Tarak movie review

  Director: Prakash

Cast: Darshan, Devaraj, Shanvi Srivastava, Sruthi Hariharan, Sumithra, Avinash, Kuri Prathap, Master
Mahendra Prasad


Tarak is another unite-the-family genre film that could have been much better had it been handled with finesse. The film is visually fine, but emotionally hollow. Prakash, who usually gets the family drama right, fails to make the act convincing.

At the interval, the film is nearly boring and has offered nothing of significance or something even close to entertainment. Post interval, there is a semblance of a story. But this is incoherent and what a regular movie watcher would have seen in dozens of films before. For example the typical ' blood cancer' of the 1980s is now some 'motor neuro something disease'.

What saves the film are the dramatic scenes in the last 30 minutes and a tearjerker performance by Darshan which is very unlike his usual screen portrayals. The film still does not have anything new. It is the usual mash up of made- for-film incidents.




Tarak could have been a much better film with the same story only if the scenes were crafted and presented convincingly. Except for a scene in the first half and a few towards the end of the film, it does not happen. There are also some unnecessary and silly scenes stuffed into the
film. Each of these involves Kuri Pratap. The comedy track is unfit in any film. 'Toilet jokes' that had stayed in bathrooms has come out into the living room.


The film is also a very good study material for the behavioural portrayal of Kannadigas in a foreign setting. Kannadigas here, like in other recent films where the action takes place in a foreign country, make sure to identify themselves as Indians first. The old love and
longing for a Mysuru is still present. But the longing is not for an independent identity; it is a reminder of a unique culture and heritage. Bengaluru is the business centre back home.


Review master rating.   :3/5