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When i was in Mysore during the vacation last week had to accompany my aunt, mom and my little buddy adi to a ancient cinema house in mysore called 'New Opera' to watch a meaningless movie called Jogi. Didnt see the phantoms in the Opera though. My aunt wanted to go to it as she had heard many people talking good things about the movie. I also was aware of the film's success, so thought lets see hows it, it'll be timepass too. This was my first Kannada movie in theatre in as many as 'dont know how many years' years. Kannada movie as i know now is mainly dominated by non-sense and crap. My initial feeling was like 'Oh this could a single good movie in the tons of bad movies, thats why all people are telling good things about it'.
What i saw was 'tricking ordinary folks into beleiving that its a very very good movie thanks to all gimminks, stunts and more of them plus some emotion of tears plus good music but in truth its yet another bad film cunningly disguised as a very good movie.
Now the film. The main motto of the film is
money driven commercial sensentionalization most common in all current Kannada films which i feel is a disgrace to the art of filmmaking. It doesnt promote art or even entertainment for all genre. Its selfish money making buissness. That sensationalization comes in the form of 2/3 of the movie is all filled with
extreme violence and bloodshed with actors fighting and killing each other with axes and sickles or the famous '
Machhu Longu'! And some long hair gimmik too.
After all the blood and more blood, now the director Prem thinks "Machhu longu...hmm.... is a usual afair as i saw in 'mental manja' and 'deadly soma', if thats all, my movie wont go beyond 'manja' and 'soma's success. It will only bring Kalasipalya's Machhu Manja, Langu Lokesha, Bomb Basava and Rod Rama and all thier friends to the theatres. If i can put something into it that will bring Pakkadmane 'Kamalamma','Seethamma', 'Subbanna' and 'Gauramma' into the theatres then it will be a double hit"
To do that, rest 1/3 of the film he adds the
mother-son eternal relationship part as a secondary, makes it more emotional and heartbreaking bringing the 'CRUEL FATE' aspect into it.
The director then links the two main aspects of the film
1.) Bloodshed life of a rowdy 2.) Strong eternal bonding between mother and son. He hopelessly draws a
conclusion at the end that 'Jogi took to Violence only for his beloved mother!!!!!'. '
Jogi Thayigagi Machhu Hididanante !!!!!'
That link is very very weak. He justifies this statement by a rubbish, meaningless explanation.
Its never justified strongly and can never be in real life !!! If Jogi wanted to be violence free he could have surrendered to police on a reformed note and being under thier protection he could have searched for his mother. But director wanted more machhu, longu for sensation and thats why brings him back to violence
. Also incident that triggers Jogi into a Rowdy where a innocent peaceful village boy has so much anger that he kills a rowdy for a silly reason because of his affection to his mother, makes it a weak story. At max he could given the culprit a good thrash. He should be a psycho to kill him! '
Hence results in a
very very weak story, a major blow to the film. All the director does it, have sensational violence so that its a hit amongst all rowdies, robbers, dacoits and rouges and also have emotions so that its a hit amongst women and children. One stone, two birds. Hopelessly trying to make sense and to promote a good image to Hero he tries linking both the issues which itself doesnt make full sense.
Now the big qsn. Why the film became so popular amongst all genre if it was bad. Its answered above. The sad thing was audiance being im-mature was tricked into believing its a great movie depecting mother-son relationship.
Plus points of the movie Very good music, good touching performances by Shivraj Kumar, Arundhati Nag. The mother-son thing if looked independent of rest of the story its well depected but is short and only at the end of the movie. But sadly a poor storyline of linking the good thing with the sensation bloodshed overshadows all the good things. Many say film was a hit solely because of it's music since songs were chartbusters even before the release.
All in all a average movie with bloodshed and violence but with good attracting music, emotional mother-son thing and hopelessly concluding and convincing audiance that "Hero took to Violence all for his mother (which is never justified), and thats why its a great sacrifice for his mother" and trying to link the two was the
im-moral success formula for this movie. Thats what makes it bad. Needless to say both my aunt and mom felt bad and disgusted after watching the movie. A sigh of relief for me atleast they are not im-mature as most audiance was. Yuck!! I also saw 2-3 grand old grandmas also in the theatre, i simply dont how thier lighter hearts would have tolerated all the gory scenes of the movie!
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