Surely, it is the story that failed him utterly. The sagging screenplay, regular cliched dialogues, routine and unstimulating climax are the major setbacks of ‘Agent’.
Story — Ramakrishna alias Ricky is a happy-go-lucky city youngster. But he poses to be a fit-for-nothing pampered kid before his parents. But his talent lies in digital hacking. And he dreams of becoming a spy agent for the Indian military. But due to his unprofessional approach and conduct, he gets rejected multiple times. Then in a bid to impress RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) chief Colonel Mahadev, he hacks the classified data belonging to the top military organisation. Impressed by his talent, Ricky gets a chance to go on a special mission to face of God, the dreaded terrorist played by Dino Morea, who once worked under RAW and turned terrorist.
For a person who has been there in the industry for over a decade, director Surender Reddy should be knowing how the film has to be shot. There should be an artistic flow in the story to atleast make audience focus if not deeply engrossed into it.
The scenes in ‘Agent’ look like lumpy pieces connected to each other. His writing/screenplay in ‘Agent’ is so bizarre that you wonder if the film is the director’s debut flick. The action sequences are so unrealistic. The romance between Akhil and Sakshi Vaidya would surely put you to sleep. Except for whistles and cheers for the sequence where Rickey arrives at the villain’s den (Sampath Raj) to give a stern warning for misbehaving with Sakshi Vaidya, everything in the film was shot haphazardly in haste.
Songs are so untimely that they make you laugh in the hall. Take the case of this song ‘Endhe endhe endhe Etno ayithandhe Endhe endhe Arey gayi gayi ayipothandhira…’ The lyrics are written in the Telangana dialect. But the song has become a laughing stock in the theatre because the visuals in the song and lyrics are not in sync.
Telugu filmmakers should come out of showcasing the villains in the same-old routine pattern. Dino Morea is seen with a big rumbling voice, giving vicious angry growls intermittently — are some of the routinely used features to depict the devilish aura of a villain. Is it so necessary to portray a villain this way?
Before showcasing Akhil as hyperactive youngster Rickey, director should have properly established the reasons behind his interests like hacking and other avocation like becoming a spy. Because just by showing him typing something in the computer and calling him a hacker doesn’t really look realistic for audiences.
For example, take the case when Akhil arrives at Sampath Raj’s house he takes the blows from the men gets severely injured. He then snatches Sampath’s laptop and types something to show that his son is romancing a woman in Europe. Are audiences so dumb to believe whatever is shown in the movie?
Besides these, there are many such scenes in the film that question the credibility of Surender Reddy as a filmmaker. Such nuances are to be taken care of. Taking cinematic liberty all the time doesn’t really work.
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