Custody

You have to admire the obvious talent and the unabashed gratuitous enjoyment of so many genres merged together with momentary comedic relief and themes for the first hour that will make you chuckle.

The leads do a nice job with delivery of comedic script and choreography.

Custody is worth your money to gain some worldly perspective of cerebrated talent and art.

Yet, the producer and director could certainly have derived three works of art from all they have to work with here.

Custody is a gumbo of entertainment that is palatable and fun for a bit but could have been enjoyed and consumed more easily had a few ingredients been saved for separate additional efforts.

Custody, directed by Venkat Prabhu, is an entirely soulless movie amid huge expectations. The story follows a police officer who is assigned to take a criminal to court but the police department wants the criminal dead. The wafer-thin storyline sounded interesting on paper but the writing has ruined the execution. The writing was loosely written and it did not make sense as a whole. The screenplay has made the film go even worse, prolonging the movie. As the movie continued, the film was creating more boredom. The flashback episode was written cliche and made the film predictable. The direction went utterly wrong, despite having decent expectations of the director. The performances were decent with Aravind Swamy's performance being the best. The only highlight of the film was the action sequences, especially the underwater and police station sequences, which were stylishly designed. The music was not composed well and was not suited to the script at all. The production value was decent for the movie. Overall, the film is a lackluster film not leaving much to watch.

Watched the Tamil version. This Venkat Prabhu's hunt deals with an honest constable stumbling upon two suspects during a night stroll. He arrests them suspecting drunk and disorderly but turns out, one of them is a dreaded criminal and the other, a CBI officer who had just arrested him. The criminal has to be produced in Bengaluru court and the state government is trying to stop that from happening. How they face all odds to make it to the court on time forms the story.

The problem with the screenplay is it barely throws any surprises. One can easily predict the main villain at the beginning itself. The love story between Naga Chaitanya and Krithi Shetty barely registers. Neither the actors of Aravind Swamy, Sarath Kumar, Ramki are given meaty roles. The bad vfx doesn't help Venkat Prabhu's vision considering the whole movie is one prolonged chase sequences hoping to be thrilling.

The flashback felt forced and simplifying the story to that extent made a certain character's death pointless and the film too ends on a joke which could've been fine if not for the main tone of the film. The signature humor one expects from Venkat Prabhu simply doesn't sync in this type of serious film.

Ok the people who are actually honest obedient responsible police officers are VARGHESE, GEORGE,and millitant PHILIP....but but but The sadistic CM and the criminal is DAKSHAYANI and RAJASHEKHAR aka RAJU...whyyyyy????what is the director trying to prove here???what is the conversation between the millitant officer and accused??? Director is trying to tell audience that millitary is actually killing people who has a family too... seriously????and the director deliberately inserted hindu pooja in a scene where CM is talking to her party founder...and the military officer who removes bullet and shelters the accused is xtian?????this is such a useless movie..waste of time watching...bomblast scene was totally unnecessary...and no mother would leave a child in such a traffic that is for sure....what a crap movie it is..🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

The mixture of dark humour and thriller seems to be the right fit for Venkat Prabhu. It's rare to see thrillers like this in Telugu. Welcome Venkat Prabhu sir. Thank you for filling the void.

Chay, absolutely killed it. Glad that he picked this role.

People who have been criticizing or picking out things that are trivial are just shocked or unsettled of how word of mouth is the only thing that's pulling the audience to the theaters. (At the time this review was written).

No one really expected much but this film proves yet again 'Content is King'.

Yes the music apart from the BGM had its flaws but it's a minor inconvenience. It'll be remembered as a classic in the industry for sure!