Mirapakay - Movie Review

Film: Mirapakay
Cast: Ravi Teja, Richa, Deeksha Seth, Prakash Raj, Sunil, Brahmaji, Nagababu, Supreeth, Chandramohan, Kota, Sudha, Ajay and others
Music: Taman S S
Cinematography: C Ram Prasad
Editing: Gautham Raju
Action: Ram - Laxman
Produced by: Ramesh Puppala
Story, dialogues and directed by: Harish Shankar S
Release date: Jan 13, 2010

What's it about!
Rishi works as a police officer in Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi. He is hot-blooded when dealing with anti-social elements and that earns him the name - Mirapakay. He is also romantic at heart when he's not on duty. His immediate Boss (Nagababu) sends him off to Hyderabad on a mission to join in a college as lecturer and lie down few days there. In Hyderabad, he falls in love with a traditional looking girl Vinamra (Richa) who happens to be student in his college where he teaches Hindi. After couple of songs and some funny scenes later, it is revealed that he should befriend with Vaishali (Deeksha Seth), daughter of mafia don Kittu Bhai (Prakash Raj) and through her they plan to nab the don. How Rishi finishes off the mission is all about the second half of the movie.

Analysis

Basic plot is taken from Main Hoon Na and some scenes and episodes also look like Xerox copy of Ravi Teja's earlier film, Don Seenu and couple of Korean movies. Except few laughs here and there, the movie follows the pattern set by several other directors when they made movies with Ravi Teja in the lead role. So Mirapakay looks predictable all through the movie. Director Harish Shankar made debut with colossal failure Shock and if we were to compare this with Shock , his maiden film looks better and novel.

As the plot is flimsy, the director has tried hard to keep the audiences interest by inserting songs at every 15 minutes and some comedy episodes by Ravi Teja and Sunil. Post interval the movie drags on and on.

Performances

Ravi Teja has just done what he has been doing in all his previous films. Nothing new in his histrionics. The less said about the Richa the better, as she looks plump on screen and out of shape completely. Deeksha Seth is tall and beautiful, but she has to check out her 'back'. Sunil i n his brief role has provided good comedy. Ali as Al Pachino is funny. Kota Srinivas Rao, Chandramohan, Ajay and Supreeth are okay. From Chirutha to Kantri to Pokiri, Prakash Raj 's character as Don and his set up (in Bangkok) is almost similar. Cut paste characterization, hua!

Couple of songs by Taman sounds catchy but music has not helped the movie. Director Harish Shankar as writer and director has just rehashed all Ravi Teja's earlier movies.

Bottom-line

If you are not tired of seeing Ravi Teja doing same role again and again, showing off same histrionics without much variation, then Mirapakay may seem time-pass one. For others, it looks tepid and boring.