Sathya Raj, Vasishta N Simha's Tribanadhari Barbarik has been attracting the attention of movie lovers. The film's OTT rights are yet to be finalised. With well known director Maruthi presenting the film interest levels increased. The film directed by Mohan Srivatsa is releasing on 29 Aug. Let us see how the film impressed movie lovers.
Tribanadhari Barbarik story revolves around a person's quest to findout his missing grand daughter and how he deals with the developments that unfold. Psychiatrist Dr.Shyam (Sathyaraj) gets a shock of his life on Independence Day when his grand daughter Nidhi goes missing.
It all boils down to what happened to Nidhi, who is behind her disappearance and what role SI Purushottam (VTV.Ganesh), CI Chandra (Satyam Rajesh), powerful don Das (Motta Rajendran), influential businesswoman Vaakili Padma (Udaya Bhanu), her nephew Dev (Kranti Kiran), his friend Ram (Vasishta N Simha) who aspires to go to US, his mother (Prabhavati), his lover Satya (Sanchi Rai) form the interesting twists and turns in the proceedings.
Satyaraj played the role of the psychiatrist with ease. He showed good body language and took viewers into the story making them travel with him through his natural and realistic performance. He impressed all with his subtle dialogue delivery, showing love and care towards his granddaughter and also the concern and pain through his expressions and emotions with his screen presence. He in fact carried the film on his shoulders.
Udaya Bhanu on her comeback is seen in a completely different role. He came up with an intense performance and delivered powerful dialogues in Telangana slang and expressed herself with her eyes in some scenes. Vasishta N Simha performed well in the role of a youngster who goes all out to realise his dreams of flying abroad. He showed variations in his expressions according to his character arc.
Sanchi Rai did her job as the female lead. She emoted accordingly and got limited scope to show her talent. Satyam Rajesh is good in the role of the CI. Kranti Kiran is good with his performance. Prabhavati played the mother role convincingly. Motta Rajendran passed through the motions as the villian. VTV.Ganesh as SI did his bit in taking the story forward. Others performed according to their roles.
Tribanadhari Barbarik story is penned by Mohan Srivatsa. Mohan Srivatsa on debut tried to thrill viewers with an interesting story and he drew inspiration from the character, Barbarika from Hindu epic Mahabharat to increase the interest levels. He starts the narration and dives into the story without any deviations.
But from then on, he started introducing various characters and while this is required to take the story forward, he could have fasted the proceedings by making it short and simple. The romantic track infact deviated the story from the main plot. But in the runup to the interval the story picks up pace. The first half ends on a decent note setting the tone for the second half.
The second half picks up with the interesting twists and turns but much before the pre climax,when one twist was revealed, viewers felt that the story and narrration started dragging towards the end. This could have been avoided and also the fight sequence looked extremely dragged. However the next twist in the story brings the focus back and increase the curiosity levels among movie lovers. The film ends on a decent note.
Overall, the director came up with a decent story with few interesting twists and turns and good screenplay. The script is quite fine. But one felt that the director had taken few cinematic liberties and for all the interesting elements, viewers feel missing something as the end lacks the powerful final punch and he failed to deliver the final blow to perfection.
The music of Infusion Band is good. It is situational and couple of songs have fast beats to attract youngsters. The background music elevated the scenes. Marthand K Venkatesh's editing is ok and could have been better in both halves. There are few drags and repetitive elements that slowed the pace of the film affecting the intensity levels. Kushendar Ramesh Reddy with his cinematography added value to the narration. He showed the scenes naturally and realistically. Dialogues are decent and in sync with the story. zProduction values are good.
Altogether, Tribanadhari Barbarik turns out to be a decent entertainer. Director Mohan Srivatsa came up with an interesting story with a curious mythological touch, and he is aided by impactful performances from seasoned performers like Sathyaraj, who is supported ably by Vasishta N Simha, Udaya Bhanu and Kranti Kiran. There are a few interesting twists to thrill viewers but when they expected a powerful final punch, he failed to deliver. Had he finetuned the script and screenplay and done away with the slow pace in the narration, the impact would have been more powerful. Considering all these aspects, Cinejosh goes with a 2.5 rating for Tribanadhari Barbarik.