Gramayana Review
Watched Gramayana today. The last Kannada movie I watched in theatre was Kantara Chapter 1. I have very little hopes from KFI nowadays, but thought of giving this one a chance because I used to watch Vinay’s movies back in the 2010s.
I would say I’m not disappointed, maybe because I went in with very low expectations. It was a good watch, but honestly it could have been a lot lot better.
One thing I genuinely feel is that KFI doesn’t give enough importance or respect to writers. I found so many loose ends and loopholes in the story (won’t spoil anything here). There were many characters to handle and I feel the writing failed to balance them properly. Some characters don’t connect, some things don’t make sense, especially Yogi’s character. I still don’t understand why it was there.
Looks like they are planning a Part 2 from the post-climax scenes, so maybe they’ll explain more later, but as a standalone movie, many characters felt incomplete.
Vinay still needs to improve a lot in acting. Megha was good, but Gopal Deshpande completely carried this movie. What an actor! Truly a great find. He was just amazing throughout.
Songs didn’t work for me, but the BGM was good. Coming to cinematography, this was honestly the weakest part. The title card itself looked like it was in 360p. I don’t understand how they allowed that. Almost every aerial shot looked bad with no clarity at all. With the kind of village setup they had, they could have created magic visually, but sadly they missed that chance.
The ending monologue didn’t connect with me and many of Megha’s dialogues felt weak. That’s my review. Do watch it this weekend if you’re interested, because my Saturday show had less than 10 people and honestly I don’t know where KFI is heading.
I genuinely feel if the script was tighter, if the loose ends were connected better and the ending made more sense, this could have been a really great movie.
Nevertheless, it’s a good one-time watch. Family audiences who are waiting for Kannada movies can definitely give it a try.
PS - Used AI to reframe my sentences better :)