Dictator Review

Movie Name :: Dictator (2015)

 Cast :: Balakrishna, Anjali
 Music :: Thaman
Director :: Sriwass
Producer :: Eros International



Rating :: 2.7/5











About Film ::

Dictator is Balakrishna's 99th film. The veteran superstar is one film away from reaching a landmark. Dictator caught the attention of Balakrishna fans with colorful promos and posters. Clash with Nannaku Prematho made it even more interesting as the team has shown tremendous confidence in the product. Did Sriwass pull off another Loukyam with Dictator? Can this be another Legend for Balakrishna

Chandrasekhar Dharma (Balakrishna) is one of the biggest entrepreneurs in India. He locks horns with a powerful lady Mahima Roy (Rati Agnihotri) who is responsible for killing the father figure of Chandrasekhar. His wife Katyayani (Anjali) gets stabbed by Mahima's men. On his wife's request Chandrasekhar leaves Delhi and changes his identity to live as a common man. But the past comes haunting back at him.

Performances ::

Balakrishna is particularly stunning in the getup of a rich man. This is certainly his best look in recent times. He is so good in those blazers and shades. On the performance front Dictator doesn't offer anything new to the vastly experienced actor. He did his best to keep the flow going but the script is too weak for him to totally rescuing it.
Anjali enters only in the second half of the film. She did alright. Sonal Chauhan adds glamour to the proceedings. Senior actress Rati Agnihotri is just okay. Suman is good and so is Nasser. Aksha is seen in a brief yet important role. Pruthvi's comedy didn't click. For a change he didn't do any spoofs in this film and couldn't make an impact with regular comedy. Vennela Kishore and Shakalaka Shankar too failed due to poorly written characters.



   
                                     
Analysis ::

While Dictator has many villains in the story, the real villains of the movie are its story and screenplay writers – they have churned out beaten to death story with a formula screenplay that drags on and on without any reason. Last year the writers team of  Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan, Sreedhar Seepana had given some of the worst movies like Bruce Lee and Soukyam. They have come up with even bad story and screenplay for Dictator.  Since the release of “Samarasinha Reddy”, we have been seeing this formula - Balakrishna appearing as “simple worker” in the first half and later in the flashback he is revealed as big businessman/factionist guy. How long would Balayya accept such clichéd stories? Except Boyapati, no director in the recent times has made a good mass masala movie with Balakrishna.

Sri Wass too has failed to present Balakrishna appealing as he has selected story-screenplay that belongs to 90’s. Although first half of the movie seems okay thanks to some comedy and songs, the second half is unbearable as it moves on boring manner and puts us in sleep mode.  Not a single thread or scene that is intelligent or decent enough to appreciate can be found in the second half. And the climax is also very boring.  Director Sri Wass and writers have failed Balakrishna. All in all, “Dictator” is a mess. Except for Balakrishna and Anjali’s presence, the movie doesn’t have anything to talk about.

Verdict :: After watching Simha and Legend we have to expect Dictator as in high range but                  this movie not reaches all expectations but film is good, some what boring