Have you watched the trailer of this movie? Well then. Dont expect the movie to be as exciting as the trailer, because the trailer is a complete misguiding, misleading and a shameless cover of a lacklustre film that is zero in content. When a movie is full of sets, designer costumes, and looks like high-budget-personified but doesnt have even a single character that is well developed, its not your fault if you sleep in the theatre.
UKUP is a movie that assumes itself to be thrilling and creative. When the desperation of the director to touch every cliche and the self assumed eccentricity of the actor who wants to score a hit with offbeat picture doesnt match, we are doomed to find ourselves sitting helpless in the theatres like this. Well, coming to the story, there is a grandly erected set( Oh..there they have shown all their creativity..What else do you want you greedy man?) that has some ghosts and people who have one thing in common. They dont pay rent. Our hero arrives on a bike, with a hairstyle that is desperate to display his self proclamed negativity(Oh my God...these guys are killing me with creativity) and then the good deeds of this bad boy begin, much to our dismay. With a big sword(Hope its not plastic), he scares the hell out of the comedy less comedians and the audiences as well. Till Balakrishna arrives on scree, its boring. When he takes the movie on his shoulder, its again boring. Somewhere in the middle, we find Suhasini with the same expression we have saw her a zillion times. Manchu Laxmi, except in the climax episode is a matter of jokes, with her getup.
The dialogues are borrowed from the mookie dramas of the 90s. In the second half, the director realises that the only way to complete a socio fantasy picture is to copy something from the previous films in that genre. And then we are served with Sonu Sood plucked away from Arundhati minus his solid characterisation. (Creativity again). The songs that drop out of nowhere do their job(make you more sleepy). And then the climax. The only one thing about the movie that I liked is the fact that it ended.
When the title of the film itself assumes that it is a fairy tale that shocks you at times, and the trailer is shown to be promising, and there is an expectation on the hero, and in the background of a heavy marketing hype, it is the job of the director to design the film to be thrilling enough to make the audiences glued to their seats. But what happened here? A creative bankrupt director is showered with an efficient starcast and a juicy budget, just to dole out a disgusting and half boiled picture. All cliches and all stereotypes.
Manoj is an actor aho has a fanbase independent of caste and family status. He is reputed to have a good creative choice, and an eccentricity to pick up innovative subjects despite failures. But this time, you cant forgive him. As an actor he needs to realise that a solid script can do more than a tremendous budget and innovative-only-to-hear lines. And Balakrshna is okay in his role as a man that sells clothes......sorry distributes clothes. Than God the set doesnt have a railway track nearby, otherwise they would have planned a "slap your thigh--make train go back" episode.
As a final say, I would advice you not to waste your money on this film, and not to expect any telugu film based on its trailers.
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