Allari Naresh in a nonetheless from ‘Ugram’
After taking over police brutality within the 2021 crime thriller Naandhi,director Vijay Kanakamedala groups up with Allari Naresh but once more, and turns critique on its head by presenting the viewers with the character of Ok. Shivakumar (Allari Naresh), a Circle Inspector who has 4 murders to his title and dishes out custodial torture liberally in his quest for ‘justice’.
Very early within the movie, we’re compelled to consider that Shivakumar is an upright cop after he busts an unlawful drug smuggling enterprise and refuses to offer into the jaws of corruption.
Ugram (Telugu)
Director: Vijay Kanakamedala
Solid: Allari Naresh, Mirnaa Menon, Indraja, Sharath Lohithaswa, Shatru
Runtime: 122 minutes
Storyline: Tragedy strikes a dutiful cop when his spouse and daughter go lacking and he’s prompted to resolve the case
Nevertheless, the ‘honest’ cop additionally has his share of romance to muddy the chaotic thriller; Aparna (Mirnaa Menon), the daughter of a rogue politician provides in to marry Shivakumar after he stalks her for months and the director appears comfy in passing it off as love. Quickly sufficient, the viewers is given a lesson in respecting ladies by Shivakumar himself after he rescues women residing in a gurukul from the clutches of males excessive on marijuana. Whereas the director is evident that weed is just for the villains, he’s unable to make up his thoughts in regards to the therapy he dishes out to the ladies in his movie, typically constructing his hero into a personality with an enormous saviour advanced.
Later, tragedy strikes Shivakumar when his spouse and daughter go lacking and he’s left to resolve their case. The honest cop has little regard for authorized protocol and sometimes takes delight in violating it whereas fixing the case.
The movie is neatly divided into two distinct halves the place the primary half works as a typical cop drama with the protagonist addressing a number of social ills and instructing the criminals a lesson in morality by nearly making an attempt to kill them, whereas the second half is spent looking for his lacking spouse and daughter. Put up-interval although, the movie looks like a drag and the clues the hero makes use of to resolve the case, whereas actively contaminating them, come throughout as trivial and lazy to the viewers.
Kanakamedala makes use of too many plot factors, haphazard narrative breaks, and pointless music and dance sequences which dilute the depth of an already collapsing story. His option to introduce “duplicate hijras” (based on him, these are males who cross-dress to commit crimes) to lewd sounds reinforces the dangerous stereotypes related to the neighborhood, and Shivakumar’s monologue on the struggles of the third gender in India comes throughout as mere lip service to keep away from backlash from the viewers.
The one saving grace is Allari Naresh’s efficiency. He’s honest and agile in decently-choreographed motion sequences and his physique language as a furious cop interprets effectively on-screen regardless of his common dialogue supply.
The viewers may begin feeling relieved and begin rooting within the climactic motion sequence, as was the case in my theatre — not out of adoration for the hero — however on the thought that we had been near the credit rolling throughout the display screen.
Ugram is presently operating in theatres.