Darling Blu-Ray Review

Darling Blu-ray is a big letdown. I was expecting a great transfer but it really degraded all my expectations. The audio quality was just okay. The picture quality is very inconsistent, sometimes its good sometimes its okay sometimes its horrible with a lot of grain visible. The Blu-ray is brought to us by Sri Balaji Video.

Audio Quality:

The audio quality of this Blu-ray is okay. It is not great but doesn't touch the bad point. It was strictly okay. The songs in this film were great and the audio quality was pretty good during songs. The audio options include, Uncompressed LPCM, and Dolby Digital were pretty okay. The audio is not a letdown, it is passable. It is not a thumbs up but, also, not a thumbs down.

Picture Quality:

The picture quality of this Blu-ray is very inconsistent. Some of the scenes have ridiculously high contrast, it actually hurt my eyes! The contrast is more boosted in outdoor scenes, making it even worse. A lot of scenes had green/blue tint, which I did not encounter in the theaters. Some of the shots had a lot grain visible. I have never seen so much grain in a Sri Balaji Video or Bhavani DVD Blu-ray before. Sri Balaji Video should have taken care of this, it really degrades their brand value. Sri Balaji Video has been very good with all their release but this BD is definitely their first bad Blu-ray. But there are some pros though, some of the scenes were of very good quality, a couple of songs were good too. I wasn't a total disaster but it is, still, the first bad BD of Sri Balaji Video.

Others:

Sri Balaji video comes up with yet another very inadequate Blu-ray packaging. The front cover really shiny, even though SBV thinks it looks good the poster picked for the front cover was a bad choice (Prabhas looks good though). SBV needs to really step it up and change their shiny covers and come with some innovative ones. The back was again filled with bad font, they never want to change it! No special features again.

Recommendation:

If you really like this movie and if you really want to see the songs on high definition, you should rent this BD out otherwise you can give this BD a big thumbs down.

Blu-ray Price:

$19.99

Blu-ray Rating:

2.75/5