Tagaru

Sometime time back, I had mentioned that Tagaru will be a perfect launch for Dhananjaya to pull him into the big league. His immense talent was either less utilized or went unnoticed.

Suri, is a character based Director and casted Dhananjaya perfectly for Daali character in this latest film Tagaru and the result is impactful or has he unleashed a star-villain for Kannada films but care should be taken that Dhananjaya shouldn’t be type casted as he is a star material and will only glide in leaps if the able directors uses his talent properly in future. for both, Tagaru happens to be the 9th film of their careers respectively and their maiden partnership struck the goldmine.

For Suri, Casting such a mammoth star cast with equally talented ones was one of the biggest coups he did in his career. Suri, is a director who very well knows his ability and invests heavily on his craft with all the available resources within his confines. When he made Kendsampige he had to sell off his property to produce it and the outcome was altogether new experience for the audience.

The story of Tagaru is simple and linear. It’s the operation of cleansing society by eliminating the gangsters of same group but what awe-struck the audience is the presentation of the subject ,screenplay, crisp dialogues, razor-sque editing and placing the scenes in a jumbled way which soars and scores heavily and something that reminds of Upendra’s style of film making.

Suri with Tagaru once again ventures into the underworld genre. This genre has been his forte ever since his debut and every time he makes a film in this genre it has a detailing and exploration of the darker side of the society but he makes exception this time by planting a cop in this underworld saga and allows a game between cat and mice.

If the first half goes on killing spree, spilling blood on each frame, depicting grey activities of underworld and placing all the scenes randomly making the audience a bit of restless to c...