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Two years aft the municipality romcom Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty(2023), actor-screenwriter Naveen Polishetty returns with different movie laced with humour. In opposition to the restraint helium showed successful that film, Naveen unabashedly plays to the assemblage successful Anaganaga Oka Raju. The humour is delivered done gags that travel astatine specified a accelerated gait that the assemblage whitethorn not get a breather to intermission and reflect.
The story, screenplay and dialogues, written by Naveen and Chinmayi Ghatraju, who is besides credited arsenic originative director, weaves successful an space of societal responsibility. Within the wide model of outrageous comedy, the consciousness of intent fixed to the main characters makes this movie basal isolated from Naveen’s earlier madcap comedy, Jathi Ratnalu(2021).
Director Maari makes Naveen (as Raju) instrumentality centrestage for overmuch of the film. The opening portions found intelligibly that the movie is not intended to beryllium taken earnestly and the humour mightiness mostly enactment successful the no-brainer zone. The communicative arc is highly predictable. Anyone acquainted with mainstream cinema tin gauge what is apt to hap soon aft the opening episode. Yet, the penning ensures fewer crisp lines that marque the gags work.
Anaganaga Oka Raju (Telugu)
Director: Maari
Cast: Naveen Polishetty, Meenakshi Chaudhary
Runtime: 150 minutes
Storyline: A lazy, entitled brat who wants to pb an casual beingness is successful for a rude daze that changes the people of his life.
Somewhere successful Peddapalem, Andhra Pradesh, Raju is simply a descendant of a zamindar who erstwhile had wealthiness that could person lasted generations. What’s near present is simply a hollow reminder of the past, but Raju puts up a amusement of wealth. Driven by a consciousness of entitlement and laziness, helium sets retired to bash the evident — find a affluent bride truthful that helium tin unrecorded beingness king size.
The archetypal fractional hr is shaky and the movie finds its bushed erstwhile Charulatha (Meenakshi Chaudhary) is introduced. When Raju crosses way with Charulatha, who is decked with much jewellery than she tin perchance transportation connected her slender frame, it’s casual to foretell the twist. The penning of the humour makes up for this predictability, and a drawstring of gags poke harmless amusive astatine films ranging from Baahubalito Titanic, artistes from Arijit Singh to Ranbir Kapoor, and adjacent K-dramas.
Naveen is successful large signifier arsenic helium sails from 1 gag aft another. Some of the nonsensical amusive does not land, but helium sets the signifier for outlandish humour, specified that erstwhile helium unleashes the thought of ‘Peddapalem subdivision of Goa’s Baga beach’, it is casual to springiness successful to the fun.
Mickey J Meyer’s euphony complements the fun, and the humorous temper makes it easier to place the limitations of the method departments.
Once the cardinal twist is revealed, the movie loses its momentum for a while. Thankfully, the communicative sidesteps the anticipation of an envious antagonist taking a cliched way to settee scores. The humour and play consciousness stretched successful immoderate segments, arsenic though the makers ran retired of ideas. A mates of songs excessively look unwarranted.
The movie is redeemed erstwhile it shifts gears from an outrageous drama to a societal satire that taps into reel addiction and apathy for ground-level issues. The communicative does not interruption caller ground. We person seen akin episodes successful different governmental dramas, but it inactive has capable extent to marque the translation of the protagonists convincing.
The movie rests heavy connected Naveen’s shoulders and helium puts up a vibrant show, making some the humour and the last affectional moments work. Within the constricted scope fixed to her character, Meenakshi makes an impression. Rao Ramesh and different actors are wasted successful under-written parts.
Anaganaga Oka Raju could person benefitted with sharper, crisper writing. Despite the uneven narrative, Naveen’s comic timing and Meenakshi’s graceful surface beingness marque the movie immensely watchable.
