Chinna

Dasari is a director caught in a time warp. In a scenario where it is acknowledgedly difficult to make commercial hits of radically new scripts, the big challenge for Indian filmmakers is entertaining people for 2-1/2 hours with the same storylines. The game is all therefore in the creativity and the presentation.

And in this kind of a scenario, Dasari insists on continuing with approaches that have long outlived their appeal. Blatant displays of emotions and harangues on decaying societal morals by talkative lead characters don't make hit movies. Subtlety and slic....