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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Maisamma IPS Mass-Amma APK | November 24, 2007 Rating: **.25 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) User comments Action: Ram-Laxman. Art: B. Venkateswara Rao. Cinematography: Surender Reddy. Dialogues: P. Rajendra Kumar. Editing: Krishnam Raju. Music: Srilekha. Story & Screenplay: Dasari Narayana Rao. Director: Bharat Parepalli. Producer(s): K. Ramakrishna Prasad-G. Jagadeesh Chandra Prasad. Presenter: Smt. Dasari Padma. Banner: Sowbhagya Media Limited. Release Date: 23rd November, 2007. Maisamma IPS stars Mumait Khan as a gusty female cop. Dasari is the brain and brawn behind this venture, but unfortunately he has already given several movies with a female-oriented theme similar to this. Of course, a cop who can sing, dance, fight, is toned and ravishing is an attraction but that's where it ends.  Plot Maisamma is a circle inspector who tackles on the baddies in uniform during the day. Once her duty is over she teaches those a lesson who've somehow escaped the clutches of law. Sadu is the evil home minister who's ruthlessly corrupt. Maissamma has a turbulent past connected to him that sets her on the course of revenge.Story, Screenplay and Direction The format would have been ideal for the 1980s. And a huge novelty too. It's not really new anymore, nor is there anything that makes one sit up and notice. It has some good points-Mumait Khan is Vijayashanti meets Silk Smitha, but a little more 'now' than them. She is graceful, especially during the fights and dance sequences, is unafraid to show skin and is uninhibited playing a tobacco-chewing hardcore cop. Every time she has to deal with a goon, there is a sudden costume change, an Aparichitudu worthy transformation. She is everything from a Telangana Goddess to a Pam Anderson look from Barbed Wire. Her acting still needs to improve, but she is spirited and has good presence-moreover the movie is completely on her shoulders. Coming back to the movie from Mumait, it has an old formula. One rape, two rape attempts, one wedding night, one sexual favor and one seduction. Very old formula. Oh and there is one incident of incest too. There is a delivery scene, flood scene lifted from Thevar Magan, a classical dance performance getting booed at and other such old school sequences (yawn!). All the women-being-wronged sequences look like they're used to titillate rather than invoke empathy or repulsion. The focus is on the act, and not the crime. MS Narayana's track has been used to provide some comic relief while Mumait's first scene in the police station makes you smirk.  Performances Mumait has a great Shakira step, sultry looks, convincing stunts and versatility. What's lacking is her comfort level with the language and lip sync. Prabakhar is just okay, but in the song he is disastrous next to Mumait. Sayaji Shinde hams throughout. The girl who played Mumait's wronged sister is convincing.Music and Dance Three songs are okay. 'Naa Peru Mumait Khan' makes you smile with its lyrics, the Maisamma song is pitchy. One song has been lifted from Shootout at Lokhandwala. Last Word It's stuck in the 80s. The first half keeps the interest levels alive to some point, but in the second half after the end of the flashback the movie goes off track completely. This might appeal to the masses, but for all the wrong reasons. |