Cast: Thiruveer Reddy, Paayal Radhakrishna, Ajay Ghosh, Raasi, Raghu Babu, Goparaju Ramana, Srinivas Avasarala, Prasad Behra

 

Crew: 

Music Director: K.M. Radha Krishnan

 Director of Photography: S.V. Vishweshwar

 Editor: Anwar Ali

 Writer - Director: SP Durga Naresh

 Producers: Rakesh Reddy Gaddam and Rudradev Madireddy 

 

Thiruveer has been one of the most popular upcoming actors of Telugu Cinema. The actor has been consistently delivering content oriented films that have garnered him good name. Now, he came up with Papam Pratap, a different subject with Paayal Radhakrishna, Ajay Ghosh in prominent roles. Let's discuss about the movie in detail. 

 

Plot: 

Pratap (Thiruveer) is in love with Bujjamma (Paayal Radhakrishna) and after a long pursuit, she agrees to marry him. After marriage, when he believes his life-long dream is fulfilled, Bujjamma complaints against him in Village Panchayat, that it is hard to lead life with him. He is shocked and she states, "Nights are the problem". This ensues several speculations and he goes to the extreme of divorcing her. Why? Does she accept his divorce or how will the story take diversion? Watch the movie to know more. 

Thiruveer is a good performer but he needs a very focused and sort out director, who can guide him exactly. Here, his performance feels uneven at places, due to the lack of same. He thrived in comic portions but emotional scenes felt underwhelming. Still, he carried the role and film to most extent. Paayal Radhakrishna got a role with teeth but again, the script underwhelms her efforts too after a point. 

Ajay Ghosh manages to bring house down in pre-interval portions and he is hilarious at places. But others do not get any substantial amount of help from writers to shine. While the first hour has comic undertones and interesting elements, the second hour, where the real suspence unfolds, the movie starts to falter big time. 

The emotional turns feels more borrowed and old school style than new-age. Hence, there is a repetitive nature in scenes that already convey the problem. Also, the emotional scenes tend to over stretch as the editing and narration both don't fix out on what details to be in focus. It feels like a zig-zag drawing aiming for a final solution but never getting there even though the maze is easily solvable. 

Also, technically movie doesn't really pull off interesting frames or visuals at regular intervals, which is important in such films. You need an arresting element time to time. While production values are decent, the film needed even better comical sequences and less melodrama. Overall, it is watchable because of lead pair. 

 

Positives: 

Ajay Ghosh comedy scenes 

Thiruveer and Paayal chemistry

Emotional Scenes 

Pre-interval episode 

 

Negatives: 

Draggy Narrative 

Editing in second hour 

Repetitive Scenes 

Impactless Climax 

Lead pair and first hour comic scenes make it watchable. 

 

 

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