A movie that fought to get into theatres. This film actually went to several film festivals including the Berlin Flash Film Festival, London International Motion Picture Awards, The Indie Fest Film Awards in California and Calcutta International Cult Film Festival and won about 26 awards in total according to Google including the Best Film and the Best Actress awards. But, it had to take support of certain film celebs like Harish Shankar and Navdeep to actually get a release despite its rich background. So, obviously I had to watch this film on Amazon Prime Video today. So, could it justify its awards or it raises questions against it? Let's find out.
Madha is a 2020 Telugu suspense drama movie directed by Sri Vidya Basawa starring Rahul Venkat, Trishna Mukherjee. The film revolves around Nisha who is a proof reader whose life changes after meeting Arjun, a cinematographer. The happenings after this fill up the rest of the story.
The screenplay is mostly solid. The story is good. It has some interesting concepts explored and the director wraps these concepts up with good enough screenplay. The 2nd half particularly makes us un-comfortable. It has good thrills, good character study. It also has jump scares sprinkled. It has some good tension throughout the film. The climax especially has a good bite. The best part of the film is the strong message it tries to give. It is important for everyone to know it. But, the 1st half of the movie fades off in comparison with the 2nd half. It begins with 2 bland love scenes and 3 scenes where things do not fit in well. The film essentially is the ghisa-pitha revenge film. How many times we have seen this before? So, overall this film has a great story to tell but it is wrapped around just decent screenplay.
The acting actually is pretty mixed. The best part of the film is the heroine. Trishna Mukherjee acts well as her expressions shine. She begins as a kind hearted woman and transforms herself into a very wild girl with ease. Maybe someone else should have dubbed for her as she struggles to speak Telugu fluently throughout the film. But, the lead actor Rahul Venkat is meh.. He carries three expressions across the film. The angry face, the observant face and the good guy face. All these expressions too have very little variation. But, credit where it is due, his dialogue delivery is good particularly the scene before the climax of the film. Coming to the more recognised actors, Anish Kuruvilla gets an interesting role to deal with and he surprisingly delivers well. Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Dr.Subramaniyam too acts really well. Other actors perform according to their role.
This film belongs to the technical departments. The locations of the film are realistic. The colour palette the makers chose i.e., blue and red shades added to the locations really make you uncomfortable. The cinematography doubles up the tension with its framing and angles. The BGM of the film amps up the suspense and horror by blending them together to give a very different experience. The editing is meticulously done. It's length of 1hr 48min is apt for the film and it helps maintain the suspense of the film intact. The director who is one of the those rare female directors certainly proves that she is capable of producing high quality films despite budget constraints.
Overall, Madha is a good suspense film despite its shortcomings. It delivers a strong message which everyone should know with a good enough screenplay that maintains good suspense throughout the film. But, deep within it is an old school revenge drama and some scenes don't make sense. If you like thrillers or suspense dramas, you can give this film a shot. This film is certainly not for family viewing. It kind of justifies it's awards but I still have questions about it. Putting them aside, let us understand how our brain works with Madha(Why this title?? Please comment me down in the comment section.)
The screenplay is mostly solid. The story is good. It has some interesting concepts explored and the director wraps these concepts up with good enough screenplay. The 2nd half particularly makes us un-comfortable. It has good thrills, good character study. It also has jump scares sprinkled. It has some good tension throughout the film. The climax especially has a good bite. The best part of the film is the strong message it tries to give. It is important for everyone to know it. But, the 1st half of the movie fades off in comparison with the 2nd half. It begins with 2 bland love scenes and 3 scenes where things do not fit in well. The film essentially is the ghisa-pitha revenge film. How many times we have seen this before? So, overall this film has a great story to tell but it is wrapped around just decent screenplay.
The acting actually is pretty mixed. The best part of the film is the heroine. Trishna Mukherjee acts well as her expressions shine. She begins as a kind hearted woman and transforms herself into a very wild girl with ease. Maybe someone else should have dubbed for her as she struggles to speak Telugu fluently throughout the film. But, the lead actor Rahul Venkat is meh.. He carries three expressions across the film. The angry face, the observant face and the good guy face. All these expressions too have very little variation. But, credit where it is due, his dialogue delivery is good particularly the scene before the climax of the film. Coming to the more recognised actors, Anish Kuruvilla gets an interesting role to deal with and he surprisingly delivers well. Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Dr.Subramaniyam too acts really well. Other actors perform according to their role.
This film belongs to the technical departments. The locations of the film are realistic. The colour palette the makers chose i.e., blue and red shades added to the locations really make you uncomfortable. The cinematography doubles up the tension with its framing and angles. The BGM of the film amps up the suspense and horror by blending them together to give a very different experience. The editing is meticulously done. It's length of 1hr 48min is apt for the film and it helps maintain the suspense of the film intact. The director who is one of the those rare female directors certainly proves that she is capable of producing high quality films despite budget constraints.
Overall, Madha is a good suspense film despite its shortcomings. It delivers a strong message which everyone should know with a good enough screenplay that maintains good suspense throughout the film. But, deep within it is an old school revenge drama and some scenes don't make sense. If you like thrillers or suspense dramas, you can give this film a shot. This film is certainly not for family viewing. It kind of justifies it's awards but I still have questions about it. Putting them aside, let us understand how our brain works with Madha(Why this title?? Please comment me down in the comment section.)
iMDB Rating : 5.6/10
My Rating : 7/10
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