Chitrangada Review & Rating

Director : G. Ashok

Producer : Gangapatnam Sridhar

Music Director : V. Selvaganesh

Starring : Anjali

Rating: 1.5/5

After getting delayed from a long time, Anjali’s ‘Chitrangada’ had finally hit the screens. The film is directed by ‘Pilla Zamindar’ fame Ashok Kumar. Let us see how it fared.

Chitra(Anjali) is a college professor who lives in working women’s hostel. Due to some unknown reasons, she starts sexually harassing his hostel mates and acts weirdly. This resulting in her mates leaving the hostel in fear.

Later, she comes to know that this is because of her nightmare where she sees a man killed by a lady. With the help of several methods, she finds that murder spot in US and travels there alone to solve the mystery. What does she get to know in US and how she gets out of this issue forms the rest of the story.

The script and certain scenes in the first half show promise of an interesting thriller. Anjali did her part well and tries her best to save this film. Jaya Prakash as a doctor looks decent.

Arjuna Bajwa is good as an antagonist in his brief role. The last 15-20 minutes is dealt carefully and the track with Sindhu Tolani is interesting. Production values are good as most part of the shooting is done in US.

The major problem with this flick is the mediocre way of narrating. Interesting story line gets diluted in monotony. The film is dragged like anything without any substance and tests the patience of the viewers.

Anjali’s character is not properly etched and her costumes look pathetic. She goes over the top sometimes due to such eccentric character. Songs disturb the flow repeatedly and Saptagiri’s track looks forced and is irritating.

The technical values in this film are pretty bad though cinematography is an exception. Songs and background score sounds horrible and so is the editing which could have been a way better. Dialogues are ok.

Director Ashok Reddy, fails badly this time. The script may sound good on paper but the execution is routine to the core. He tries to add so many emotions in this thriller which are not required and finally messes up the proceedings.

‘Chitrangada’ is a film which is dragged to no extent and lackluster proceedings spoil the show further. Anjali is the only saving grace in an otherwise pathetic film.