Yudham Sharanam Telugu Movie Review

Make it gory, it becomes heroic. Make it sadistic, it becomes bravery. Make it unbelievable it becomes cinematic. Push the scale it becomes acceptable. Bring in the stars with blue blood than the initial draw is guaranteed. Then what. The thud can be heard. Krishna Marimuthu decides to run on the star value of Naga Chaitanya and gets a script that has the usual story line of doting parents, romance and hate interloped to show case the varying skills of the protagonist. In case you are willing to be taken by the former of the above, you will stay to be the later as stated above. For the rest, this is just another apology of entertainment with the cast for an excuse. Some amazing talent (Rao Ramesh and Revathi) fight hard to add credibility. Stars (Chaitanya and Lavanya) fight hard to keep their image alive in the context of their bread and butter stance. For the rest, it is a predictable story told ever so often with minor variations and sometimes just the same. The audience is strangely surviving a pathological sense of déjà vu.
Arjun (Naga Chaitanya) is working on a drone while medical intern Anjali (Lavanya Tripathi) walks into his life. They fall in love. Arjun reviews his near perfect life: wonderful parents Sita (Revathi) and Murali (Rao Ramesh), siblings who are settled and happy, the parents are into social work, reasonably affluent. All is fine: the bees buzzing the butterflies flying, the lyricist is doling out those romantic numbers and the choreographer is overworking the dreams. Just when you would vouch that the angels have wagered on their favourites the cosmic dice is cast. So, we have the corrupt Minister (Vinod Kumar) who stage manages a terrorist attack with the help of Jogi (Pawan). Stepping in is the police officer JD Sastry (Murali Sharma the new avatar of Siyaji Shinde) who is to investigate the crime. The happy family line crosses the evil political line and hell knoweth no fury greater than a Tollywood script. Every twist to the tale is straight jacketed to a fault and even a four-film old viewer will tell the route and the road of the tale to the finale. Some die, some fight, kick up dust, break bones and furniture raise dust and noise and finally settle down to a keeps sake smile filled finale.
Chaitu is sincere and shows a nice friendly awkward presence. His dialogue delivery is seriously suspect. It should not be difficult for him to train in this area provided he admits with modesty that it is never too late to learn. Lavanya plays glam doll without a complaint. Srikant as the bad guy adds more beard than anger to his role to be seen as a fearsome baddie. Mukul Sharma, Pavan et al do their best. Rao Ramesh and Revathi as the elder couple are worth watching the film for. Do not miss the elegance and grace of Revathi – from her silks to her terracotta accessories is worth going gaga about. Rao Ramesh yet again reiterates his superior quality as an actor. For those who want the usual menu and nothing more this is an outing just worth it. For those who seek anything more this is woefully short.
L. Ravichander