Janatha Garage

I loved this movie thoroughly. Fantastic story. Excellent acting.

Janatha Garage is a movie which boldly lacks key entertainment elements that are comedy and good dialogues.However, the movie still pleases somewhat with a realistic emotion. The movie cannot even be tolerated for the second time but if you watch the movie not expecting comedy and good dialogues, you are likely to appreciate the direction of Koratala Siva and acting prowess of Mohanlal and NTR.

The movie bears the story of helping the society which seems to be a common theme in the movies of Koratala Shiva. The story seems very familiar and cliché but few elements in the storyline seem new and realistic only due to the realistic direction and acting.

Negatives:

No attention on details ( for example on showing Bomb blasts, Rajeev Kanakala's reason for denial), ridiculously boring dialogues, lack of sense of humor for any character.

Positives:

Humility NTR has depicted in contrast to his previous movies, complete acting team,direction.

This movie created much hype before it's release due to director Koratala siva in which he gained positive reviews from his last movie srimanthudu which is a very big hit and ntr from his last movie NKP,but this movie some how disappointed critics due to its lack of actress characterization,actress screen presence,routine story backdrop,weak story line but the concept of this movie is different like directors last movie,It has theme of controlling pollution and a social awareness to save trees ,i like that idea and ntr's acting is really extraordinary he even admitted that he changed his attitude,acting style etc in interviews prior to the release of movie ..Mohan lal ,Samantha and nithya menon acted very well,Music from DSP is a big plus point and item song 'pakka local' of kajal aggarwal is main attraction in second half and so many feels that climax is some how disappointed..but atlast ntr and siva achieved a hit

Janatha Garage (2016): Since Temper,NTR has changed his way of story selection and choosing only those scripts which has good emotional depth.In Temper he gave terrific performance as a corrupt police officer and in Nanaku Prematho he gave his most subtle performance ever.Now with Janatha Garage he teamed up with national winning actor Mohanlal. Koratala Shiva,who is famous for his message oriented commercial films(Mirchi,Srimanthudu) directed this prestigious project.How is it??

Plot: Satyam (Mohanlal) establishes an auto garage in Hyderabad in early 1980's. Soon he becomes a leader to their locality. All people in the neighborhood approach him for help and he also "repairs" (bashes up) men who do wrong to the people.In the present day, Anand (NTR), an environmental researcher, studying and living in Mumbai frequently lands in problems for his cases against powerful people who pollute the nature. He also knows how to teach them a lesson by bashing them.On a study exchange program, Anand comes down to Hyderabad and he closes down the illegal quarry of Satyam's son Raghava (Unni). Impressed with Anand's aggressive and righteous nature, Satyam asks him to take over his garage. Why? What is his motive?

Plus Points:

1)Performances: Major plus point of Janatha Garage is the mind blowing performances of NTR and Mohanlal.Their screen presence simply mesmerizes us with such brilliant acting.NTR showed brilliant maturity in this movie especially the scene in GHMC. Mohanlal really leaves a mark in TFI with his performance and surely wins hearts of Telugu people.Devayani as Mohanlal's wife gave good performance.

2)Few scenes in both halves: Janatha Garage is not perfect as it has some clichéd scenes but few scenes are brilliant.Especially the Interval and GHMC scene in second half are remarkable.

3)Dialogues: Dialogues are very good which has good depth in it.NTR style of delivery to those dialogues helped a lot to get connected to them.

Minus Points:

1)Cliched scenes: Janatha Garage has lot of routine scenes.Movie has highly predictable screenplay most of the time.Villains are so poor and there is no emotional quotient is the scenes.

2)Editing: Editing is so poor that it gives a feel that there is sudden jump between scenes.

3)Music: DSP gave average music for this movie.Songs are not good enough but lyrics are brilliant.BGM gives us deja vu feel.

So Janatha Garage has brilliant performances from NTR and Mohanlal,few brilliant emotional scenes but needs few more repairs to make it perfect.

My rating 6.75/10

Janatha Garage is not your regular popcorn entertainer which Tollywood churns out every week. It is a character-driven film where the onus is on serious emotions. Though NTR performs brilliantly, Mohan Lal gets a prominent role and this might not go well with NTR's fans. Music by Devi Sri Prasad is a huge plus as all the songs have been composed quite well. Devi's background score in the second half elevates the proceedings to a decent level. Production values of the film are pretty good. Camera work is superb as Hyderabad and Mumbai have been showcased in a wonderful light. Dialogues written by Koratala Shiva are meaningful. Editing is below average as the film needs to be trimmed by at least 15 minutes. Coming to the director Koratala Shiva, he has done just an okay job with the film. Though his thought is good, he takes too much time to establish the story as the film catches steam only after the first half. He makes things predictable and ends the film on a simple note.The film will appeal to the general audience more than the fans. Finally, if you ignore the predictable story line, you may give this film a shot.