Mangala Movie Review
Banner : Mantra Entertainments
Rating : 2.25/5
Released On : Mar 2, 2011

There in a remote village lives a witchcraft practicing man (Pradeep Rawat), who has a son Chinna (Vijay Sai). Chinna is an ardent fan of film heroine Mangala (Charmi). Chinna wants to gift a car to Mangala and for that he needs money. Chinna's father does witchcraft for rich men to earn money and gives it to his son.
Chinna meets Mangala along with a crowd of other fans. Someone in the crowd tries to grope Mangala and she in turn mistakes Chinna to be the culprit. Though Chinna tries to convince that he is innocent, but no one believes in him. Chinna goes back to village and consumes poison. On doctor's advice, Chinna's
father goes to Mangala and requests her to come to their village and save life of his son.

Mangala fails to go along with him and in the meanwhile Chinna dies. To avenge his son's death, Chinna's father invokes a deadly evil power called 'Sakuchi' to harm Mangala. How Mangala and her childhood companion cum driver Subbulu escape the wrath of 'Sakuchi', forms the rest of the part.

Analysis :


Director Osho Tulasiram chose an interesting subject of witchcraft as the plot. But miserably failed to maintain that interest in the audience throughout the movie. While first half generates ample interest, weak script ruins it in the second half. Osho Tulasiram succeeded in scaring people till the evil power 'Sakuchi' is unleashed on Mangala. Later he failed to sustain grip over the script. He couldn't establish plausible ways in which Sakuchi can be resisted by human beings and left it entirely on the miracles. He overlooked the fact that even people who don't believe such powers exist, will expect a little bit of human factor in destroying them. There's no hero or heroin-ism in the movie and definitely, it mars the audience's interest.

TeluguOne Perspective :

Acting: Charmi tried to give the best performance she can and succeeded to some extent only. She could have done well, had the script given her more scope. However Charmi covered it up nicely with her skin show. Pradeep Rawat impresses as witchcraft practitioner, though his role lacked length. Others also did justice to their respective roles. The only comic respite in Mangala is Tamil director's character and that brings some laughter as well as pushes the story forward.

Music: Average. Background score is good.
Camera: This department deserves appreciation. The shots were well taken in tune with the theme of the movie.

Dialogues: Average.

Lyrics: Except the title song, lyrics in remaining songs not so decipherable to the senses.

Editing: Good. Though a debutant, editor did his job well.

Art: Art director tried his best to make the sets look scary enough and has succeeded in some places.

Choreography: Good and in tune with the sequences, though some may feel vulgar at some places.
Action: Good.

"A thriller genre movie till the intermission and takes away the thrill thereafter. Better to watch it on TV than in theater."