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3hrs 15 minutes of pure torture. This is not a typical Kammula movie and this is not made for Telugu audience. Avoid this movie if you have better things to do than watching a cringe story and boasting to your friends about watching the ‘latest’ Kammula movie and then discussing ‘academic merits’ of the story.

The only one actor who actually spoke real Telugu in the movie was Mohan Babu. A few others spoke too but it was flat like reading a text book. Most others seem to have transliterated their Telugu dialogues in English and tried to read them. Samantha, pretty as she is, should have asked for dubbing. A periodic, that too mythological movie must be made with the same ingredients we are familiar with-graceful body language, perfect dialogue delivery with obsessive attention towards diction and histrionics etc. This movie comes across an expensive stage show with pretty, handsome actors who were just picked up from an elite English medium institution. The screenplay was okay, Bgm was great. Camera work and Art seemed lackluster, so are the graphics. Throughout the movie you will never see the scale and grandeur of settings because it is always in closeup. Some scenes look like they were shot in producer’s office room converted to a setting. That’s how small the landscapes were. Doesn’t live up the hype of grandeur. Net net, I will wait for either a multipart or a tv show for this movie, where they can better experiment and tell the story with better script and much better graphics.

Torture watching the movie. This movie is an important reminder that Audio and Visuals do not make a good movie. A hastily arranged rag tag ideas from KGF, Pushpa etc. do not make an original. Giving a backdrop of Telangana with a violence lifted from Bihar’s Dhanbad does not give it an iota of credibility. This movie seems to be made by people overflowing with free cash and free time but bereft of original ideas and zero creativity.

Amazing! The movie hits your heart and digs out the humanity from the depths of your psyche. Very therapeutic and awarding winning performances