Galipata Movie Review

Location: Aparna Threatre, Majestic, Bangalore
Date: 18/01/2008
Show Time: 7:30 PM

Release day, 2nd Show.
Worst place to see a kannada movie on the first day of its release. I had to bargain with drunks and police for black tickets, finally got balcony for 150/-.
Review in one sentence: MOVIE IS GOOOOOOOD!!!!! :-))))
Now you know whats coming, Movie has almost lived up to huge expectations set by Mungaru male, surpassing it in few areas. Movie starts with dialogues in tandem with title card and the first visual you get is 'Akasha iste yaakideeyo' song. Its a foot tapping number picturised well, I hardly got to hear as half the theatre was shouting at their vocal limits. Next few scenes introduce the characters, Ganesh as a happy go lucky chap who sells credit card after MBA, Diganth who will be a doctor soon and Rajesh[Kitty] engineer whose 8 yr long love affair has just broken. Right from the word go, the film is filled with witty jokes, funny dialogues and enchanting visuals. Rangayana raghu acts as Ganesh's father.. this guy is just magic in whatever he does, he is a MLA from Mandya, with typical accent. Except for initial few minutes the story is mostly in mountain ranges, with greenery in all frames.
Ananthnag, looks aged in the movie, there is not much to talk about love interests of our heros, they do not have much scope. The story is pretty ordinary, three guys get three girls, after initial few hiccups two love stories go through easily, third one gets through in the climax. But the reason why you should see the movie is the 'PRESENTATION', its the best I have seen. The script, music, photography and ganesh's acting just takes you through the movie, its absolutely fresh, I bet you will be thinking about the dialogues and scenes even after a day or two after watching the movie.
Two things I would have liked changed in the movie is 'nadeem dina' song picturisation and the climax. The climax is too ordinary, things should have been a bit tighter there, a movie which keeps you laughing all through out the movie should get a drop of tear at the climax and finally a relieved feeling would be a perfect reciepe for success. 'nadeem dina' song is picturized with hell lot of Yakshagana dancers, yakashagana vesha[get up] is very colorful, a single character is enough to fill the frame with 100s of colors. But here you have your eye ball racing from 300 yakashagana characters, their Vesha, then you have the kodachadri scenery also competing for your eyeball, hey dont forget the hero heroine also dancing inbetween. I would say Yeshwant's yakshagana picturisation with white studio background was awesome, something Yograj Bhat can improve. Anyways other than these two you can hardly blame anything else, we have a competant director in Yograj Bhat, who has delievered, we sure will be getting many many more good movies from him.
Bottom line is.. If you are an average movie goer, who seek wholesome entertainment for 3 hours, dont miss Galipata, you are in for a treat!! But if you are one who want a story and a moral in all the movies you see, checkout E-TV's serial listing.

Cheers
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