Rudhrudu Review: Cliched To The Core

Rudhrudu is a Tamil-language action drama film directed by S.Kathiresan which is dubbed into Telugu and released as Rudhrudu. The film has Raghava Lawrence & Priya Bhavani Shankar playing the lead roles while R. Sarathkumar, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Nassar, Abhishek Vinod, Redin Kingsley, Kaali Venkat & others in supporting roles. The music is composed by G.V. Prakash Kumar & Dharan Kumar and the background score is done by Sam C.S. The film is produced by S.Kathiresan under Five Star Creations LLP banner.

Story:

Rudhra (Raghava Lawrence) is a happy IT man living with his family. He loves a girl named Ananya (Priya Bhavani Shankar) and marries her. Rudhra then goes abroad with his IT work leaving his family in India. Everything goes well until the moment his life is turned upside down. He comes upon a major criminal network including a criminal businessman. What is the incident? How will Rudhra embark on a mission to expose the criminal network forms the rest of the plot.

What about on-screen performances?

Raghava Lawrence does an impressive job in his role as Rudhra. He is good in all the emotional scenes and is superb in all action scenes. Apart from his acting, he dances like a dream in all the songs, especially in the ‘Praanaana Paatale Paaduthundi’ song.

Priya Bhavani Shankar looks cute and does a decent job as Dr.Ananya. She fits her role perfectly and is impressive in all the emotional scenes as well.

R.Sarathkumar makes his presence felt in his negative shaded role. He is particularly good in the flashback portions. But the role is a cliched commercial cinema villain, that didn’t gives him enough meat to shine.

Poornima Bhagyaraj does a neat job as the hero’s mother. The mother sentiment works well in the film.

Nassar is okay as the hero’s father while Abhishek Vinod, Sachu, Shivajith, Redin Kingsley, Kaali Venkat, Shyam Prasad & others are fine in their respective supporting roles.

What about off-screen talents?

The story by KP. Thirumaaran is a routine revenge drama. Apart from the core crime that happens in the second half, nothing seems that interesting.

The screenplay too follows a template style format with cliched scenes that offer no novelty. The love track and the family scenes in the first half should have been well-written.

Director S. Kathiresan does an okayish job with his presentation. The way he handled the first half is very boring but he connected the emotions very well in the second half. Had he taken a bit more care on the writing part, the film would have been a lot better.

The Telugu dubbed songs by G.V. Prakash Kumar & Dharan Kumar are very poor and irritating at a point. Only the ‘Praanaana Paatale Paaduthundi’ song and the Mother song work to an extent.

The background score by Sam C. S. lifts all the elevation scenes to a decent level.

The camera work by R. D. Rajasekhar is neat while the edit by Anthony is middling. The production values are okay.

What’s Hot?

* Raghava Lawrence’s Performance & Dances
* Priya Bhavani Shankar’s Performance
* Background Score
* Few Mass Action Blocks
* Second Half

What’s Not?

* Routine Revenge Story
* Predictable Screenplay
* Boring Love Track
* Few Over The Top Elevation Scenes
* Poor First Half
* Pathetic Songs In Telugu

Verdict: On the whole, Rudhrudu is a routine mass commercial entertainer with cliched & template scenes. The mass action scenes and the mother sentiment might work well for the target audience but for the rest, it is a forgettable fair.

Telugubulletin.com Rating: 1.5/5