The burden of staying awake when after the first fight sequence, it’s all just more of the same, again and again. Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr do all the heavy lifting in RRR, yet I felt exhausted at the end of it as if I too had carried some of the burden of the film. He just gives us two situations and two good guys on two missions who need to beat up the bad guys. Vijayendra Prasad, doesn’t tie together these battles with a story. But Rajamouli, who has written the film’s script with his daddy K.V. These sequences, where Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr lunge, pounce and jump from one brawl to another, could have been entertaining and engaging if there were an emotional connect with them. Spread over three-hours-and-one-minute, RRR is like a long Chitrahar of fight scenes. In fact, for large swathes of RRR - short for Roudram Ranam Rudhiram - it felt like I was watching a ₹550 crore video game mounted on a massive scale for the big screen.
Rajamouli’s RRR is big, not just in terms of the time it takes to do its business, but also because of the extravagant, elaborate, CGI-enhanced fight sequences it creates so that two of Telugu cinema’s biggest stars can have a go at each other or another. Cast: NT Rama Rao Jr, Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Olivia Morris, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, Alia Bhatt