His father tries to save an upright journalist from goons and has his throat slit. His mother is grievously injured but he doesn’t have the money for treatment. He’s still a child but takes the blame for a crime committed by a teenage delinquent for money. He emerges from a lengthy incarceration and goes in search of his mother but is told she’s dead. Hero is wild but revenge takes a back seat when he chances upon this shrieking, pouting scantily clad lass. She doesn’t give him a second glance but he’s smitten.
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The expectations were sky high. Another superstar’s son was set to rise. Ram Charan, is megastar Chiranjeevi’s son and ‘Chiruth’s was to showcase all his skills. The kid is well built and lithe like his dad. To give him his due he doesn’t try too hard to impress and never once goes overboard. It’s just that he’s chosen the wrong launch vehicle. The pressure on director Puri Jagannath is understandable but he tries to pack in every known trick in the commercial manual. The non-existent plot has as many loose ends as a plate of noodles. He’s also guilty of wasting the talents of actors like Sayaji Shinde, Prakash Raj and Bramhanandam. The songs are ill-inserted and the fights endless.
This ‘Chirutha’ is swift but directionless.
S.Shiva Kumar
