Chiruta released with huge expectations. Why not? Megastar Chiranjeevi's son is making debut and that too directed by Puri Jagannath who has been rewriting the box office records with his recent films. So, what is Chiruta up to? Unfortunately, the movie does not meet the expectations. Barring Ramcharan Teja (dances, looks and performance), some part in the second half and Mani Sharma's numbers, the film offers nothing.
Chiruta definitely served one purpose though - launch pad for Ramcharan. Though the film might not impress, Ramcharan impressed in all departments. His looks, costumes, dances, dialogs, timing, fights.. what not.. he is good in every thing. He shows lot of energy in songs. Grace and energy are two different things. Ramcharan showed abundance of both of them in the songs. On a side note, most of his histronics, expressions and body language resembled Pawan Kalyan.
Into the details: Ramcharan (Charan) goes to jail in his childhood for a crime he has not commited. He does it intentionally to save his mother. When he comes out of the jail after 12 years, he moves to Bangkok working for a travel agency. He falls in love with a rich girl who abhors the low class people. Ramcharan, though is in love with the girl, has only one goal in mind. To wipe out his enemy. Who is his enemy and what the background? Did he finally succeed in this love? That forms the plot.
One wonders if the film is actually directed by Puri Jagannath. First half is mediocre. Songs seem to pop up frequently even though there are only 6 songs. Good thing is that song arrival can be identified immeidately. (A few shots of the upcoming song are interleaved with the song leading sequence). Few songs and few fights, and nothing else runs in the first half. Dharmavarapu Subramanyam's liners come as a bit of relief. Second part of the second half is what makes the film better. After Charan's narration of his story to the heroine, the film gets content and wraps up with an Apocalyptic styled Climax.
Interestingly, there is not much comedy in the film, which is not usually the case in Puri Jagannath's films. Even though Ali, Brahmanandam and MS Narayana were present, nothing much came out them. Usually, in previous Puri's films, either MS Narayana or Ali had good track. In this film, Ali appears as Nachimi but gets very few laughs. Dharmavarapu's dialogs had some comedy though.
In the cast, Neha Sharma is okay. Most of the movie, she had short clothing. Prakash Raj was content in his role. Though his character started out monotonous, the dialogs between him and his daguther (Neha) will get applauds. Thanikella Bharani, Asish Vidhyardhi does not have much scope but did their roles to content.
Mani Sharma's background score is adequate and Chamka Chamka Ye ra song is excellent. Picturization of the song is good too. The production values of the film are good as the film bears rich look.
Overall, this served as Ramcharan's launchpad showcasing his talents. Puri's mark is missing though. It can be seen only for Ramcharan's performance.
