Many South films, dubbed in Hindi, have graced our television screens for several years (along with Tarzan: The Wonder Car and Sooryavansham). As Bollywood producer-director Karan Johar pointed out in a Film Companion adda, the “real impact” has come in from satellites. Rajamouli’s epic saga Baahubali, is not some overnight success formula but has been in the making for over 20 years now. It was also the highest-grossing Indian movie in 2021.Ī pan-India trend in movies, which is often credited to S. The film garnered Rs 173 crores worldwide on its opening weekend. Shot in Telugu, Pushpa: The Rise has been dubbed in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi with its pan-Indian intention. A conversation with cinephiles about new films can prove that (looking at The Great Indian Kitchen, Drushyam 2, and RRR). OTT platforms like Netflix, Mubi, Prime Video and Hotstar have aided this. The Covid pandemic has gently nudged the Indian audience into the world of regional movies, diversifying their cinematic appetite. How South Indian films have decoded pan-India formula Telugu actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu also has a cameo, or what is often described as an ‘item song’, that is a cliche in a masala entertainer.Īlso read: 2021 was the year of anti-caste cinema - from Jai Bhim to Karnan
Such projection of leading ladies in films may seem dated in today’s day and age, but Pushpa: The Rise unabashedly uses it to promote its hero’s ‘charm’. To give Mandanna credit, she plays her part to the T, but there isn’t much for her to do besides being a reason for Pushpa Raj to showcase action that defies the laws of physics. Rashmika Mandanna’s Srivalli has a promising introduction in the nearly three-hour-long film, but gradually, the character follows the template of a ‘heroine’ from masala films of the ‘90s. This is diametrically opposite to what Pushpa said in Telugu! In the original version, the cop asks him his name and enquires if he is Tamilian, to which the character introduces himself as a ‘hardcore Telugu’.Įven the superb Fahadh Faasil’s Telugu debut as SP Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat seems caricature-ish and forced in the Haryanvi dialect.Įither the audience needs to adapt to what South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho suggested at the Oscars (“Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films”) or the filmmakers and streaming platform need to do a better job at capturing the authenticity of a film via subtitles and dubbing. A police officer asks Pushpa Raj who he is, to which he responds, “ Pushpa, naam yad mat rakhna (Pushpa, don’t remember my name)”. In the dubbed version, the introductory scene of Allu Arjun is a play on Shah Rukh Khan’s famous dialogue ‘ Rahul, naam toh suna hoga’. The Hindi version tries to recapture the magic and nuances of the rags-to-riches Telugu saga but falters. There is absolutely nothing that can bring him down! It seems the hero is omnipresent, well aware of all his adversaries’ plans. To be fair, there are some superficial attempts to make him look stuck, albeit for two-three scenes. However, with all his ordinariness, Pushpa seems to also have a superpower - getting out of any tricky situation unharmed. Pushpa, time and again, emphasises his routine struggle with having no surname because he was born out of wedlock. The hero of the Sukumar-directed film, Pushpa Raj, looks like any ordinary man (no flat board abs to appreciate, sorry) with a tragic backstory. A movie director taught Telangana tribal youth in a new way Red sandalwood is found exclusively in the forests of the Seshachalam Hills of the Rayalaseema region in Andhra Pradesh.Īlso read: Forget Netflix’s Sex Education. The film chronicles the rise of its hero - Allu Arjun’s titular character, as he goes on to become the head of a smuggling syndicate of red sanders from a coolie.
And that success percolated into OTT when the film’s Hindi version was released on Amazon Prime Video on 14 January 2022. Such was the magnitude of the Telugu film that it was able to not just compete, but mark a significant dent in the collections of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel’s legacy franchise, when it released in theatres on 17 December 2021. Forget logic, the Allu Arjun starrer has enough star power and masala to qualify as a mainstream theatrical powerhouse.
INDIAN ACTION MOVIE DEFIES PHYSICS SERIES
Imagine a typical Salman Khan blockbuster but with competitive story-telling and commendable supporting cast - that pretty much sums up the first instalment of the two-part film series Pushpa: The Rise for you.
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