Bangalore: The lean and hungry, hero of Kannada films, returns to direction in ‘Super’ a new hit after 10 years. He is riding a Utopian horse with foreigners turning taxi drivers in a rich and fabulous India, where they beg Indian tourists to ride their vehicles! Sounds like tables are turned on the Westerns.
But the poverty, corruption and money making scandals through materials (property, housing or by nepotism etc) simply wont go away. They harass the young and old alike, when no one believes each other. But dreams of Dubai or Muscat, where Indians do chores to Muslims and of America and Western Europe where they have intimacy, remain intact.
Greedy politicians are India’s poor who made good by scandalous ways to gather riches. Such biting scenes on a screen will make you sit up and take notice in the narration.
The director overshadows the actor in Upendra in this creativity. There are shots taken in London, with local mannerism and silly fun on display.
The story moves around an Indian industrialist’s son in Britain and a traditional dancer coming to London for a stage show. They meet and marry.
The two agree to wed but on the marriage day Indira reveals that she is in a revengeful mood against hero Subhash Gandhi, as he had spurned her own sister’s overtures for love. She tells him that he was overvaluing Indians traditions in modern times, as his emotions are misplaced and there is a condition in India where no one can reform it for the better, to improve the lot of the poor in India.
The emotional attachment hardly has any sense, Indira clarifies. Gandhi is shell shocked. Indira warns that people in India do not deserve more wealth. Gandhi is asked to help an old school-teacher’s retirement pension to materialize without any delay.
He exhausts all procedures but cannot get the pension for the old teacher. Disgusted, he employs goons and anti – social persons to change the scene.
Gandhi becomes CM by purchasing legislators from various parties, like BJP. He sends a message to people to be more responsive to circumstance to make rulers accountable to their wrongs done and stresses that no progress could be made in a drifting politics.
Upendra as actor, draws large crowds and they love him in various mannerisms and get-ups. His dialogue delivery is great. Nayanatara fits her role. Camera, songs and music are at the best. Upendra is on way up.