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| Movie Name : |
Chalo
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| Cinema Type : |
South Regional
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| Release Date : |
02-Feb-2018( 6 years, 231 days ago)
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| Directed By : |
Venky Kudumula |
| Production House : |
Ira Creations |
| Genre : |
Romance |
| Lead Role : |
Naga Shaurya, Rashmika Mandanna, Naresh, Achyuth Kumar, Raghu Babu
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Rating:3/5
Right from the first scene of ‘Chalo’, featuring a frustrated Naresh in a jail cell, it is made clear that this film, despite based on a sombre subject, refuses to take itself too seriously. Hari (Naga Shaurya) is a typical college kid from Hyderabad, except he has the quirk of getting into fights. He loves beating people up and sometimes, gets beaten up. Pretty early on it’s established that if there’s a fight, Hari is going to get himself involved in it and escalate the situation.
When his parents, inspired by a Rajinikanth dialogue, send him to Tiruppuram, a village suffering from regional disputes between the Telugu and Tamil clans hoping he’ll wear himself out there, Hari meets the bubbly Karthika (Rashmika) and falls in love with the fact that she loves chaos just as much as he does. There’s Achyuth Kumar as Kesava, head of the Telugu clan and Mime Gopi as Veera Muththu, head of the Tamil clan. But when the disorder in Tiruppuram begins to affect their relationship, will Hari manage to change for the better or will be escalate the situation further like he always does?
Naga Shaurya is great in his role as Hari, the college student with way too much energy to spend on conflict. He is as addicted to fights as a druggie would be to his choice of poison. Rashmika is good enough in her role as Karthika, a geeky, bubbly girl who is split between her love for family and Hari. Despite the story of ‘Chalo’ being somewhat a cliché, director Venky somehow cleverly manages to turn the tropes into a fun and interesting ride (thanks to the opposing clans fighting each other complete with swords and knives and a fence running right through the village diving them). Kudos to that!
The story of ‘Chalo’ is downright inane, but the best part is it doesn’t even pretend to be otherwise, not even for a second. The twists and turns all come laced with a generous helping of humour and the final, big reveal is so awfully bad that you can’t help but wonder how they could even come up with such silliness. But that is not to say, the film is bad at all. On the contrary, it’s actually a mindlessly enjoyable ride.