I'm not sure what to make of this version of Ravi Teja - the humorless machine that churns out senseless mass films. It's not even reaching the stage of "it's so senseless that it's ironically amazing" like with Balakrishna, where his films have merged self-deprecating irony with genuine masala. While Balakrishna tends to overcommit to his part here, Ravi Teja feels like a lazy rehash of himself from the past like an assembly line of films meant to be safe money spinners. The disappointment is two-fold. He is an actor who is capable of pulling off subtle films where he can play more vulnerable men on screen and also within this framework of masala films, he lent a freshness to them nearly a decade and a half ago.
Sadly, Rama Rao On Duty, while being better than his recent films, still doesn't become a great or even a good film.
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Sadly, Rama Rao On Duty, while being better than his recent films, still doesn't become a great or even a good film.
Read the full review at filmcompanion.in.