{"id":1460,"date":"2018-06-07T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telugoos.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T08:01:32","slug":"kaala-ranjits-show-in-rajinis-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/07\/kaala-ranjits-show-in-rajinis-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaala: Ranjit\u2019s Show in Rajini\u2019s Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">QUICK SCAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong> 3.25\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>First Impression:<\/strong><\/span> Pa.Ranjit gives his second successive blow on caste discrimination in urban India after Kabali. Superstar Rajinikant adds his stardom to Ranjit\u2019s efforts one more time by giving much room for Ranjit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plus Points:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ranjit\u2019s impressive visualisation of Mumbai Slums not just with mere dirt and sorrow, but with warmth and gaiety.<\/li>\n<li>Actor in Rajinikanth outwits star in him, in many scenes.<\/li>\n<li>Eswari Rao, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, plays opposite to Rajinikanth and looks like a prototype homemaker in slum dwellings.<\/li>\n<li>Nana Patekar, as a politician draped in white dress, sets new standards to villainy in Indian movies.<\/li>\n<li>Huma Qureshi as Rajnikanth\u2019s ex-lover looks gorgeous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pitfalls:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening scene with a TV reporters\u2019 PtoC (Piece to Camera) is drab and dull.<\/li>\n<li>Visualisation of Karikaal\u2019s past in motionless painted pictures doesn\u2019t give the required impact.<\/li>\n<li>The scenes introducing Rajinikanth don\u2019t live up to his fans\u2019 expectations.<\/li>\n<li>Pa Ranjit painstakingly spends the first half of the movie only to familiarise Mumbai slum to the audience, not allowing the story move an inch forward.<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>WHO&#8217; WHO\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Film:<\/strong> Kaala<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Direction:<\/strong> Pa. Ranjith\n\n<strong>Production :<\/strong> Dhanush\n\n<strong>Script:<\/strong> \u00a0Ranjith,Aadhavan Dheetchanya\n\n<strong>Dialogues: <\/strong>K. Magizhan\n\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Rajinikanth ,Nana Patekar, Samuthirakani, Huma Qureshi, Eashwari Rao\n\n<strong>Music:<\/strong> Santhosh Narayanan\n\n<strong>Cinematography:<\/strong> Murali G<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><strong>Editing:<\/strong> Sreekar Prasad\n\n<strong>Production company:<\/strong> Wunderbar Films\n\n<strong>Distribution:<\/strong> Lyca Productions\n\n<strong>Release date:<\/strong> \u00a0June\u00a07,\u00a02018\u00a0(India)<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plot: Making Hero Raakshasha<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pa. Ranjit largely depends on symbolism in developing the plot of the movie. To symbolise outcastes he relies on the colour Black. As Afro-Americans take pride in by calling themselves Blacks, Dharavi slum dwellers express their self-esteem in the same colour in the movie. The Protagonist (Rajinikanth), bears the name, Black (Kaala) and wears the dress Black, as their icon, the antagonist (Nana Patekar) on the other hand, always appears in spotless white dress, to symbolise the oppressors\u2019 caste and class. Barring, Zareena, everyone on Rajini\u2019s side are dark in complexion. The entire story from the beginning to the end resembles the fight for land between Raakshasas (Blacks) and Devathas (Whites). To be more precise, it\u2019s between Rama and Raavana. Rajini, of course, is (One-headed-Raavana) and Rama is Nana Patekar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Story: War For Land<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Karikaala (Rajinikanth) is the unopposed the leader of Dharavi, s slum in Mumbai. Haridev Abhayankar (Nana Patekar) wants to demolish it in the name of \u2018Clean Mumbai\u2019, to which one of Rajini\u2019s sons gets attracted. Zareena (Huma Qureshi), Rajini\u2019s ex-lover, who returns from Africa, believing blindly in the concept of \u2018Clean Mumbai\u2019, tries to convince the slum dwellers to give their consent. Kaala comes on her way and stalls the process. Zareena later sense the diabolic plans of Nana Patekar to grab Dharavi and comes to Rajini\u2019s side. Nana Patekar starts settling scores with Rajini, his family members and his followers. How Rajini counters Nana Patekar is the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Treatment: Protecting Protector<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The relation between the Protector (Leader) and the Protected (his people) is inversely depicted in the movie. Undoubtedly it\u2019s the duty of the leader to protect his people. In this movie, Kaala, the Protector, comes to the rescue of his people once in a while. But it is the slum dwellers all the time come as shield, laying their lives. Rajini, the superstar, plays his role giving more space to his sons and followers with much grace.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Screen Play: Scenes Run; Story Stands Still<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though scenes are found running in accelerated pace in the first half, the story remains where it starts from. But the screen writers are not wrong. Making the lives of the people in the slum familiar to audience is important to him. We feel suffocated with the feel of narrow spaces, which don\u2019t allow one to caress his wife in privacy. This breathlessness is the interval bang. In the latter half, the viewers take the side of the slum dwellers first and Rajini next. This is how scenes are arranged.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Lead Role : More of Actor, Than Star<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With intermittent appearances as super hero in fighting scenes, Rajinikanth delivers his best as an actor. The way he lovingly submits himself to his talkative wife\u2019s dictates, keeping his King\u2019s status in Dharavi aside, offers chuckles. This is the real chemistry, sans glamour, between the couple. He draws thunderous applause to the hilarious humour he produces in his \u00a0interaction with a minister (Shaiji Shinde) in the police station.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Others in Cast: Nana Sets New Standards in Villainy\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nana Patekar\u2019s measured action as a politician with feudal ego is highly impressive. The grin on his lips and grimace on his face, when he eagerly waits for Zareena to touch his feet, make viewers intolerably indignant.<\/p>\n<p>Rajini\u2019s wife( Eswari Rao), whose voice is dubbed in Godavari accent in Telugu, has her origins in Telugu land too. She hails from Peddapuram of East Godavari. As the loving wife, caring mother, and mother-law, she becomes the central figure of the house. She keeps equal pace with Rajini in delivering emotions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Dialogues: Noisy But Make Sense<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More noise is created through dialogues. We find everyone keep talking in the slum. For the first half-an-hour, audience become clueless as to who speaks what. But the dialogues that the hero and the villain exchange are impressive. The narrative of Ramayana in Villains home elevates emotions in climax.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cinematography:It&#8217;s Rainy Mumbai<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rain is used effectively in the movie. Credit goes to the cinematographer. (By the time the shooting of the movie is underway,\u00a0 really there were heavy downpours in Mumbai. The makers built a set in Chennai replicating the Mumbai slum and continued the shooting.) Rajini\u2019s umbrella fight is impressively taken in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Music: Rap All the Way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the director himself is known for creating \u2018Casteless Music Band\u2019, he relies on Afro-American Rap in music composition. The agitators are found singing lyrics even in \u00a0times of crisis.Telugu version has failed to protect the impact of the rap.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pitfalls: Kabali Hangover Haunts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Too much time is taken to get the roles registered in the viewers\u2019 minds. Pa. Ranjit can\u2019t be totally away from the hangover of \u2018Kabali\u2019. In Kabali, hero\u2019s wife, who is believed to be dead, comes alive at the end. In Kaala, the trick is played with hero. The attires in Kaabali (Overcoat) and in Kaala( Black Dress) are thoroughly symbolised.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bottom line: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Pa. Ranjit show in Rajini\u2019s movie and not the other way round. To feel the difference, one must watch it.<\/p>\n<h4>-Satish Chandar<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK SCAN Rating: 3.25\/5 First Impression: Pa.Ranjit gives his second successive blow on caste discrimination in urban India after Kabali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[200,201,202,203,204,205,206],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-eashwari-rao","tag-huma-qureshi","tag-kaala-telugu-film-review","tag-nana-patekar","tag-pa-ranjith","tag-rajinikanth","tag-samuthirakani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rajini1-e1528391536588.jpg?fit=505%2C404&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18359,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/18359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}