KA, which stated ambitiously, fell flat because of over reliance on twists and bangs, which doesn’t occur naturally.
KA happens in the world of Krishnagiri around 1977. It is a village that is located in the trenches of huge mountains. Therefore, the village turns into a night at 3pm itself. Sounds good and new? Wait for it. This aspect is never used in the movie, except as an easy excuse for girl-abducting and human trafficking business. How does this aspect involve itself in the story? None. The duration of this novel point is just a few minutes more than what we saw in the trailer. Nothing else. When the story can happen anywhere, what is the point of world building when you are not building the story around it?
Kiran Abbavaram plays Abhinaya Vasudev, an orphan who gets to feel the love of mother only through letters written by other kids’ mothers. Therefore, he likes to spy on other people’s emotional life. Okay. Good idea. An innocent man reading the private letters of the villages. What an ideal situation that can be used to reveal more about the world that the writers duo Sandeep and Sujith were trying? None. Nothing of the sort happens.
Those letters play a crucial role only in taking the hero to the villain and finally be the protector of the village women. As a secret reader of letters, he discovers a human trafficking racket. Now, Vasudev will definitely try to stop it. Ofcourse!
Wait a minute! Who was that man with a mask and the voice that was deliberately made villainous? How did I forget about him! Let the audience behold, they are going to face a shocker that they might have anticipated or didn’t. Nonetheless, the effort to make the twists and bangs spoils the overall experience and just the bang can’t be an excuse for lazy writing. Oh, wait! What about that gold-lit spinning machine? Meh, forget about it. Its relevance is as equal as some rich toy on a billionaire’s table. The whole brouhaha around the machine is just to reveal that it was just a hypnotism machine? These are the instances where the audience feels cheated.
Yes, it is true that the reveal at the climax is never expected. But, that is the point. It feels as if they have written that point only because you don’t expect it and hold the audience by the collar and blow their heads with a shock. For example, take the scene where all the good fellows suddenly become the bad fellows. Why? How? The character motivations are just mentioned but never explored. It means that you just have to accept the story but not investigate it. It means you have to be convinced even though there is no conviction in the convincibility through story.
Kiran Abbavaram will be remembered as someone who did try an “experimental” film. But, KA will eventually be placed in the box of movies that were ambitiously thought but poorly written at execution level.
Rating : 2.5/5
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