Tagore (2003)

Absolutely Fantastic

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

One of the better films against Corruption, though sometimes appears like a documentary, contains some of the best scenes to hit the Indian screen in recent times.The best part is the Corrruption is shown in Hospitals, with the Indian PDS, Police force, PWD dept. Real Estate promoters etc and the climax (Court scene) is great quoting Rabindra Nath Tagore's Geethanjali. Also the scene where Chiru reels of the vital stats of AP state is very well shot - "Our AP State government (1998 - 2003) through the Central govt has taken a loan of Rs.57,000 Crs from the World bank imposing a burden Rs.7500 on every citizen of Andhra Pradesh". Kidnapping the 15 most corrupt officers and eliminating the most corrupt one and equating it to a running race where the one who comes first will be shot dead is a novel way of presenting the story.

only one man could have done this role. Chiranjeevi fits in like a hand in a glove into this role. After the immensely successful Indra, the expectations were sky high. The young director V. V. Vinayak, chosen after his immensely successful Aadi and Dil, proves himself to be one of the finest talents on the block. Manisharma delivers a good score, not as good as Indra but again, the dancing megastar can elevate any tune to heights. the story is of a man fighting corruption using his students as his weapons, seen earlier in umpteen number of films. It is definitely the direction and screenplay that make this one truly different. The hospital episode is definitely the best to hit the screen in a long time. The only flaw was that the movie turned too talk heavy at times with little entertainment value, it could have done better with some comedy and a little less dialogs. Overall, a must see.

There are some Indian movies which need you to know history of the star's growth to appreciate. This is indeed not one of them, and credit should go to Chiru for making it largely refreshing without carrying his weight too much in (like Kamalahasan does these days).Having said that - it is a pity that serious movies cant stay consistently so in Telugu. Glamour, songs and street fights are still required to keep the Telugu Tempo for a movie where the hero is a rebel trying to change the society with his radical ways? Or is it that only some key industry people think so?Why can't a guy of Chiranjeevi's stature, take small risks with movies like this, and make it sound an authentic rebel movie? If he can't who else can? Why is it that such seriousness can only be possible in Kannada or Malayalam, why Telugu soul is being sold for commerical interests so much?

I was not a fan of Chiru earlier. My friends who were already fans were saying that the movie was excellent, but i thought that they were saying it only out of their adoration. I went to watch the movie without any biased mind. After two days, I was adoring Chiru more than my fan friends. Though "Anti Corruption" was already dealt in Bharateeyudu and Oke Okkadu, Vinayak's treatment and Chiru's high levels of maturity in action made it feel entirely different. Also the earlier movies were dubbed versions and missed nativity. Moreover the roles of heroes in those movies were just ordinary men. But "ACF" is an intelligentia. Really, Hats Off to Tagore.