Odela Railway Station got here as a direct-to-OTT launch in 2022 and acquired a good response. Now, the creator of the film, Sampath Nandi, has roped in Tamannaah Bhatia as a Naga Sadhu and made Odela 2 on an enormous canvas, selling it on an enormous scale. Allow us to dive deep into our evaluation and see if this sequel tops the primary half or not.
Setup:
Following half 1, after his demise, Tirupati (Vasishta Simha) is given a Samadhi Shiksha as an alternative of being cremated, as determined by the village heads and other people of Odela. Due to this, Tirupati’s soul by no means attains moksha and he turns into an evil spirit, committing a number of rapes and murders within the village. As soon as they uncover the reality, the villagers strategy Radha (Hebbah Patel) for assist. She then tells them about Shiva Shakti/Bhavani (Tamannaah), her estranged sister who was set on a divine path in her childhood. Will she return to the village upon the villagers’ request to comprise Tirupati? If that’s the case, how does she go about it? What challenges await her varieties the remainder of the story.
Performances:
Though the makers publicized Tamannaah because the showrunner of this film, she makes her first look solely within the pre-interval sequence. She was alright in just a few components, however the display screen presence required for such a strong function was lacking. Vasishta Simha was adequate in his function, which remained roughly the identical all through. His dubbing reminds us of Pasupathi from Arundhati. Hebbah Patel had only a few bridging sequences however carried out poorly in them. Murali Sharma had a job just like Sayaji Shinde from Arundhati and was confined to very restricted scenes. Different character artists had been all okay, with nothing placing aside from some melodramatic moments.
Technicalities:
Cinematography by Soundararajan was respectable. Enhancing by Avinash is beneath par, because the film feels very repetitive when it comes to shot composition. The identical drone photographs had been used a number of instances as transitions. The tempo of the film can also be inconsistent. Ajaneesh Loknath did a reasonably respectable job as this sort of film falls inside his consolation zone. He used separate theme music for Tirupati and Bhavani. At instances, although the music feels repetitive, it serves the aim. Nevertheless, he delivered a really common rating in the course of the climax, the place some main reveals occur. Director Ashok Teja, beneath the supervision of Sampath Nandi, had the large job of executing a movie mounted on such a big canvas. His inexperience is obvious as he fails to ship as a result of an absence of a robust script. The story, screenplay, and dialogues by Sampath Nandi really feel very outdated and fail to have interaction.
Thumbs Up:
Background rating in just a few components
Setup within the preliminary 20 minutes
Thumbs Down:
Story, Screenplay, and Route
Dangerous CGI
Beneath-par performances
Boring proceedings
Evaluation:
From the beginning, the movie revolves round an underlying idea—Shiva Shakti’s pursuit to realize divine darshan of Lord Shiva together with her grit and willpower by chanting Om Namah Shivaya 10 crore instances. Alongside this, there may be the battle of the evil spirit Tirupati in Odela Village. Any common moviegoer can predict how the story will unfold and the place it’ll finish. It’s as much as the makers to shock the viewers with participating twists and gripping screenplay alongside the way in which, even when the top is a given. However Odela 2 fails miserably in doing so.
Coming as a sequel to against the law thriller, Odela 2 ventures into the overused idea of divine versus evil. An attractive screenplay or highly effective sequences are important to make this theme work. Nevertheless, writer-director Sampath Nandi fully falters by stuffing each doable ingredient—horror, gore, killings, CG-heavy sequences, sadhus, preachings, and gods. None of it manages to carry consideration, leading to a repetitive and uninteresting drama, dragged down additional by subpar performances and weak technical facets. The makers projected Tamannaah because the shock ingredient with a robust efficiency, however they fail to make the most of her correctly. There isn’t a single scene that elevates the divinity or energy of her character, aside from a quick second within the climax.
Counting on the sequel issue, the Hindutva angle, and supernatural parts, the film would possibly pull in just a few curious viewers to theatres, however even they might discover it a tiring watch. On prime of all this, the makers repeat the identical battle on the finish as a tease for Odela 3.
Bottomline: Soulless Sequel
Score : 2/5
