Add a couple of songs as well to that list. You have all the usual suspects – an underdog hero, an overbearing warlord villain, a stupefying treasure, esoteric clues, a map, elaborate chase sequences, some wry humor and a pretty lady (Taapsee). Off course with a template like treasure hunt, there is only so much you can innovate. The filmmaker has done a pretty good job of putting it together without resorting to the usual vanities of Tollywood – forced comedy tracks, songs and the likes. So, director Chandrasekhar Yeleti most definitely deserves a pat of the back for having the gall to reinvent a now “extinct genre” of Telugu cinema. What’s even more remarkable is that it’s not set in an imaginary realm of Telugu speaking cowboys riding atop horsebacks - like Mosagallaku Mosagadu (1971), Dongala Dopidi (1978), Kodama Simham (1990) to name a few of the most iconic adventure films. We don’t make many do we? Mahesh Babu’s 2002 Takkari Donga was the last such film that comes to mind. Movie Review: This must easily be the best treasure hunt based Telugu movie of the new millennium. Synopsis: Though well made, it falls well short of offering a jaw dropping adventure experience! Reign in your expectations to have a better time of it.
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