Raraju Telugu Movie
An electrician and marriage ceremony decorator named Kali (Gopichand) lives in an enclave where he is revered and feared. He is revered for many kind acts that he performs with disdain (typical of our movie heroes). His fists blow the fuse of many people's bodies, especially the wrong doers, that's why the fear.
Jyothi (Meera Jasmine) is a chorus girl and is new to the neighborhood. She often comes late from work. Once some rowdies block her way and try to molest her, but she claims that she is Kali's acquaintance and saves herself. Kali confronts her for using his name. This is his first meeting with her and by the second meeting he is already weak in the knees. Kali's mother too likes Jyothi and wishes to take her as her daughter-in-law. So Kali does the obvious and professes his love for Jyothi in front of everybody and gets a resounding smack on his left or right cheek. Doesn't matter which cheek, but the smack was good enough to shock the guy who was till now smacking and boxing everybody with glee.
The reason: Jyothi has a flash back. She is an IAS aspirant. She was almost getting married to Surya (Sivaji) who wanted to see Jyothi as a civil servant at the expense of his own chances of being one. You know, an accident snatched away (like in all movies) Surya from Jyothi. How can Jyothi love somebody with the memory of her ex being so fresh? And she doesn't want to deviate from her main goal of becoming an IAS.
Will the would-be-IAS officer and an electrician ever be man and wife as long as they live? That is the story of Raraju.
Raraju is backed by GVG Raju who had given us Godavari. This time he has chosen director Uday Shankar of 'Kalisi Undam ra' fame. The result is good. For example: the way Gopichand bashes up Asish Vidyarthi in the guise of Hanuman and a tiger is really creative. But the comedy track is entirely filmy. The duo of Venumadhav and MS Narayana are there just because the director thinks a movie needs to have a few sidekicks of the hero. And the idea of removing a character by an accident is already overdone in movies. We liked the idea of Tsunami in Boss. Why not use that. Or better still poisonous spider bite. Anything, but not accident, PLEASE.
Performances of Gopichand, Meera Jasmine and Asish Vidyarthi are appreciable in the movie. Gopichand keeps his mass image intact with his trademark sneer. Asish Vidyarthi is superb as a cop though his character looks like a straight lift from Pokiri. Ankita has nothing more to do except chase the reluctant Gopichand crazily.
Raraju is a good movie. Just ignore the director's ignorance that civil services examination is conducted only in one city in a state.
