Athadu

This is intended as a continuation to the previous review: https://letterboxd.com/kenough_/film/athadu/ I forgot to mention how happy it made me feel that the names of the actors who passed away were mentioned with a we miss you. I thought I would see that in Indra too, but that didn't happen. There are a few unrestored frames in Chandamama song (I think), and after watching The Wicker Man, I think it is important to have atleast a few unrestored frames sprinkled in the film so that we have a proper comparision as to what we got and what we had before. When Thatha comes in his car to confront Naidu, there is a plate thingy on his car that reads "I maybe old but I still get hot" and I thought that was such a nice detail. When Nandu brings out the gun and aims at the MRO, the framing really blew my mind. Nandu is in the top-right corner of the frame and the gun is in the bottom-left. When he switches hands and aims at Naidu, Nandu goes to the top-left, and gun comes into bottom-right. No words can express how that single shot made me feel. There was also a dolly zoom but that was kinda wasted since there isn't much background there. Still looked pretty slick though. Makes Mahesh look awesome.