Tungabhadra Telugu Movie
Tungabhadra is set in the backdrop of village politics. Ramaraju (Satyaraj) wins the elections in Tathikonda and later flush out his opponents led by Paiditalli (Kota Srinivas Rao) out of the region. Ramaraju grooms Sreenu (Adit Arun) after his father passed away saving him. Srinu grows in to a loyal young lad. One day, Ramaraju assigns him the task of finding out whether his daughter Gowri (Dimple Chopade) is in love or not. In a sudden turn of events, Srinu and Gowri fall in love. What happens next forms the rest of the story.
Adit Arun has come up with excellent performance and expressions but did not have the aura of Telugu hero to connect with the audience. Dimple Chopade is beautiful but has very limited scope to show her performance. Satyaraj is superb and his action particularly in the climax will deserve special mention. Kota Srinivasa Rao earned some brownie points as baddie. Josh Naveen and Jabardasth Ravi managed to draw some laughs while Saptagri is a complete failure. Shiva Krishna, Chalapathi Rao, Ravi Varama, Parvathi Lokesh are okay to some extent.
The debutant director Srinivas tried his hand in the complex subject of faction politics. However he failed to drive home the point strongly as he is confused between the love story and revenge formula. Finally he tried to hurry up all the things in the climax and made a total mess of it. The film finally ended up as a routine Kichidi watched by viewers many times on screen. His screenplay and direction ended up as big culprits
Hari Gaura impressed with the music and as well as the background score. Rahul Srivatsava's cinematography is beautiful. Editing of Srikanth should have been more crispy. Production values of Varahi Chalana Chitram are good.
Finally, a better hero and a director with more clarity would have made Tungabhadra work at the box office. But as we all know 'ifs' and 'buts' can not manage to bring audience to the theaters.
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