Rating: 1/5
Banner: Style Entertainment
Cast: Nikhil, Sarah Sharma, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ali, Vijay Sai, Khayyum, Vamsi Paidithalli and others
Music: Mantra Anand
Cinematographer: Malhar Bhatt
Editor: Prawin Pudi
Story, screenplay, direction: Hari K Chanduri
Producer: Abhinav Reddy
Release date: 20/04/2012
‘Happy Days’ fame Nikhil who has been trying hard to make his mark as a hero is back with a love cum commercial treat. Whether he has done enough to create disco at the box office, let us see.
Story
Disco (Nikhil) is an orphan who grows up with his childhood friends (Khayyum, Vijay Sai, Vamsi) and their parents. He is a street smart kind of guy but his acts land his friends in trouble. One such incident makes Disco decide that they all should get a job. They get into loan recovery and in one such stint, they take away the entire money of Ashu Bhai (Ashish Vidyarthi) who is a big don in Bangkok.
Meanwhile, Disco’s friend gets engaged and to celebrate that, the friends go to Bangkok. However, Disco comes there with a purpose. He wants to meet Shiny (Sarah Sharma) who is actually the daughter of Ashu Bhai.
Why does he want to meet her? What happens to the money? All this forms the rest of the story.
Performances
Nikhil has come up with an energy filled performance but it is time he stops imitating Ravi Teja in dialogue delivery and body language. If he develops his own style it will help him in future otherwise, he will be a branded as a disgusting imitator.
Sarah Sharma is not a beautiful girl but she is endowed with a voluptuous sex appeal. She can be very handy for glamour roles and masala entertainers. Director’s taste is understood in picking her for the lead female role.
Ashish Vidyarthi does his bit well and it must be said that he has the ability to engage the audience’s attention as long as he is onscreen. He deserves to be in a better league of films and roles.
Vijay Sai, Khayyum, Vamsi Paidithalli contributed as per the requirement. M S Narayana was hilarious. Ali brought few smiles. Raghu Babu and Subhashini were a little over the top. Jeeva was natural. Prithvi as the inspector made his presence felt.
Highlights
- M S Narayana as Surya Bhai
Drawbacks
- No Story
- Weak Narration
- Silly comedy
- Lack of depth in scenes
- Lifeless screenplay
Analysis
What happens when you have pile loads of money, don’t know what to do with it but have a bug for cinema. What happens when you have the urge to become a director but don’t even know the basics of direction correctly? What happens when two people of such type come together and make a film? That results in a film like Disco.
In an attempt to come up with a commercial entertainer mixing it with elements of romance and comedy, the makers have come up with a dud of the first order. Frankly speaking where is the story? What is the story? The film keeps running aimlessly with unwanted trash category of melodrama and pre-historic comedy.
Moreover, if by picking up scenes from other films and clubbing them together to make another film can bring success, Tollywood would be somewhere financially.
Right from the word go, the film lacks the required drive or punch to involve the audience. It runs as if it has nothing to do with the viewers. If there is no story there should be some grip on the screenplay. If thirty out of the sixty scenes work out then there is scope for pass mark but there are hardly ten scenes which actually grab your interest.
The entire first half runs without any purpose and it is not until the second half that one realizes “Oh..This is the story!!”. Here again, it is not a great stroke of twist. It is a plain, diluted one line which has been stretched to two and half hours. At the box office, the film has all the factors to score a proper flop.
The experience is a torture and this young actor needs to do lots of homework in Okaying a script if he needs to continue in the filmdom.
Bottomline: ‘Disco’- Light Theesko!!
(Venkat can be reached at [email protected])
