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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Apada Mokkulavadu Poor Political Propaganda APK | January 06, 2008 Rating: * (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) User comments Art: Nagendra Babu. Choreography: Swarna-Dasari Suresh. Cinematography: A. Raja. Dialogues: Koratala Siva. Editing: Mohan-Ramarao. Music: Lenina Chowdary. Story, Screenplay & Direction: Posani Krishna Murali. Producer: Mallikarjuna Rao. Banner: Aman International Movies. Release Date: 5th January, 2008. Our present Chief Minister, the opposition leader, the topmost Congress leaders and their ancestors are all good people. Each one has a particular quality that makes them shine, and all these qualities are there in one person-the 'megastar'. Corruption exists in the bottom rung of elected leaders and the bureaucracy. And it is not the fault of the above mentioned CMs, ex-CMs, party presidents and PMs that such corruption exists, because it is happening without their knowledge. Also, you can't see air but you breathe it; in the same way, you cannot see God but such an entity exists. So speaks Posani Krishna Murali, writer, director and actor.  Apada Mokkulavadu is meant for several purposes. These include preliminary political propaganda, buttering up those in power and showing a hitherto low-profile Nagababu in an extremely positive light as a politician who works for the people and is a sort of demigod. He weeds out corruption while suffering personal losses.That, in a nutshell is the plot. To elaborate, Rangayya Naidu moves the court to stop the assembly from bickering and hurling accusations and talk about the public problems instead. Money that is allotted to his district is used by a variety of public servants from the Ministers to the Tahsildar. Rangayya Naidu puts a stop to that, but his family is harmed and he kills the traitors who cause him that grief. After that, he is disguised as God and cuts off the head of every corrupt politico in sight. Disguised as God, did you ask? Yes. He comes as God complete with a shining armor and mask that glitters more than every precious metal out there. With these special effects on his person, he is also able to appear and disappear at will. If that appears illogical, then wait-all the politicos come and submit their black money in temples. He is of course shot by the police several times and remains unscathed. There's more. The director, if you remember his last called Operation Duryodhana, killed off the protagonist's wife and kids. He repeats it. Then he showed a fascination for severed body parts. Repeat. Now it's severed heads, hands etc. It's an obsession, he can't help it. Plus, he beats RGV hollow in that single department because he shows it repeatedly and with nauseating rather than a gruesome effect. He also puts in a cameo where he is interviewed by a TV channel to discuss if God is there, as mentioned above. Nothing gets more over-smart than this. The protagonist's entry is again a big deal, of course. The screenplay has a flashback courtesy Saikumar. The first half has the title song used as the background which is tolerable. After that the background score gets impossible. Dubbing for most of the characters lacks lip-sync. There's this character called Sreenu who kills others, then harms himself to escape from prison and hey, it works! The violence in the second half gets nauseating and the director showcases it with evident relish. The misery of the common man is shown, but it is like a badly done documentary at best and the plight doesn't come across.  Nagababu's performance is not bad, but we get to see little of him actually. With a plethora of stone-faced individuals playing the roles of politicians, we are exposed to bouts of violence, sarcasm/spoof/satirical parts infused with the main plot. One question though, why do most of the politicos don shades whether inside or outside? At least Operation Duryodhana had the sizzling Mumait the Masseur; here we see Udayabhanu and another girl in two item numbers that fizzle before you can react. And pray, what's all that off-season lightning doing throughout the movie? They removed that effect way back in 1962.Last Word There are troubled times that once you get out of, it is a celebration of life. Getting out of the theatre for this movie is such a time. Posani might get into the good books of all the right people (read politicians) who he has praised repeatedly in the movie, but he has definitely delivered a dud. In the movie, Nagababu as Rangayya Naidu is Apada Mokkulavadu, that is someone who is the savior of people. But who will save us from him? |