A meteor breaks away from the sun. It takes years, but it finally lands on earth and its energy kickstarts human and plant evolution. No, it is not the iconic sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey . These are the opening visuals of director Kalaprabhu’s disappointing Indrajith . And with that, we end the only ever instance where both these films are mentioned in the same breath.
- Director: Kalaprabhu
- Cast: Gautham Karthik, Sudhanshu Pandey, MS Bhaskar
- Storyline: Two fighting factions are in search of a medicinal rock with healing powers.
In the following centuries, the above-mentioned meteor gets hidden in the jungles of the North East. Two groups, both associated with the Archaeological Survey of India, are in search of this rock that possesses magical medicinal powers. It is powerful enough to cure cancer and the water that flows through it can even heal bullet wounds.
Indrajith (Gautham Karthik) too is a part of this treasure hunt and travels from Goa to the forests of Arunachal Pradesh for it. He’s a fan of Indiana Jones (the director of the film is too) and is always up for an adventure. But sadly, the actor is no Harrison Ford.
What worked so effectively in the Indiana Jones series was how wonderfully a tense chase would be followed up with the funniest of scenes seemingly effortlessly. Indrajith too attempts this by resting much of the comedy on Karthik’s slender shoulders, but that is just the director being more adventurous than the film’s script.
The film’s ambition, though, is unending. There are elaborate and partly entertaining chase scenes. There’s also a CGI snake, falcon, The Lion King -style stampede and even a crashing airplane. But it’s just not a film one could have attempted with a limited CGI budget. Inconsistent and shoddy, the film’s visuals hardly reflect what the director must have had in mind while setting out to write such a fantasy. But what’s unforgivable is Indrajith ’s predictability and how it fails to deliver even the basics... and I mean even continuity errors.
But these are not issues that trouble a director when his father is a top-notch producer.
