Khallas if you watch Bindhaas

Another big let down in Sandalwood aka Kannada Film Industry. More bothering fact is that this time the let down is from Puneeth Rajkumar’s latest film “Bindhaas”. Whatever little signs of recovery shown from now and then, are evaporating away. Sandalwood is in such a poor state that it requires a series of Mungaaru maLes to make a recovery.

The so called Power star Puneeth Rajkumar is one of the few reliable entertainers in the poor Sandalwood. In fact Puneeth is a very professional and is very choosy in selecting his films. Keeping this fact in mind, the way the “Bindhaas” has got turned out is very surprising. The film kills you and your mind.

The storyline of the “Bindhaas” can be told very simply that it is a remix of “Pokiri” of Telugu. The original Pokiri itself was a waste movie. Then, this Bindhaas is far worser than that pokiri.

Shivu (Puneeth) is an easy going person doing petty crimes like pickpocketing or black tickets selling. This bindhaas guy falls in love for a beauty named Preethi (Hamsika). After several novel attempts Shivu succeeds in making Preethi to accept his love. Meanwhile he happens to meet new ACP Ajay Rathod (done by nasser), who was given new responsibility of tackling terrorism in Bangalore. Incidently, Preethi is a daughter of Ajay Rathod, and this fact is not known for both Shivu and Preethi. ACP comes to know about love affair between his daughter and Shivu. He asks Shivu to join Don Saleem’s gang and work as a police informer. Shivu does that work successfully. But, one day Preethi sees Shivu fighting in a gang war. She hates Shivu. Shivu tries in vain to convince Preethi. Now he has only one way out through ACP. As per his assignment Shivu produces Saleem to ACP and asks him to tell the truth to Preethi. But ACP turns around and tells that Preethi is his daughter and he is not at all interested to give his daughter to a low class criminal. He tries to shoot Shivu. But Shivu escapes and destroys the whole Saleem gang before winning the heart of Preethi.

The story of the film is supposed to be a pakka masala entertainer. In fact, Puneeth Rajkumar has given a power packed performance. But the director D.Rajendra Babu is the real villain for this film. He makes the film to drag and drag and drag and collapse at several points. You have to be very patient to watch this movie. Heroine Hamsika is pleasant to watch, but irritating to hear. Sandalwood manages to import beautiful Heroines, but falters in finding right voices for them. I mean, there is a dearth of Dubbing Artistes in Kannada.

I have heard that Peter Haynes has directed stunts for Bindhaas. Peter Haynes is a great stunt master who had done great movies in Tamil, Telugu including that of Rajnikanth’s ‘Shivaji’. It’s surprising that Peter Haynes of his stature, has composed some bad fight compositions in this Kannada movie.

It’s painful to watch Bindhaas…