Kalisunte

Kalisunte belongs to that unfortunate stable of movies that abdicate their membership to the easy-hit club by adopting an unconventional theme, and pay for it with largely empty halls. It's a million dollar question as to what it would take to make such a movie a blockbuster.

Kalisunte does have plenty of offbeat allure - unobtrusive humor, clear characterizations and a handful of catchy songs. Yet it remains the ditch-dweller, caught in between jazzy masala flicks, and whacky plots like Ghajini or Chandramukhi.

Kalisunte begins with Adi Narayana (Prakash Raj), a goonda w....