Movie Review: ‘Loser 2’ wins with border marks
Priyadarshi is making waves on the OTT platform showcasing his acting talent. His “Loser” web series received a huge response and the web series season 2 is streaming on ZEE 5. Let us see what new thrills “Loser 2” offered to viewers.
Story
Suri Yadav (Priyadarshi), a talented shooter after struggling a lot finally goes on to win the national shooting championship overcoming all politics in the Rifle association. He gets rewarded with a government job and at the same time, ad filmmaker Maya (Dhanya Balakrishna) comes into his life. In the meantime, Wilson (Sashank), who failed to realize his dreams as a cricketer due to politics and his own temper, comes to know that his son John aspires to become a cricketer. Ruby (Kalpika Ganesh) relationship with her husband Said hits a rock-bottom and she decides to pursue badminton dream by training youngsters. Where their lives led and what they have got in future is the main plot of the story.
Analysis
Priyadarshi’s “Loser 2” attracted the attention as the first part impressed audiences. Director Abhilash started the narration in a interesting manner but quickly loses steam with routine elements creeping in. With missing emotions despite the makers trying to elevate them to the core, “Loser 2” for all the efforts failed to live up to the expectations. Artistes performances, background music, camera work and few dialogues tried to make the viewer to watch the series till the ending.
Performances
Priyadarshi performed well and showed his talent in emotional scenes. Kalpika Ganesh performance entertains audience expressing with her eyes. Suriya, a popular actor surprises as Priyadarshi's employer while Dhanya Balakrishnan impressed as the ad filmmaker. Ravi Varma is fine as the coach of Priyadarshi. Gayathri Bhargavi appeared as Ruby's teacher. Shayaji Shinde, Satya Krishnan, Surya, Pavani Gangireddy and Tarak Ponnappa did not get much screen presence but tried to engage audience with what they were given.
Technicalities
Director Abhilash Reddy continues from where he left the first part. He penned the story along with Shravan Madala and Sai Bharadwaj concentrated on highlighting the emotions through sports. But in all the episodes, the three sports interwoven take only the backseat while the emotions looked routine and artificial failing to connect chords with the viewers. Though he tried to generate more interest with intense emotions but failed in his efforts.
Sriram Madduri's music is good. Background music is in sync with the story. Naresh Ramadurai's cinematography is beautiful and natural. Editing could have been better as there are many drags. Production values are good.
