Sri

Playing a visual impaired person, a man who has been blind from birth, is a very specific, particular challenge, one Raj spoke about in my interview with him, yahaan par dekho. The dedicated, focused, hard work shows, and there nary is another actor in mainstream hindi cinema who could have done a better job. Given, it IS IMPOSSIBLE to accept him as a 9th standard student in 2006, telling APJ Abdul Kalam he wants to be india’s first blind president, but the staging of the shot and the performance, are both just so earnest, you let it slide. Even when the film WANTS to explore Srikanth’s God complex, when we see that “main kuch bhi kar sakta hoon” has taken on a new, more conceited meaning in Srikanth’s life, the writing and direction are unsure how to approach this behavioral change, just sort of dumping it in the middle. However, Raj’s conviction and process manages to break through the banal writing, and explore a side to the protagonist the film itself doesn’t have enough time for.