Maryade Prashne Movie Review: Maryade Prashne review: Grounded narrative and stellar performances elevate this ordinary tale about the struggles of middle-class life
Maryade Prashne Movie Review: Critics Rating: 3.5 stars, click to give your rating/review,Plot: The lives of three close friends - Suri (Rakesh Adiga), Manja (Poornachandra Mysuru), and Sati
Critic's Rating: 3.5/5
Plot: The lives of three close friends - Suri (Rakesh Adiga), Manja (Poornachandra Mysuru), and Satish (Sunil Rao) take a tragic turn when one of them dies in a road accident.
Review: The film primarily revolves around three friends - Suri (Rakesh Adiga), a ward chief and an aspiring corporator, Manja (Poornachandra Mysuru), a cab driver who dreams about owning a car someday, and Satish (Sunil Rao), a food delivery boy. Manja is also dating Satish’s sister (Teju Belavadi). Their lives follow a typical middle-class rhythm, where they live paycheck to paycheck while trying to navigate other expenses with hand loans. A joyful birthday celebration takes a tragic turn when Satish dies in an accident, and thus begins a revenge drama.
Maryade Prashne’s biggest asset is its actors, who have delivered stellar performances. Rakesh Adiga shines as a hot-headed, public-friendly ward chief who doesn’t hesitate to fight first if anyone tries to demean him or his friends. Sunil Rao as the boy-next-door food delivery agent, whose only priority is his family, puts forth a soft-yet-strong performance. After Orchestra Mysuru, and Daredevil Mustafa, Poornachandra delivers yet another well-rounded performance. Poorna and Teju Belavadi’s romance in the film's first half, like a simple sweet treat, immerses you in their own little world. Shine Shetty plays a good boy who is stuck on the wrong side. However, the biggest surprise package is Prabhu Mundkur, who plays an arrogant, rich baddie; a white-collar criminal, who doesn’t care about anything or anyone except money. It is hard to notice anything else on screen when he takes over. His costumes have also majorly contributed to this. Prabhu wears shades of grey like a medal. Nagendra Sha is also very memorable as a memory-loss patient who unconditionally loves his children. Teju, too, leaves an impact. The characters are etched out beautifully, as a challenge to show other filmmakers how underutilised these actors were, for so long.
The first half of the film effectively captures the nuances of middle-class life with many subtle, relatable scenes. The second half, however, shifts to a revenge-drama narrative. The film gets preachy in the second half and towards the end, and loses steam for a bit, before finding its way to the core plot. The dialogue could have been better and more effective. The movie also explores the friendship equation between the haves and the have-nots, and how money plays a role in each of their friendships. Sandeep Valluri’s camera shows core Bengaluru in a fresh light. The songs are well-placed and go with the flow of the film. Naa Nanaguve is haunting.
RJ Pradeepa’s well-intentioned story gets a good, grounded narrative under Nagaraj Somayaji’s direction. The climax scene serves as a perfect bookend to this preachy film that depicts the survival story of the middle-class with revenge drama as its core plot.
Review: The film primarily revolves around three friends - Suri (Rakesh Adiga), a ward chief and an aspiring corporator, Manja (Poornachandra Mysuru), a cab driver who dreams about owning a car someday, and Satish (Sunil Rao), a food delivery boy. Manja is also dating Satish’s sister (Teju Belavadi). Their lives follow a typical middle-class rhythm, where they live paycheck to paycheck while trying to navigate other expenses with hand loans. A joyful birthday celebration takes a tragic turn when Satish dies in an accident, and thus begins a revenge drama.
Maryade Prashne’s biggest asset is its actors, who have delivered stellar performances. Rakesh Adiga shines as a hot-headed, public-friendly ward chief who doesn’t hesitate to fight first if anyone tries to demean him or his friends. Sunil Rao as the boy-next-door food delivery agent, whose only priority is his family, puts forth a soft-yet-strong performance. After Orchestra Mysuru, and Daredevil Mustafa, Poornachandra delivers yet another well-rounded performance. Poorna and Teju Belavadi’s romance in the film's first half, like a simple sweet treat, immerses you in their own little world. Shine Shetty plays a good boy who is stuck on the wrong side. However, the biggest surprise package is Prabhu Mundkur, who plays an arrogant, rich baddie; a white-collar criminal, who doesn’t care about anything or anyone except money. It is hard to notice anything else on screen when he takes over. His costumes have also majorly contributed to this. Prabhu wears shades of grey like a medal. Nagendra Sha is also very memorable as a memory-loss patient who unconditionally loves his children. Teju, too, leaves an impact. The characters are etched out beautifully, as a challenge to show other filmmakers how underutilised these actors were, for so long.
The first half of the film effectively captures the nuances of middle-class life with many subtle, relatable scenes. The second half, however, shifts to a revenge-drama narrative. The film gets preachy in the second half and towards the end, and loses steam for a bit, before finding its way to the core plot. The dialogue could have been better and more effective. The movie also explores the friendship equation between the haves and the have-nots, and how money plays a role in each of their friendships. Sandeep Valluri’s camera shows core Bengaluru in a fresh light. The songs are well-placed and go with the flow of the film. Naa Nanaguve is haunting.
RJ Pradeepa’s well-intentioned story gets a good, grounded narrative under Nagaraj Somayaji’s direction. The climax scene serves as a perfect bookend to this preachy film that depicts the survival story of the middle-class with revenge drama as its core plot.
