Director Siva’s most ambiguous project, Kanguva starring Suriya, is a blend of everything you might have already seen, yet wouldn’t mind watching them again except for Siva’s loudest of everything- acting, music, emotions.
The tribal clans resemble the distinct groups as we see in Game of Thrones, wearing costumes of 10,000 BC, behaving savagely as we see in VIkings. There are many international references that connect with Siva’s Kanguva. However, the blatant ripoff is the SS Rajamouli’s Magadheera to connect two timelines with nothing just a simple, and dramatic, touch. The touch of Francis Theodre with a child takes you to the year 1070 AD from 2024. The myth of legend Kanguva begins.
There are five clans. Each clan is distinct with features like Pancha Bhoota. The major rival clan is blood-thristy Bobby Deol’s clan. Kanguva’s clan is a peace propagating righteous clan out of all (obviously!). Kanguva feels obligated to adopt the son of a traitor. And, thereby a vanvaas (an exile) that follows.
What makes Kanguva more interesting is not the loudest bloodshed, but the simple relationship between Kanguva and the child. That is the power of storytelling, all the efforts of extravagance can go in vain if it’s not supplemented with appropriate emotions. Kanguva lacks that convincibility of emotional connect. This is, perhaps, because of Siva’s hangover of a blue-neon-tinted tech-room resembling an authentic spy room expanded from the world of his Ajith starrer Vivegam.
The expansion of the Kanguva world beyond the clans and the ‘real’ world of 2024 with a special appearance from the sibling of Suriya is an interesting premise. It would have been a bigger blast, maybe on the par of achieving Rs.2000 crores; if all the good ones are not saved up for the mania of sequels that has infested our Indian cinema at present.
Overall, Kanguva is yet another highly ambitious let down that has the pure potentiality of becoming much better, not just bigger.
TeluguFunda Rating: 2.5/5
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