Movie: Radhe Shyam
Genre: Love - Periodic - Drama
Cast: Prabhas, Pooja Hedge, Sachin Khedakar, Jagapati Babu and others
Director: Radha Krishna Kumar K
Produced By: Bhushan Kumar, Vamsi-Pramod, Praseedha
Music: Justin Prabhakaran
Background Score: Thaman S
Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa
Runtime: 150 Minutes (2hrs 30mins)
Story
Vikram Aditya (Prabhas), a renowned Palmist is considered to be The Einstein in Palmistry. He believes in flirtationship rather than in relationships. He sees Prerana (Pooja Hedge) on a train and wants to get into flirtationship with her but as the time passes, Prerana falls in love with Vikram. On day, Prerana asks Vikram to see her palm and tell her how the future would be. Vikram says she has a long life, gets married, will fulfill all her dreams be successful. While he is saying this to her something unexpected happens. What is that? How will this affect Aditya and Prerana? What happens next? This forms rest of the story
Artiste Performances
Prabhas is great in his role. He looks handsome and dahsing few scenes but in other scenes he looks OK. He delivers a good performance.
Pooja Hedge is Beautiful as Prerana and she too delivers a decent performance.
There is big start cast like Jagapathi Babu, Murali Sharma, Bhagyasree, Sachin Khedakar, Krunal Pandey and Priyadarshi who are under utilized as they come only for a couple of scenes in the whole movie and their charecter are left unjustified.
Rest of the Cast are OK.
Plus Points
Basic theme
Lead pair's charm
Train scene
Hand print Palmistry scene
Pre - climax episode
Camera work
Art Work
Background Score
Drawbacks (Which I Felt)
Slow paced dull narration
Poor Comedy
Weak writing
No High moments
No proper drama
Incomplete Ending
Analysis
Radhe Shyam is one of the most awaited biggies. After a Long wait and so many postponements, it finally hit the screens.
Movies starts of with introducing Vikram Aditya's character performing Palmistry. Introduction scene is a feast for fans. Sanchari song is extremely well shot at amazing location.
Prerana is introduced with Beautiful Visuals. Scene where Aditya and Prerana meet for the first time is beautifully done. Camera shows the pair in a 360 degree view which is an eye feast to watch.
From here the movie shifts into a rom-com mood. Pace drops and the proceedings feel very slow. Jagapathi Babu Palmistry scene is great and is followed by a hospital scene with Prabhas covered in blood as shown in trailer which is a Let down.
Movie picks up when Prerana asks Aditya to perform Palmistry on her. A Tension is built on what is happening, making it a good Interval for the movie.
Second half is engaging compared to first half. It starts with an Amazing scene where Vikram is asked to prove his accuracy in Palmistry by giving him 10 handprints on paper and is asked to perform Palmistry on them. This is the only scene in the whole movie that gives a high and second scene that will impress the fans after introduction.
Then movie again drops to slow narration. This is the major problem of the movie. It doesn't have a consistent pace. There are many poetic scenes too in the movie but the narration spoils the impact.
The premise of Palmisty, destiny and Love is excellent. But while watching many may feel the material is not utilized properly. At few scenes, especially in first half audience will feel it's unnecessary to scale up the movie for this story.
Charm between the lead pair, Grandeur look, Art Work and VFX which are a plus to the movie try their level best to make it an amazing experience throughout but the narration, pacing and no proper drama makes it a just watching ride.
The much talked ship scene towards the ends starts on an promising and fan pleasing note. Visuals, VFX and Camerawork are Stunning throughout the scene. But as the scene progresses, it gets unrealistic and incomplete. One set of audience will surely get confused as the scene concludes.
Prerana and Aditya meet each other and it's a happy ending and victory to their love story over destiny.
Songs on screen are good but definitely could have been much better. If they were taken a little more care, things would have been way better. Background score by Thaman is great and elevates few cruicial scenes superbly. Editing could have been better as few scenes feel very slow or unnecessary while few scenes are confusing as they end abruptly.
Camerawork by Manoj and Artwork by Ravinder are strengths of this movie. They are spectacular. Movie just wins it with Visuals. Grandeur look is maintained throughout the movie and are very impressive. Artwork too is awesome. Production values are grand.
(MY) Final Word
Radhe Shyam is an Emotional Love Story with Palmistry being the key player in the set up. Director had a very interesting premise to play with but he brings in players like weak writing, poor comedy track and slow narration with no proper drama or high points that spoils the experience for most of the time. On a Whole, Radhe Shyam ends up as a One time Watchable Love Story!
Bottomline: Radhe Shyam - A Love Story relies on Grandeur Visuals, Artwork and VFX
Note: This is my take on the movie. That is why I am not rating the movie. I respect each and every movie. Making people read my review and influencing them to form an impressioofon a movie before watching the movie is never my intention. I am a Movie lover too. This is just to express my view on the movie. 😊
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