Puri Jagannath is one of the most revered film makers of yesterday. It makes me stop typing for a moment and reflect on when I wrote ‘yesterday’ in the previous sentence. What happened to Puri? This question lingers unanswered on every Telugu cinema audience. Why can’t he and his team see what we are made to see on screen?
It might not be a surprise to anyone. Everyone saw it coming the moment the sequel to 2019’s box office and musical hit Ismart Shankar was announced. However, with the love and respect for Puri Jagannath, we enter theatres humbly, and yet we are bound to get disappointed by the utter crap Puri is making these days.
Double Ismart is a character based sequel to ‘Utaad’ Ismart Shankar. Puri seems to have decided to bank on a successful cinema and write a shit-story around the character Ismart Shankar with Hyderabadi old city swag and slang. Ismart Shankar undergoes a forceful memory/brain transplantation. In the first part, Shankar’s memories are replaced by a hero (a look alike good cop). In this sequel, his memories are replaced by the villian, Big Bull.
Just like you love to add oregano over a Pizza, Puri added mother sentiment to the motivation of the hero to kill the villain. But, why should the hero kill the villain? Because, he is a hero. Duh! Why should Mani Sharma bombard your ears with noise in the disguise of music? Because your theatre has surround speakers. Duh! Well, then, why does Double Ismart need to have Kavya Thapar as the heroine? You know the answer. Duh!
Sanjay Dutt as the Big Bull is a total disappointment. The outloud laugh looking up with wide spread hands makes you question your choice to enter the theatre. His acting is bare minimum and his dubbing is worse. There is absolute zero lipsync, worse than a dubbed movie. There was a closeup silhouette scene with VJ Bani where Sanjay Dutt’s lips aren’t moving at all, yet we listen the voice. Such a blunder.
Nothing floats on the top as the pretentious comedy. Puri had made his worst Puri-Ali track ever. Puri Jagannadh is known for his comedy tracks with Ali. Ali in Idiot, Pokiri, Super, Deshamuduru, Badri, are a few examples. Ali played the role of Boka, a tribal king with minimum human contact, and was brought to Hyderabad by a wildlife photographer to “civilise” them. The euphemistic language suggesting the vulgar cuss words and the insensitive animalistic caricaturization of a tribal man is just lowering the standards of comedy on screen. They might be able to extract a few cheap laughs out of these, as they did. But, why does Puri need those cheap laughs? We all know Puri can do better. But, does he know that?
Double Ismart is now playing in theatres.
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