the basic message which the movie tries to convey – “Don’t pay Back…..Pay it forward”. Some of the scenes of the movie were completely heart rending and well handled -




  1. Through the race of the specially abled children in the first half the director was able to convey his message in a very straight forward and a very hard hitting way.




  2. Towards the end when the director tries to depict how a simple message turns into a silent revolution, he is able to catch the viewer’s interest through the magnanimity of the revolution.




  3. Among the numerous action sequences, the handling of the one in where, Chiranjeevi burns a petrol tanker from within a well takes you to the edge of your seat.






But apart from these few things I have little appreciation for the movie and its crew.


To me, the movie seemed to be utterly confused.


Was, it for conveying a social message? Was it a hardcore commercial massala movie?Was it a movie only for the Chiranjeevi fans? Or Is Chiranjeevi trying to set a stage for his entry into the politics?


Though the last question is highly debatable, I found the movie confusing for it has tried to be everything I have questioned. The uselessness of Trisha’s character, irrelevance and improper timing of the songs and dance in the movie convey its commercial nature. Through the unbelievable stylish action sequences like the one where Chiranjeevi single handedly thrashes the hell out of 200 people the director has tried to please Chiranjeevi’s fans. While depicting the trash in politics points to my fourth argument; the loud and clear social message endorses my first question.


Answering all these questions in different ways, the director seems to have lost his originality of which I have heard a lot. Though we get to see the glimpses of his talent in the movie in a few sequences I had appreciated above.


Chiranjeevi -



Its definitely blasphemy to speak anything against him in Hyderabad and as I am ignorant of the rise of this star I cannot comment on the overall talent and potential he holds, I would merely comment on him with respect to this movie.


He seems to be less believable in the role of a Major with a bulging body with lesser of muscles and more of fat; He seems to have failed to manage himself physically unlike the Bollywood stars. This single weakness makes the character in this movie a little unbelievable in the romantic as well as action scenes.


Though I would admire his talent in acting of which I got to see only a few glimpses here and there in the movie, overall he seemed to have overacted (May be it’s the ‘Please the fans’ effect which carried him away).


Overall I would rate the movie as 4.5 on a scale of 10.


Next, I await to capture the mood in Chennai when Rajnikant movie releases in the 1st Day 1st Show again.


Manish Saini


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