Rating is between 5 and 6. It could have been 7 but I its not that great as people claim.
The biggest letdown for was the story, second half, and some bits of misalignment of how the story is framed.
The story as in, they took both real-life characters and just didn't genuinely tell their life story or freedom struggle but it was more like, "Oh these two are characters exists who you can check it online, and we used one's character to show saving the tribal girl, and another to avenge the father's death more in the pretext of stockpiling the weapons to wage war against brits" that's it.
This can't be called a good story. I would give it 1 or 2 just for the story, not even 7. I mean after the first attack at the party, the Brit leader could have easily shot the girl to settle things. But he goes on punishing the Bheema after caught, which seems illogical if you think of it. Kill the girl and the guy both is what most Brits did back then. They often just want to kill as many people without any mercy, which is a fact. This was an even fact but didn't align with the genuine story. Think of Sardar Uddham, they showed they were merciless and hardly cared about kids or anyone if they wanted to shoot, they just did it. Just like Nazis. So it kind of didn't give me needed liking from the start.
Second half: The issue was, there is no setup of who Ajay was in the first place or his wife or those village army people he was training, and the one who was often seen with Ram to help him with his goals to get near weapons. I mean when they introduce Ram's character, they show him fighting with so many people to get one guy. The ferocity in which it's shown to fight all there just to get that guy, he could have simply killed the brits as they were short numbered and got the whole people's support charging them up to revolt and seeking their help to hide his identity to get weapons later. Why I'm saying this is, he does the same to Bheem and that time he sings and makes every people raked up. It's still the same, isn't it?
And this makes Raam believe in Bheem's ability to lead as he could be more force, while he had a similar opportunity at the start freely given. Both these two situations don't equate to the necessary logic of fighting against brits when all brits were so cornered.. And both times Brit nowhere had any stronger points to create havoc and the only thing they held was the girl, whom they could have easily killed in reality.
Framing of the story: I felt they should have started with Ajay being the older guy with young son Ram both fighting and it would have helped the second half making more thrilling.
Overall it's a decent movie, won't say good or best, but just a one-time popcorn masala watch.
Even Alia, Shreya, Ajay, and Tamil actor were so under utilized. Their existence too was pointless in a way. It could have been a best-made film if they genuinely tried to tell the real-life story of the characters even if wanted to go over the top sure like Sai Ra Narasimha Reddy's style.
But what stood out and truly helped the movie was the performance of both Jnr NTR and Ramcharan, their bromance is the only thing which saved the movie-watching experience, I feel. It's not the story, it's their acting, a few good visuals. That's it.
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