Loony louts of infamous city-town

Kollegala
Kannada (A) Cast: Venkatesh Dikshith,
Kiran Gowda, Dharamatej, Deepa Gowda
Director: Venkatesh Dikshith

 
Taking its title from Chamarajanagar district’s taluk, infamous for sorcery, black magic, and human sacrifice, ‘Kollegala’ weaves a tortuous and tiresome tale of a loathsome trio into theft, violence and whiling their time in a drunken stupor.

Knitted into these diabolic elements of woman and child sacrifices, sand mining, and voodoo, is an infantile and imbecile tale of love and romance where two of the trio flips for their pre-pubescence infatuation Kaveri, the dainty daughter of the city-town’s headman Gowda.

Proving them a sounding board to vent out their spleen and sorrow, and doing their bidding is sidekick Thikla (madcap/ imbecile), adding to the insanity that the quartet foists touting it as an unbridled entertainment.

Why the threesome has become thus is another tale in itself told in flashback in the second half. Written, scripted and directed with dialogues by Venkatesh Dikshith, who also plays one of the leads, Kollegala is a stupefying and sordid one- man’s aspiring misadventure. Primarily made to test his prospectus on the movie marquee, Kollegala woefully speaks of the piteous paucity of ideas and how people squander pelf to propel one’s prospects taking a shy at box-office success.

Loud and ludicrous, the high-decibel drivel sees one end up wringing one’s hands in exasperation that such films are made at all.