'Yagam' Review

Film: Yagam
Cast: Navadeep, Bhoomika, Kim Sharma, Ajay, Harsha Vardhan etcLyrics: Bhaskarabhatla, Ananth Sri RamChoreography: KalyanEditing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Camera: Bharani K Dharani
Music: Mani Sharma
Producer: Raju, Praveen
Director: Arun Prasad
Released On: 20th March 2010

Senior actress Bhoomika and young actor Navadeep appeared promising on the posters of Yagam. Kim Sharma’s glamour dose is another element that pulled a set of audiences to theatres. Let us see the result of this. Story:Santhosh (Navadeep) lives in Bangkok along with a bar girl (Kim Sharma) and he gets so weird dreams. And in those dreams he foresees future. He witnesses the deaths of a business tycoon, an air hostess named Cynthia and a Minister of Thailand. He shares his dreams to his girl friend. Every dream of his becomes true. How that happens? And Nandini (Bhoomika), an air hostess is linked to Santhosh with love.

How is she connected to the ability of Santhosh to foresee deaths? That has to be watched on screen. Performances:Bhoomika is fresh and still looks younger with ample grace. Kim Sharma is for glamour quotient and she fulfilled the requirement. Navadeep is perfect but little scope is left for him to perform as the dialogues are weak and scene conceiving is also amateur. Ajay and Harsha Vardhan tried to spill some humor and they could score well. Others are normal. Rahul Dev appeared in antagonist’s role for sometime. Ali and Brahmanandam appear in two separate weak comedy tracks. Music by Mani Sharma is weak.
Lyrics are mundane. Cinematography is ok and rest is quite normal. Had the director focused on screenplay the film would have worked a bit well. Analysis:It’s a revenge drama that was made on beaten track. Making murder mysteries is a separate art. Director should know where to press the clutch and where to release, where to shift gear and where to keep break. The biggest blunder in this film is revealing the mystery of protagonist’s ability to foresee future.

The tempo has fallen down abruptly. And everything has gone on predictable mode from then onwards. First 30 minutes has very less dialogue and it goes certainly interesting till 2 minutes before interval. The second half proves boring as everything is as expected and audiences walked out from theatres 30 minutes before the completion of the movie. It’s a sign of director’s flaw.