KUBERA Movie

 KUBERA,  a much-talked-about movie, and opinions are heard in a split way on social media. Amidst all these, I moved to test the waters. Have seen it in a theater on a spur to speak my mind on it despite seeing it through the glasses of others. Sekhar Kommula was known for his fine flicks like Anand, Godavari, Happy Days, and so on. 

 His pictures have had scintillating songs, neat photography, interesting storyline. Veturi lyrics displayed a rare exuberance in his movies. It's how he captured the audience who has an aesthetic bend. But what makes it different this time? Before all else, I doubted that it was really created by Sekhar Kammula or someone else.

First of all, the movie is based on an illogical and utopian storyline. To make an empire of shell companies to loot the oil-rich area of the Bay of Bengal, a skilful chartered accountant or personnel from the ED department is competent enough to do the things, and the history of the country has glaring examples in this aspect. 

But in the picture, the CBI guy was selected by the multi-billionaire father and son duo. They are the kingpins in all the greed-driven plots. Four beggars have been chosen to establish shell companies in their names, and they were started to be killed after the paperwork was done.

That was the basic story, but Dhanush, one of the beggars, was sniffing the smell of foul game, had escaped from the evil brains, and the manhunt started for him. The movie was all about nabbing Dhanush as he was being operated on a big deal. 

His get-up and acting as a beggar were quite natural. Mumbai could have been shown much better since it was the place where the story was set. Heroin Rasmika never failed to frustrate the audience with her soulless, dry dialogues. Every sequence goes on without any suspense or thrills, or heart-tingling.  

A very common movie in all aspects. A good chunk of research about how shell companies,binamis, and hand-in-glove relationships with politicians would have made a lot of difference. No songs were catchy, and the music was average. Nagarjuna did his job well. 

However, an obvious hit is long overdue. Some YouTubers gave much hype about the movie, but in reality, it tested our patience with such a long time of screen show.   

----- Murthy