JOIN USDandupalya 2
Kannada (A) **
Cast: Pooja Gandhi, Ravishankar, Shruthi, Sanjjanna Galrani, Ravi Kale, Petrol Prasanna, Karisubbu, Makarand Deshpande
Director: Srinivasa Raju
Director Srinivasa Raju seems to fancy sequels.
After the success of Dandupalya, he has come up with the second, promising a third soon.
The first focused on how the gruesome murders, that rocked namma Bengaluru, were committed, and were cracked with D-Gang sent to jail. The second, through enterprising crime reporter Abhivyakthi, tries to ferret out the truth as to whether these were really hardened criminals (now sentenced to death by court) or pawns in the hands of the corrupt police force.
Abhi visits the gang members locked up in Hindalga Central Jail, Belagavi, and the narrative turns to flashback mode. Before that, you have a sudden shifting of the gang from Parapanna Agrahara Jail in Bengaluru to Hindalga with Abhi ruffling the police establishment. Hot in pursuit, she seeks to prove the innocence of migrant labourers who were forced to confess to a crime they had not committed. The film ends with promise of a third segment with one hardened criminal telling the police officer how the inhuman torture forced them to turn beastly.
The brutal violence has audiences squirming in their seats. Arjun Janya’s high decibel background score is ear-splitting. The actors fail to deliver convincing performances.