6/10
Wow
6 June 2020
I was dying to watch it after seeing the gorgeous trailer. Finally got to see after its arrival on discovery plus.

I must congratulate and thanks immensely the filmmaker and his entire crew for such a remarkable job. The attempt is really larger than life. The love of the filmmaker and his vision to bring legendary people like David Attenborough is certainly praiseworthy.

I gave 6/10 as the film is formulaic. I would have loved a fresh take on the story telling. I must say I can feel every wildlife filmmaker is inevitably inspired by those BBC series and must be dreaming all life to make one himself like those British series. But it left me to desire for more.

The colour grading of the entire series is what something should not attempt if he is a naturalist. Several shots look like Instagram photos of amateurs.

Lastly, while I do love the score of the film as pieces of music but they are absolutely distracting. Again the composer must have seen Human Planet like series and has tried to imitate but the Wild Karnataka lacks the subtlety of those series as far as music is concerned. Yes, Nicky Kej has done a remarkable work giving the film local Indian flavour but I think music is over done for a 52 minutes long film. The uplifting music is too much which kills the suspense before it builds up. The theme kicks in every once in a while feels like film comes to the end.

The director duo with camera crew has captured numerous intimate pictures of the wild Karnataka and with a certain posh and grandeur that has made me elated. I love the shot of revelation of the Royal Bengal Tiger by panning from behind to front which I think is very original.

I would thank all the crew and the department of forest of Karnataka for give permission and encouragement to to carry out such a timely task. I hope the filmmaker will continue producing films like these.
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