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REVIEW FROM A NON-KANNADIGA: This is not the romantic tragedy of the decade, IT'S THE ROMANTIC TRAGEDY OF A LIFETIME!! Saptasagaradaache Ello is a cinematic enigma! It's breathtaking, luminously painful and silently destructive. It's partly calm and partly blazing, an enduring portrait of doomed love, Manu and Priya's love. Yet beyond the overpowering theme of love and longing, it's a blistering commentary on social injustice. How the rich frame the poor as proxy for their crimes, how an innocent man is punished for a crime he has not committed. If SIDE A moves from an immersive romance to traumatizing separation, SIDE B revels in deep pain, hopeless retreat and a quiet revenge! It drowns, devours and destroys you in bits, it spins you in poetic ecstasy! It's delightful to watch Rukmini Vasanth as Priya. The actress lingers in your heart with her bewitching simplicity! I didn't like Rakshit Shetty in Side A, but boy he's a banger in SIDE B. The pain, the gentle fury, the devastation, and unconditional love he expresses through his eyes, he's unforgettable! And the distinct symbolism of the sea - It's serene, it's hallucinatory, it's inviting, yet it's savage, it's fierce. It's a testament of your dreams and sorrow, it consumes you in its fold and swallows you in its depth in the end! The imagery of the sea is so consistently riveting. Capturing the comfy romance in SIDE A to the agonizing heartache in the SIDE B - the background music this is a staggering trance, smearing the canvas with the ashes of burnt love!! Hemanth Rao deserves a jail term for this heartbreak warfare, for crushing our souls, for this powerhouse Kannada language narcotic! I'm reeling under its stupor, days after I watched it

I regret going to the theatres to watch this glorious mess!! Dev is a joker, with 0 acting skills who was made to cast as Jatin Muherjee! What a joke, His Bengali pronunciation made my ears bleed. Horrible direction and horrible screenplay, just focussing on few gimmicks, creating some over the top action scenes and making a mockery out of a revolutionary! The graphics with the tiger was as bad as photoshop nuisance. Pathetic songs and pathetic dialogue writing. It did not arouse even a spec of patriotism in me! The 1st half is so bland and ridiculous. Characters are introduced in a jiffy and not developed. The 2nd half still picks pace but not enough compelling. I would have given it just 1 star, but the last fight in the jungle was the saving grace. That's why I have given it a generous 2 stars