‘Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga’ movie review: The Vaishnav Tej and Ketika Sharma Telugu film is outdated and boring

That is the season of nostalgia at theatres. In August, Mahesh Babu’s birthday (August 9) was marked by the re-release of Okkadu and Pokiri in cinema halls. Then, to mark Pawan Kalyan’s birthday on September 2, theatres are witnessing the re-release of the star’s earlier hit Jalsa. One of many new Telugu movies that launched in theatres this week, Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga directed by Gireesaaya and starring Vaishnav Tej and Ketika Sharma, has a narrative that’s closely impressed by Telugu movies of the mid-Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. We don’t know if the story was meant to hark again to comparatively less complicated instances and discuss household ties and friendships, however with the dearth of something new within the narrative or the remedy, it finally ends up as an outdated, uninteresting movie.

A boy named Rishi and a woman named Radha are born on the identical day in the identical hospital. Their dad and mom are the thickest of associates and the households stay as neighbours. The boy and the lady develop up as associates and fall in love of their teenagers, till a battle separates them. The egoistic two chilly shoulder one another for 10 years, although they secretly take care of one another. 

As adults, Rishi (Vaishnav Tej) and Radha (Ketika Sharma) proceed to squabble within the medical faculty. The campus scenes really feel as new because the arrival of colas after liberalisation. Take the stethoscopes and coats away and the jokes are stale and lame, just like the campus movies of the Nineteen Eighties and 90s, with the lecturer (Ali) merely current so as to add to the comedy. 

The movie has a number of scenes impressed by Nuvve Kaavali, Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu and Ninne Pelladatha, amongst a number of different movies, and the spoilsport for the younger romance and the parental friendships comes within the type of Radha’s older brother Arjun Prasad (Naveen Chandra), an aspiring politician. Whereas Rishi and Radha’s characters match into an everyday hero-heroine template, Arjun’s character had the scope for some complexities. However what we get is sporadic mentions of striving to maintain up honour — on the work entrance, within the household. Patchily written, the character seems to be one-dimensional because the story progresses. 

A number of partly humorous exchanges and Devi Sri Prasad’s music make the primary hour watchable. As soon as the battle level arrives and the households are torn aside, the story progresses on predictable traces, making the already outdated plotline appear boring. An Araku Valley medical camp phase is thrown in to pack in some extra lame jokes involving one other lecturer (Raja Ravindra) and Sathya who seems in a cameo. 

Vaishnav Tej references widespread Rajinikanth dialogues and there’s no dearth of hat tricks to Pawan Kalyan. His efficiency and that of Ketika are nearly satisfactory in a movie that doesn’t flesh out any of the characters nicely sufficient. Naveen Chandra’s is a one-note characterisation and we see him fret and fume more often than not. 

V Ok Naresh, Prabhu, Tulasi and Pragathi because the dad and mom make do with the cliche-ridden elements they get. In direction of the tip, when Prabhu slaps a personality that has been creating many of the bother between the 2 households, it comes as a reduction. If solely he had delivered that slap a lot earlier than and ended the movie earlier! 

For a movie that has a narrative about friendships and household bonds, Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga doesn’t evoke any empathy in the direction of the characters. It’s a jaded drama that’s caught in a time warp.