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Hero Review - Zero to One

APK | October 24, 2008

Rating: 1/2 * (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad)

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Cast: Nitin, Bhavana, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Nagababu, Kovai Sarala, Ramya Krishna and Others.
Art: Anand Sai.
Choreography: Nobel & Prem Rakshit.
Cinematography: C Ram Prasad.
Dialogues: Nivas.
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh.
Fights: Kanal Kannan.
Music: Mani Sharma.
Producer: Manyam Ramesh.
Screenplay & Direction: GV Sudhakar Naidu.
Banner: Manyam Entertainments.
Release Date: 24th October, 2008.

Here goes nothing. Read on.

Nitin

Plot Radha Krishna is the commissioner's aimless, jobless son. His father wants him to join the police force while his mother wants him to be a movie star. A GO passed by the Home Minister states that any honest person can join the police force and no other qualification is necessary. The commissioner gets his son to join the training academy by convincing his wife that all the qualities for a 'mass hero' are taught by the academy in a short time including martial arts. Krishna Veni is Radha Krishna's love interest in the academy. The murder of a retired crime branch officer is intermingled with all their fates, starting from the commissioner to Krishna Veni.

Story, Screenplay and Direction The plot actually sounds sane. But the writing and the direction are..torturous. Starting from the first scene. A crime branch officer claims on TV to have the top 100 corrupted people in the state along with proof in a file and gives them a week's time to hand over their illegal assets to the government. He is then murdered in broad daylight on a terrace. How did he get there? How come he wasn't protected after his thunderous TV statement? Cinema, cinema. Okay..and then cut to a dream Nagendra Naidu, commissioner is having about his son-that he will flourish as a police officer. His wife Sarala (Kovai Sarala) comes and harasses him and the audience collectively..and so on and so forth.

If one were to state the most irritating or annoying or silly or stupid or in any way, offending scenes in the movie, they'd probably end up writing the whole script. Notably, the male-female interactions in the movie are, in one word, retarded. Kovai Sarala and Nagababu make you look around for the emergency exit while Nitin-Bhavana make you slightly nauseous. From screechy 'Bava bava' to coy (ughh) Radha garu-Krishna garu, it's just..retarded.

Nitin is actually one of the many characters of the 'neeti-nijayati' academy. The G-O states that anyone with 'neti-nijayati' can join the police force. So, how do you decide that? There are jobless wonders, old-time goons (Brahmanandam wasted) and sons of late goons there to avenge their father's death with a police revolver and girls wearing next to nothing and a 'male prostitute'. Hilarious. Not.

Nitin and Bhavana

Performances Nitin is fit and flexible-his dance has also improved. His acting skills are negligible, he swallows most of the words, his voice modulation is bad, his cinema sense is pathetic and after working with directors like Rajamouli, Krishna Vamsi and debuting with Teja, he is one actor who is gradually going from 'promising' to 'average' to 'whatever'. Time to really re-think his strategy. What happened to the promising young kid of Jayam and Sye? Vanished.

Bhavana has an absolutely irritating character which she herself seems unhappy with. The others in the academy give their best-from Brahmanandam to Jogi Naidu. But there's only so much you can do in a bad script. Same goes for Ramya Krishna in a special role. Nagababu tries, and his Chiru-isms are picking up.

Music and Choreography Actually not bad, but makes no difference in the flawed flick.

Last Word The head-pounding which begins in the first scene calms down slightly with the break and a fresh new outlook on life post-break. The movie then looks like it might pick up or some miracle might occur and it'll get interesting, viewable or at least tolerable. Wishful thinking, as none of that happens. Head-pounding reduces in the last 2 scenes before climax and finishes off with a flourish.

PS the original, unedited review looked like this: "Whatever". Did not satisfy minimum word limit though.