Tiger Nageswara Rao
Writers:VamseeSrikanth Vissa
Stars:Ravi TejaAnupam KherGayatri Bhardwaj
Tiger Nageswara Rao Full Review:
This week, four films from Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada graced the cinemas just ahead of the Dussehra holidays. Ravi Teja’s ‘Tiger Nageswara Rao’ is the last of the four films, which managed to pique the interest of the people with its trailer and storyline. The film is based on the real-life story of the infamous thief, Nageswara Rao.
Nageswara Rao (Ravi Teja) was born in Stuartpuram, a place notorious for sheltering thieves who resorted to theft to feed themselves. As a Guntur police officer (Murali Sharma) gets summoned to Delhi by India’s Intelligence Bureau chief Raghavendra Rajput (Anupam Kher), we get to know the crimes committed by the efficient Nageswara Rao. The PM’s office gets a call from Tiger Nageswara Rao about a theft he is going to commit. And boldly carries it out despite tight security.
As the story progresses, the bureau chief travels to Stuartpuram to learn about the life of Tiger Nageswara Rao and his motives. The second half shows the other side of Tiger Nageswara Rao and the cause he fought for..
In the first half, we get to see Tiger Nageswara Rao as an anti-hero, who ogles at women, commits crimes and bashes up anyone who crosses paths. We get to see him through the eyes of police officer Vishwanath Sastry (Murali Sharma). The camera angles, especially when it captures the women of Tiger Nageswara Rao, don’t move beyond their bosoms. This choice is questionable and comes across as outrightly creepy when the hero actively engages in such behavior.
It is in the second half that we see the ‘real side’ of Nageswara Rao, which is narrated by Nassar, who is introduced as the Dronocharya of the thieves. He shows the empathetic side of Nageswara Rao and how he becomes the messiah of the masses. However, the film is too long with a three-hour runtime. The love portions are drab and hence you lose interest by the time you are halfway into the film.
Ravi Teja, as the titular character, single-handedly tried to lift the film with his performance. Nupur Sanon and Gayatri Bharadwaj are sexualised on screen. Jisshu Sengupta as CI Mouli looks deadly, but fails to put up a noteworthy performance.
‘Tiger Nageswara Rao’ needed more punch to keep the audience glued to their seats throughout the film. Had the team concentrated on the film’s pacing, it could have achieved the desired impact.
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