Kannappa

"KANNAPPA" (2025), a Telugu-language mythological devotional film directed by Mukesh Kumar Singh, attempts to portray the life of Kannappa, a devoted follower of Lord Shiva.

As someone unfamiliar with the legend of Kannappa, I found the film largely unsuccessful in bringing his story to life.

At 3 hours and 3 minutes, the movie is excessively long, but my issue isn't with its runtime-it's with the sluggish pacing, unnecessary vulgarity for a devotional film, forgettable dialogue, and underdeveloped characters.

While the story centers on Kannappa, it also tries to mimic the grandeur of Baahubali, with Kannappa and Nemali resembling Prabhas and Tamannaah's characters from that epic.

Even the villain feels like a recycled version of Baahubali's Kaalikey.

The star-studded cast, including Akshay Kumar, Mohanlal, Kajal Aggarwal, Mukesh Rishi, and Prabhas, is impressive but underutilized. Most actors are sidelined or given lackluster roles.

The visual effects are also feel low quality and literally bad.

Prabhas shines in his scenes, but his entry comes only after two hours, by which point the film has already dragged. The first two hours feel bloated and could easily have been condensed into 40-50 minutes to maintain momentum.

Last 30 minutes are absolutely best but it could be way more better.

Ultimately, Kannappa fails as a family-friendly devotional or mythological film due to its inappropriate content and lackluster execution. I wouldn't recommend it for those seeking a meaningful cinematic experience.

This was the worst of all in 2025 till now, man how dis the makers even thought we would love it. OMG don't talk about graphics it was really poor, but it's not just graphics the film itself lacks your interest. Man I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. It's the actors bad but the way this movie directed is really useless, I think even the new cindrella remake was better than this. Why are they are the makers nowadays so obssessed with mythology and even they want to make pls make it clear and with less vulgarity, I just wasted my 3 hours and some mental health after watching this masterpiece.

Being clear I am a brahmin myself this movie was just a high end no storyline money grabber nothing less than housefull 5 , Storyline nothing just some fantasy copied , action scenes? Obviously unrealistic, cinematography? Disastrous u can clearly the wireworks , the actions weren't clear , random cuts, 0 continuity in panning , some of the scenes were straight out of other movies , the amy fight scene bahubali ... The prabhas h2h combat .... The prosecutor and so on... It was just another money grabber by using hinduism and religious sentiments..this is my personal review I don't have any hate towards any targeted personnel.

Such a horrible screenplay if anyone values 3 hours pf valuable time refea8n from the movie . Story telling is at the lowest no proper BGM, cheap graphics . Hero has built body eating too much of meat but not investiled time to sharpen his acting skills. Expressions are horrible . Only saviour is 15 mins of prabhas. Better to watch it on OTT moving fast forward button.

I need my 3 hours of vaouable time back wasted my life trustong this horrible movie makers not worth watching....

Location is out of sync to movie, the primary focus is lost in story telling by director. Ecpressionless cast except prabhas.

Dont waste time.

What the hell was this !

Utter waste - the VFX, graphics was so horrible, incompetently bad and the screenplay - what a horrible mess.

The story has so much potential - but it requires a more subtle and restraint approach ( since the story is fantastic as it, if you go for hyperbole - it would be like this movie - a comedic parody )

Now the casting and acting - The lead was horrible - needs to learn micro expressions and bodylanguage - and not just be loud and crass.

The stellar supporting cast - mainly felt forced and grossly underutilized.

Wait for the OTT - you cannot suffer / stand this atrocity in the theatres - you need skip / fast forward to watch this !