‘Ramabanam’ movie review: Gopichand’s masala entertainer miserably fails to build on an intriguing story – The Hindu
Yet one more Friday and we’ve one more movie, leaving you longing for a superb outdated masala entertainer that will get the components proper. Within the case of director Sriwass’s Ramabanam, probably the most plaguing challenge is in how poorly it packages the numerous parts — comedy, romance, motion, punchlines, and a hero with inhuman talents. It appears as if these have been simply objects on a guidelines moderately than anything and it’s much more disappointing as a result of there’s a superb story on the centre of all of it. It’s about two brothers, Rajaram (the Telugu cinema staple Jagapathi Babu) and Vignesh (Gopichand), who function on two excessive ethical ends; they’re each do-gooders nevertheless it’s the traditional means-to-the-end ethical dilemma that separates the 2. Rajaram, a hotelier, walks in a straight line and believes within the justice system, however Vicky fights fireplace with fireplace (he’s the ‘Ramabanam’, the arrow that flew out of Lord Rama’s bow).
Author Bhupati Raja’s screenplay units up the dramatic story of those brothers fairly nicely. We open to a flashback that exhibits how a teenage Vicky, after burning down Rajaram’s arch-rival Paparao’s (Nasser) godown, runs away to Kolkata, vowing to return again solely after making his brother proud. There, Vicky grows to turn out to be wealthy and influential due to the rags-to-rich scheme that Indian cinema likes to suggest, the underworld of crime.
Ramabanam (Telugu)
Vicky has his personal issues in Kolkata, however for the story of Ramabanam to maneuver ahead, he wants to return again to Hyderabad and reunite with Rajaram and his household, and that is the place issues go awry for each him and the viewers. By way of a satisfactory music with some shuddersome visuals, Vicky falls in love with a lady named Bhairavi (Dimple Hayathi). The music begins with Vicky, this stranger of a person, pursuing this girl, taking a sip out of her espresso with out discover and whatnot, and ends along with her ‘reminiscing’ these great moments solely to fall in love. Firstly, who’s she? What does she do? Why does she like Vicky? Is she actually that ignorant to fall for somebody so notorious for his crimes? It looks as if that is the improper movie to ask these questions. All you should know is that Bhairavi’s dad thinks that orphans, even when wealthy, don’t should marry his daughter and when knowledgeable of Vicky’s household again dwelling, asks him to return together with his household.
This actually is a buzzkill; for over 14 years, Vicky misses his household terribly however the purpose for his homecoming is a hurried love observe that additionally will get sidelined for the remainder of the film, just for occasional speed-breakers within the type of duet songs in overseas places. The reunion scene isn’t actually that efficient and we by no means see these characters discuss to one another concerning the lives they’ve led away from one another, one thing you’d anticipate from regular social beings. The story picks up when Paparao and his son-in-law GK come into the image, and we see what Rajaram, who’s now the Chairman of the Meals Security and Requirements Authority, is up towards. Vicky, with out revealing his gangster id to his household, must combat his new enemies.
Ramabanam, a minimum of for its main parts, doesn’t endure when it stays on the lane of its central plot concerning the two brothers, their conflict towards their enemies, and the household drama; a couple of parts present hints of the great outdated business masala magic working. It’s solely when it goes past does it fail abysmally. For the whole lot natural within the script, one thing further is added. As an illustration, there’s a well-choreographed motion scene wherein Vicky is likened to Lord Narasimha (traditional!), however we additionally get an pointless flashback combat in Kolkata the place he’s proven as Kali with ‘Aigiri Nandini’ taking part in within the background. Talking of motion sequences, a scene set in Rajaram’s home, the place Vicky has to combat off a bunch of dwelling invaders with out making a lot noise, had potential to turn out to be a significant spotlight, nevertheless it sadly doesn’t.
Comedy, regardless of that includes a boast of excellent comedians, is one other matter of dread. Ramabanam is one more queerphobic movie that bats for heteronormativity and antagonises queers. Vennela Kishore seems as a female music trainer and the writing portrays them as a sensitive creep that everybody must steer clear of. At one level, comic Ali tells this to a different character: “Watch out round him as a result of he’s an emasculate particular person and he doesn’t have male reproductive organs.” All of those exist on the pretext of “comedy.”
In direction of the top, Ramabanam turns into fairly messy. Even the central plot involving Rajaram and Vicky’s combat towards Paparao and GK finally ends up with a whimper after some very predictable flip of occasions. The villains of this story make the expertise much more tedious with their template dialogues and reactions. Even the drama between the 2 brothers takes the routine route; the entire ethical dilemma that divided the 2 goes nowhere novel.
Ultimately, it irks when one imagines how good of a masala entertainer Ramabanam had the potential to turn out to be. Someplace, you begin shopping for into its many guarantees and you start to look past all of the artificiality, in hopes of one thing refreshing, one thing interesting to the followers of masala cinema, and Ramabanam by no means delivers it.
Ramabanam is presently operating in theatres
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