Kanche is one of the excellent movies in this era. However there is a great direction fault in the movie. That is Srinivas Avasarala always chants Srirangam Srinivasa Rao's poetry from the book Mahaprasthanam. Although Sri Sri started writing this poetry in the year 1930 and continued till 1940, the book was published the year 1950 and people did not know much about this poetry till the book is published. The movie is back in 1939 and till that time people did not know about Sri Sri's poetry. You may check the internet and Sri Sri's life history for details. Director Krish would have taken care of this point. Besides that the movie is an awesome movie. Must watch.
There are times when a film needs to be told in a non-linear mode. Basha, the predecessor to all our masala blockbusters, was one such movie where the passive first half was needed to give the post-interval flashback the kind of zing it carried. Director Surender Reddy especially employs the style beautifully, showing you an incident and then taking you back to how it happened, a few frames at a time.
And then there are certain movies which do best with a linear narration. Kanche, in this writer's opinion, is one of them. Unfortunately, director Krish seems to have thought other....