Katamarayudu - review

Before I start this review, I need to confess that I had very low expectations on this movie and was expecting almost another Sardaar. Most of that is because I watched the original Veeram movie and to say the least, it was a very bad commercial potboiler.

Dolly who made a good looking remake out of Oh My God is back in his top gear here. His shot making, his direction, his camera angles and song picturizations have always been right on spot be it Koncham Ishtam Koncham Kashtam or Gopala Gopala or now Katamarayudu. Now coming to Pawan Kalyan, he looked dashing and perfect in the village getup, did well in comedy scenes, hero elevation scenes and especially fights. Talking about the fights, these will be the talk of the town now. And I think the credit should go to the director, cameraman, stunt choreographer and Pawan Kalyan. Wish background score was better. The fights in this movie seriously missed a music director like Thaman. The biggest drawback of the movie is music, None of the songs are worth remembering but the songs in the first half are at least alright. Background score actually waters down the impact the fights could have created. Shruthy looked pretty good outside songs and looked okay in songs. The brothers Ajay, Siva Balaji, Kamal and Chaitanya did very well and their scenes with Pawan and Ali worked out well. Scenes of hero elevation and slo-mo shots are plenty and work well too. 

Overall, the director scores well in making this remake a very good watch unlike the original but the pacing in few scenes should have been faster and music should be redone, if possible. Fights are a huge huge plus.