Duration – 2H 30M, Genre – Mystery, Romantic Drama, Verdict – A journey of its own.
Title – Banaras Produced by – Tilakraj Ballal & Muzammil Ahmed Khan, Direction – Jayatheertha, Dialogues – Rajan Agarwal, Cinematography – Advaitha Gurumurthy, Music – B. Ajaneesh Loknath, Editor – K. M. Prakash, Starring – Zaid Khan, Sonal Monteiro, Sujay Shastry, Devaraj, Achyuth Kumar, Sapna Raj, Barkath Ali
Here are the reasons why you should be watching Banaras:
LOVE STORY BY DIRECTOR JAYATHEERTHA
Jayatheertha is known for his out-of-the-ordinary movies like Olave Mandara, Beautiful Manasugalu, Bell Bottom, and others to name of few of his popular works. Now Banaras too will be known for its unusual storytelling and narration keeping a love story at the backdrop of beautiful city Kashi story opens up to multiple layers of mystic elements such as time travel, time loop, murder mystery, and hallucination keeping the audience hooked on to screen bewildered.
UNCONVENTIONAL DEBUT BY ZAID KHAN
Zaid Khan son of Karnataka Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan, when announced his entry as an actor in a Pan India Film the expectation was for him to enter with a big-scale commercial mass cinema but the Zaid took everyone by surprise by choosing a content-oriented subject and emerging as a promising actor. From his acting skills to dance and fights the actor has lived up to the expectations as a debutant. Sonal Monteiro as the female lead has equally backed up with her performance making the duo’s on-screen chemistry shine out.
BANARAS MOVIE TOUR
Banaras earlier name to Varanasi, a city on the Ganges river where people wish to take a dip in the holy river and get rid of their earlier sins plays as a supporting lead to the story where Siddharth (Zaid) to apologize and rectify his caused problem to Dhani (Sonal) visits the city. The beautiful landscape of the city fills the movie like art on a canvas. There are minute details of the city such as mukthi dhama, ghats, tea stalls, transportations, random roads, bridges, Ganga arti, and more which are sprinkled across giving an audience a virtual tour experience of the place.
STRONG SUPPORT TEAM
Banaras has a strong support team both on-screen and off experienced actors such as Devaraj, Achyuth Kumar, Sapna Raj bring comfort with their natural realistic performance. Special Mention to Sujay Shastry who is seen in a unique role as ‘Death Photographer’ and is much appreciated for his emotional performance in the climax giving the movie a wholesome conclusion.
Movie has well written dialogues by Rajan Agarwal dreamy romantic dialogues to philosophical ones gets imprinted in the minds “ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಮುಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಸಾಯಬೇಕು ಅಂತ ಬಂದ್ರೆ, ನಾನು ಮುಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಬದುಕಬೇಕು ಅಂತ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೀನಿ” and the comparison statement of ದೇಹದ ತೂಕ v/s ಉಸಿರಿನ ತೂಕ and so on. Visual artistic capture of Banaras by cinematographer Advaitha Gurumurthy and as always wonderfully done Music by B. Ajaneesh Loknath makes it a perfect packaging.
The movie does have its downward curve at a few points but negligible. A family-friendly view that caters to all age groups with balanced elements of romance, emotions, and thriller will not disappoint.
