Vishwak Sen’s latest Mechanic Rocky is a routine thriller in terms of treatment of the story, character, humour; yet the sudden spin in the story of the second-half saved this boring, uncreative mess a lot.
Nagumomu Rakesh alias Rocky is a goofy, chilled guy with backlogs in B.Tech, forced to be a mechanic by his father, Naresh. There are two actresses, Meenakshi Chowdary playing Priya and Shraddha Srinath playing Maya. Right at the moment when you begin to wonder why the filmmaker has been stretching Mays’s part as something beyond believability, the unexpected twist of spin in the character’s motives kicks in. And, the movie begins right there.
The good part of Mechanic Rocky is its formulaic scripting, the bad part of Mechanic Rocky is also the same, its formulaic treatment of a commercial cinema. The songs, action, chases, and simpleton humour is all done and dusted elements of a stereotypical commercial cinema. Mechanic Rocky is just saved by what was not revealed through trailers and through the first-half. So, the praise must be given to the debutant writer-director Ravi Teja Mullapudi for the clever writing without revealing essential information that is required for the intended thrill in the second-half.
Music composed by Jakes Bejoy has his signature over it; the signature of heavy fusion of many instruments. However, it never hits the roof. The songs never even register your attention. The songs are just crass trying to follow the troupe of commercial cinema’s format as a rulebook. The inclusion of Sunil just for the convenience of the hero’s plan to bring the evil down is also a commercial formula without any essence. The cinematography by Manojh Reddy Katasani also is decent, if the urge to overuse the similar drone shots over chase scenes was curtailed.
Vishwak Sen’s Mechanic Rocky offers a small surprise in the whole mess of formulaic commericiality.
TeluguFunda Rating: 2.5/5
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