I Telugu Movie Review

I Manoharadu:
The crowds are literally flocking the theatres and the film is clear evidence of the high expectations from the audience in view of the hype that went with the release of the film. Huge effort from Vikram and Director Shanker constitute the mainstream of this voluminous entertainment. Finesse, humour, pleasantness, class ae rude words thrown at the film maker. The buoyancy of his technical skillsets take the driver’s seat and the artistic requirements are in the trunk. ‘I’ is unhesitatingly recommended for those who love loud and gory stuff and are willing to embark upon perverse hate and destruction as entertainment. To the rest the film is a keep away.
Beserk. As the hunched back and scary guy kidnaps the bride to be you know that you have a ticket for an over kill Shanker statement. Immediately thereafter is the long drawn fight at the local Vyamshala in the midst of the show to adjudge the new Mr AP. You know that this outing is grotesque beyond compare, loud beyond tolerance.
In the backdrop is the story of Lingeshwar ( Vikram) living to become the local hunk of all he surveys badly smitten by Model Dia ( Amy Jackson). The upcoming model is harassed with the casting couch challenge by model John (Upen Patel). She decides to help the metamorphosis of the country bumpkin Lingeshwar into an international model with the support of designer Osma Jasmiine (Ojis M Rajni) alongside the assistance of family friend and doctor Dr. Vasu (Suresh Gopi).
Soon it is the emotional chaos out there in China: with a parallel of revenge by the hunchback with the assistance of friend Gym Babu (Santanam) At China Dia is cajoled to feign love at the instance of the Director (Mohan Kapoor) to get the necessary screen chemistry as required for the new modelling script. Linigeshwar, now Lee being the naïve guy picked from poverty falls to the viles of the modelling world. Soon however Osma Jasmine spills the beans and Lee comes to know of the conspiracy. John sends a good part of local Chinese personnel to attack Lee. He handles all of them singularly. You wish he were there in 1962!! At the avenging end we have a body building competitor being shown as suffering the agenda of vendetta. Give me death the victims ask. Worse you will get, declares the predator.
The simple love triangle that once blossomed in the midst of melody and the stair case rolling violence gave way to bizarre violence of stunts, style, blood splattering and glass shattering moments. Shanker takes you to new horizons of chemical revenge (near warfare) and sensitivity challenging vendetta with the beauty cast against the beast in hitherto unseen gory possibilities of storytelling.
From the theatre centric noise creating music, to sanguinary hyper trichosis and neuro fibromatosis, entertainment and creativity has a new claimant, if scary and insensitive high in Shanker. The film-maker thus defines and designs his cinema. Even the marginally sensitive, nay the sensitivity challenged would look away at many sequences in the film. If that were the intent, hats off to Shanker. He surely achieves what he sets off to achieve. Also the supposed thriller that unfolds assumes the audience is not only sadistic but grossly unintelligent and cannot relate to the seeming loose ends and requires him to step in and knot them to a conclusion.
Vikram hams and delivers new heights in this form. The likes of Upen, Ojis Rajni and Suresh Gopi are about adequate. Amy Jackson reiterates the dubious belief that good models make back actors. Vikram – huge huge effort. The one bright spot is sure the light hearted moments contributed by the fine timing of Santanam. If the film maker throws a single letter at you, you are entitled to throw back two at him!!

Rating : 2 stars
– Perverse
+ Milestone defining