Patriotism in a single take

Daksha
Kannada (U/A) ¬¬¬
Cast: Duniya Vijay, Neha Patil, Pankaj Narayan, Padmaja Rao, Suchendra Prasad, Bullet Prakash
Director: S Narayan

If only Narayan had aimed for the Oscars rather than the Guinness! Seems the director made the single-take film just to set a record.

Being ambitious and experimental, Narayan should have ensured a sharp script. After all, an inspirational adventure, shot in one take, warrants one. But the script is sloppy and full of patriotic spiel.

It is obvious that the director was handicapped in having action hero Cobra Duniya Vijay at the helm. Narayan sought to infuse action into Daksha with Vijay playing an NSG commando — all brawn and bravado, spewing diatribe at terrorists. While one has no qualms about it, what fails the film are its trite twists.

The entire tamasha takes place within the confines of a bungalow. It’s all claustrophobic and nauseous right from the time lover boy Arvind enters judge Venkatesh Murthy’s home to court his daughter, and terrorists lay siege to the palatial home.

Watch Daksha for Duniya Vijay, his jingoistic Vande Mantaram cry and a one-shot solution to terrorism.
Jai Hind!