EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING!!!! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
Credits
Banner: Mythri Movie Makers
Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Rao Ramesh, Jagapathi Babu, Sunil, Dhananjay, Ajay, Jagadeesh Pratap, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Tarak Ponappa, Sritej, Shamukh, Pavani Kamaram, Adithya Menon, Kalpalatha, Saurabh Sachdeva, Mime Gopi, Aadukalam Naren, Bindu Chandramouli, Brahmaji, Dayanand Reddy
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Additional BGM: Sam CS
Cinematography: Mirosław Kuba Brożek
Editing: Navin Nooli
Dialogues: Srikanth Vissa
Sound Design: Rasool Pookutty
Costume Design: Deepali Noor - Sheetal Sharma
Production Design: Rama Krishna and Monika
Fights: Peter Hein, "Dragon" Prakash, Kecha, Navakanth
Story - screenplay - Direction: Sukumar
Producers: Naveen Yerneni & Y Ravi Shankar
Release date: December 5th, 2024
Context
Not much to say at all. It’s the sequel to Pushpa 1 and I didnt feel movie needed a sequel. But they released a teaser las year where is Pushpa which writer Srikanth Vissa said is all part of part 3 cause its not there in the movie.
I had some hope that part 2 would be better than part 1 in terms of storytelling, elevations, and highs, and there are elevations and highs but done in the most cringe way possible.
Trailer came and it wasnt good but had some hope that sometimes movies deceive the trailers. How bad the trailer is, movie is pretty much the same.
Songs came out and its the worst ALBUM in Allu Arjuns career as well as Sukumar and DSP career. Amazing downfall from all 3 of them.
Finally movie released and definitely have to say its bad. In no way I can call it good. It’s disappointing no doubt. Nt much of a difference between Guntur karma and Pushpa 2. Lead actor did their job, but everyone else especially director who is also the writer who all seem to be clueless once again colossally failed to their job.
Interesting Facts
Not much to say man other than Jagapathi Babu joined the cast and then first look last year was done in Jathara get up leading everyone to praise them.
Literally other than 1-2 scenes nothing was shot in real locations everything was done in sets. For item song they considered Sraddha Kapoor but apparently she asked for 8 crores and then they cast Sreeleela marking her first item song.
For the Jathara episode they shot the Jathara episode for 35 days. We also did rehearsals for 15 days and they spend apparently 50-60 crores on this sequence alone. I think a set was built in RFC for it.
Trailer came and half the shots in the trailer aren’t even there and back then there was talk after watching KGF 2, Sukumar reworked the script and added more things but after seeing everything there’s nothing in the movie and its just a bunch of random stuff.
Finally DSP controversy where he was signed to do songs and BGM entire music but producers went behind his back and hired Sam CS to do 90% of the movies BGM.
It’s also the first Telugu movie to release in 12,000 screens worldwide.
Also the fact that to make a basic commercial movie, they took 3 years. Its a joke of a production.
Also producers raised ticket prices and put it as 1200 and expected shows to be houseful.
Acting
Allu Arjun is the only reason to watch the movie. AMAZING. The amp, swag, and attitude is amped up in 2nd part and voice modulation was very well done but gave irritation. In first part his slang was very good but in this part couldn’t understand half the dialogues due to him eating pan the entire movie in every scene.
In Jathara sequence he’s sensational.acted with literally every part and muscle and full respect to performing that scene. It’s very effective due to his performance only. Also the rage that he has is very well captured throughout the movie especially in climax.
He’s in almost every scene in the movie but whatever his motives and all were there in part 1, it’s not as effective and there’s no arc for his character diluting the performance.