Yuddham Sharanam

 

The last time I watched bad acting in a movie was in Spy. That movie was a car crash with no forgettable action, terrible actors, poor direction and screenplay, terrible direction, and an awful story. Yudham Sharanam had a couple of things going for it though. Some of the supporting cast are some of the best in the industry, and the story had potential. Those are the only good things about the movie. Everything else was poor. While the main story began well and had some intrigue and suspense, more focus was put into the story of the family and the unnecessary love story between the leads  This gave very little time to tie in the flow of the story, and the eventual reveal of the suspense falls flat. The biggest reason why the movie does not do well is because of the male protagonist's inability to act. Everything from his expressions to his dialogue delivery, dancing in songs, and inability to do good fight sequences seems to have lead the movie makers to put more effort into covering up these shortfalls. The number if cuts in every action scene, and some fights being done in flickering lights were clearly choreographed to cover the fact that the actor cannot fight. His dialogue delivery sounds like a cat in pain, and his expressions make no sense. How he has made 11 more movies with him in the lead is something I would like to explore some day.

Nerds can sit and study the movie to explore what could have been done to make it better. The rest of us should not watch this.

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