This is a fully loaded action extravaganza well stitched for the image of challenging star Darshan. A tailor made one `Porkhi' which appeared in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi language versions and all of them are found to be successful. Although coming late to Kannada the film `Porkhi' is lavishly made with glorious production values cinematography and melodious plus peppy songs. For action lovers Darshan has given a film what he normally gives in three films.
Director MD Sridhar has made a miniscule change to suit the nativity and producer Dattatreya Bache Gowda in his debut film has given a good commercial flick.
The subject is nothing new. The usual police verses criminals in the underworld. But the suspense of the protagonist who on a killing spree is exposed in the end and that is what very convincing.
Datthu (Darshan) is a roadside badshah. His weapons are his strength and will power added with great confidence. He can take on any. He is connected to every bad element in the society. Datthu has a purpose behind doing all kinds of nefarious activities. He is sure that he is putting down criminals. He has the cake walk in it. Such a killing spree expert Datthu has a lover Anjali (Pranitha). Anjali is taken aback when she come to know Datthu's criminal connections. Shocked yet she wants him only. The story takes a different turn with the emergence of international criminal (Ashish Vidyarthi). It is time for the tucked secret opening up. Datthu has by this time eliminated almost all the criminals in the city. Now we get to see that he is a cop. Finally it is an end for the international don in the hands of Datthu.
Darshan as a challenging star of Kannada cinema has taken huge challenge. The scores of action scenes for him is nothing new. In the emotional scenes also Darshan wins. Pranithi is impressive in her debut. She is daring in her outfits. Shobaraj, Avinash, Ashis Vidyarthi, Sharan, Sadhu Kokila, Srujan Lokesh have given admirable support.
Sakkathagavle..is the peppy tune from Harikrishna, Dheera Dheera...is well tuned. The cinematography for this kind of action movie is not an easy task that is handled with expertise by Krishnakumar.
For action lovers there cannot be any thing better than `Porkhi'.
Scoring 7/10
