A patchy college drama helped hugely by Devi Sri Prasad’s music -

The Telugu film Rowdy Boys, which introduces producer Dil Raju’s nephew Ashish Reddy as a result of the principle man, is form of a cocktail of points that don’t combine collectively properly, nevertheless is palatable at occasions. It tries to be a coming-of-age story of an aimless man caught in campus wars, discovering romance and a perform in life. Binding the story collectively is Devi Sri Prasad’s music. His medley of compositions throughout the remaining hour perks up the film.

The story unfolds in two campuses — a medical faculty and an engineering institute — situated beside one another. The rivalry between the two schools will get fuelled at any time when faculty college students from one campus try to court docket docket a girl from the alternative campus. The film opens with a cringe-inducing scene displaying engineering boys harassing a female medical faculty pupil. How the boys redeem themselves is suggested by the use of a long-winded story of Akshay (Ashish Reddy) who falls in love with Kavya (Anupama Parameswaran), a medical faculty pupil two years senior to him.

The first act establishes Akshay as an incorrigible brat who causes heartburn to his father (Srikanth Iyengar). A lavishly mounted intro monitor contains faculty college students of every campuses and later reveals their ugly battles. At one stage, Akshay waves his faculty flag from atop a burning bus and is pleased with being talked about in info channels.

Director Sree Harsha Konuganti contrasts Akshay with Kavya and Vikram (Vikram Sahidev), vivid faculty college students of the medical campus. Vikram isn't any angel, nevertheless is conscious of to attend for the becoming second. The engineering faculty college students, within the meantime, are helped by a senior pupil (Karthik Ratnam) to settle scores.

The story introduces a live-in threat the place a wayward Akshay is in sharp distinction to a focussed Kavya. In an odd technique, this film stroke a chord in my memory of Rise up Sid, though every tales are poles apart in remedy.

The story moreover hinges on Kavya’s journey. She doesn’t see Akshay for who he’s, blinded by the campus wars, and takes it on herself to care for him. She does all she's going to whereas he lazes spherical in a house the place they supposedly battle to make ends meet; certainly not ideas that the house looks like a designer pad filled with arty decor.

The drama picks up when Kavya begins failing in analysis and must get once more to her former self. Akshay’s turnaround, from then on, is shaped by taking cues from many romantic dramas of the earlier.

The most important problem with Rowdy Boys is that it would remind you of a bunch of older films, to the extent that it ends up like a patchwork of impressed sequences.

Ashish and Vikram have show display presence and are fairly enough, whereas Anupama Parameswaran stands out. She’s good; had the perform and the story been written larger, she would have had scope to make a long-lasting impression.

In the long run, this film belongs to Devi Sri Prasad who anchors it alongside together with his exuberant music.