‘Gurram Paapi Reddy’ movie review: Naresh Agastya, Faria Abdullah’s con comedy is hilarious yet overcooked

If this week’s Telugu merchandise Gurram Paapi Reddy were a human, it would astir apt beryllium a teenager. It bursts with energy, overflowing with ideas and wearing its unabashed enthusiasm similar a badge of honour. The assemblage excessively mightiness extremity up surrendering to its infectious energy. Yet, similar a distracted teenager, the movie besides gets truthful enamoured by its precise thought that it loses power and does not cognize wherever to stop.

The vibe is eerily akin to Jathi Ratnalu aboriginal on. Again, Brahmanandam (as Vaidyanathan), is simply a judge. Faria Abdullah, the histrion successful the erstwhile film, is the lone pistillate beingness successful the pb lineup here. The different oddball antheral characters — Gurram Paapi Reddy (Naresh Agastya), Chilipi (Vamshidhar Goud), Goyyi (Jeevan Kumar) and Military (Rajkumar Kasireddy) — are the not-so-smart ones who get entangled successful a mess.

The similarities extremity there. Brahmanandam, who is successful terrific form, sets the code of the comedy, doling retired harsh punishments to petty criminals, not for their crimes, but for their sheer stupidity successful getting caught. Gurram, Chilipi, Goyyi and Military are the victims who reunite aft their jailhouse term. This time, they are joined by Soudamini (Faria).

While their earlier heist astatine a jewellery store goes terribly wrong, the caller program is strangely simple. The 4 men request to swap a dormant assemblage from Srisailam with different assemblage successful a graveyard successful Hyderabad for a meagre sum. While they execute it, albeit with difficulty, it gets messy erstwhile the motive down the swap comes to the fore, dating backmost to a royal acquisition from the pre-Independence era.

The cardinal struggle is established anterior to the intermission, but newer problems aboveground later. Though the communicative thought is deceptively straightforward, the manager builds galore layers to the amusive quotient and it’s evident that helium treats drama similar superior business.

The actors respond to the situations without trying excessively hard to impress. The scenes are not lone thematically funny, but besides packed with outrageously hilarious one-liners. Every clip 1 feels the film’s trajectory is sorted, determination is simply a surprise. The screenplay is engaged with backstories and subplots.

The 2nd hr could person benefited from immoderate system successful writing. Past connections are strung together, newer characters and their complexities are introduced, determination are backup plans, flashbacks and a opus is thrown into the mix. Thankfully, the humour quotient remains unaffected. Some breather would person been welcome.

The subplots involving Sangi Reddy, peculiarly the courtroom proceedings, and Markandeya Raju’s lad assemblage the screenplay, leaving the viewers with excessively galore dots to connect. It’s inevitable for immoderate restlessness to creep successful towards the last 45 minutes — a agelong packed with respective events and coincidences. A clever climax salvages the film.

Gurram Paapi Reddy is alert of the important equilibrium betwixt the goofiness of its characters and the seriousness of the plot. Too galore characters and a packed, expansive communicative marque the movie exhausting, fixed its 160-minute runtime.

Naresh Agastya, Vamshidhar Goud, Faria Abdullah, Jeevan Kumar and Rajkumar Kasireddy stock fantastic on-screen camaraderie and get ample scope to radiance individually too. Yogi Babu, arsenic a convict with night-blindness, brings the extortion down adjacent erstwhile helium doesn’t dub for himself. Motta Rajendran’s antics look repetitive astatine times, though they onshore well.

This is besides among Brahmanandam’s champion on-screen appearances successful caller times. It’s an implicit joyousness to spot the seasoned histrion ever-hungry to beryllium his worthy erstwhile helium senses imaginable successful a scene. John Vijay is successful dire request of reinvention with his dialog transportation and assemblage language. Both songs successful the film, composed by Krishna Saurabh, though well-shot, consciousness abrupt.

A communicative with lesser flab would person amplified the film’s impact. The makers tease the assemblage with a imaginable sequel idea, but appreciably it does look forced. The movie is besides implicit successful itself.

Gurram Paapi Reddy is a smartly written and performed con-comedy that delivers laughs aplenty, though a fewer segments go indulgent.