Durga

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">cast :</span>chekravarthy<br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">director : </span>chekravarthy<br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">rating :</span> **</div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: 0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="0" width="100.0%"> <colgroup> <col width="31.9%" /> <col width="67.8%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="31.9%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" middle="" background-color:="" ff0000=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-weight:="" bold="">synopsis </span></div> </td> <td width="67.8%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" middle="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"> </div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">a tight budget, a fresh cast, a gritty attitude, a look at the underworld, should make for strong stuff in a sphere dominated by candyfloss, shouldn''t it?yipes, durga doesn''t.a clumsy cross between shiva and satya, here''s something that''s strictly grotty and gooey. part of the dilemma is that chekravarthy concocts a plot that''s about as engrossing as counting cracks in a ceiling. moreover, he strives to dominate the show to such an extent that the effort looks like an amateur screen test for his abilities, or the lack of them. quelle misery.passing himself off as a college student behaving alternately like michael jackson and schwarzenegger, he''s bananas-`n''-papayas about a campus cutie. so far, so fret. then it turns out that he''s the son of a ganglord who''s utterly bored. erupts gang warfare. ergo bozos glare, blood drips and miscellaneous moments of violence are ripped off from the scorsese and gopal varma flickeroos. rue.technically tacky and narrative-wise as mechanical as a car''s windshield wipers, durga is a oh-no-no-no. enough sad, enough suffered. </div> </div>