Touch Chesi Choodu movie review Ravi Teja
Touch Chesi Choodu
Cast: Ravi Teja, Raashi Khanna
Director: Vikram Sirikonda
Rating: 1/5
When Karthik aka Karthikeya (Ravi Teja) is angry, he is
turns into a superhero. Sample this: He can run and and chase down a suspect
accelerating in a high-end car at high speed. He ends up taking care of the
villain’s underlings, but when it comes to the bad man himself he is forced to
give up because a child is taken hostage. That is just one of the many action
scenes that we see in the film, which shall make you wonder if Isaac Newton was
wrong about the gravitational force after all.
Another gem is when machinery that is set to be delivered to
his company is stolen and Karthik tries to file a complaint at the police
station. The cop calls the man who Karthik suspects and accepts his excuse of
not being in town. The fact that the police listen to criminals results in
Karthik getting angry and uttering the following words, “When a case is solved
with dedication, you can conclude it in 2 minutes.”
You might think he might use logical means to prove himself
right, but no. Karthik is then forced by the cop to face the suspect, and he
passes sarcastic comments. To teach the corrupted cop and the criminal a
lesson, Karthik then chooses to pull what looks like a 20 KG chain that hangs
from the crane nearby and destroy a car. All with the help of vibrations from
his hand, which is a result of all that pent up anger. The entire action
sequence is unbelievable. This is paired with bad visual effects.
Amid this we have Pushpa, who is the female lead of the
film. In Karthik’s words, she is “only a practice pitch who helps him excel at
performing at the actual tournament,” when he is about to meet another girl at
an arranged meeting. Undignified, uncomfortable and angry - this reaction could
have been appreciated. What do we get instead? Pushpa wanting to be his
practice pitch and tournament both. No kidding. This is how she reacts.
Apparently she has fallen so much in love with him that she has to lie to girl
who is arranged to marry and lies about his character.
The plot unravels only after Sathya, an Economics gold
medalist and activist fighting for the betterment of people is killed. He is
the son of an employee in Karthik’s firm. Coincidentally his sister who is
witness to this incident puts Karthik face to face with his nemesis Irfan.
Then the entire film moves too fast, too soon. From Karthik
the cop in the past to the present, his connection to Irfan, his life when he
was in Hyderabad is narrated with vigour on screen.
So much so, one of Karthik’s punch dialogue is, “If you are
the lion of Muzaffarpet, then I am Global Warming.” The reckless man is feared
by every other cop, including his boss portrayed by Murali Sharma. After all,
he shoots criminals who don’t know the answer to mathematical equations.
So many characters are introduced in the film and left
hanging. Suhasini Maniratnam plays the role of a mother of a murdered daughter,
who fights for justice. Seerat Kapoor as Divya is the other female actor paired
opposite Karthik. She is not put through comparisons between tournaments or
practice pitches, she is just ignored because Karthik is too busy with his
duty. So busy that he doesn’t attend his engagement ceremony.
The film doesn’t move forward, it is scattered and all that
the director has managed to do is stitch together a few emotional sequence,
song and dance, and villain who doesn’t have any impact on the script.
This is then followed by lying to Karthik about his
misbehavior towards her when he was drunk. Of course this is her manipulating
him into liking her. Weird enough, it works. There is a pretty song dance
sequence and then Karthik gets to know the truth. He then yells at her for
lying to the girl he was set to marry because his family was disrespected.
Now, you think about the actual plot of the movie which is
goes on the overdrive because of all the forced humour and not very breezy
romance scenes. How he transforms from a family man to a fierce (more like
thuggish) cop is said in exactly 10 mins before the interval.
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