Koratala Siva’s Mirchi is one of the most re-watched films for the sheer action high he has delivered. Perhaps Mirchi is still the last film that has delivered a real ‘high’ for action lovers in regular commercial cinema.
Koratala, at the Devara launch, said he has a script that requires bloodshed and is most violent, but the trailer he cut was more of Koratala Siva’s old style of subtle storytelling. But the current trend is that the more the violence, the more collections.
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Not that Koratala Siva delivers only subtle messages, but somewhere he has become preachy. However, when it comes to delivering an action high, he is a master at it. Take, for example, the action blocks in Mirchi, the Thota fight in Srimanthudu, and the Durga Mahal fight in Bharat Ane Nenu—they last long and make an impact on the film.
This is exactly where he missed in the Devara trailer cut. Instead of making it action-packed and racy, he came up with a dialogue-after-dialogue monologue.
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Now, anyway, all big films are releasing two trailers, calling the second one the ‘release trailer.’ Devara needs to create that urge with a fully action-packed trailer, and there is a good chance the team would have decided to do it by now.
A lot of times, the director, hero, or the entire team can’t see what people are expecting to see in a trailer and prefer to cut the trailer around what they prefer. It is extremely important to know the pulse and cut a trailer that matches it. Then there is no looking back; Koratala is not an exception to this.