CAST: Prabhas. Pooja Hegde.Bhagyashree, Kunaal Roy Kapur
DIRECTOR:Radha Krishna Kumar,
BLUF: A period romantic drama set in Europe of the 1970s, the film tells the story of Vikramaditya, a palmist who is conflicted between his destiny and his love for Prerana.
THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES
Set in the 1970’s Vikram Aditya is a world renowned palmist and has never made a wrong prediction. His guru and teacher (Paramahansa) varies with his philosophy when he publishes a book called “Palmistry a 99% science” because he believes a 100% in his own craft.
He lives in Italy with his mother ( Bhagyashree) and best friend (Kunaal Roy Kapur) and travels around the world creating frivolous relationships till he meets Prerna, a doctor ( Pooja Hegde) on a train ride.
They start with a “flirtation” premise to their relationship but soon feel the depth of their love for each other.
Prerna has a life threatening brain tumor and medically is supposed to die in a couple of months but Vikram prophesies that she will live a long life with love, kids and success.
Vikram Aditya has no love lines in his hand and believes he cannot fall in love so he leaves her to ensure his own prophesied destiny takes over.
This is the story of who wins. Destiny or actions.
IN THE KNOW
In this fairly tale romance, what wins the most is the creatives. The art direction is phenomenal and almost takes your breath away.
Originally conceived by director Chandra Sekhar Yeleti. He worked with his assistant Radha Krishna Kumar to develop the story but the idea was dropped after they failed to give it a conclusion.
Kumar borrowed the storyline from Yeleti, and worked on it for 18 years to give the story a satisfactory ending. He narrated the script to actor Prabhas while he was shooting for the Baahubali series (2015–17). Prabhas liked the script and signed up for the project.
The story was moved to Europe following the suggestion of Prabhas. Director Radha Krishna Kumar revealed that the protagonist Vikramaditya’s character is inspired by real life European palmist Cheiro.
The film has two different soundtracks for Hindi and Telugu versions. The Hindi soundtrack is composed by Mithoon and Manan Bhardwaj while Justin Prabhakaran is composing the songs in the Telugu version (in addition to Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam versions). Manoj Muntashir and Krishna Kanth wrote the lyrics for Hindi and Telugu soundtrack respectively. The soundtrack is quite good.
Manoj Paramahamsha’s cinematography and visual presentation are of top notch. The VFX is pheno. The climax portion is loaded with CGI shots and extremely well shot.
Where we felt the movie faltered was the story conclusion at the end. The audience did not feel enough connect with the protagonits to root for their reunion enough.
The love,the separation and the angst lacked the depth that should have been presented and explored- making the audience really agnotic to what happens with the lovers in the end.
Prabhas looks washed out in some scenes despite his phyisique.
Pooja Hedge looks stunning.
WHAT WE LOVED
Creative direction
Camera work and cinematography
WHAT WE MISSED
Story depth
Screenplay
Connect
