Raghava Doregowda

Brother is a comedy/drama film with Jayam Ravi and Priyanka Mohan in lead roles along with Bhumika Chawla and VTV Ganesh. Jayam Ravi acts great for the role and the comedy back and forth scenes are funny. Good engaging comedy but some places I felt the jokes were being overused but alright. The emotions and politics between the main character and the heroine's parents are entertaining with great plot twists Compared to films dominated by Anirudh's noisy copycat music, Harris' music although seems outdated is pleasing and the rap song makkamishi is interesting. Harris also really brought out the emotions with his BGM in the film. Once in a while when we listen to nuanced music rather than the mainstream noisy sample stacked and production based EDMish music out there, this feels sort of refreshing while also sounding a little old as well. The only places which were a minus was that the interval/intermission bang was missing with the movie having high comedic points in the first half but as it kept fading the film was paused during the interval which seemed abrupt and strange, and also the ending was the worst part. The kidnapping scene coupled with the abrupt ending was absolutely a black mark for the film, and well that's unfortunate. You will find this movie engaging with it's comedic elements and 2 and a half hours seems worth the watch, just the transitions seem abrupt and some of the jokes feel overused. Summary: Yes, watchable. Enjoy HJ's music

Walked out of the theatre- Surprised, question marks, little satisfied, little dissatisfied, little overwhelmed also. IN A NUTSHELL it's like studying only physics absolutely thoroughly for an exam but the subject is "Science" so it includes chemistry and Biology which you haven't gone through very thoroughly. You may/may not pass, but still you did do some physics well but the result is nullified by chem and bio so you won't be known as the best due to overall marks. So it's what I would call a "weird film". Cinematography was way more intricate than what I had originally thought of Kannada cinema to be but....it felt like quality of shots was too much more than what was trying to be playing out. Rishab Shetty's acting is lopsided. Some places he really acts natural but other places suddenly reminds you "oh this is an "actor" from the typical Kannada cinema" and well....you realize you said the word "actor" meaning it's not totally engaging. Also one more weird thing is the repetitiveness at some parts that ironically the detailed cinematography made it obvious. The "shouting" which was much much more than necessary, the fight scenes, the Daiva scenes, nightmares....it doesn't take long to realize that it's repetitive and not really a pattern of engaging events. As for the plot that's also weird. I liked the outline structure of the plot. The idea of using Karnataka communities as a representative for the film which meant hero could shape up as a unique character rather than the typical films. Villains were good at acting(Devendra and Murali). But the weird part is towards the end it started taking a religious/political belief and I was almost at a facepalm. Using religious/political beliefs is a cheap way to dump information onto audience who are nowadays not falling for influences. Basically it became the typical Kannada commercial scenes "I've run out of ideas so let's just commercialize the scenes and get done with it". Walked out of the theatre- Surprised, question marks, little satisfied, little dissatisfied, little overwhelmed also.