Shock Telugu Movie
Off late, most of the Ram Gopal Verma’s movies are opening with a bang and exiting with a whimper, 'Sarkar' being the exception. ‘Shock’ reaffirms the above fact and proves that all ‘Factory’ products are not necessarily sturdy.
With Shock, the transition of Raviteja to the big league has happened unsuccessfully. After much waiting he did get a chance to work with the prodigious talent - Ram Gopal Verma. But it proved to be unlucky.
Though Raviteja’s acting is commendable, the movie only shocks the audience with its mediocrity. And Raviteja just adds a weighty name to his film career resume sans any tangible achievement.
The film opens with a typical Verma film style scene – with gun and gore. In the movie, the young and freshly married protagonist is dragged into a cesspool of misery by two trigger-happy cops. The cops shoot Sekhar (Raviteja), an employee of an ad agency, mistaking him to be a naxalite. They realize their mistake and in fear of losing their jobs they frame Sekhar as a naxal activist. Madhurima (Jyothika), the petite wife of Sekhar hires a lawyer (Kota SriniVasaRao). The lawyer persuades Sekhar to plead guilty in the hope of a lesser sentence. But this is a conspiracy hatched by the lawyer with the two errant cops that results in Sekhar getting 8 years jail sentence. Madhu with the help of Geeta (Tabu) tries to reopen the case with the help of a new DG of police and the human rights commission. Does Madhu succeed in her efforts, how Sekhar gets justice legally or otherwise, is for the viewer to find out.
Mercifully Shock is a bit different from Verma’s earlier movies, which were proving to be clones of ‘Satya’. Having said this, it needs to be emphasized here that its not radically different either. In the movie we don’t have any bachelor coming from outside and getting entangled in Mumbai’s underworld imbroglio. Here there is a happily married would- be-father and the errant cops replace the underworld.
Though everybody has acted to perfection, somehow the movie fails to click. The stale formula of five songs and six fights with an item song thrown in for good measure proved to be the undoing. The symbolic falling in love of the hero and the heroine, depicted by their bikes turning towards each other, is something the viewers did not expect in a Ram Gopal Verma movie.
Uninspiring songs, unimaginative direction and a rather insipid plot contribute heavily to the movie being a run of the mill product. The movie is not worth a look but an overlook.
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