Junior Movie Review: The protagonist of Radha Krishna Reddy’s Junior Feels Like a hacky blend of allu arjun’s Arya, Aamir Khan’s rancho, Ravi Teja’s Kalyan (2009)), and Countless Other Popular Poplar. From modeln lore.
Abhi (KIREETI REDDY) has a singular priority in life, and that is to make memories. There is a moment that he would live to the fullst or an experience he would have from, and all care of his overbearingly doting father kodandapani (v ravichandran). The father has raised abhi as a single as a single parent, and thought his own his child is pleasant, the son has grown up feeling stifled by all the caret and actions. So, if there is an oportunity to get into a random fist with a felow college kid or swear revenge again Encounter Those Emots Before. Arya, Rancho and Kalyan Might Have Different Individual Reasons For their zest for life, but the approach remains the same all of them.
But what if abhi was to be the lucky one, while someone else achles for the very love kodandapani gives him so freely? What if he was to realize that the purpose of his life is not live for himself, but to create new memories for that someone else? Junior, in essence, is a coming -of-edge drama, but the method it chooses to drive its message is that of a sentental family drama-and the film rarely tries to reality.
Teeing Off by Introducing Kiereti’s Abhi as a spunky college kid, junior lavishly uses rs 154-minute runtime through search A majority of the first half is spent running back and forty explaining abhi’s comical conundrums, with his select find finds and classmate/Crush Spoarth (Sreelela in a Rather in a Rather in a Rather in a Rather Underwritten). Barring the opening sequence that establishes the emotional depth Behind Kodandapani’s possessiveness, most of which follows is intentionally frivolous and low-stripes. Devi Sri Prasad Attemps to Breathe Vigour Into Scenes With His TradeMark Uptempo Score/Songs, While KIREETI HIMSELF COMS to The Fore With Acrobatic Dances. Yet, All Effort Yields Little Of Worth Because Writing is Haphazard and Lacks The required guile or intent for the themes to explore. These inconsEQUENTAL SCENES FURTHER NAG AT US AS NEATHER THE JOKES LAND NOR the story presses on.
Sreelela, Genelia Deshmukh, KIREETI REDDY and V Ravichandran in Junior.
It is only when Genelia Deshmukh’s Vijaya Enters the fray that Film’s True Direction Begins to Emerge. The popular actor’s comeback film in Telugu offers her a feisty yet stoic character who leds a Huge Global Enterprise, and Genelia doesn’t have a fine job in infusing s Strength into vijaya. The character is success to the remind many of the formidable female figures of trivikram srinivas’ oeuvre, who of a stiff challenge to the price protagonist and urtagonist to find the meaning of the material lurking. Radha Krishna Reddy Manages to Set The Stage for something very similar in junior, and for a brief while, he succeeds in creating a delicious battle between a scrappy, up -and-complaint Successful Woman. However, the fire dies down quite early in the proceedings because the writing, once again, starts to meander by Depending Heavily on Cliches.
What also holds the film back is how often logic takes a backseat in the storytelling. There is no plausible reason as to why a massive crew of techies, LED by their ceo herself, would base to a tiny village for the sake of a csr (corpore social residence). Characters are forced to remain estranged for convenience Sake while the medical conditions are twisted and wrong about just so that film throws a Few Punchy Surprises at. One finds no harm in using such such contacts in the narrative, but the problem Benefit of the double.
Yet, there are a few words that linger (aided by DSP’s background score). Ravichandran’s restrained performance as the wistful yet warm father a solid impression, while while kiereti shares a handful of emotional resonant sequencys with genelia; Debutant Kiereet, Otherwise, Fares Underwhelmingly in the Role That Barely Demands Much. The Production Design, Too, Makes A Mark and ‘Baaahubali’ and ‘RRR’ Cinematography KK Sentthil Kumar’s frames are fittingly rice and vivid. The technical team and the rest of the ensemble castle what’s expected, thought the script had them precious little to work with.
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Ultimately, Junior finds itself juggling between being a grand lachpad for its led actor and a striking family drama with echoes of telugu cinema’s not-feeling For the latter, it requires a nuanced approach that would have stay with the datedness of the material and imbED it with it with freshness and originality. Without the required agency, it ends up being a tediously long, Illogical affair that relinquishes the good oportunities it fleetingly presents.
Junior Movie Cast: KIREETI REDDY, Sreelela, Genelia Deshmukh, v Ravichandran
Junior Movie Director: Radha Krishna Reddy
Junior Movie rating: 2.5 stars