Maestro

Director: Merlapaka Gandhi

Solid: Nithiin, Tamannaah, Nabha Natesh, Jisshu Sengupta

Remakes are difficult. They seldom come as much as the bar set by the originals. Papanasam in Tamil with Kamal Hassan might by no means match the unique Malayalam work, Drishyam, with Mohanlal, though each had been directed by Jithu Joseph. Allow us to not even discuss in regards to the Hindi (with Ajay Devgn) and Telugu variations. One other authentic in Hindi, Pink, with Amitabh Bachchan was miles forward of the Tamil copy with Ajith. One way or the other, those that helm remakes appear to really feel that they’ve to provide one thing extra or one thing higher than the sooner variations, they usually stumble. Or, they blindly comply with, which might not be factor both.

Disney+ Hotstar has now provided a Telugu remake of Andhadhun — made in Hindi by Sriram Raghavan in 2018 and headlined by Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu and Radhika Apte. Though touted as a black comedy, there was little or no humour in it. The climax was excellent, and if reminiscence serves me proper it was set in Venice. Now, Andhadhun has dropped in as Maestro with Nithiin (as Arun) reprising Khurrana’s character of a blind pianist. Sadly, the remake work was not tight sufficient and wandered a bit.

Helmed by Merlapaka Gandhi, Maestro additionally has Tamannaah and Jisshu Sengupta. It’s nearly a frame-by-frame copy of the unique. Nevertheless, whereas Andhadhun was wild and left so much to creativeness, Maestro spoon-feeds you and tries explaining each scenario. The story has nice potential. It begins with Arun falling in love with Sophie (Nabha Natesh; Radhika Apte within the authentic). He meets her in her father’s bar and begins enjoying the piano there to assist appeal to extra clients and cease the enterprise from spiraling down. An opportunity encounter with a former star, Mohan (Naresh), will get the ball rolling. The actor asks Arun to provide a personal live performance at his flat. This will probably be to shock Mohan’s spouse, Simran (Tamannaah, who steps into the footwear of Tabu in Andhadhun). On the house, Arun sees a skeleton tumbling out of the cabinet. It has a horrific story to inform, and entails Simran’s lover, Inspector Ravinder (Jisshu Sengupta).

The plot veers in direction of many angles, and takes a number of roads. And ends on one. The finale is performed out in Dubai, and one wants to observe rigorously the final shot. It has one thing astounding to supply!

One needs that Gandhi had taken liberties to tighten the unique narrative; as an alternative he provides extra to it, robbing it of crispness and suspense. Performances are passe. Tamannaah isn’t any match for Tabu, and Nithiin is sweet in components, however doesn’t have the calibre of Khurrana or his display screen presence.

Maestro may match for many who could haven’t seen Andhadhun. However for many who have, the Telugu movie could seem flat, particularly after they know what the Hindi thriller was all about.

(Gautaman Bhaskaran is an creator and a film critic)

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