Dayavittu Gamanisi movie review: Fails to grab enough' attention
Director: Rohit Padaki
Cast: Rajesh Nataranga, Prakash Belavadi, Vashishta, Sangeetha Bhat, Aravind Kuplikar, Avinash Shatamarshan, Sukruta Wagle, Poornachandra Mysore, Raghu Mukherjee, Bhavana Rao, Samyukta Hornad
While claiming to be experimentally different, this attention seeking venture did hit the screens with some expectations. But in ‘reel-ity’, despite all the honest efforts, it fails to grab ‘enough’ attention and largely misses out on the much needed ‘wow’ factor. Has there be no other ordinary interconnected multiple plots in the past, Rohit Padaki’s ‘Dayavittu Gamanisi’ meaning attention please, the attention towards it would have been a bit different. As there is always a ‘but’, the but here is something which is obviously nothing extraordinary.
It is a simple tale webbed around four different stories, connecting the leads with a philosophy attached to it, and how it finally ends on a ‘similar’ note. In other words, the director has served four regular dishes on a single plate. A definite healthy snack but not something which will leave one craving for more.
The individual plots though engaging at times, they do not evoke great attention. For instance, the first episode which is about a middle-aged unmarried man who finally starts to dream and believe in married after a desperate person tries to get his daughter married to him, it turns out to be just another old saga. It is Rajesh’s natural acting which makes the plight of a man in his 40’s living a lonely life in an urban set up, look realistic. However, the character of desperate man trying to get his already married daughter, married away, looks more like a drama.
A still from the film Dayavittu Gamanisi.
Later, two episodes rush in with the titles - ‘existence’ and ‘illusion’ before the final ‘decision’. The in-between episodes seems to have been packed to connect the dots for a common end. While it wonders on why do they really exist in the tale, the illusion is more about in search of a meaningful path. The illusion episode is something similar to the protagonist in the ‘Life of Pi’, who constantly keeps changing his belief in different religion for some reason or the other.
Last but not the least, the decision is what matters in the end where Raghu Mukherjee excels playing the role of a husband stuck in between his professional career and his personal life. Sukruta Wagle, Poornachandra Mysore, Aravind and Samyukta do justice their short roles in this all is well but, all is not well tale.
Worth watching it for the song ‘Marete Hodenu..’, composed by Anoop Seelin, to once again fall in love with Sangeetha Bhat and Vashishta’s versatility. Also, the attention further limits to a limited audience, as it certified for adults only.
