ACTION FEAST
Vijay Excel, Prakash Shines

Film Review : SHRI

Film Review by -CNB                 Date -  19th January  2006 Time 11.00 PM

Banner - Chowdeshwari Cine Creations
Producers - Dushyanth and Santoshkumar
Story, screenplay and direction - Prakash
Music - Valisha Sandeep
Cinematography - Krishnakumar
Cast - Vijaya Raghavendra, Jennifer Kothwal, Komalkumar, Ananthnag, Avinash, Vinayaprasad, Rahul Dev, Shakeela and others.

Exhilarating stunts is the hallmark of this film. Lavishly made film with Mua Thai art of stunts for the first time on Kannada screen is very well executed by Vijaya Raghavendra. The foreign locations, cinematography and three good songs (including the Belly dance) have come out well. Prakash with two hits in his career takes us to the new world through this film although he has added more of melodrama.

The story might be wafer thin but narration is convincing and chilling at times. Prakash has taken extra care like Vijaya Raghavendra has taken care in learning the Mua Thai and performing in a convincing style.

Srikanth with his friend living in Bangkok is a daring youngster. He has the ability to sustain the onslaught from a dozen attackers. But his vision in life is to make some money get back to his native place and release the house of his father from loans. He is working as a servant in a hotel in Bangkok. In one of his outings he happens to save computer engineer Deepa (Jennifer Kothwal). In the reels it becomes inevitable for Shri to bring Deepa to Banglore. Deepa on the other hand is the one who helped the robbers in looting Rs.500 crores of rupees in Bangkok currency from commercial bank that is lead by Shetty (Rahul Dev). Deepa who knows the secret code for the robber also learns the secrets from Shetty gang stores it in a tape and she is on a run. Further she dumps the few bags containing Bangkok currency in a dilapidated car garage. This is the reason why Shetty is behind her.

Back in Bangalore the search is vigorous from Shetty and gang. Around this time the investigating agency from Bangkok also arrives. The important tape of Shetty secrets in the possession of Deepa makes her safe but her mother and sister are kidnapped by Shetty. Now it is give and take time. But Sri handles the situation with his will power and muscle strength. After the fight to finish of Shetty and gang the vibrant youngster Shri gets the Bangkok government honor. From this he fulfills his sole intention in life to get back the lost glory.

Vijya Raghavendra looks good, performed well taken lot of strain and full marks for him. Jennifer is impressive but her hairstyle and spectacle needed a different approach. Rahul Dev with his (?) chilling voice and performance suits immaculately. Ananthnag and Avinash are wasted. Komal is very good once again. Shakeela does not shake so there is no expected excitement from her.

Yaro neenu the duet song sung by Rajesh - Nandita on Vijay and Jennifer is the best song of the film. Joke Joke, Masthana Masthana… are peppy. It is time to celebrate for Valisha Sandeep for having good tunes.

Krishnakumar has given a good glimpse of Bangkok in the night times in the opening of the film. In rest of the places he has been pretty good.

This is a must watch film for the strong effort put in by Prakash and his team.

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