Kotee

Kotee: the gift that keeps on giving - headaches, frustration, and a deep sense of disappointment. I walked in expecting a cinematic masterpiece, thanks to the "stellar" reputation of Dolly, but what I got was a hot mess of epic proportions. The screenplay and direction? Abysmal. It's like the director thought, "You know what would be fun? If we took every cliche, loophole, and plot hole and mashed them all together into a beautiful mess!" And boy, did they deliver. I'm still trying to decipher the director's grand vision, but I think it was something like, "Let's make a movie that will make people question their life choices and wonder why they wasted two hours of their existence." Please save time and don't watch this trash. And Finally "Dolly" - please choose the script wisely from next time.

This movie is not perfect. But, unlike the current trend of promoting negative characters, it shows a man with good ideology not succumb to situation.

It shows that a man can remain poor but should not get into crime.

Acting of Dhananjay is marvelous. He portrays the pain and helplessness just with his expressions. His acting is spot on.

Ramesh Indira is a new revelation in Kannada industry as of now. No one can imagine others in his place after watching his performance.

Every actor has given their best and suits the role perfectly.

Anyhow, there are minor loopholes which can easily be overlooked.

Positive about the movie: Its family movie and you can watch with full family and does not include violence and sex. An exception to the current trend. The story is takes different turn and it is not stereotype. The emotion well connects in the first half. The story about belief and self confidence all the odds and evil intention is good moral movie for the struggle of poor and middle class people currently experiencing.

Improvements: There is scope for improvement in direction and screenplay. Adding more humor would have made the movie more engaging. New director would have made more attempt get good acting from actors. Especially Moksha Kushal(as Navami) her acting is not up to mark. Even Rangayana Raghu's part could have improved.

Tiger Dance(Huli kunitha)'s is not fully utilized.

Kotee (Dhananjay) is an honest man, an extremely rare breed in the current times and he is trying to make a living as a driver where he rents a truck for his packers and movers stint as well as a cab to become independent. His goal is to earn 1crore, only glitch is that he wants to do it honestly. He has an ailing mother and siblings to take care of. But he is targeted by a local goon Savukar, who offers him a deal which Kotee promptly declines. This leads to Savukar throwing multiple hurdles at Kotee, disrupting his life enough to force him to accept the deal. How does Kotee get out of this mess and why exactly he has chosen to be a honest man, forms rest of the story.

Param has definitely come up with a near perfect characterization for Dhananjay and Kotee is definitely a praiseworthy character. The hero is an extremely nice guy till the very end and to hold onto that throughout, is a commendable job. But I wish the screenplay was better to compliment the lead hero character as the love story segment remains half baked and keeps distracting from the main plot. Even the family sentiment is dragged out like a tv serial and the slow paced narrative doesn't help the film being 2hrs 50mins which was simply too long. The supposed twist in the climax was so predictable, it didn't help elevate the climax. Dhananjay, Ramesh Indira and all others have given earnest performances, adding to this is the cameo by Vijay Kumar in the flashback. If Param had worked on a better screenplay and kept the runtime in check, then Kotee could have ended up as a memorable film.

Director failed and worst screen play . Movie's topic is good but director failed to narrate. Actors have given their best in this movie but worst direction and screenplay and story also .

They would have made even a better story using this topic . There are no good directors in kannada film industry , there are good actors but no use sandalwood need better direction and good directors .

Stop blaming people for not watching kannada movies , why they will waste their time and money watching this kind of movies , its not worth watching in OTT also . Anyway people will judge actors for not making good movies .