Selfie Raja Telugu Movie Review

One would believe that a star on the fall will be careful and would ensure that he has a script that will at least keep him float. Career choices like scripts in Tollywood defy logic. So a lifeguard could be filled with holes. So is it with Selfie Raja. The film is crass to a fault, deafeningly loud insultingly humorous and painstakingly narrated. A hen full of feathers cannot get you to chuckle during the course of this loud plotless puerile banter.
Half way through the film, you wonder if the Director lost the script and was challenged severely with a technical glitch that he is fighting hard to overcome. You conclude that this is a selfie that is a poor picture of the film maker Ineptitude is its middle name.
Culturally Tollywood must begin to ask some basic questions. As an industry it doles out with nauseating regularity products that cannot delineate the spoof from the real. A near faecal pathology sums up the content the approach the treatment and the acceptance week after week the tales they portray spell a style so bankrupt of creativity. It is culturally frightening and to a degree demeaning when in the dark of the auditorium the audience laps it all with glee. It is trite to state that the artist has no responsibility beyond his work. In that limited space he is bound to have a few notes a few do’s and don’ts. None of these appear to apply to Eshwar Reddy with this outing.
Selfie Raja (Naresh) is a guy who has a fad for selfies and it is not clear what he is doing otherwise. He has the knack of opening his mouth and putting his foot into it. He falls in love with Shweta (Kamna Ranawat) at a film theatre and she responds because he gets her tickets for a film!! We also have Saptagiri as a guy who is at the theatres always picking pockets. Shweta is the daughter of the Police Commissioner (Naginedu) who has just arrested big time criminal who promises vengeance a la Sholay. He readily agrees for his daughter’s wedding as his gut feel tell him that the guy is good!! Raja has a deaf uncle (Krishna Bhagwan) and an aunt who have fostered him. Things go awfully wrong when the married couple have a huge misunderstanding on the night of their marriage. This leads to a suicide mission by Raja. He hires a professional killer (Ravi Babu) to kill him. From here it is a script that could be a superb take off on comedy of errors. Instead it chooses the path of loud crude vulgar humour that gets o your nerves.
We have a whole lot of comedians including Prithvi, Tagubothu Ramesh, Srilakshmi walk into the script. It is a free for all out there. The film maker could have had a Priyadarshan like product. He fails miserably. One too many characters rob the plot of its wafer thin credibility. Allari Naresh tried hard to work in the defined orbit of his skill sets. He however makes the cardinal error of having accepted an outing that speaks of no known script. The film is as aimless as its central character. As flippant.
+ may be Allari Naresh
– Loud. Screaming.
Rating: 1 star

L. Ravichander