Raja Raja Chora Analysis

Raja Raja Chora (2021)

Written and Directed by: Hasith Goli
Starring: Sree Vishnu, Megha Akash

It's a fun film. It had the residue of Broche and Jersey here and there in terms of the tone and texture. The best part of the film is confrontations. The way people face the truth. That is the best part. It starts off with Sree Vishnu seeing Megha Akash in the store and them having a double confrontation with each other. And of course, the interval. And even in the second half, there is a lot of confrontation happening. That's how both drama and humor is generated in the film. Whether it's the guy who confronts the cop about why he was having an affair with this wife. Megha Akash getting to know that Sree Vishnu's wife is alive, and him having to face his son. The cop's mother facing the truth that his son is not what she thinks. The double confrontation of Sree Vishnu and Ravi Babu in his house when Megha Akash calls him home. If this was a show, there would've been tons of scope for cliffhangers all over. What happens post the confrontation is something normal and expected, and yet the anticipation that these confrontations build up - it's terrific. 

These moments work on paper at a script level. They don't need a background score, or terrific editing for these moments to work. These are the best kind of moments. When they work on paper, everything else elevates them. Sree Vishnu has found a very consistent tone to his performance that even something small he says, is eliciting humor. For example, Megha Akash says, 'let's leave' and Sree Vishnu too says 'yeah, let's leave' and it's such a small, instinctive that but the theatre was erupting with laughter. Vivek Sagar adds a beautiful layer to the film with his music, and so does the editor. I enjoyed the film, it just took me about half an hour to get invested in the film. So perhaps the opening wasn't as gripping to me.