Film: Daksha Cast: Duniya Vijay, Pankaj, Neha Patil
Director: S Narayan
Filmmaking is usually a time-intensive field, apart from being cost intensive too. While a certain league of filmmakers have given time for their creativity to ripen for more than two to three years, some painfully struggle with finances or date issues of the actors. But director, producer and actor S Narayan could belong to a new league of filmmakers who believe in rapid shots. The result is Daksha, a record-making 140-minute action film shot in a single take!
Not compromising on the star cast, the popular director has an ensemble cast with Duniya Vijay playing the lead. Shot in a palatial house in Hebbal, the film is a mix of romance, sentimentality, comedy, action, drama and also brings in an essence of patriotism. The straightforward action-thriller is about a judge, played by Suchendra Prasad and his family who are held hostage by a group of terrorists. How Daksha (Duniya Vijay), an army commando enters the house and single-handedly bashes up about 45 goons, forms the crux of the story! The audience don’t have to tax their mind in the least and just go with the flow. The actors too seem to have gone ahead and tried an experiment with time. Not being the usual run-of-the-mill story for an actor like Vijay, he seems to have taken a brave risk of being part of this record-smashing film. So seems to be the case with actors like Shobraj, Manoj, Neha Patil, Pankaj, Rangayana Raghu, Bullet Prakash, Uday, Shobaraj, Abijith among others. Cameraman Renukumar too seems to have considered his job seriously.
However, whether their risk-taking impulse lasts for the length of the film remains to be seen. Nonetheless kudos to the entire team to try and give a different flavour to an oft told story.