Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Mohanlal agrees with our view : Mohanlal's Aaraattu will break Akhanda box office record in Andhra / TS


Mohanlal has told Manorama News that critics or those in Telangana / Andhra do not criticize a film like it is done in Kerala. This he learnt during his stay in Hyderabad for Bro Dadddy shooting. The public are supportive of films and do not run them down. The reason being that they are supportive of film industry that employs thousands. This VIEW shows that our inference that Aaraattu will be a blockbuster in Andhra - Telangana is right on the mark. 

Yet another point he raised was very valid - those who say editing is not good should know about editing . To best of my knowledge, unless the order of film scenes  are jerky, I do not write about editing . Even though I have had a hands on experience of editing a film as assistant to a editor who was using movieola, I am not sure about the craft. Music is something that affects my ears and sensibilities and so without knowing about music direction, I take the liberty to comment on it as also with cinematography as it deals with visuals and my eyes. Down is the original story:

B Unnikrishnaan as a director has kept to his word - he has given a film that has no logic. In that genre, this film's 


Telugu dubbed version will break the existing record set by Balakrishna with Akhanda. Now has the film brought back the  vintage Mohanlal back to us ( Lalettan fans and every Malayali movie goer universally) ?, YES. First half is full of references to all the punch dialogues and scenes from Lal ettan's hit films. It is so enjoyable that we forget the entire plot told in first few minutes. So at interval, twitter critics said that it was MASS. YouTubers showed boys and girls saying in interval that it was Lal magic at work. Euphoria breaks out globally ( read GCC ).

Second half is Lalism at play. Doing away with caste tags, need for women education and  on. The social obligation that an actor has to do to society is at play in second half. In short, a films that is music to Lal ettan fans. Add to it being political correct ( it angered political activists but they are not the core audience)

As a trade analyst, I feel that Aarattu dubbed version in Andhra - Telangana will be a money spinner and like Pushpa Hindi shocked Bollywood , Aaraattu Telugu will storm Tollywood.  Sleepless nights ahead for Balakrishna.

Now this breed got degrading guys - they say that any film of Lal after Marakkar would be welcomed as the previous was a benchmark for lowest performance of Lal. I disagree. Marakkar is on par with Vanaprasatham etc . The problem is if Lal goes Mass roles, you say he is commercial. Bring back the vintage Lal. When Unnikrishnan did that through past refrences you say that we want the Complete Actor. Makeup your mind . You can no more expect both in one film.

Unnikrishnan said that this film was only a trailor of a bigger fil with bigger illogical happenings. As this will enter the Rs 100 cr club in Kerala alone, the next Unnikrishnan- Lal outing will be looking at Superhero Marvel box office record. As  past refrences to Lal films, have we not seen so many TV shows and star nites that have video clips before prsenting Legend of World Cinema to Lal ?

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