This is more or less like the Chak De India of ShahRukh Khan. That is hockey and this is boxing. Venkatesh does well in the remake of a hit movie.
Venkatesh a boxing coach, who is black-listed by the association, makes it a point to find that one girl who fits the bill to bring a gold medal to the nation. The battle they have to win outside the ring is the story.
Aditya Rao (Venkatesh), returns to boxing as a coach after being subjected to corrupt policies of the Boxing Association headed by Dev Khatri (Zakir Hussain). As Adi fails to win a sure shot medal for the country due to Khati’s jobbery, Adi’s wife leaves him for another man, and he chooses to quit boxing.
Rameswari (Ritika Singh) is the younger sister of Lakshmi Lux (Mumtaz Sorcor), with the latter wanting to get into the police academy using her 8-year-old career as a boxer.
As Aditya gets transferred to Vishakhapatnam following allegations of sexual harassment, Ramudu is a local girl known to be a ‘Deyyam pilla’ – someone who takes no nonsense, is rebellious and arrogant.
After seeing Ramudu getting into a brawl with the judges at a zonal boxing event, Adi realises her natural flair for the sport and takes upon himself to make her a world class boxer. He also initially offers her money to lure her to train under him.
The narration progresses with how Adi exposes Ramudu to rigorous training to master the skills of the sport. Though initially, both the hot-headed coach and his student don’t get along well, learning of Adi’s commitment to the sport and his true intentions of making her a champ changes Ramudu’s attitude and she commits to walk the extra mile.
It was Venkatesh written all over the script. Though a few of the scenes and the costumes were identical to the earlier versions of the movie, director Sudha Kongara did not mind keeping them as they are.
The issues of female players, their attitude after selections and the mutual jealousy are a few of the points that Sudha depicted sensibly.
The boxing scenes looked real, natural and plausible. Thanikella Bharani, Zakir Hussain, Raghu Babu and Anita Chowdary have performed their roles with super ease.
Nassar’s character as ‘Punch Ponds’ gets to appear throughout the movie in an entertaining role. Music composed by Santhosh Narayanan is good .
Cast:Venkatesh , Ritika Singh,
Direction:Sudha Kongara
Music Director: Santosh Narayan
Producer: : Sashikanth
Rating :3/5
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