puri tho rambabu

                                                         PURI THO RAMBABU

Post watching CGTR when I tried to re-“view” it; my head buffered with some nostalgic thoughts of my 5^th standard, where my English miss was dealing Tenses. Future tense was a night mare for me. Don’t ask me about “future perfect”. All the time when I was watching the film the line that played through my head was “it would have been better....” yes the creepy future perfect tense.

                                      CGTR is definitely one of the most anticipated movie for both Pawan and Puri fans. Yes, it’s a typical Puri film with an abnormal hero characterization and his witty dialogues. The movie opens with an interview that acquaints the audience with the recent political scenario and slowly gains it pace with the power star’s (Ram babu) entry. Ram babu reacts similar to that of pawan’s real life character and ideologies. The only thing that bothers the viewer is its lack of reality when Ram babu goes public.

                                      As a mechanic turned journalist Ram babu behaves far from reality. He easily takes down the law into his hands and is never questioned by the public officials. This segment is purely illogical. Meanwhile comes Tamannah (ganga) ,who is extremely good and with least hesitation one can consider her as a combo with glamour plus action. Her role is genuinely acceptable with a shade of tom boy mannerisms and one thing that needs a mention is her dubbing, which was pitched perfect.

                                       Where you lack a proper script, be it a power star or mega star that portrays the lead, the audience turn out scratching their scalps. The same happens with Puri’s Ram babu story. Puri tries to implement some humour from Ali who conducts some discussion portals that we see in news channel s regularly. It’s considerably engaging. The director doesn’t make an impact by gradual way of ascending Ram babu’s character; instead he becomes an iconic figure overnight. Though most of the scenes being boisterous; none of them turn out to be elevating the film any further. ‘Man of the show’ is Mani Sharma for his engaging BGM.

                                         The movie resembles Business man (staring Mahesh) with a few similarities like Prakash raj’s character (his costumes were almost identical) and the way Puri handles the script. But sadly the director fails to elevate the levels of emotion that he pictured in his former film (Business man). Prakash raj, kota and bharani did a decent job all together. It’s again the same piece of cake what Prakash raj offers with his role. The first half offers an average watch with some catchy lines like “veedi chavuni nenu discovery channel lo chudali”, “naa pogaru calculate cheyataniki naa pogaru oppukovali kada” etc.

                                           Second half turns out to be the same in terms of screenplay and its portrayal. Here it bags a social message with a couple of songs. Songs were hummable. Except a couple of songs none of them were greatly choreographed, they just filled the space. Tamannah was splendid in “extraordinary” and “melikel” songs. As usually Brahmanandham shines in a couple of scenes which were smart enough to tickle oneself. But the saddest thing is part of his sequences are trimmed due to the recent Telangana agitator’s revolt. The sequence where Ram babu comments about the film actors is adorable.

                                           On a whole Puri had very little to say from this script. Cutting out the songs the movie runs for about 90 min where the director fails to idolize his concept. In parts the scenes were meaningful but on a whole they lose grip and fade out completely. Despite having some stalwarts in the film , it finally lets you down and records another average flick in Pawan’s career. To be precise ; if you are a fan of Pawan this is for you else don’t complain as it not a paisa vasool.

Two and a half cheers for puri tho rambabu’s effort.