Robinhood Movie Review

After delivering a blockbuster with a breezy rom-com, Bheeshma, Nithiin and Venky Kudumula teamed up for the second time and came up with, Robinhood. It’s been five years since Nithiin delivered a successful film at the box office and pinned many hopes on the film. Did Venky Kudumula deliver a blockbuster to Nithiin after Bheeshma? Did the successful production house, Mythri Movie Makers, give one more success? Did Nithiin & Sreeleela’s pair score a success after the not-so-successful, Extra Ordinary Man? Let’s figure it out with a detailed analysis.

What is it about?

Ram (Nithiin) during his childhood while living at an orphanage decides to rob rich people and distribute the money to orphanages that are struggling to facilitate the bare minimum needs of the children living in them. After doing the robberies for a long time, he finally decides to stop doing robberies and join a security services company that is run by John Snow (Rajendra Prasad). Why did Ram quit robberies? What is his relationship with Neera Vasudev (Sreeleela), the daughter of a pharmaceutical company owner based out of Australia? How did Ram and Neera Vasudev save a village and Neera’s grandfather from a drug lord, Saamy (Devdatta Nage)? Forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Nithiin in the role of Ram & Robinhood looked uninterested in many portions. However, he performed well during the pre-climax and climax. Sreeleela as Neera tried evoking laughs but it did not work. She danced well along with Nithiin to a song bit in the second half.

Rajendra Prasad, Vennela Kishore, Devdatta Nage, Shine Tom Chacko, Brahmaji, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Aadukalam Naren, Shiju AR & Mime Gopi, the film had many notable actors and almost all of them looked out of the place because of the way their characters were written. Only Subhalekha Sudhakar’s performance was noteworthy.

Australian cricketer, David Warner did a cameo role during the climax of the film. He looked good onscreen but there’s nothing special to talk about his cameo. It looked silly. Ketika Sharma in a special song looked confident but the dance moves she performed looked obscene.

Technicalities:

G. V. Prakash Kumar’s music is one of the major negatives of the film. He failed terribly in scoring good songs and background scores. It is shocking to see him giving just one BGM throughout the film. Cinematography is the only department that scored distinction marks in the film. Sai Sriram‘s cinematography looked very pleasant to the eyes and he did capture the picturesque locales of the agency area very well. Editing by Koti should have been better. At least ten to fifteen minutes of the film should have been easily edited.

Production values by Mythri Movie Makers are top notch. The production team spent a lot of money and it was visible on screen. Venky Kudumula’s writing and direction are below par. His attempt to leave his core strength of writing a romantic comedy script and try an action comedy may not fully accepted by audience.

Positives:

1.⁠ ⁠Emotions During The Last 30 Minutes
2.⁠ ⁠Production Values
3.⁠ ⁠Cinematography
4.⁠ ⁠A Few Comedy Sequences

Negatives:

1.⁠ ⁠Weak Writing
2.⁠ ⁠Songs and Background Score
3.⁠ ⁠Ineffective Screenplay
4.⁠ ⁠Dance Moves In Ketika Sharma’s Song

Analysis:

It is easy for anyone to understand how lazy a script is written when actors like Shine Tom Chacko and Devdatta Nage appear out of place and clueless all the time whenever they appear on screen and when a music director like G. V. Prakash Kumar uses only one BGM(Background Music) throughout the film.

The film starts on a very dull note with the childhood episode of Ram(Nithiin) at the orphanage and the proceedings thereafter are not so engaging. All the robbery sequences in the first half looked very silly and rushed. And then we get to see Rajendra Prasad, Vennela Kishore and the team generate a few laughs. The lack of seriousness in writing can be seen throughout the film. The emotions during the pre-climax where the actual backstory is revealed were decently engaging.

It is not your fault if you start wondering about the need for on-boarding David Warner to do the cameo role he did in the film. His cameo and the dialogues written for his role are quite forced and silly. Venky Kudumula even tried ‘Jailer’ like sequences using the antagonist, Saamy(Devdatta Nage) but it backfired. Also, the dance moves of Ketika Sharma in her special song are of poor taste and looked very odd on screen.

You may give it a try watching Robinhood for a few laughs here and there and the emotional quotient during the pre-climax but overall, it would have been much better had the team came up with better writing and effective screenplay.

Robinhood – Half-Hearted ‘Stealing’

Rating: 2.5/5