Rudrama Devi Movie Review
Story:
Rudhrama Devi is a historic story based on the concept of women empowerment. It narrates how in those days, Rani Rudrama Devi becomes the queen of the Kakatiya Kingdom. Earlier Ganapati Devudu (Krishnam Raju), Kakatiya King announces Rudhrama Devi as a boy and grooms like one to keep the enemies at bay. She grows stronger than strongest men and saves the kingdom. What is the role of chalukya Veerabhadrudu (Rana) and Gona Ganna Reddy (Allu Arjun) has to be enjoyed on the screen.
Performances:
Anushka is always an actor who puts her heart and soul in the character she is given. But here the output turned patchy due to directional errors. Rana compliments her very well. Allu Arjun’s cameo role is very powerful and particularly his Telangana dialect is too good. Krishnam Raju as King and Prakash Raj as his wily ministers are good. Others like Aditi Chengappa, Catherine Tresa, Hamsa Nandini, Ajay, Baba Sehgal, Ahuti Prasad, Venu Madhav performed to the demand of their characters.
Technical Performances:
They say director is the captain of the King but here he lets it down very badly. The director concentrating on too much of technical prowess missed the basics. He should have stressed on the protagonist role particularly when it is a history female oriented script. But Guna exactly faltered here.
Maestro Ilayaraja’s work is a big letdown. The song derailed the pace of the film while back ground score is even a bigger goofup. Overheard people saying his assistant may have scored the music. Ajay Vincent has done good work with the camera. Particularly the war scenes are very neatly done. Sreekar Prasad should have been good with his scissors. Thota Tharani’s art work is just superb. Both the action scenes and the CG work are below par.
Plus Points:
- Anushka
- Allu Arjun
- Chiranjeevi’s voice over that comes at the start
- Art work
Minus Points
- Direction
- Screenplay
- Cinematic liberties
- Ilayaraja’s work
- Graphical narration and VFX
- Dragged scenes, forced comedy
- Editing
- Duration
Final Say:
Gunasekhar killed his dream project with his own hands. The movie is a fine example what happens when you ignore your basics in film making and try to deliver a technical extravaganza. At the end, Guna missed on the basic story telling and powerful characterization which killed the movie experience. God save Guna who invested a bomb on this project.
