BILLA (2009) movie review
Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Don’ was made
into Telugu and Tamil by legends N.T.Rama Rao and Rajni Kanth, recently it was again made in Tamil by Ajith as ‘Billa’ and now in telugu we see it again as BILLA starring Prabhas. From the above mentioned facts it’s clear that the script of DON by ‘Salim-Javed’ doesn’t grow by time and is acceptable by any generation.
Prabhas looks apt for the role of a Don in BILLA and the only one in Telugu Film Industry who can this role. Looks like Meher Ramesh is inspired by Farhan Akthar’s DON rather than original one. Most of BILLA is directed in Malaysia and many scenes are quite similar to Farhan Akthar’s DON.
We have an introduction scene of Prabhas where he carries a suitcase which is in slow motion, even after the introduction scene we see many slow motion scenes and the adjective behind them is quite understandable. Prabhas(Billa) is very fond of Sun Glasses and always likes to wear them and if he doesn’t have one, he picks it from his body guard. The six-pack body of Prabhas is illustrated in the film and even during the six pack scene we see sun glasses on Prabhas eyes.
In Billa we can watch many Mirrors being broken, lot of bullets being shot and only one hits the target, Cars being blown up and fly into the air, Polices bikes and Cars perform Circus stunts, small exhibition of guns ,A Ferrari is thrown into a lake , etc…
Prabhas who carried some flavor of originality in his previous film ‘Bujjigadu’ does try to make his impression and succeeds in making it but it’s the character and the slang of ‘Bujjigadu’ helps him rather than the character of Billa. Meher Ramesh added some comedy in the film and Prabhas is very good at the execution of the comedy which is some sought of relief. Krishnam Raju makes an OK kind of justification to his role as a police officer and the twists in the film are not hidden very well.
The plot and the characters are well known and the direction of Meher Ramesh is mediocre as he could not totally understand the essence of Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Don’. The fights do not come at the right time and are tedious and the songs are just a vanilla flavor addition to the film. The music of Mani Sharma is disappointing. Namita and Anushka are character fillers and surprisingly we see Prabhas taking about the excess weight of Namita in the film.
There are two very good and genuine scenes in BILLA apart from that BILLA is an average film, the one guy who gains from BILLA is Prabhas for his comic sense and he is only one who can fit into the character.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Krishna – yet to see the movie but from the trailers I know that its more on the lines of Ajith’s Billa in tamil directed by Vishnu Vardhan.Most of the shots look similar & even some of the actors like Namitha,Rehman,Adithya etc.So expecting the movie again to be more of a style fest which should make money at the box office especially since there’s no opposition for it.But I think Mahesh Babu also could have done the role done by Prabhas.
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It deserves no stars.. Tamil Billa and Don were much much better. Songs, BGM was irritating. Prabas was a misfit. Mahesh Babu and Vishnu as director would have been great. And the ending was totally screwed up.
Krishna – thanks for reviewing this but I don’t understand the content of this post?
I would agree with Chakri above. We at PFC like to bring some more to the table than just saying so and so’s performance was decent. Decent when compared to what? That’s what our readers would like.
I hope you don’t take it the wrong way!
meher ramesh and prabhas and mani sharma are making standard of telugu industry worst by billa.nothing except 15min is best in movie.
Hope amitabh,sharukh,ajith and rajnikanth dont see this movie pleasssssssssssssse.
Make no mistake ,Ajith’s billa was a sleep inducing super slo-mo bore fest.Neither was Don a classic masala entertatiner.I don’t get why people remake such mediocre stuff.
The only movie which was a bit entertaining was Farhan Akhtar’s take on the old Don.Besides I have an Idea ,why not make a movie where the good guy who takes the place of Billa becomes corrupted slowly with money and power and in the end becomes much more Dangerous than the original Billa?
prabhas doesn’t suits for billa character. He needs a rigid face and ultimate style.
Hellow bala,I have a doubt did u seen or not the movie bill.plz go and see the Film then make ur comments.
Namitha is hot and gorgeous.