Accident

If you are thinking that this is yet another review about the intelligence of Ramesh as a director and how he has presented a runaway hit called Accident, then I may be disappointing an ardent Ramesh fan. I am not writing about those well-known facts or expected presentations from him.

            That Accident is a truly new genre of Kannada films is undisputable. But how many of us have noted that apart from the script, screenplay, narration and direction, the characters are different? They simply seem to be existing there. Not made or created, they appear to have been there all along and seem to have been caught up in a very credible event, which the cameras have captured. The credit for this goes to the host of newcomers who have not acted, but have got into the characters.

            I may not have all of their off-screen names correctly, but I must mention each one of them as I have great empathy for any God-fatherless climber in life.

            Villains are as bad as they come and in most movies are make-un-believe. But how do you like a villain with whom you could identify-I mean with whom you could identify a local goonda with? Be it UK based doctor, ‘jadeja’ Dr. Mahesh Longa or the talented professional artiste Rajendra Kamath who play the villains so convincingly that you could almost say-“Yeah, this fellow is the local rowdy who stays in our street,” or “ This is the face of the minister who cheated us.” Their dialogue deliveries are as authentic as the dialects that they talk.

            The gum chewing, tight-slap inviting arrogant face of the constable played by Roshan is there for everyone to say-“Yeah, this was the attitude of that police I had once run into.” I almost believed Ramesh had roped in a real constable and a real life inspector, also brilliantly portrayed by Dinesh Babu (director of Amrithavarshini). Babu’s subdued underplay has only enhanced the mystery of his character.

            Balaji Manohar (reel doctor) and Thilak play Ramesh’s buddies. If we always felt Ramesh as the next-door boy, these guys are as real as the next-door-boy’s friends!

            The others are Pathi Iyer, Gym Bhasker and Kiran, I think. Only their faces betray that they are new, as we have not seen them any time before. But in acting every one seems to be an old-timer! Gel them with professional actors like Mohan, Rekha, Pooja Gandhi with Ramesh leading the pack, you have a winner called Accident.

            I think apart from all other technical attributes. Accident owes a lot to the new faces, which have made the movie authentic and believable unlike the Dishshum-Dishshum headache dispensers that are passed off as mystery and action thrillers.