Cast: Anushka Shetty, Vikram Prabhu, Chaitanya Rao, Jagapathi Babu, Ravindra Vijay, John Vijay, Jesshu Sengupta

Crew:

Written by Chitakandi Srinivasa Rao, Sai Madhav Burra, Krish
Music by Sagar Nagavalli
Cinematography by Manojh Reddy Katasani
Editing by Chankya Reddy Toorupu
Directed by Krish Jagarlamudi
Produced by UV Creations, First Frame Entertainments

Queen Anushka Shetty has grown into becoming a lady superstar of Telugu Cinema with career defining blockbusters like Arundhati, Rudramadevi, Baahubali, and many more. In her early days, the highly glamourous queen showcased other side as a performer in Vedam by Krish. So, Ghaati being their second collaboration risen huge expectations and anticipation. Let's discuss about the film in detail.

Plot:

In Eastern Ghats, tribals known as Ghaatis, live their life by smuggling Ganjai aka Cannabis of diffrent types. Sheelavathi type is the best among all. As she was born with the sip of it, Sheelavathi (Anushka Shetty) gets the name. She is deeply in love with her cousin Desi Raju (Vikram Prabhu). Both of them have plans to marry and Desiraju wants to educate and develop the lives of his fellow people.

He and Sheelavathi start cultivating Ganjai Oil, the purest form of Cannabi. They start making crores and spend them for constructing schools and hospital. Police find out the oil and drug lords Kaastla Naidu (Ravindra Vijay) and Kundula Naidu (Chaitanya Rao) try to suppress them. Unable to do so they decide to kill them. Did they succeed? What is Sheelavathi reaction to it all? Watch the movie to know more

Analysis:

Anushka Shetty did well in the role that suits her action star image. Her screen presence and look, presence in action sequences are exciting. Vikram Prabhu did well in his role but the writing for his role did not have much impact.

Chaitanya Rao, Ravindra Vijay and Jagapathi Babu justified their roles. They had intimidating screen presence in each scene. But again writing for their scenes and execution has been very routine and lacked any strong impact.

Krish Jagarlamudi sticked to a very generic action entertainer without really working on presenting emotional core effectively. Predictability factor in the second hour kills the movie further with sequences seem to be going on in monotonic fashion.

While Anushka Shetty's screen presence works in the action sequences, the writing just drags the obvious. The action film lovers could enjoy the film but it offers nothing new in narrative.

Bottomline:

Action lovers might enjoy but predictability weakens narrative.

Rating: 2.5/5

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