Guru Movie Review

Story: Adithya Aadi (Venkatesh) is a talented boxer and a rudely belligerent coach transferred to Vizag for training the women boxers. Among the Vizag slums, Aadi finds Rameshwari aka Ramudu (Ritika Singh), a born champion girl but aggressive and carefree missing in a proper goal setting. As Aadi begin to train Ramudu and her sister Lux for the World Championship selections, their real challenge lies in between and outside the ring. An immature Ramudu first falls in love with Aadi and then realizes the original face of outside world. How Ramudu fulfills the goal of Aadi is rest of emotionally charged narration.

Guru Advantages:

Story, Direction

Venkatesh

Ritika Singh

Music

Cinematography

Climax

Drawbacks:

Slow At Times

Lack of Entertainment

Cinematic Treatment At Times

Rating and Analysis: At every promotional interview, Venkatesh was wobbling in confidence as he knew ‘GURU’ had strong content and balanced emotions to strike at its target audience. After watching enough of sports based inspirational films in last few years, agreed that ‘GURU’ hasn’t got anything more than ‘Dangal’ but when it’s a Telugu movie with our own sensibilities, it makes a difference. Director Sudha Kongara had a strong visual sense in establishing the mood and sketching the character behavior. Added with highly efficient technical team, the on screen output was just of International standard.    

Introducing Venkatesh as Aadi and his transfer to Vizag sets the footing for Ritika Singh’s entry into story. Her family fun, drama and pathetic state of affairs in India for enthusiastic sports aspirants are executed well. Songs though composed in a new style, one does not know how far it helped the film. Once Venky hires Ritika, the narrative never looked back. Ritika expelling herself from the qualifier rounds followed by Sibling rivalry, love story made first half a tight package.

Into second half, yet again the poor infrastructure, politics in sports and sexual harassment exposed the typical Indian sports environment. Though we know that Ritika’s triumph is the climax, in between artists like Zakir Hussain, Tanikella Bharani, Naazar does their part in upholding the film till last stage. 

All in all, GURU’ isn’t a methodical commercial movie Telugu audience are addicted to. Kudos to Venkatesh for taking up this challenge, subsiding his heroic image for elevating Ritika Singh’s life. ‘GURU’ is mainly targeted at urban multiplex and Overseas Telugu audience. Despite winning the immense critics’ applause, Box Office judgment from lower order centers will decide the overall result

verdict : Telugu dangal

rating : 3.5 /5