Prabhas & Kajal in DARLING Movie

It’s been a while since I watched a Prabhas movie in a theater. Blind faith in director Karunakaran‘s potential has pushed me towards the cinema hall (Viswanath 70mm, KPHB, Hyderabad). Though there were no expectations from my side, DARLING movie hardly had any great moments to cherish about.

WHAT I LIKED:

• Pathos music in the background for Prabhas & friends in few of the comedy episodes (whenever something bad happens)
• “Neeve Neeve…!” song and it’s picturization
• Interval bang of revealing the secret about flashback episode
• Idea of snow fall in Hyderabad and it’s monuments (Golconda, Buddha Statue & Charminar) with the help of Special Effects
• 1st fight in the market place with his mother & sister not knowing about his actions
• Sentiment scene of Prabhas, Sister and Chandramohan
• Episode that leads to the last song and even the song with Montage scenes is refreshing!

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKED:

• Hip-hop costumes for Prabhas were not a perfect fit
• Lazy performance with no improvement from hero: Prabhas
• Not so catchy songs
• Very week script and screen-play
• Nothing novel from Karunakaran (even the intro song – it has shades of Tholiprema and Pawan Kalyan)

FINAL ANALYSIS: Along with sticking to an oldish concept and extracting ordinary performances, director KARUNAKARAN has failed to an extent in giving us a feel-good movie again! It’s time for Prabhas to work on his expressions and diction. Though DARLING is a below par movie on a whole, it might have a decent run at the box-office due to the lack of another family-entertainer during this summer holidays…!