Career best performance by Charmee. Hilariously stupid climax and weak screenplay with a below average impact. First half an hour is good and the rest drags. Worth watching the half but if you are bored you can play game by predicting the next scene.
The story is as old as horror films are. It is utterly predictable and cliched. Any regular movie goer can foresee the scenes. Though the background score is impressive, the music makes you cringe. It sounded like someone was talking fast with drums beating at the backdrop. There was no melody or recall value at all. The comedy scene with a pigmy sized man in the first half didn't have any meaning or relevance to the story. We are still wondering what it was. Let us know if you got that joke. The mantras and witch hymns in this film are overtly funny and take away the seriousness of the horror script. For instance, Charmee is asked to say 'Kilari Kicha Kicha Thu Thu Thu' by a baba who is try to help her. Why comedy with ghost stories? The scenes where Tamil director is belittling Telugu filmstars and movie makers seems forced into the story. Perhaps the director wanted to give a 'Message' and hence inserted it into this horror thriller. The climax is hopeless and is sure to put you off. Even fairy tales have better logic than such a low key, wierd and senseless climax. Lord Shiva's water Lingam appearance and a splash of it on Charmee's face bringing her to normalcy is a great fall from the hype generated in the first half. The song in the climax had no meaning and we doubt if there was a choreographer at all while shooting that song.
Charmee is iconic,uncontested and has no equals in South Indian cinema to do such roles.As a victim of witchcraft, she was vulnerable,scary,innocent,witchy and funny. She is as beautiful as ever and performed with ease. She delivers a lot of WoW moments to the audience with her hip moments while dancing,tongue twirling as a girl in captive of a ghost. Pradeep Rawat manages to scare and his action as a witchcrafts man brought in the necessary 'scary' element to the film. The scene where Charmee flies out of her dining table comes so suddenly that it leaves a great impact on the minds of the audience.Cinematography is clapworthy. The shots are in accordance with the genre of the movie. Shivendra the cinematographer is the maximum star of this film after Charmee. Director Osho Tulasiram has tried so hard to scare the people but he has lost his track at one point of the movie. He doesn’t know on how to handle a movie later and he will be revealing the plot of the movie very soon in the first half of the movie which ended up him in a dilemma of not knowing what to do with the rest of the movie.. In short this movie will be a feast for the Charmi fans.Mangala has sleek, sepia-tinted visuals, and boasts of good taste in aesthetics overall. A good soundtrack helps the cause of the scares and thrills. In all Mangala could have been a brilliant film. However, for those who champion the cause of the upcoming "multiplex genre" in local cinema, here might be a pretty decent find. U can try give a try Guys.
