Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Racha Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

After a debacle (Orange) - Ram Charan Tej - the Magadheera S/o. Magadheerudu of tollywood, took his time to come back with a bang (Racha) this summer to entertain the movie lovers (especially the mass audience). Let us see how he managed to impress the cinegoers with the 2 movie director Sampath Nandi as the captain of the ship..


Until the movie - Racha announced no one knows who Sampath Nandi is (though he already worked for a small budget movie as his debut directorial film). But this time it is a wonderful opportunity for him to prove his capability of handling such a huge project. Both Charan and Sampath worked hard for Racha with a zeal to taste a much desired success to move forward in their careers - and now to know, how Racha has shaped up - Read More!

Story, Screenplay & Direction:  Sampath Nandi, just with his 2nd movie got a  chance to work with Mega Power Star Ram Charan Tej who is in a critical stage to prove his caliber. Though the story selected by him was already familiar to many audience the way he presented it onscreen was really appreciable. The director has succeeded in elevating the heroism, maintaining a racy screenplay, capturing excellent scenes between the lead pair, extracting sensible comedy from veteran comedians, mining explicit music from Music Director, coordinate with veteran dialogue writers for the power packed punch dialogues etc., which are key to the success of any movie. 

Above mentioned points make the common audience to forget about flaws in the subject that they are currently watching on screen, rather they involve thoroughly in the movie just to enjoy the mass and commercial elements for the entertainment sake. 

Sampath found the audience pulse very soon and prepared a suitable subject for a big budget movie - but certainly failed to execute it to taste 100% BIG SUCCESS.

Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers, while maintaining their mass punches in the movie - controlled a bit to suit the hero image. Having said that the veteran writers were never got down from their standards, but surely failed in finding a match with the young actor's range of dialogue delivery.

Music: After giving soothing music for Solo & Oh My Friend (BGM), Mani Sharma turned out to be a mass music director from the Melody Brahma - leaving a singly melody - "oka paadam" all other songs in the album were mass numbers and reaching the masses with positive nodes.


Editing: Gowtam Raju was helpless, as the movie is shaped up only by keeping Ram Charan Tej in mind and to entertain the mass audience. Mass audience will never care about neither the sequence of a scene nor the genuineness within a scene, thus it makes no difference even if there are mistakes in this department. But overall editing work was not so poor and also not so great!

Cinematography: Sameer Reddy - was brilliant, and stood as a winning contributor for the movie. The entire cast were shown amazingly beautiful especially the lead pair (may be it is because of the fact that the complete movie has been set up with photon HD+ camera used for the first time in India) - Great work by Sameer.


Art: Anand Sai - appreciable work - mind blowing sets for both heroine's house and all the songs. 

Stunts: Action episodes are executed well and will add value to the overall output.

Producers: NV Prasad & Paras Jain have great commitment towards the movie and their brilliant production values clearly tells that to every audience.

Artists Performances:
Cast: Ram Charan Tej, Tamanna, Parthiban, Pragati, Sudha, MS Narayana, Nassar, Ajmal, Mukesh Rushi, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Dev Gill, Venu Madhav, Ravi Babu, Srinivasa Reddy, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Thagubothu Ramesh, Ali, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, LB Sriram, Krishna Bhagawan, Fish Venkat, Geetha, Geeta Singh, Satya Krishnan, Jhansi, Hema, Uttej etc.,



Ram Charan Tej as a lead actor has proved his caliber once again and living up to his standards and expectations on him - as he did in his last 3 movies. The ease in his acting,  action and dancing skills being an young actor is highly appreciable. Having the image of the Mega Star's Son and Magadheera hero it is not so easy to convince all the fan base of his and his father's. At a situation like this (immediately after a miserable flop in the form of Orange) it is a certain decision for the actor to select a mass subject like this and put his 100% effort to maintain the required feel for the same. 


Tamanna was as usual looking stunning beautiful and her performance onscreen was also apt to the subject. With a great scope to perform in songs - Tammu made 100% justice with her mind blowing steps. The way she was projected onscreen, I personally see a great future for Tamanna in tollywood.

Parthiban, Nassar, LB Sriram and Dev Gill were not utilized properly, but Mukesh Rushi has excelled in his role of antagonist. Paruchuri, Kota were up to their standards and Ajmal, Venu Madhav, Ravi Babu, Srinivasa Reddy, MS Narayana, Sudha, Pragati and all the supporting cast did justice to their roles.

Special mention required for Brahmi, Ali, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Krishna Bhagwan, Dharmavarapu, Geeta Singh, Jhansi etc., who met expectations and added value to the movie in the form of comedy with their limited roles.


Overall Analysis: 
First half was entertaining with a racy screenplay and the interval bang was appropriate with a little twist (but predictable). Second half reveals the actual story in not so convincing way but the commercial elements have helped the movie in reaching the masses as per the need. 

A power packed mass action entertainer with excellent performances from lead pair and supporting cast, beautiful locations, action episodes, dialogues (up to an extent) with a racy screenplay have overcome all the negative points such as little confusing logics behind most of the scenes, well known / predictable story line, not so great music etc., and impressing most of the movie lovers to a great extent.

The movie release time is a great advantage for the makers (lot of scope to pull repeat audience - only mass, due to the holiday season) who can easily make profits just within two weeks run and the HIT talk will certainly take the movie to the next level.

Positives include - Casting, Songs Picturization, Cinematography, Background Music, Screenplay, Bit Comedy and Direction while the drawbacks of the movie are lack of freshness in the story line, lack of full length comedy, missing excellent music, predictable twists etc.,

Massest Mass Hit after Classest Class Debacle (Orange) - 3/5 is my rating for Ram Charan Tej's Racha.....

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