MASS movie record

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Credits 

Jeevi rating: 3.5/5
Punchline: Slick Flick
Genre: Action
Type: Straight
Banner: Annapurna Studios
Cast: Nagarjuna, Jyotika, Charmy, Raghuvaran, Rahul Dev, Prakash Raj, Sunil, Jeeva, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Venu Madhav, Draksharamam Sarojini, Swati Priya, Samir, Rajesh, Ramya, Narsing Yadav & Apoorva
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers
Lyrics: Sahiti, Bhaskarabhatla & Viswa
Cinematographer: Shyam K Naidu
Art: Thota Tarani
Stunts: Vijay
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Raghava Lawrence
Executive Producer: Y Supriya
Producer: Nagarjuna Akkineni
Theatrical release date: 23rd December 2004 



Artists Performance

Nagarjuna: Other heroes doing mass roles is routine. Nagarjuna doing a mass role is variety. Nagarjuna customized the role of 'Mass' to suit his sensibilities and style. He is terrific as the mass hero who accomplishes his mission with slick action sequences and commendable mind games. Nagarjuna is fantastic as the teasing lover in the flashback episode and his attempts to grab the attention of Jyothika are cute. 



Technical Departments:

Story - Screenplay - direction: Story of the film is a simple revenge taking one. Screenplay of the film is good, though appears a bit slow at times. Direction by Lawrence is commendable. A good director should have lows followed by peaks in the emotional graph throughout the film. In order to show the peaks in that graph, a director needs to deliberately bring down the effectiveness of scenes that precede those peak scenes. Lawrence has got his fundamentals right. In this film, you can see such a pattern.

Here is one example: Rahul Dev forcibly kidnaps inmates from Nagarjuna's apartments. We feel that a villain kidnapping entire group of residents of an apartment, is a bit stupid. But the scene that follows compensates it, as Nagarjuna does a strategic act. 



Analysis: 

First half of the film is good. The tempo in flashback goes a bit down as most of the flashback deals with romantic episodes. The mass tempo is back in the last half an hour. First half and climax entertains the masses and the flashback episode entertains the class section. There are a couple of heart-touching episodes in flashback (Scene in which a child-beating-father calls Nagarjuna an orphan and the scene in which he joins a group of orphans and asks Jyothika to feed him too). On the flip side, Mass does not have enough popular entertainment in terms of comedy. There are no boring moments in this 2.45 Hr film though. You should watch 'Mass' on the big screen to enjoy the charming Nag in his new avatar.



Box Office: Mass generated unanimous positive mouth talk by audience and hit talk by trade pundits. This film would be a definite 70-day film, as per the trade buzz. The range of the success would depend on how other Sankranthi biggies perform at box office. The track record of Nagarjuna's career (4 successive blockbusters - Santosham, Manmadhudu, Shivamani and Nenunnanu) helped 'Mass' to generate tremendous openings. And Mass has all chances to become the highest grosser in Nagarjuna's career.

Tail piece: Seems like the role of an orphan is turning out to be lucky for Nagarjuna. Three (Santosham, Nenunnanu & Mass) of his latest 5 films sport Nagarjuna as an orphan.



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