Damarukam Movie review

Damarukam is a socio – fantasy film from telugu cinema industry after a long time. So, it is with some amount of expectations of being entertained that one would go to watch this movie. What would a socio fantasy promises to deliver? Some magic, good music, a super hero, a very beautiful heroine, a powerful villain and above all lots of entertainment. Yet ‘Damarukam’ fails on all these fronts!

    The story is lame without any interesting twists or turns. The villain delivers some good dialouges but they are very few and at other times he does not seem to be making an impression! The character lacks wit. The Rakshasudu/Mantrikudu that we are used to see in all our good old janapada cinemalu will make villain of Damarukam even more placid.

   Even Nagarjuna is not very impressive, neither is his character in the movie. Anushka’s job is to just look beautiful, which she does but without the least traces of any acting skills. I wonder if this is the same lady who carried so well the character of Arundhathi! Prakash Raj as lord Shiva gives a good performance, though it is not of much use. His makeup is weird and does not carry that heavenly look.

    The music in the film is not something that lingers on your mind, once you leave the theatre. Even the item song by Charmi is a failed effort. The choice of Charmi for an item song is surprising given her not so glamorous beauty and her little dancing skills.

    Another important section of the movie is Graphics which are used widely and yet times unnecessarily. A movie cannot go well only on the strength of its graphic gimmicks!Even the comedy tracks could not save the film from being boring. Why not, the so called comedy in this film is lame and not at all comical.

    There are many a great socio fantasies that telugu industry has produced when the technology was not much developed. The lesser the use of graphics the better the movies were!! This movie is not comparable to any of those previous.

     Watching this movie made me feel that to write a fairy tale story also needs a lot of effort and logic, which the director and producer have clearly overlooked.