Dharani Mandala Madhyadolage

Dharani Mandala Madhyadolage (2022) : Brief Review -

A smartly written and intelligently executed movie by Shridhar Shikaripura on humanity. Crime anthologies are always fun to watch because we expect some new stuff, innovative storytelling and lots of surprises. Dharani Mandala is a perfect fit for that. Dharani Mandala is fantastic watch for you, you can give it a watch for excellent filmmaking. Dharani Mandala is a story of random people in a big city and with dreams and accidently their lives become interlinked. Actually, this crossover hints a dangerous ride all the time, and it works too, it provides a happy ending to almost all the characters as per the justification in cinematic Liberty. There are few things in the film which could have been avoided to keep it more crispy towards the crime zone. Nevertheless, Dharani Mandala still has a lot to offer in its own zone. It has smartly written script with gripping screenplay and brilliant direction of Shridhar Shikaripura. Little more care and it would have been a classic film but its still very much worthy. It's a terrific movie to watch.

A Kannada hyperlink thriller with an excellent first half and a second half which is almost as good but a bit weighed down by a little Kannada commercial film tropes.

Some of the links are a bit far-fetched but convincing enough and the scenes are not as over the top as usual commercial films in Kannada. Cinematography, Music, Editing departments have done a great job in making this movie a cutting edge one. And performances of lead actors are a feast to watch and makes us realise how underutilized they are.

While on the whole, it is an excellent thriller giving insight into a lot of social problems also, overall a good watch.

I'll adding this movie to my list because it neatly written stories between the multiple stories and connected together at the end is very good. That Ramanna story it can me more required in type of comedy. If the writer not showed the linking of all the five stories in the beginning but it has showed at the pre climax and climax it would have been very interesting and curious movie. In the first half it has very linear screenplay , it would be better like writer telling questions in the first half and the answers were given one by one at the end it would have been very good in my point of view. Overall very well written but it needs more curious elements and the songs were not required.

One of the best multi narrational films in recent time. Haven't seen such type of genre after Ulidavaru Kandanthe in Kannada. Direction is good, the stories are human and complex and despite their melodramatic or sometimes tragic outcome, they still leave you with a shade of hope - maybe because the humanity that the author uses to create his characters. It's very thought-provoking too and has real immediacy, as well as hard-hitting emotional power, vast emotional range and is uniquely twisted. What I saw is thousand's of people life. That's why it's so magic for me. I would recommend watching it.

They have a lot to show, a lot of ideas to present lot to tell, so many things to perform, and it feels like trying so hard to impress which fails when it comes to building the emotions.

Both lead actors feel doing a lot of overacting, even the comedians felt so clichéd. And on top of it, the director is trying to give whatever hyperlink or other idea they have got, they somehow want to make it work, and then the slow pacing at times, it feels extremely boring because there is not one character who you really feel for them. It all feels cardboard cut outs for the sake of plot.

And the typical longu macchu action scenes for no sensible reason, and to give some fight hero can do they got him to learn and do boxing or whatever that way. The whole film was so boring, so out of focus, so all over the place, extreme overacting by most of the cast. No worthy songs too. I mean, the idea of the storyline is good influenced by the title's and its background, but they couldn't bring that essence or life to the story they wanted to try.

As people say, "Do not bite off more than you can chew", or in this situation, they chewed a lot more than they could digest. Naveen and the actress should learn a bit more acting. Over all below average film. Title is the only powerful idea..