Twenty One Hour Review: Masala Bhaat Hai Kannada Film Twenty One Hours

Sometimes at night when mother was not in the mood to cook or she was tired, she used to cook all the vegetables of the day in rice and make ‘Masala Bhaat’. Its test could be good as well as bad. Some liked its taste and some did not. The Kannada film Twenty One Hours being shown on Amazon Prime Video is also a kind of ‘Masala Bhaat’. You may or may not like its taste. It is a tough deal to form any opinion about this film because some parts of the film are good, and some are very bad. Left over parts of old suspense thriller and murder mystery films were made into a film in which the actors are acting very current but the screenplay is good. If the drama is high then the visual setting is good. Usually, after watching a film, it is easy to decide whether to recommend the film to anyone or not. The irony of Twenty One Hours is that it can neither be recommended nor avoided talking about.

Twenty One Hours is a suspense film, in which a girl disappears. The police interrogate every person associated with his life by keeping them in a hotel. Everyone is under suspicion. Girl’s parents, girl’s husband, girl’s mother-in-law, girl’s ex-boyfriend, girl’s father’s friend, a minister. Officially, the police have not yet started the investigation, but on the advice of the girl’s father’s friend, the minister has sent one of his trusted Crime Branch officers to conduct the most secretive investigation. While talking to every person, he keeps on revealing one or the other secret of them so that they accept their crime. Then the news comes that the dead body of the girl has been found along with some dead bodies of the drug mafia. The tone of the whole story changes and everyone is released. Is the girl really dead, why were the dead bodies of drug mafia found along with her dead body, does the crime branch inspector know something that no one else knows. The spice of all this is the film Twenty One Hours.

Kannada actor Dhananjay is rice in this film, that is, he is everything. He has become an officer of crime branch, who does all kinds of work for the minister and receives his special blessings. Dhananjay keeps getting work in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil films. Hindi audience has seen him in the character of Jolly Reddy in Allu Arjun’s famous film Pushpa. Dhananjay’s height is like the hero of the film and his acting is also very good. The way the hero should be dramatic in Kannada films, Dhananjay fits perfectly in that place. What is revealed about his character in the climax of the film, he has not been able to make the right impact there. Apart from that, Dhananjay dominates the entire film. In the beginning, he is seen as a great detective and as the film progresses, his cynicism starts to dominate. Malayalam film actress Durga Krishna can be called the heroine of the film because the character of the missing girl in the film is hers and the entire film is spent searching for her. Screen time is less but there was no scope for more than that. Apart from Dhananjay, the actors who have done a good job are Sudev Nair (as the husband), Ravikumar Rao (as the father’s friend) and Rahul Madhav (as the ex-boyfriend).

Director Jaishankar Pandit basically makes ad films. Twenty One Hours is his first film and because of this he was trying to stay away from traditional formulas but Kannada film hai to thodi to loud banegi hi. It is good that there is no dance song in the film. Jaishankar has written and directed this film on a true incident. Despite this, there is a lot of room for drama in the story. S Thiru handled the camera but the cinematography looks a bit strange. Close and mid shots are kept in about 60% of the film and 80% of the film is in indoor. of film budget It definitely reduces because of this, but the impact that should come, could not come. There is mystery, but there is no car chase, there is no attempt to find the girl, but the film focuses only on interrogation. Vikram Veda’s editor Richard Kevin has edited the film but he also had a lot to play, yet almost 90% of the film looks quite interesting and exciting.

Twenty One Hours is an experimental type of film. For Dhananjay too, doing such a film is an experiment and it is the director’s first film. If you ignore the minor shortcomings, and don’t worry about the proportion of spices, then you may like this Masala Bhaat.

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