Absolutely painful to watch. Even as popcorn entertainment, it fails. Fight sequences make no sense. Please do not waste your time

A story of a traumatized hero who swears loyalty to only his mother and his best friend has his hands tied. But a whole history of blood needs his hands un-tied. A two part story within one movie is very similar to KGF. The hero isn't a hero. You should not be like him. Yet he's the only person who can save the day in these circumstances. His mother definitely thinks so. There was so much hype that my adrenaline was pumping multiple times throughout the film. Prabhas is in his strong suit, and the whole story is a lot more developed than KGF. Unfortunately, there's so much world building that I feel that some of it might be lost to the audience as it was crammed so quickly into the second half of the film. But I really admire the way this film tries to upscale the "bollywood realism" to the point that it doesn't matter. It's not meant to make a Hollywood film out of a Tollywood film, it's meant to be a super high quality Tollywood film. And so there's hype, there's action, and over the top stunts. But you can't help but have fun for what this film is aiming to deliver to the audience. I also appreciate how many powerful women characters were present in the film. The mother being basically the strongest person due to her, questionable, control over Deva. But I don't feel like women were taking a back seat or belittled, which is much too common in Indian film. Sure, they aren't fighting but power comes in many forms. Similarly, multiple times in the film it is stated that the violence that the main characters display is not a sign of a good person - even of Deva. He is made to seem like an insane person and I hope in the second film that he shows that his blind obedience and violence does have a thought-out source from within. All in all, I'm glad to see another film from Tollywood (my home) that displays a strong effort to create cinema instead of mindless entertainment fodder. I was reminded of Saaho, KGF, and Bahubali several times throughout.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ - Make sure before you watch this film to turn off your brain :brain: 10❤- Masterpiece 💯 9❤- Excellent 8❤ - Amazing 👌 7❤- Great 🌞 6❤ - Good 👍 5❤ - Average 🤕 4❤ - Bad but watchable :octagonal_sign: 3❤ - Bad 😭 2😡- Awful :face_vomiting: 1:face_with_symbols_over_mouth: - Bull Shit

If u are comparing it with KGF, then you are making a mistake. In this movie, Devaratha has to ambition of reaching at the top, he just doing it for his friend. In the next one we are going to see the clash between the two. Its completely different from KGF. It has a nice story, character building, background story. First half build the atmosphere whereas Second half deliver it successfully. One drawback is that it sometimes appear a little slow. Kali Mata scene was just pure goosebumps ❤❤. 8/10 ... Must watch.

Prabhas aur Prashant Neel ki koyla universe tatti, chhapri Tollywood is doomed fr.