Daaku Maharaaj

"Daaku Maharaj" isn't much different from the many mass-produced films churned out by production houses. It tells an average, familiar story about a man battling evil forces who have cut off the water supply to his village-nothing new or groundbreaking. This kind of plot has been done so many times that it's almost worn out, making it hard to get excited.

However, what saved the film was its pacing and cinematography, which were surprisingly well done and managed to keep the movie respectable. Special mention has to go to that wild dance scene-seriously, even when you have a wife, pulling off moves like that with someone else is unimaginable!

Overall, it's an average film with solid visuals-perfect for a timepass watch, and definitely something you can sit through if you're looking for a casual movie experience.

I don't know if it's too much to ask a basic, decent movie, with bare minimum emotional touch, watching big hero movie from Telugu is frustrating

Balakrishna does everything in his usual style, albeit with the loudness toned down. Urvashi's Butts has got more screentime than her face, Pragya does nothing, Shraddha Srinath surprisingly has got a decent role and did well. Bobby Deol except for fighting cigarettes does nothing.

Technically, movie is super slick with solid cinematography by Vijay Karthik, rousing score by Thaman, fair work by editor Ruben, production values are fine for a Balayya film.

Coming to writer-director Bobby Kolli, don't know how he keeps churning out such half baked movies on a consistent basis, might do commercially well, but they are far from satisfactory.

BOTTOMLINE : It's neither VIKRAM nor JAILER.

I actually wanted to give a 6.5, since it's not possible, I gave it a 7. In first half, Protagonist does etc things like protecting, fighting, etc but doesn't give a proper reason. It captivates our curious minds. Second half gives a proper flashback and answers all our questions in the first half. In last 20 minutes of the movie, the plot comes to present time. Protagonist kills antagonist hence the movie ends 🤷. Just like the lead actor's N Balakrishna previous movies, he gets all that unnecessary hype like his entrances with sandstorm, earthquakes, etc. Despite these similarities, these movie's inner plot is interesting and has a strong sense of justice. Also there's no boring clips in the whole length. That's what actually makes it watchable despite it's repetitive plot.

Sentence: If you are capable of torturing yourself with your mental health, then congratulations, this movie is for you.

Okay, telling you from the storyline, the movie started with a fight scene, which is a trimmed part of the middle portion to introduce the Protagonist. Then, how the movie turned out really puzzled me.

Talking about the Cast, Balakrishna's acting is good (5/10 stars), but the Hindi dubbing and dialogue delivery for the particular protagonist didn't blend well. Ravi kishan's acting is superb, and I enjoyed it. Urvashi's character is a Police Inspector, but I don't know if I'm blind; I didn't see her in uniform, and the way she portrayed her character is not justified. Lord Bobby's acting is also better than any others, but his screen time is too short.

The first half of the movie delivers while the second half is a bit dragged. The portrayal of balayya is new and the director added the style and flavour of lokesh kanagaraj movies.

Balayya came out of his comfort to take such risk of making a movie that could have ended a disaster if not for Bobby koli. The acting is nice and music is good.

This movie proves that balayya is never in his peak but he is his peak. The movie did not miss the commercial elements. But urvashi rautela's role was shortened and it was good that way, otherwise it would have spoiled the work. Though it may feel overdramatic sometimes it is perfect for the sankranti season to have mass movie like this.

A good movie if you can enjoy keeping the logics and all other things behind. It was better than most balayya's movies in the past ten years.

I don't understand why people are so obsessed with other movies this sankranti because people were ready to see all the things balayya use to do back then but does not want to watch him in a role where he has the scope to act good which he did.

The movie is a surprise to me. Don't listen to the negative reviews and watch it with a blank mind.

But the balayya in the first half is fire. Want more like this from balayya.

Go and enjoy the movie.