Indra review: Indra (Telugu) Movie Review

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Roused in the middle of the night, I found the Almighty standing at the foot of my bed. "God, is it really you?" I cried out. "Yes, my beloved child, it is." Thrilled, I asked God if I could ask him a question. He divinely waved at me to go ahead. I asked, "God, is Indra yet another movie thick with factionism, one-upmanship, gore, pyrotechnics, emotions and terra firma conflicts...?" To which God beamingly answered, "Of course not, my child. Indra is a movie thick with factionism, one-upmanship, gore, pyrotechnics, emotions, and an all-new-Jala-Yagna... Uh oh! Definitely not terra firma conflicts!"

And so ladies and gentlemen, here I am with the most recent Chiru-starrer, complete with Benaras and Jala-Yagnas... Indra! Hip Hip Hooray!

Indra begins with the depiction of some gruesome communal-annihilations between Indra and Sivareddy's factions. Indra (do I need say who it is?) - Indra Sena Reddy - is a peace-loving factionist (tongue-in-cheek, ain't it?). Plainly, he is one guy who does not have to raise the roof to get his point across - all he has to do is raise an eyebrow.

One fine day, Indra notices that there is dire need for rains in seema, and right away begins the Jala-Yagna. Without more ado it begins raining, and then there is this ghanana-ghanana-ghana sequence and a song flicked from Lagaan. After that, in the best interest of the people of Rayalaseema and for the construction of a reservoir, he forfeits his whole property and hits the road to Kasi. What remains is why and how he returns to seema, and how he establishes peace through war.

Chiranjeevi, the yesteryear dancing dude, is back into his elements with this movie. We must say it's very hard not to notice Chiru's brand new dance-dude avatar. The chances of someone not enjoying Sonali in Indra are analogous to her waistline... slim or none. The casting of Aarti Agarwal as the like of Neelambari in Narasimha is a bit hard to digest, though.

The Paruchuri Brothers do their usual gig by packing a lot of meanness and menace into sentences of just 10 syllables. Unexpectedly, the quality of music and background score from Mani Sharma is mediocre, which turns out to be one of the stumbling blocks for the movie.

The glaring downside of the movie is its done-to-death factionist theme. And we guess that by boarding the faction-flick bandwagon, Chiranjeevi must have validated the Theory Of Morphic Resonance like never before (Theory Of Morphic Resonance, also known as The Law Of The Thousandth Monkey: When the thousandth monkey in a tribe begins to behave in a certain way, suddenly entire unrelated tribes all over the monkey kingdom begin to spontaneously adopt that behavior pattern.). The second downside of the movie is the inconsistency echoed in Chiranjeevi's character, which keeps wavering between those of a bloodthirsty murderer and a peace-loving philathropist.

Indra, with "supreme" dances and a rough-n-ready performance by Chiru, is a Chiru fan's dream come true. At the same time, with its downsides and clichéd storyline, it is almost bound to fall short of an average cinegoer's expectations. All in all, it presents two distinct images: a sumptuous cinematic treat for Chiru fans, and a clichéd tale of communal-annihilation for the unfortunate rest. So, which finger are you choosing?

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Ramarao Tokali on 30th Jul 2002, 11:01pm | Permalink

Its agood movie.. nice songas,screen play..

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Mallikarjun Burugu on 30th Jul 2002, 9:37pm | Permalink

i didnt watched movie.Near my place movie is not played (in usa). but what iam hearing is,i cant believe that, here indians are giving desi flavor to theaters, and it even crossed collections of anyother indian(even hindi) movie. so iam also planning to watch this movie

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Venkat Gouri on 30th Jul 2002, 5:23pm | Permalink

No words to say about INDRA .Really he Born for the People.Born for the FANS.
This rating is not suffiecient to give.

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Jagadish BS on 30th Jul 2002, 3:11pm | Permalink

Chiru at his best.Even though there are parts where the story is weak,chiru's performance leaves one asking for more.His dances cover up the average music score.
All in all a big super hit

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Hyderabadi Guy on 30th Jul 2002, 10:20am | Permalink

Indra!!!!!!!!!!!....Superb....excellent. Most of the people are comparing this movie with S.Reddy..and N'Naidu. Both of the movies are nothing infront of INDRA. Chiru is unique in AP..Pls. don't compare chiru with anybody..

These 5 stars are not enough to rate INDRA. Especially Chiru's dance is marvellous..No one can do like chiru in INDIA..This is the truth..If u have any doubt for reason go and watch...

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Prabhath Y on 30th Jul 2002, 2:22am | Permalink

a treat to watch disregarding some
elements

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Ram on 30th Jul 2002, 12:23am | Permalink

the movie was too worse

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Krish Srinath on 29th Jul 2002, 3:45am | Permalink

Nothing great to go. It bites ones head and one will be dead by the time movie ends. So much of blood. Wait for Rajini's BABA for fireworks.

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Rajesh Singh on 29th Jul 2002, 1:22am | Permalink

my dear talk of the town, I'm sure ure a die hard of NTR, NBK,Mahesh babu, ANR, Venky,Nag and few other except chiru. Well, ure baised, its a good movie and chiru fans like it. if u don't like it, stay cool, why are u geeting jealous over it being a big hit. When movie of ur hero is released enjoy that. Its simple. No heart feelings. take it easy.

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Talk Of The Town on 28th Jul 2002, 9:30pm | Permalink

Why Chiru is named as "SIMHA ni choosi Nakka (clever)Vaathalu pettukundi"

Reason is simple since NBK's last two block busters are Samara SIMHA Reddy and Nara SIMHA Naidu from which Chiru desparetly copied/inspired/freemake for a HIT.

So it is "SIMHA ni choosi Nakka (clever)Vaathalu pettukundi"

Earlier Chiru tried with ANAMAYYA formula (Same Raghavendra Rao and Devotional) in Manjunatha but failed. You may dubb it as guest role but i am little bit amazed to know that Guest role throught the movie with atleast one hour total footage!!!!!

Then tried with Venky family formula in Daddy (Same Suresh Krishna) again failed

Now tried with Balayya's Faction formula (Same Team)and gained a lesser hit than SSR, Aadi and NN.

With whatever formula he is trying he is settling at second rank.Pathetic.....

Can review ratings from Idlebrain and Tollywoodhq help Indra at Boxoffice. How baised are these ratings...If Chiru might have acted in NN or SSR then the rating of those films would be 10/5.......similarly if NBK acts in Indra then the rating would be just 3.25/5....Highly BIASED.

NN RATING WAS 3.5
AADI 3.25......Now INDRA Which is copy from the above films got 4.5 rating!!!What B.Gopal and Chinni krishna can do after SSR, NN and AADI?

Because of soo much pressure he had written MixMasala. Only Chiru image can save this movie...other wise 3 crores (total 17 crores out of which they can recover 14 crores) gone case.........

Second half is pathetic. Its like "Poli ni choose Nakka vatha pettukundi"

Chiru's makeup is bad and photography is worst.Where Ashwin dutt spend all the 17 crores by missing these technical richness?

Indra may cross 50 days centers for NN but can't manage more than 60 centers for 100 days.No question of Jublees.

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Shiva Vedula on 28th Jul 2002, 8:39pm | Permalink

Good movie though a rehash of couple of old movies

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Naveen Patha on 28th Jul 2002, 6:56pm | Permalink

Indra is just simply superb...I dont think any records will stand still in front of Indra...They will be blown away. Chiru is amazing in this movie with extraordinary dance performances...
Chiru is back with a bang!!..

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Vishnu Murthy on 28th Jul 2002, 6:01pm | Permalink

oh god ,not seen such a stupid and worthless movie before.

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Srinu on 28th Jul 2002, 10:31am | Permalink

At the risk of being beat up by chiru's fans, I think the movie is a no-go. If there was a body(dead) count in the movie, the number would have been record breaking. Senseless killings and under the garb of "social service". If someone had to annihilate all "anti-social" elements in this country, the population would be down to half, considering their goons and henchmen(ok ok!! i exaggerated, but it would definitely come down to 3/4). To be fair though, the songs are good and chiru's dance in the movie ought to be a feast for his fans.

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