‘DJ Tillu’ movie review: Siddhu steals the show in this outlandish comic caper

DJ Tillu takes a contemporary take a look at the concept of a ‘mass’ movie. There’s a well-known method by which movies focusing on a big part of the viewers, termed as ‘mass’ in Telugu movie parlance, play out. However then, women and men that make up our cities don’t match right into a pre-ascertained mould. If 2021’s smash hit Jathi Ratnalu dipped into the flavour of Jogipet on the outskirts of Hyderabad, DJ Tillu builds a enjoyable experience centred on a wastrel from Malkajgiri in Secunderabad. Director Vimal Krishna, who shares the writing credit with the lead actor Siddhu Jonnalagadda, ensures that the narrative is filled with madcap enjoyable moments.

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We get an concept of who Tillu is correct firstly when his distraught father feedback that his son is safer within the hospital, in coma, than on the streets. Named and raised as Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the son later calls himself Tillu, sports activities vibrant clothes and struts round claiming to be a DJ. He’s an entitled brat who doesn’t really feel responsible for squandering his father’s cash however talks about wanting his ‘skilled house’ when his dad and mom are company on the similar occasion the place he’s on the flip desk. Beneath all that self-created hype are small-time DJing alternatives that don’t even afford Tillu a haircut in a complicated salon; he tries in useless to make the hairstylist on the neighbourhood salon perceive streaks and highlights.

When this wastrel, who thinks he’s road good, falls in love with Radhika (Neha Shetty), nothing stays the identical. Radhika is designed as a morally ambiguous character whose strikes evoke mistrust not simply in Tillu, but additionally us, the viewers. Is she a sufferer of liaisons that went incorrect, an opportunist, or a mixture of each? There’s a useless physique alongside the way in which and issues get more and more messy. Tillu is torn between his love for Radhika and determined to wriggle out of the state of affairs.

The primary hour is a riot, narrated with sharp humour and Tillu getting one of the best strains. It practically turns into a one-man present as Siddhu offers it his all to play the eccentric character, proudly owning the swag. It is usually a bodily demanding character, the place his physique language provides to the enjoyable. He does this with no inhibition, unafraid to look foolish in a couple of locations.

Nothing Tillu says or does is there only for enjoyable. The dance he does in entrance of an condo advanced and informal conversations in scenes that appear to be randomly positioned at first, all come in useful to push the story ahead.

When Radhika tells him to cease her by way of the compass of morality, she is chatting with all these watching the movie. The narrative, whereas exhibiting how glamorous ladies are considered as objects of lust, neither judges her nor offers her a clear chit. Neha Shetty pulls off this advanced character effectively.

Accentuating Tillu’s madcap world is Sricharan Pakala and Thaman’s vibrant music, cinematographer Saiprakash Ummadisingu’s virtually psychedelic visible canvas and Avinash Kolla’s manufacturing design. Among the many supporting solid, Brahmaji and Prince Cecil make an impression. A number of others like Kireeti and Pragati get their moments.

The enjoyable wears off within the later parts. It’s simple to see by way of the smokescreen of a pivotal character and the turnaround doesn’t come throughout as a shock. Just a few questions are additionally left answered. Nonetheless, the movie redeems itself to an extent.

After Jathi Ratnalu, DJ Tillu is likely to be one other movie wherein the enjoyable quotient works higher with collective viewing within the theatres. Tillu’s story isn’t over, but. The stage is ready for a sequel.