maaya review
maaya review
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Movie Details
Cast: Harshavardhan Rane, Avanthika Mishra, Sushma Raj, Naga Babu, Jhansi etc
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction: Neelakanta
Music: Shekar Chandra
Camera: Bal Reddy
Editing: Naveen Nuli
Producers: Madhura Sreedhar Reddy, MVK Reddy
Date: 01-08-2014
Movie Rating
Director Rating (25 points): 12.5
Music Rating (25 points): 12.5 Artists Performance Rating (25 points): 12.5 Production & Other Technical Rating (25 points): 12.5 Total ( Out of Hundred ): 50 / 100 = 2.5 / 5 |
Movie Story
Meghana
(Avanthika Mishra) works at TV 21 channel as journalist. She has a rare
quality of extra sensory perception with which she can sense future and
past?s unhappened and unseen incidents. Meghana foresees her mother?s
death few minutes before it happens. Now, Meghana is glad living happily
with caring dad (Naga Babu). She meets a famous fashion designer
Siddharth Varma (Harshavardhan Rane) arrives in city to make a
documentary fashion show on Telugu traditional costumes.
A
romantic chemistry develops between Siddharth and Meghana and this is
spoiled with Pooja?s (Sushma Raj) entry. Pooja is Siddharth?s girlfriend
and incidentally childhood friend of Meghana. Since then, Meghana keeps
avoiding Siddharth.
Accidentally,
Meghana?s ESP takes her into past and future incidents of Siddharth
Varma. Past is Siddharth?s former girlfriend Anjali killed in a bath tub
and police closed the FIR claiming it an accident. Future is Siddharth
going to kill Pooja.
How Meghana reacts sensing these shocking facts about Siddharth Varma? Did he really kill Anjali? Will he execute Pooja?
Movie Advantages
1. Unique Story
2. Thrills in second half
3. Cinematography
4. Performances from artists
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Movie Drawbacks
1. Bad treatment
2. Neelakanta making standards
3. Predictable twits
4. Poor chemistry between lead pair
5. Pathetic climax
6. Script loopholes
7. Songs placement
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Analysis
Artists Performance:
Harshavardhan Rane:
He has too many shades to get you irritated. His suspicious behavior at
times is head aching. A soft character behaves abnormally at times for
reasons best known to director. Harshavardhan acted in several Telugu
films and he is also venturing soon into Bollywood but he performed like
a newcomer.
Avanthika Mishra:
She looked good and performed well. Her dialogue delivery is so weak
and ?Devudaa? she made the romantic track narration so boring.
Sushma Raj:
She got a bubbly character and to demonstrate that she was seen jumping
in entire first half. Thankfully, director asked her to control this
jumping in second half as story runs into serious atmosphere. She is
much better compared to Avanthika acting wise.
Technical Aspects:
Story, Screenplay, Direction:
ESP or sixth sense is not new in Hollywood. The concept is still
freshly imported to Tollywood. Neelakanta has chosen an interesting
story line. Bad execution turned this as awful. Science thrillers should
race on fast pace and thrill audience regularly with incessant twists.
Maaya is predictable because of wrong narration. Further, the story runs
at slow pace like a TV serial.
First
half of the movie is wasted and second half last 30 minutes had better
content to convey. Dilaogues are fine. Neelakanta?s choice of actors was
mediocre and at least he should have extract performances from them.
Cinematography
is the big asset and editing is not up to mark. Not a single song is
hummable and placement was wrong. Background score is average. Sreedhar
Reddy of Madhura can be praised for believing in the script. Overall,
Maaya has very few magical moments.
Movie Result: Below Average
Movie Punchline (Movie Talk): Magical Last 30 Minutes
