Arjun S/O Vyjayanthi

The film's biggest letdown, though, is its presentation. The visuals are aggressively uninspired. The typical warm Telugu commercial colour grading that makes everything look turmeric, flat camerawork that doesn’t dare to try anything remotely new, and action sequences that seem more rehearsed than executed. Kalyan Ram, to his credit, deserves appreciation for that bold climax. He doesn’t exactly reinvent the archetype, but he clearly knew what would work for this film. Unfortunately, his character isn’t written as a person but as a function, a son who is devoted. There’s no inner world to him, no crack in the facade. Vijayashanthi still performs her stunts with a flair. It’s so commendable for a film like this to feature an action-heavy female character. But her character is equally one-note.

Sadly, there ends the positives of this routine commercial template film and it starts to frustrate us with its writing. The character arcs of the leads are also underdeveloped and each scene looks like it has been "inspired" from another film of same type. Even at that level, the film fails to engage us with a gripping narrative.