Mechanic Rocky Movie Review

After delivering a successful film, Gaami & not so successful film, Gangs of Godavari this year already, Vishwak Sen came up with his third film of the year, Mechanic Rocky, an action comedy film under the direction of debutant, Raviteja Mullapudi. Meenakshi Chaudhary & Shraddha Srinath did the female lead roles and Jakes Bejoy who scored a hit recently with Saripodhaa Sanivaaram, scored the music for the film. It’s a crucial film for producer Ram Talluri who delivered a disaster with Matka last Friday. Did Vishwak Sen score a hit with Mechanic Rocky? Did the debutant director deliver a memorable film? Did Ram Talluri get a sigh of relief? Let’s figure it out with a detailed analysis.

What is it about?

Nagumomu Rakesh Aka Mechanic Rocky (Vishwak Sen) works as a mechanic and driving teacher at his father’s (Naresh) garage. Ranki Reddy (Sunil), a real estate settlement goon agrees to grab Rocky’s lake-view garage and hand it over to a businessman for ₹25 lakhs. Rocky makes a deal with Ranki Reddy for ₹50 lakhs and asks him to give him ten days to adjust the money. While Rocky & Ranki Reddy making the deal, he gets a call from Maya (Shraddha Srinath) who says Rocky’s father has a two-crore insurance policy in his name and Rocky will now get the two crore as his father passed away. Will Rocky get the two crore money? Who is Maya? What is her connection with Priya (Meenakshi Chaudhary)? Forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Vishwak Sen as Rocky Aka Nagumomu Rakesh did a decent job with his performance but he looked odd as a student during the college episode in the first half. The film has two female leads and both of them have good character arcs.

Meenakshi Chaudhary as Priya who takes responsibility for her family after her father and brother passes away, did perform well. Shraddha Srinath got a meaty role as Maya and utilised it so well. It is safe to say that she is the best performer in the film out of all the other actors. Senior actor Naresh’s comedy worked to an extent. Sunil, Harsha Chemudu and Hyper Aadi were wasted in insignificant roles. Harsha Vardhan and Raghu Ram Ambadapudi (MTV Roadies Creator) are just decent.

Technicalities:

Jakes Bejoy’s background score is a mixed bag. It was good at a few parts and was out of sync at a few parts. His songs are forgettable. The film has a total of five songs and none of them worked. The cinematography by Manoj Reddy Katasani is adequate. There’s nothing much to talk about his work. Anwar Ali’s editing should have been much better. He should have edited at least fifteen to twenty minutes of the film, especially in the first half. SRT Entertainment’s production values are decent. Debutant director, Raviteja Mullapudi should have avoided adding unnecessary commercial elements to a plot that has a very good potential to become a good thriller.

Thumbs Up:

Core Plot of The Film
Two Twists In The Second Half

Thumbs Down:

Routine Template-Driven Screenplay In The First Half
Boring Songs
Poorly Written Dialogues
Unnecessary Action Episodes
Climax

Analysis:

‘Your phone number won a lottery’, ‘You have received a parcel from abroad, ‘Click on the link to check your CBIL/Credit score’, etc., almost all of us must have got calls or E-Mails or messages from fraudsters who say one of the aforementioned things to loot money from us. As mentioned in the movie, around twenty-thousand such crimes are happening in India every day.

The debutant director, Raviteja Mullapudi took a very relatable point of crime happening by targeting middle-class people in India, as the core plot and he added a couple of good twists to the plot that worked well. But, in an attempt to include commercial elements, he lost the plot completely in the first half. The first half of the film tests your patience with a routine template-driven screenplay with three songs, two fights, a beaten-to-death hero & villain track and a romantic track. Everything in the first half looks forced and dragged forever.

Even in the second half, when the core plot is unfolding interestingly, he included a celebration song between Vishwak Sen & Meenakshi Chaudhary that comes across as a speed breaker to the proceedings. After a good sixty minutes in the second half, the director chose to end the movie very routinely with an action sequence and poorly written ‘punch’ dialogues that are uttered by the hero.

The core plot of the film should have been worked as a proper thriller film with a crisp runtime and tight screenplay but the director’s attempt to make it an ‘Action & Romantic & Comedy & Thriller’ film worked against it. Just like most of Vishwak Sen’s films, Mechanic Rocky also has a lot of curse words throughout the film.

Overall, the core plot of Mechanic Rocky has a lot of potential but the overall feel of the film is spoiled by unnecessary commercial elements and runtime. Given the potential of the core plot, Mechanic Rocky will end up remaining as a missed opportunity.

Mechanic Rocky – Lost In Commercialization

Rating – 2.5/5