Aa Dinagalu

I have seen quite a few gangster movies both in Kannada and in Hindi but none of them are as real as the movie Aa Dinagalu. The movie is based on the book Dadagiriya Dinagalu. The story is the rivalry between two gangs with a love story in the middle. Here is the detailed Wikipedia article on the same. The salient features I liked about the movie are

• The movie had only 2 songs and both are good
• No effort to fit extra songs or shooting at some exotic locales outside India
• The movie was tightly scripted and the story develops really fast
• The people in the movie were real, they do get hurt and the hero of the movie wasn't portrayed as superhuman
• There is no glorified violence
• The fight scenes were shot more naturally
• The vulnerability of the gangsters and their superstitious behaviors were shown really well

On the whole the movie is well done and the story is novel. I really liked it. I recommend the movie.