Ravi Teja and Venu deserved a better film to face-off
Evaluate: Sarath Mandava’s Rama Rao on Obligation is a chore to take a seat by way of. The movie meanders between being a correct thriller and a masala entertainer that’s not participating. Proper from the get-go, there’s loads of data being compelled down your throat about every part from what a authorities worker does to how pink sanders smuggling works. But when the director actually needed his viewers to pay attention, the punch dialogues, struggle scenes with sluggish movement pictures and particular numbers peppering it are an odd selection.
Rama Rao (Ravi Teja) has simply been transferred to Chittoor within the 90s as a result of he’s the type of man who likes to go above and past this obligation to unravel points. And since he’s the hero of this movie, he’s transferred to distant areas as a substitute of faraway from obligation for setting two baddies on hearth. He strikes again house along with his spouse Nandini (Divyansha Kaushik) and a younger son, and it’s all only one huge completely happy household. His ex-flame Malini (Rajisha Vijayan) is in search of her lacking husband and to unload property so she will pay his money owed. CI Jammi Murali (Venu) is in search of some lacking maal as a result of he has his personal pursuits to serve. What occurs when Rao’s seek for a lacking individual leads him to one thing a lot deeper?
On paper Rama Rao on Obligation appears thrilling, even when it’s nothing you haven’t seen earlier than. There’s pink sandalwood smuggling that goes on unchecked, particularly as a result of there’s some high canines concerned in it too. Rama Rao may be completely happy to reconnect along with his family and friends however the extra the layers are peeled again, the extra he realises that every part shouldn’t be what it appears. Whereas the movie type of works when it sticks to the nitty-gritty, it actually doesn’t when it depends on industrial parts to hold it by way of. The particular quantity with blurred physique components and two odd duet songs set overseas with white dancers within the background actually stick out like a sore thumb. The twist earlier than the interval works just a little higher than the one within the climax that’s a complete let-down. And due to the remedy, no hurt will befell Rama Rao even when he’s actually surrounded by those that wish to hurt him.
Ravi Teja is handed a job that actually lets him present he’s greater than only a ‘mass maharaja’, however we solely want it will’ve been in a well-written movie. The actor trades in his normal energetic, OTT physique language and massy dialogues for one thing way more delicate. It really works, so it’s unhappy the movie doesn’t. Rajisha breezes by way of her position however Divyansha comes throughout amateurish. Each the women undoubtedly look approach too younger to be romancing Ravi Teja, regardless of how match he seems. Nasser, Naresh, Rahul Ramakrishna and others do a adequate job. It’s a delight to see Venu make a comeback, not because the household pleasant man he used to play, however as a crafty police officer who’s borderline annoying. Once more, it’s unhappy this movie wasn’t higher written.
By the tip of Rama Rao on Obligation, you come away realizing that Pushpa Raj (and Sukumar) had lied to you. Crimson sandalwood doesn’t float on water (as proven in a key scene in Pushpa), it really sinks! Ravi Teja and Venu actually deserved a movie that did not sink too.
