Dasara is a typical South Indian no brainer masala film. On the occasion of Dussehra we burn the effigy of Ravana to celebrate the victory of good over evil. If you want to celebrate Cinema then skip this film for the victory of Good Cinema over Poor Cinema. We burn an effigy on the day of Dussehra and here Dasara burns down all the logic. In Dasara Nani drinks alcohol and forgets everything he has done under the influence of alcohol and here the writer and director also do the same, they forget what scene they are writing next and how the next scene should be presented. Dasara is all scattered. The best thing about Dasara is that it ends and you get a big relief. Dasara is an unbearable torture of whole 156 minutes. Haven’t seen any film dubbed as bad as Dasara. Hindi dialogues are so cheap and irritating. The hindi lyrics are one of the worst which you will hear in your life. The lyrics are so funny and don’t go with the flow at all. Even a KG kid would have written better lyrics than this. Dasara feels like a Bhojpuri film most of the times.
In 1995, Dharani (Nani) is a young ruffian from Veerlapally, who steals coal and drinks alcohol. He also lives with his common friends Soori (Dheekshith Shetty) and Vennela (Keerthy Suresh). However, the trio’s lives are affected due to the village politics in the village by Chinna Nambi (Shine Tom Chacko) and his father Shivanna (Samuthirakani). Soori is mysteriously killed on the day of his marriage with Vennela. Baying for vengeance, Dharani and Vennela set out to find the perpetrators behind Soori’s death.
The film is a big letdown in all the departments and acting is one of them. Natural Star Nani is very unnatural in this flick and the writers are to be blamed for it. Sharad Kelkar has dubbed his voice for Nani’s character. Even the powerful voice of Sharad Kelkar (who gave his voice in Hindi for Prabhas as Baahubali) feels so dull because of this shitty script. Keerthy Suresh doesn’t look like a village girl and tries too hard to act like one but fails miserably. Dheekshith Shetty is somewhat decent. Shine Tom Chacko and Samuthirakani are very good actors but Dasara doesn’t do justice to their talents. Shamna Kasim doesn’t get much to explore. Rest of the cast is also not upto the mark.
Dasara has all the old school film-making cliches like love triangle, one friend sacrificing girl for another, villain obsessed with heroine, hero beating 50 people at one time, etc. There’s nothing new in Dasara but what is there is presented in a very B-Grade and cheap way. South people love such kind of nonsense action but it has to be somewhat convincing. There are many scenes in the film which should have been trimmed and even after that Dasara would have looked like a dud. It is so bad that if you are watching this film in a theater you will spend more time looking here and there or using your cell phone as compared to watching the film. Direction of Srikanth Odela is so bad and of low quality. Writers need to be bashed for writing such a piece of shit. The loud background music creates more headache for a viewer.
Dasara is that headache which gives a tough competition to Kabzaa. Dasara is a mashup of many films which you have watched till date. It is so predictable that even a small kid would predict what is going to happen in the next scene. Dasara tries to be Pushpa, Rangasthalam, RRR, KGF 2, Kantara, and whatnot. In Pushpa there was wood, here it is coal and has many such resemblances from other films. The title of the film doesn’t have anything to do with the festival of Dussehra. The makers were totally lost and didn’t have anything to name it so they named it Dasara just because the hero comes out of a burning Ravana effigy to kill the villain. The film lacks the basics of film-making. Dasara should be skipped at any cost to celebrate Good Cinema over Poor Cinema so that they don’t make such kind of utter crap in the coming future.
Rating – 1.5/5*
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