Awe starring Kajal Agarwal, Nithya Menen, Regina Cassandra, Eesha Rebba, Priyadarshi, Murali Sharma, and Avasarala Srinivas. Prashanti and Nani produced the film and Prasanth Varma directed it. Awe was released worldwide on 16 Feb 2018. Nani and Ravi Teja gave a voice-over to the film. Read Awe movie review to know more about the film.
Awe Story
Awe is a psychological thriller centered around a woman. Kajal Agarwal develops multiple personality disorder due to sexual abuse in childhood. She decides to kill herself as she couldn’t tolerate depression. The rest of the story is about how the filmmakers hide it till the climax.
Awe Movie Analysis
Wafer-thin plot
At best, Awe is a short film script, which has been dragged heavily to make it into a feature film. The film bores you to death without any plot points. The setting, which is supposed to fill 10% – 25% of the film is extended to the entire first half. The first plot point occurs at the interval leaving the audience with a hope of some story in the second half. Unless the audience enjoys knowing about one character at a time like a TV serial, there won’t be anything happening in the first half. The second half is even worse, as it goes without any direction. There is nothing to expect or no stakes at risk. If you know the climax already, then there is nothing interesting in the film. This is the reason why they have hidden everything till release.
Humorless comedy
The comedy is humorless and tests the patience of the audience. Everything involving Murali Sharma is boring. As soon as he appears on screen, the film slows down. Although some scenes are funny, overall comedy is in poor taste.
Multiple Personality Disorder
Multiple personality disorder is portrayed as mere imagination. Generally, it involves patients living multiple lives separated from one another by blackouts, or multiple lives coexisting. But it never happens as the patient sits in silence while the other personalities exist in the imagination. The story is more like writer’s block, where the writer is confused about how to end his novel. Moreover, all characters are in the writer’s mind, and discussion about multiple endings would have been apt. Even the song in the trailer, ‘Lokame Daagena Naa Lona,’ indicates that the entire story is running in the mind of Kajal Aggarwal.
Ignorant critics
The critics of Telugu cinema lack knowledge of world cinema. They consider anything unexpected whether good or bad to be great. The praises we see in many websites and phenomenal ratings are due to their lack of understanding of filmmaking. Many critics are even confused between story and screenplay. They liked the story, so they started praising the screenplay. It shows the pathetic condition of Telugu movie criticism. No wonder films like Baahubali received a lower rating. Many people didn’t like Awe except a few multiplex audiences. Although many critics gave high ratings, it is only to follow the crowd and to present themselves as smart critics who support the new wave of Telugu cinema. There is no problem in supporting such films, but people calling themselves critics without a basic understanding of films is a threat to the Telugu film industry.
Overall, Awe is a commendable experiment from Prasanth Varma but a mediocre film.
Awe
Director: Prasanth Varma
Date Created: 2018-02-16 11:00
1.5
