A Milestone for a Milestone - Celebrating #1year of KGF CHAPTER 1

KGF Chapter 1 – The saga to the Throne of Goldfields gets an epic, finesse scale of storytelling.

 Kgf is the story of Rocky, who has his mother's last words as an asset to aspire and become the King of the World instead of dying as a puny. As he raises his monopoly in the slums of Bombay, his heroics gets heard all over the West Coast, he is given a tip by Andrews, one of the ministers of KGF, who, after knowing the news that king of KGF is in his last days, are eyeing to dethrone and kill the king’s son, making their way clear to the respected post. This tip becomes his suicide mission, as he is given an offer which cannot be refused. This mission makes Rocky live through a journey with the quest of power, wealth, jealousy and brutality.

Release - 21st December 2018

Languages - Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi

Available on - Amazon Prime Video

KGF shook the Box office with its cinematic brilliance, perfectly nailing the Commercial Flick. Here are a few reasons why KGF won the hearts and became memorable for the Indian Audience

Dialogues

The crucial part where the director does well is the dialogues, as a result, the crux becomes electrifying. The dialogues are penned with great power and punch redefining an insight of a consequence and perfectly create the hype. The metaphorical and abstract justification of the lines in a few moments strikes the elevations. The best part of the dialogues is that, in all its languages of release the movie, the intensity never wears off. in what it has to deliver.  

                                        
The Story and it's Massy Heart 

 The story writing in the beginning stages, whiffs like air as the narrations get swift. The audience are hurdled with registering the characters and their prominence in the saga. But this gets sufficed by the unique characterization the story creates and the drama it runs for nearly  2 and a half hours, creating a mass appeal and the huge scale for the movie.

"KGF  is packed with intense drama and storytelling shining over the heavy music and the painted visuals. "

 The movie also fetches out the massy flavour for Rocky, by making him the central of narration, that every deed or every character somehow affects the journey of him. The biggest factor that governs that makes this movie triumph is its appeal, the story is dealt so artistically and professionally that the movie becomes universal and irrespective of the language there will be scenes have that grand elevation and powerful impact. The team’s decision to dub the movie in all other south Indian languages along with Hindi gets a big thumbs up as the writing is never regional and has a good exposure which makes it more universal.

Characters and Performances 

 The movie has a great set of performers, especially in terms of the newness, as the audience get invested in the character and very rarely see the actor playing it. There’s a variety and the ranging of characters that we see in the movie, still never staying away from the plot, which gives us a modern tale of the territorial realm.  Yash especially with his eyes and body language, fills the space of rocky with, giving us that rustic, badass look. There is a thrill in watching Yash performing as Rocky. The antagonist Garuda played by Ramakrishna Raju is also an example for the stupendous work of the casting team.  Be it his physique, body language and right from his eyes he looks dreadful Goddy and villainy.

"The part where it excels is the freshness in the way the story and the characters are graphed and the grandeur of set pieces and locations."

Visuals, Music and it's larger than life effect
The visuals capturing these characters and the locations by Bhuvan Gowda look like a painting. The frames he sets, the use of the eagle views, close-ups, and b rolls all add up well Ravi Basur's loud music and background score adds up well, aptly setting the mood with the orchestration.

Also read Celebrating 15 yrs of Anand: https://synccinema.blogspot.com/2019/10/celebrating-15-years-of-anand_27.html

Intricate Production Design 
 The production and set design is very much detailed and picture-perfect, giving credit to the way colours are used in the fore and background,  the use of black, brown and smokiness for the goldfields episode make it look more chaotic, the deep dark tunnelled effect created in the slum sequence at the start or the way even the costumes are designed.
 Look out for the amount golden apparel you see in the characters except for the protagonist, we see that people who are no way connected to the goldfields or the mines of gold, wear the golden ornaments or look in a stylized and decorative gold apparels, whereas the leading men of KGF regard gold as a petty and ordinary substance, we see the value of gold given by the characters with the help of costume designing based on their reach to the gold. The makeup goes hand in hand with the costumes as the characters with given look fit perfect into their costumes. The art team smarty creates a picturesque depiction of characters with the items that they possess like the gold swaying chain of a cross or the support stick with a golden venomous head of the snake and many more. All these things fetch pure visual storytelling.

  "The story is instilled in 3rd person’s narration, giving the audience a feel of going through the lost pages of the larger than life segments of history."

Editing Hassle, Dubbing quality and the Bad Romance 

 The minus points of the movie are only the rapidly chopped editing and the dubbing quality. The editing in most of the parts is good, but puts in too many frames into a scene, numbing the eyes and creating a sense of confusion. The voice quality though is very clean and feels slightly artificial and individualistic with the surround sound. The hassle of the environment is never seen in the audio, as the voices heard are crystal clear, with no muffle or liveliness. The movie has an unwanted romance track, which, again, is written in a very heroic manner highlighting the hero, with very little to no feel, making it more cringy.

• KGF Ch 2 First look : https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Vfjr7nPma/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

               Ultimately, the movie has the immersive quality that the audience have an adrenaline rush watching a few sequences in the movie.  The movie has the self-completing nature and also leaves a trail of clues and loose ends for its next chapter. The movie makes the audience eager for the second chapter by making them hugely influenced by its energy in the first one.