Review of Tuck Jagadish

From a distance, director Shiva Nirvana's third film (after Ninnu Kori and the much-liked Majili) is a story about blood. On an obvious level, it is about the same blood that's spilled in most big-star Telugu movies, with its slo-mo entry scenes, razor-sharp sickles, flying SUVs and immovable villains. But Tuck Jagdish is far more interested in the other kind of blood-the family kind or at least the kind of blood you're likely to see in a Sooraj Barjatya film. For the most part, this concoction of these two opposite blood types seems forced and manipulative, as though a pure family drama needed the adulteration of action for its star and the box office.

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