Thimmaraju – Telugu Movie Review

Thimmaraju’s release in theatres points out at two things. One, that comedians when they try to hog the entire show and screen space fail miserably and two, directors despite knowing this simple truth time and again venture out with half-baked scripts, waste the producers money and push back the career graph of the artistes.

Comedy King Ali is supposed to carry the film on his shoulders but what he does is trample it so much that it comes in handy as a decomposite in the place where the film has been shot. Even the beautiful forest is made to look artificial with coloured paper flowers stuck in respectable distance amongst the bushes.

The film has three dim-witted young men seeking a minister for a signal tower for cell phones to be installed in their village. They are aided by another not so intriguing mix of lesser known artistes who are in love, kidnapped and find themselves imprisoned in a forest with the same three men. Suddenly into the scene appears Thimmaraju who plays a not so kind host to these people, he has an ulterior motive in keeping them together.

The film is so insipid and boring, one wouldn’t want to know what the reason could be. Don’t ever make the mistake of sitting through the second half of the story, it neither gives the poor little comedians a chance to shine or justify their flawed, silly character. Not only does director Vemagiri exposes the spineless story he strips the character played by LB Sriram, Ali of any dignity.

The last one hour moves at a snail’s pace and never seems to develop. All that the characters do is bite into each other’s flesh like dogs, wear tribal costumes cool enough to be useful for a theme party and play, fight with spears and weapons, sticks that have funny shapes and sizes. In between all this one gets to see a slimy snake move in and out of a few boulders. There is a crazy scene in which Ali has an empty coke can tied to his girdle and finds a semblance of civilization, some connection to humanity when he spots a film magazine in which Ramcharan Tej is advertising for Coke.

Wonder where the director got the weird idea of charging cell phones on a tree and label it as humour. Avoid the film, and even the trailer, it is a criminal waste of time.

Cast & Crew:

Director: Vemagiri

Cast: Ali, Deepthi, L.B.Sriram, Chinna, M.S.Narayana, Suman Shetty

Producer: P Ratnam,  KSS Kumar

Music Director: Nandan Raj

Lyricst: Vemagiri

Source: Cinegoer