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Homam review

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Cinegola rating: ***___Good (3 stars)

Tagline: Remake of The Departed

Strengths: Jagapathi Babu, JD Chakravarthy - his action, screenplay and direction

Weaknesses: Nothing at all

Must see scenes:

1. A different and variety first song

2. Two hot item numbers by Sakshi Sivanand and one more item girl

3. Climax fight

4. Jagapathi Babu trying to explain his mother that he is a cop

Must avoid scenes:

2. MS Narayana comedy bit

Direction faults by JD Chakravarthy:

1. Potti Sathi (Prabhakar) doesn’t limp in one shot and limps in the next shot after he is shot with a bullet in the leg (girl kiss scene in the restaurant).

2. Jagapathi Babu foot boards a bus by holding it with his fractured hand which has a plaster patti on it.

3. Mahesh Manjrekar breaks the plaster patti of Jagapathi Babu when he comes to know about the presence of a police in his gang. No correct reason was shown y the director for this.

My analysis: Homam is a complete copy of The Departed english movie with a lot of telugu touch in it. JD Chakravarthy changed the story in the climax according to the tase of telugu audience. JD Chakravarthy has scripted the story in a very good manner. The main asset for the movie is the screen play and direction by JD Chakravarthy. He has done a very good job in both these departments. The movie is a complete action flick with a racy story except for the climax part which drags a bit.

First half of the movie is good with a different story, variety song and few comedy scenes. Second half is also good with many twists and turns in the story but the climax is little bit dragged. Overall the movie is different with a very novel story. JD directed the movie in a new way which will go well with the class crowds and mass crowds are sure to like the item songs and the fast story narration. So we can say that JD has tasted success with his first ever directorial venture Homam.

Performances: Jagapathi Babu is the hero of Homam who stole the entire show. His looks, body language and his dialogues aptly suited the role of a goon who is actually an under cover cop. He is now-a-days doing these kind of roles with ease and Homam also is not an exception. His new style of placing the cigarette packet in the sleeve of his shirt is good which will surely be followed by many youth in the state.

JD Chakravarthy is good as the police who is actually an informer for the villans. His expressions as a cunning and bad police man were good. His role was of equal lenght and was as much important as the hero.

Mamtha Mohan Das and Madhurima were just ristricted for the songs. The hot number between Mamtha Mohan Das and Jagapathi Babu is not there in the movie. Shakshi Sivanand and another hot girl were good for the item songs with their oomph factor.

Mahesh Manjrekar did the same kind of action as that of his earlier telugu and hindi movies but it is nice to see a smiling and laughing villan on telugu screens after a long time.

Pradeep Rawat did a sinciere Police officer role for the first time in his telugu cinema career. All his villan roles till now are of no match to this positive role. He did a neat and decent performance in Homam.

MS Narayana and Krishna Bhagawan tried some comedy in the movie which actually didnt come out well.

Nitin and JD Chakravarthy music does not create any impression on the audience except for the novelity in lyrics and also picturization of first two songs.

Story by JD Chakravarthi is actually a copy of Hollywood flick The Departed with minor additions and subtractions to suite the taste of telugu audience which came out well.

Screenplay and direction are also by JD Chakravarthy in which he excelled. Being the desciple of Ram Gopal Verma, JD Chakravarthy kept up his guru’s name by making a good movie. He showed his talent as director for the first time on telugu screen and is sure to taste success with Homam film..

JD Chakravarthy announced the sequel for this film which will start its shooting part from October 9th. The sequel is titled as Marana Homam. The title is shown on screen at the end of the movie when under cover police officer Jagapathi babu lands up in Pakisthan to nab Dawood Ibrahim.

Story: Mallikarjuna Rao alias Malli (Jagapathi Babu) and Chandu (JD Chakravarthy) are two youth who join police for two different reasons. Malli wants to become a police officer but ends up joining Daddy’s (Mahesh Manjrekar) mafia gang as a secret police officer under the guidence of Inspector Vishwanath (Pradeep Rawat). Meanwhile Daddy joins Chandu in police force only to get information from him. The whole movie is all about how donga police and police donga meet each other and who wins over whom.