2.75/ 5
154 minutes | Action-Drama | 9/1/2021
Fused – Raviteja, Shruti Haasan, Samuthirakani, Varalaxmi
Director – Gopichand Malineni
Producer – B. Madhu
Banner – Saraswati Films Division
Music – Thaman S
Krack is a mass-oriented film, with Gopichand Malineni trying his best to pack all the elements that can excite the audience. The first portion of Tollywood for cinema lovers who want entertainment is the biryani en masse.
What is this about?
Shankar (Ravi Teja) looks like an ordinary policeman, but he can become extremely dangerous for bad men when he is criticized for the wrong side. Katari Srinu (Samuthirakani) does just that and Krack deals with how the bad man realizes his biggest mistake.
Performances:
Playing a powerful cop is nothing new for Ravi Teja, who played Vikram Rathod, one of the most powerful cops ever seen on the Telugu screen. In Krack there is a mix of entertainment in addition to showing the ferocity of a policeman since then. Ravi Teja is past his prime, but there are some flashes of his old self that will please the masses. Shruti Haasan seems artificial from the start and this turns out to be a deliberate ploy to make a scene work. Samuthirakani plays a normal villain from Telugu cinema and he is fine. Ravi Shankar plays a villain, but it’s fun. Saptagiri had no chance to leave his mark. Varalakshmi plays a character that is similar to his previous outings.
Technical aspects:
Gopichand Malineni’s work seems clumsy at first. In fact, the entire first half appears to be a collage of random scenes. He gets better with the break and, luckily, he didn’t try to deviate from the center point after the break. Gopichand Malineni is good at dealing with masala films, but shows a new side of him in Krack, especially when imagining the breathtaking action episodes.
Thaman’s background music is shocking and loud at times, however, his songs are energetic and in tune with the masala material with which the film was loaded. Cinematography is fantastic. Fight masters are to be commended for composing some of the brilliant action sequences. The execution time could have been short, as it became lethargic in the second half. The production values are very good.
Highlights:
The performance of Ravi Teja
Few action scenes
Masala Things
Disadvantages:
Useless first part
Dated treatment
Loudness
Analyze:
Krack is a film aimed at the masses from the beginning. The first shot with a raw mango, a nail, and a fifty rupee note looks involuntarily funny and the whole film revolves around these three objects. These three random things play a big role in the lives of three thugs who face a similar fate at the hands of a sincere policeman. The director tries too hard at first to add fun to the proceedings, but most of these scenes will make viewers cringe.
Ravi Teja is certainly not in his best vintage style, especially in the comedy scenes. Consequently, the so-called comedy scenes were only useful as fillers. Things start to get interesting after a police officer is brutally killed. The intermission scene is routine, but it will excite the masses with Thaman’s pulsating soundtrack and Ram Lakshman’s action choreography that elevates it.
Gopichand does not try to insert blunt comedy after that point. He never tries to switch to entertainment mode in the second half and simply focuses on the clashes between the hero and the villain. Not all scenes were clicked, but some scenes will certainly work with the masses and some may find them completely silly. Things get very dragged to the end with so many unnecessary fights and loud scenes to elevate the hero.
It is a film directed to the festive masses with some very well choreographed fights, energetic songs and some good elevation scenes. It is a totally commercial thing, where logic and sensitivity are in the background. It would have been just another masala potboiler in the pre-greedy era, but it may be just enough for the masala-hungry audience, who are patient enough to wait a whole day to watch a movie in theaters.
Conclusion: Commercial package!
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