Ravi Teja in the Telugu movie ‘Dhamaka’
When a depraved businessman JP (Jayaram) makes a smart-sounding assertion, a personality asks him if he is associated to famous author and director Trivikram Srinivas. This is maybe the closest that the makers of Dhamaka come to acknowledging the affect of Trivikram Srinivas’ movies, particularly Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo. The presence of actors Jayaram and Sachin Khedekar heightens that hangover. Director Trinadha Rao Nakkina who shares the writing credit with Prasanna Kumar Bezawada presents a story that includes two households — one middle-class and one uber-rich enterprise household — and locations Ravi Teja in each of them, portraying reverse personalities to suit into the ‘mass’ and ‘class’ mould.
The movie doesn’t take itself severely and neither ought to we. It is content material with showcasing an energetic Ravi Teja in two avatars — businessman Anand and a job-seeking Swami. At the fag finish of 2022, a time after we look again and take inventory of newer narratives in Telugu cinema, Dhamaka is proof {that a} part of filmmakers is content material serving the identical previous wine in the identical previous bottle.
Nanda Gopal Chakravarthy (Sachin Khedekar) pronounces to the world that change is in order for his enterprise empire since his days are numbered. JP (Jayaram), a enterprise shark, is ready to pounce on him. The actor’s introduction scene the place he has to show a turnaround doesn’t come as a shock in any respect given how weakly it is written.
The solely sliver of imaginative writing (we will name it that if we set the bar actually low) comes in the type of Ravi Teja’s twin portrayals. Swami takes rowdies to activity as his mother and father (Tanikella Bharani and Tulasi) watch gleefully over a video name, and his first assembly with his sister’s pal Pranavi (Sree Leela) is cringe-inducing. It is a damsel-in-distress scenario. There is a cause why she seeks his assist and why she addressed him a sure approach. But Swami calls for that she reconsiders how she addressed him and as a substitute sends him a couple of flirtatious messages if he has to avoid wasting her. One can argue that Swami’s sensibilities will not be woke or extraordinarily gender delicate. But look again at this scene after an important pre-intermission reveal and it simply appears out of character. The age distinction between Ravi Teja and Sri Leela reveals and stands proud like a sore thumb. This isn’t the primary Telugu movie and definitely not the final the place an established male actor romances somebody half his age, however it is obtrusive.
Dhamaka
Cast: Ravi Teja, Sree Leela, Rao Ramesh, Jayaram
Direction: Trinadha Rao Nakkina
Music: Bheems Ceciroelo
An excellent portion of the primary half is dedicated to delineating the distinction between Swami and Anand. Pranavi discovers that she likes each Swami and Anand and her mom (Rajshri Nair) asks her to work together with each of them after which make up her thoughts. Her father (Rao Ramesh), in fact, may have none of it.
Some of the scenes in this absurd-comedy phase do entertain, particularly the exchanges between Rao Ramesh and his driver, essayed by Hyper Aadhi who will get the wittiest traces in the movie. There is additionally a enjoyable tackle Chiranjeevi’s Indra, in Ravi Teja type. These comedian parts and the pre-intermission phase save the movie from changing into a whole lacklustre mess.
But the later parts get progressively boring. The extended company warfare parts required incisive writing to showcase enterprise methods and one-upmanship. We get none of these. Jayaram is diminished to a caricaturish antagonist and we will see from a mile who else could possibly be a wolf in a sheep’s clothes.
The audiences are additionally not anticipated to ask apparent questions. For occasion, why does Sachin Khedekar, who is introduced as the pinnacle of a enterprise empire with no skeletons in his closet, by no means use his clout to get police or political muscle to safeguard himself? The movie additionally makes use of done-to-death tropes involving the protection of the hero’s relations. Though there is so much at stake, he by no means takes precautions.
There are additionally lame ‘punch’ traces – ‘If I see a villain in you, you will see a hero in me’, ‘If you try to be a hero, you will see a wild villain in me’…
At one level when Ravi Teja takes on baddies, he questions the presence of nepotism in rowdyism and asserts that he is self-made. Point famous. But subsequent time, possibly he can select a greater script. Dhamaka has a couple of entertaining scenes and is watchable in comparison with his latest movies. But that is no yardstick to have a good time.
