Telugu Movie Reviews

Rachcha – Strictly for Ram Charan Teja's fanatic

Ram Charan Teja is back after more than one and a half year. His last outing was “orange," but it didn’t make an impact in the box-office. This time; he has played it safe and picked the tried and tested formulaic mass masala entertainer. Tamannaah Bhatia plays the female lead, and Parthiban plays the father character of Ram. Film also been dubbed in Tamil as “Ragalai."

What is it about?

Rachcha has the usual mix of love, action, revenge, killings for wealth acquisitions and sentiments. Ram and Tamannaah’s fathers; Parthiban and Nassar respectively are college buddies. They both decide to provide land to farmers to develop themselves. When all the people gather to obtain the will, Ram will meet Tamannaah, and it is from here we can predict the climax. During the incident, except Ram everyone will be dead because of a fire accident. Then Ram adopts a family consisting of a drunkard M.S Narayana and his wife, and he grows with them. He gets money through betting; he doesn’t pay house rent instead he clear the debt through betting with the house owner or through his wife.  Ajmal comes in as a guy, who places bet along guys and multiply his money. As we expect Ram will win the bet and will beat Ajmal. Then suddenly Ram’s father gets liver cirrhosis, and he needs a liver transplantation immediately, and he needs twenty five lakhs to save him. Ajmal who was hurt by the first loss in his life to ram tries to take a revenge on him. His bet is, to Love Tamannaah, Mukesh Rishi’s daughter and make her to propose in thirty days, which falls exactly on December 31st Eve. The bet is, if Ram wins he will get money to save his father, if he loses, then he should stop betting. However, both Ram and Tamannaah are unaware of the fact that they both know each other from childhood. 

Ram will do all gimmicks to make her fall, later she will conduct three tests. As usual, he will pass the entire test finally on Tamannah will fall in love, and she decides to propose on December 31st. Here comes the twist, Tamannah's father is not the original father; he is an adoptive father; he adopted her only for the sake of money, which will be explained with a flashback. By now, everyone could confirm the climax scenes. He adopted her just for the sake of her father’s land and money. Then ram elopes with Tamannaah and while they get caught, the lawyer of Mukesh Rishi will help Tamannaah to get to know the real fact, unexpectedly lawyer’s son is none other than Ajmal. The story takes another twist over here, because everything was preplanned by Tamannaah, Ajmal and the lawyer, right from the first betting between Ram and Ajmal betting to Tamannaah eloping with ram were planned, the reason for the preplanning and how ram helps Tamannaah to escape from the villain is the climax.

The film is directed by Sampath Nandi, written by Paruchuri brothers. Sameer Reddy’s camera was good. Editing was slick, and it was perfectly the way it has to be edited. Music is by Mani Sharma for which Ram Charan has made some energetic steps. Pitfalls are, an outdated storyline with poor narration. Most of the songs were misplaced, there is a happy item number right next to a scene where Tamannah will be kidnapped in front of Ram. Almost in every scene, either Ram praises about himself or his friends praise about him; it was too much. Even during the climax Tamannaah will start raving about him. Most of the film seems to be unbelievable. He single handedly swings a scooty, and he will throw it towards the fighters.  Director Sampath Nandi and Paruchuri brothers, they could have concentrated on the story instead using the age old formulaic mass entertainer. Ram Charan, Tamannah; Mukesh Rishi did justice to their roles.

What to do?
The movie is strictly for Ram Charan Teja and Mega star fanatics; others might feel a little overdose of mass and a floating storyline.

Rating: 2.25/5