Bandham Telugu Serial – E801 – 21st Aug

The Telugu audiences are not aware of Prithviraj Sukumaran’s career before ‘Salaar’. Though they are familiar with his name, we have not watched enough movies of him. He is a big star in Malayalam but none of his movies were dubbed and released in Telugu before. With him gaining a lot of craze after ‘Salaar’ and people started watching his previous movies and realises how great of an actor he is.

His passion for his craft is visible in his latest venture ‘Goat Life’. He spent 16 years on this project and underwent severe physical challenges to play the role. His performance was Oscar-worthy and he is an actor who can take your breath away. He is known for playing key roles in other language movies and Prithviraj always proved his mettle in whatever role he got.

But Bollywood has failed to utilize such a terrific actor once again. He did movies like ‘Aiyyaa’ and ‘Aurangzeb’ which ended up being failures. He was underutilized in those movies as well. He played the role of a villain in Bollywood’s latest high-budget action flick ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’.

People expected a lot from his role after the trailer got released. But the character is very poorly written and director Ali Abbas Zafar should be blamed for putting a mask on Prithviraj for most part of the movie. His voice of modified and we don’t get to see his performance at any point in the movie. One wonders what made an actor like Prithviraj to take up such a bad role and an even worse film.