Rudhramadevi: La Reine Guerrière

When Gunasekhar had announced that he will be make a biopic on Legendary ruler "Rudramadevi", people had a feeling that at least now he chose a safe project. Because its been almost 11 years he didn't have a proper hit in the industry as all previous outings were utter disasters. Coming to the story plot: The film starts off well, how Marco Polo explains to his king about our Rudramadevi's reign. It is all about how Rudramadevi successfully ruled Kakatiya Kingdom in 13th Century.

While choosing this well known subject wise, Gunasekhar is quite successful but when it comes to on paper execution he failed it big time. Very bad music by Ilayaraja and he also failed big time. It is better not to talk about VFX CG work actually, I would say Cartoon network or childhood Ramayana or Mahabharata TV series had better graphics than this movie. All war sequences are so awry and they have been choreographed so hastily. Dialogues are the ones which are decent in the movie.

Only highlights in the movie are Good story, Anuskha and Allu Arjun's roles. Anushka poured her soul into the movie. Hats off for her hardwork and dedication. Allu Arjun has got an amazing role, be it his attitude, telangana dialect and dressing, he just nailed it in Gona Ganna Reddy's role. People will definitely remember his role forever. Rest all star cast has got adequate runtime. It is really sad to see having all such a huge star cast and all things in place, still he couldn't give a good product to us. But if you are choosing well known story about a great warrior and that too with a high budget in the hands, it has to be made sure that Graphic work should be a key point in the movie, there itself Gunasekhar failed it big time.

It is quite obvious that people start comparing it with Bahubali but It is no way compared to it. In Bahubali story may be weak but the presentation is simply splendid, where as story is very strong here and presentation has got exacerbated. Gunasekhar lost his credibility totally. God only knows whether he gets table profit at least with the opening collections. Had it been taken up by Rajamouli, this film would have gone to a different zone. Overall Rudramadevi is a Half baked product which doesn't please you at all.

Hardwork pays off! Gunasekhar RETURNS with Rudhramadevi. PERFECT 3D, VFX, Cinematography and BGM. Congrats to the entire team. Its Gona Ganna Reddy all the way. Truly powerful than Rudhramadevi. Allu Arjun is predictably outstanding. Megastar Chiranjeevi's voice-over is an asset. Story of Rudhramadevi is well-known so no need to talk about that. Direction-Cinematography-VFX-BGM are so strong assisted by performances. Art Direction needs a special appreciation. While watching I asked myself 'Am I watching a Hollywood film?' Rudhramadevi thrills you with stunning visuals in 3D. I loved it most. Don't miss Rudhramadevi. Watch it in 3D at least once. You will surely love it. Congrats to the entire team once again and a big bow to Gunasekhar.

The story wasn't seamless and seemed to be multiple patches stitched together. The songs were the worst I heard or seen in years. If Gunashekhar wants to be recognized for his skills, he needs a clear vision. Almost all through the movie, it seemed like the director wasn't clear about what he wants or that he couldn't extract it from the actors and the other artists. I hate to compare one director with other but I feel justified to compare any director with Rajamouli. That is because I am not comparing their skillset but their commitment. Rajamouli doesn't sleep till the gets the shot to his 100% satisfaction(At least to his satisfaction, may not be to audience's satisfaction). Looks like Gunashekar needed only 70% in most places to okay a scene.

3D was very good for the 1st Telugu film and VFX was good in parts but felt they could have been avoided in some places.

The movie felt like a 80s movie made with modern technology. The screenplay needs to be tight and logical.

The fight sequences though showed promise in some places, were too gross and ugly in others. Especially where Rudramadevi keeps on fighting standing on the spears amidst the Snake formation. Simple question, will not the enemy soldiers retract their spears at least to protect themselves?

The fate of the fight between the enemy king and Chalukya Veerabhadrudu was inconclusive. This shows how patchy the editing was.

Allu Arjun was, as expected, flawless while the story was far from b being such.

For those who think that the move was a spectacle because it had to be made within the contours of history, I disagree such a view because the story quite liberally removed every contour except the names of the historical characters. The story was COMPLETELY FICTIONAL. We can find from history that Rudramadevi was brought up as if she was a boy and that she ruled with the name 'Rudradeva' but not that even she was unaware of her physiology or that everyone else was fooled to believe that a girl was a boy and worse that a woman was a man. The disappointing part was that most part of the story was focused on this transformation between boy and girl and how she swaps roles. History never said that Gona Ganna Reddy was a Bandit. He was a revenue collector i.e a designated official and feudatory of Rudramadevi. These are very crucial aspects that help understand the history of the period. With this movie the history has been twisted beyond the red line. History doesn't agree that Rudramadevi built a multi-phase city walls. I think the Gunasekhar's city walls were inspired from Chanakya's Arthashastra.

I personally feel that a director has to be very responsible with his story when they are presenting a historical narration especially when the genuine one is not really popular. We can twist and turn Mahabharata because people can make out which part is fiction. But in case of Rudramadevi, very few people know the history. Such fictional movies will be considered history. Some of the reviews and comments is the proof.

Gunasekhar surely has talent but he just lacked the vision and clarity in this movie. Looks like he was very complacent.

After a great movie like baahubali, it's common for ppl to compare next historical movie with that, and get disappointed.. But this movie is set to disappoint you from the beginning.. The story line feels like a 1990s children tale. Bad acting, bad direction, cheap graphics( I heard they took over 3 years to render vfx, I don't know why. It's worst than pogo shows). To top all that the movie gives you an awkward feeling with its battle scenes and I think ilayaraja's composition has been the worst in this movie.

I was literally laughing watching this movie as to how idiotic it was and got reminded hoe amateurs on the Web make better short movies. I also cried internally as I spent a lot on the tickets and had a feeling of wasting all that money.

Summary: don't watch if u were given free tickets.

I watch this movie only for allu arjun.but he got only a few screen.He was good in this position but this film don't deserve the good title....poor script