Mangala Movie Review

Rating : 3

Caption : Overall, a good Movie

Film: Mangala

Starring: Charmy Kaur, Subhash, Pradeep Rawat, Chitram Seenu

Director: Osho Tulasi Ram

Producer: Osho Tulasi Ram

Banner: Mantra Entertainments

Music: Vishwa


Story:

Charmi will be seen in the role of Ammulu and she plays as an actress in the film. Being a popular actress Ammulu’s crazy fan tries to meet her once and in this process Ammulu thinks that he is trying to assault her. Ammulu getting irked with the situation slaps him. By getting depressed with the scenario that his favourite actress has slapped him, he commits suicide. Here comes his father Pradeep Rawat to take revenge on Ammulu as he thinks that she is accountable for his son's death. In this revenge drama Pradeep Rawat evokes a deadly enchantment of Black Magic which would surely indicate the death of someone on whom it is exploited. Ultimately Charmi turns as a sufferer for Pradeep Rawat’s Black Magic this time. How Charmi saves herself from Black Magic? Who comes in rescue of her? Will form the crux of the story.

Performances:

Charmi has gone into the skin of the role and performed incredibly the fear of perfection. Her makeover from an innocent actress to a victim of witchcraft was susceptible, frightening, and innocent. But the results of her performance definitely will not register as the story looked very much non-natural. Pradeep Rawat originally has scary looks and in the role of a witchcrafts man he brought the required scary element with his acting. Subbu, who played the role of Charmi’s friend performed well. Uttej, Anand Bharathi, Vijay Sai and Saptagiri are good and gave decent performance.

Analysis:

Osho Tulasi Ram has taken ‘black magic’ concept which has been touched in the past in films like Tulasidalam, Raksha (Phoonk) etc. People are aware of this concept and so the director didn’t try to explain too much about the details of it. The film starts off on an engaging note. The setup is nice and believable. Despite few hiccups Mangala’s first hour holds the interest of audience with gripping screenplay. Once Pradeep Rawat starts the ‘experiment’ on Mangala, the film hits the top gear and the director literally scares the hell out of you. The sequences leading to interval point are breathtaking. Tulasi Ram has definitely mastered the skill of scaring people.

The film raises high expectations during that period of time but sadly loses the track soon after the intermission. When the director starts to find solution for Mangala’s problems, the film starts to get into a problem. Second half lacks scares and fear factor completely. Although it is understandable, the director should’ve worked on the scenes conceived. Death of Pradeep Rawat, An attempt by a person to arrest Sakuchi, Charmi reaching Siva Kona, and the finale are conceived in an amateur fashion. None of the scenes holds your interest or surprises you.Climax is Poor. One would expect Mangala to end in a much much better way. Also the filmy backdrop and satires on Tamil film directors in Tollywood didn’t get well with the proceedings.

Osho Tulasiram who penned the story and screenplay besides directing the film has lost the track in the mid way of the film. The story is completely predictable. The cinematography is decent. The film moved like Rajadhani express till the end of first half and started the lagging session with never ending drama while in the journey of reaching the climax. The climax is hopeless and senseless which will truly put you into a mind-numbing mood. Music by Viswa has scored high as the background score and the sound effects were well suited.


Plus Points:Charmy’s performance ,Screenplay and Background score

Minus Points: Weak screenplay in the second half and Climax

Verdict: Though the plot of Mangala is decent,The first half of the film moves completely on a predictable note while the second half is totally dragged and tests one’s patience. Thriller and horror genre lovers can watch it for first half.

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