ReviewFrom the opening scene to the last shot, there is not one moment in Varun Tej’s ‘Gandeevadhari Arjuna’ that excites the audience. The film has a highly predictable plot with zero drama. Director Praveen Sattaru seems to have been so fascinated by the John Wick series that he tried to introduce a similar style in Telugu cinema with Gandeevadhari Arjuna. True to the genre, there are no redundant songs or other distractions, but is that enough? The brief of Gandeevadhari Arjuna, starring Varun Tej and Sakshi Vaidya, could have been ‘John Wick meets Tollywood’ when the director set out to make it. But with its mishmash of Hollywood and Telugu film cliches, Praveen Sattaru delivers an extremely subpar film, possibly worse than his last film The Ghost starring Nagarjuna. In Gandeevadhari Arjuna, Arjun (Varun Tej) is a former Raw (Research and Analysis Wing) agent. He is accidentally hired to...
- 8/25/2023
- by Balakrishna
- The News Minute
ReviewDisappointingly, the narrative of ‘Asvins’ follows one of the most boring, overdone tropes – that of a group of friends visiting a haunted place, leading to trouble. Director Tarun Teja’s Asvins begins with a legend of the twin gods from the Rig Veda, who possess the power to heal and even resurrect the dead. This leads one to think that Asvins is a mythological horror film. But it does not take long to figure out that it is a fusion of both mythological and psychological horror, especially when Tarun Tej takes you through the landscape of the huge haunted mansion in the film, with a garden that resembles the hedge maze from the iconic Hollywood classic The Shining. Disappointingly though, the narrative of Asvins follows one of the most boring, overdone tropes – that of a group of friends visiting a haunted place, leading to trouble. Arjun (Vasanth Ravi), his wife...
- 6/23/2023
- by Balakrishna
- The News Minute
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