BusinessMan Movie Review

After striking gold with the mind blocking blockbuster "Pokiri", The Duo "Super Star" MaheshBabu and the director "Puri Jagannath" to do some “Business” at the Box office with much expected "Business Man”.

 Add the Sankranthi season to the super success of “Dhookudu”, and get the trendy music from Lucky “Thaman” and place sensuous Kajal to dance for his tunes alongside Mahesh, and that’s the best recipe for “Business” and the result is “Business man”...Mark this paragraph once you see the movie. Now let’s take ride of the movie.

Plot, not a spoiler: Surya (Mahesh), a dashing and daring guy enter Mumbai. His vision is huge and his mission seems impossible. But yes he does it? No doubt on it!  How he himself converts to “Surya Bhai” and how tactically makes that name a brand is the entire movie about.

Performances...

Mahesh, the big asset is he wins half your attention just by looks. And he looks younger, stylish and not to mention here cute, in fact cuter to the rough role he plays. And now he is armed with new dialogue technique, he started from Pokiri and developed it as a brand from Khaleja and thereon. Puri has written very witty and effective dialogues throughout, which made Mahesh’s task much easier that you don’t feel the need of comedians, even you don’t miss Ali as you see in puri’s films. Ok are you asking about dances, check out the history whether in Tamil or Telugu…Hero’s with “Superstar” tag need not do it, so no comments..;)

Kajal plays Chitra, looks good compared to her recent duds and makes a good pair with Mahesh. And her role is just a copy-paste of Ileana in Pokiri, Crying around the hero while hero is busy running and shooting.

Prakash Raj and Nazar have similar roles they had in all cop flicks. Nazar’s role is good enough but PrakashRaj does not add a penny except his strong presence. Subbaraju seems dearer than “Ali” to Puri Jagannath, as he retains his role. And a girl who plays Kajal’s friend though speaks butler Telugu, she definitely brings some laughs accidentally.Brahmaji,Dharmavarapu and Shiyaji Shinde are good

Racy First half…

Let me start with a positive first half as I very much excited and thoroughly enjoyed it frankly. Movie begins promisingly and you start enjoying the Mahesh’s dialogues one after other. Two threads go in parallel, one a silly love track between Chitra and surya, and other a serious “Business” as how Surya cleverly climbs the ladder to the power. And believe it, you believe the way the director tells you the story and enjoy the songs that comes in between.

Ok now second, let’s think beyond “Pokiri”.

Though you enjoyed the flow, I am sure there’s some thought process running inside your mind. Is there any "Pokirish" twist behind the Surya’s Mission. What’s he gonna achieve at the end? Question’s that never sleep. Of course it’s not a fault, but truly audiences do come with expectations when the director and the hero delivered a huge blockbuster and try to think in similar lines. This will happen even if Rajamouli teams up with Charan so on. And then you realize Puri is taking you nowhere, but just makes use of his known skills and that of the hero playing safe for a while. So are you expecting a twist of Pokiri, better not expect it.

So that’s Puri…the apt “Business Man”

 Though there’s no mission, Puri Jagannath, succeeds hugely for his dialogues. One moment he pities fish as people eat tons of them, but complains if a shark bites one human. He discusses about Humanity satirically when he links Discovery channel with Chicken. And poses a good Question as how we worship the God “ Have you thought about wellness of God”. “Devudaa nee arogyam ela undi ani adigaara”. And he spells the statistics of the money spent on elections. One word, Dialogues are the USP of the movie.

For direction, though he is good in making a quick movie off-screen and on-screen, he offers nothing new. In one scene Mahesh fights with Police in civil dress just like Raviteja does in Idiot. And in the climax PrakashRaj cries in same fashion as he does in Pokiri and the heroine runs behind our hero madly though he screams at her whenever possible and the resemblances continue everywhere. And you wonder whether all that goes on-screen is logical and how comes things are much easier for our hero to establish such huge empire so fast. Specific Weak points you can't ignore are sudden jerks towards climax and rush up in election episode and of course the nativity of Mumbai too is a misplace. Puri better come out of Mafia to make a better flick and not repeat himself.

  Thaman’s tunes are good enough and picturing of all songs is decent and they are almost placed well. 3 duets “Sir Ostaara” ..”Pilla chaavve” and “Chandamama” are great and my pick “chandamama” and did you hear about the rumors of lip lock. You might find it here..:)."Mumbai" song is well placed And “Bad boys” by swetha bharadwaj  is “bad” enough that you see some censor filter’s on screen

Finally…

Many a times, movies have a mission….or a moral that brings you cheers when you see the slide “Subham”. We are so much habituated to it. But Puri is not gonna offer you that. Heroism at peaks, sensuous heroine in the songs and the guns that don’t have agreements and the dialogues that make sense and lastly a good item number…If that is what you want, Business Man have them all.

Rating:

3/5 Expect little lesser and you enjoy the better!!