Tollywood Film News & Gossips: Pista review

Cinegola rating: **__ Watchable (2 stars)

Cinegola points: 2 out of 5

Tagline: One more Pandem Kodi

Strengths: Vishal and Prakash Raj

Weaknesses: Story

My analysis: Pista movie is a routine action movie from Vishal like his earlier films Pandem Kodi, Bhayya etc. There is nothing new in the movie. The first half is little slow with establishment of characters and also with Vishal - Shreya love track. The second half is completely action packed with a routine and predictable climax. The interval twist is good.

Though Pista is a bi-lingual movie, it has more of tamil flavour than telugu because of which it might loose telugu audience patronage. Also we are getting to see same kind of mass masala action entertainers from Vishal which has nothing new to entertain the audience.

Performances: Vishal has nothing new to offer the audience. He has done the same mass oriented role in Pista also. His rugged look, his performance, his dialogue delivery all look the same as his earlier movies. He has to come out of his shell of action movies and try something new to entertain and enthrall the audience.

Zero size Shreya has showed a lot of oomph in the movie which will be an added asset to the movie. She has done a lot of skin show in Pista movie which will attract the mass audience.

Prakash Raj as the bad man has excelled in his role. It is nice to see him as villan after Pokiri movie. Kishore who acted as the other gangster is also good.

Others are just ok in their roles.

Music by Mani Sharma is average and doesnt create any effect on the audience.

The entire credit for the failure of Pista movie should be given to director Saba Ayyappa for his weak and routine story selection and bad direction. Saba’s routine story and weak direction couldnt utilize the acting talents of Vishal, Shriya, Prakash Raj, Tanikella Bharani, Shiyyaji Shinde etc resulting in a dud.

Story: Murali Krishna (Vishal) reaches Visakhapatnam in search of his elder brother Rambabu to make his mother (Geetha) happy. He meets Indu (Shriya) and falls in love with her. He also meets two rowdies Guru (Kishore) and Surya Prakash (Prakash Raj) and develops a tug with both of them. How he meets his brother and what he does to take his brother back to village forms the remaining part of the story.