Mirapakaya - (Telugu) Movie Reviews

Rishi (Raviteja) is an inspector in Intelligence Bureau. The chief of the IB Narayana Murthy (Nagababu) gets information that Kittu Bhai (Prakash Raj), a mafia don, is trying to spread his tentacles in India and is targeting Delhi first. In the process, he gets killed the ACP (Sanjay Swaroop) with the help of Shankaranna (Kota Srinivasa Rao), a local goon. Shankaranna's son (Supreet) finishes the operation in Delhi. Rishi, though a shrewd and sincere police officer, flirts with girls and romances with them at every opportune time. Though Rishi an orphan, the IB chief brings him up and gives him the job in police department. But Rishi complains that his life was wasted by getting police training and remaining in police barracks and he could not enjoy like all the other youths of his generation. The IB chief sends Rishi to Hyderabad and gets him admitted to a college as a Hindi lecturer as part of an operation. Rishi, who meets Vinamra (Richa Gangopadhyay) at a temple, falls in love at first sight. Learning that Vinamra doesn't trust love at first sight, he warns her not to appear before him again as it would be his second or third sight and he can't stop loving her. Incidentally, Vinamra studies in the same college and in the same class to which Rishi teaches Hindi. Their love blossoms and both lose hearts to each other. At this juncture, Vaishali (Deeksha Seth) daughter of Kittu Bhai joins the same college and Vaishali and Rishi quarrel with each other on their first encounter. Now the IB chief tells Rishi to somehow trap Vaishali and get information about her father. As part of his profession, Rishi traps Vaishali and make her to fall in love with him. Meanwhile, Rishi learns that the IB commissioner died in the hands of Shankaranna's son and kills him in a planned manner. He also eliminates Shankaranna and his gang too. Vaishali's brother (Ajay) reaches India to take back his sister, but Vaishali convinces him and invites Rishi to meet him. Rishi along with Vaishali and her brother go to Bangkok and meet Kittu Bhai. There Kittu Bhai reveals that Rishi is not a Hindi lecturer as was thought by Vaishali but a police officer. In the climax, Rishi kills Kittu Bhai's son and arrests Kittu Bhai with the help of Interpol police. The film ends with the IB chief revealing the truth and convinces Vinamra to marry Rishi.

PERFORMANCE:
Raviteja maintains the same energy levels and shouldered the entire burden of running the film from the word start to finish. As usual he maintained perfect comedy timing and showed excellent ease in action scenes. He also excelled in romancing with the heroines with equal ease. Richa Gangopadhyay, though portrayed the role of a Brahmin girl and daughter of a music teacher, looked glamorous in modern outfits in songs. Deeksha Seth filled the glamour slot and showed lots of oomph in the character. She is gorgeous and gave a chivalrous performance. Especially, her childish face with perfect body structure, gave a voluptuous feast to the mass audiences. Though Prakash Raj was the main villain of the film, he appears only in the beginning and climax scenes. Kota Srinivasa Rao is at his usual best, while Ajay and Supreet are okay in their roles. Brahmaji and Ali tried to tickle the funny bones of audiences, though Raviteja himself evoked lots of comedy. Chandramohan, Rao Ramesh, Nagababu, Sunil, Dharmaravaru Subrahmanyam did justice to their respective roles.

TECHNICAL:
The storyline is good and the narration is also perfect. The director did not deviate from the path at any given point of time and placed the songs at perfect intervals to give relief. Moreover, the gripping movement of the subject kept the audiences to stick to their seats without leaving the theatre for a break. Cinematography by Ramprasad is good while editing by Gauthamraju is adequate. There are no boring scenes in the film. Music by Thaman is extraordinary and almost all the songs have already became very popular soon after the audio release and the same tempo was maintained in visual scenes too. Re-recording could have been a little more better if he had concentrated further on this movie. Harish Shankar improved a lot in his directorial abilities and at the same time the screenplay was very gripping.

REMARKS:
Mass Raja Raviteja got an unofficial promotion as Mass Maharaja as per the titles of this film. The film appears to be on the lines of Raviteja's earlier hits like 'Anjaneyulu', 'Vikramarkudu' and 'Don Seenu' and the director took a novel way in its narration. Generally a film with action packed drama will have some romantic scenes in between. But in this film, the director starts the film giving an impression that it is an action film, but filled it with complete romantic scenes, and finished by garnishing the action drama in the climax. The audiences could enjoy the film in a festival mood and relax without cursing the hero or the director.

Cast: Raviteja, Richa Gangopadhyay, Deeksha Seth, Prakash Raj, Kota, Ajay, Supreeth, Nagababu, Chandramohan, Sunil, Rao Ramesh, Brahmaji, Ali, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Raja Ravindra, Surekha Vani, Sudha and others
Credits: Music – Thaman, Cinematography – Ramprasad, Editing – Goutham Raju, Producer – Ramesh Puppala, Story, screenplay, direction – Harish Shankar

Banner: Yellow Flowers
Released on: January 13, 2011

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