Arjun Reddy Review - A film that has changed my perception about South Indian films and South India6/21/2019 South India does not only consist of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil language. South India is made up of five states and they are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. South Indians do not only speak Tamil. They can also speak Tulu, Konkani, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada, depending on which state they originate from and what their mother tongue is. A Telugu-speaking person may not know Tamil and a Tamilian may not know Malayalam or Kannada. It just depends but yeah, South India is not about Tamilians, Bharatanatyam, Carnatic Music, idlis, dosas and Tamil Nadu. I normally do not watch South Indian films often. However, one of my South Indian friends, who speaks Tamil and is a big fan of the South Indian film Industry. Whether it is the Tamil or Telugu film Industry, he follows it very often. So one day, he recommended me to watch Arjun Reddy. Earlier, I thought that Arjun Reddy was the name of a person and not a film. However, he told me that there is a film called Arjun Reddy and he told me that I would love it. Normally, I would think that South Indian films are all about Tamil flying cars and Appadi Podu, a famous Tamil song in North India. However, after watching Arjun Reddy, my perception about South Indian films and music has changed. And personally, I started watching more South Indian films and listening to more South Indian music. So, now, I will not digress and will get to the main point. I am going to write a review about Arjun Reddy. Arjun Reddy is a 2017 Telugu (South Indian Language) drama film that talks about a marvellous student named Arjun Reddy (Portrayed by Vijay Devarakonda). Arjun Reddy is a brilliant medical student. However, he has anger management issues and gets into a brawl with a student from another college named Amith (Portrayed by Amit Sharma). After hearing about the incident, Arjun's college has told him to either apologise to Amith or leave the college. Initially, he chose to leave the college. However, after falling in love with Preethi Shetty (Portrayed by Shalini Pandey) at first sight, he decided to stay in the college. At the start, Preethi adjusts to Arjun's overbearing behaviour. However, as time passes by, she starts to develop feelings for Arjun. Arjun graduates with an MBBS degree and leaves to Mussoorie (A small town in North Indian state Uttarakhand), to pursue his masters degree in Orthopedic Surgery. Months later after coming back to Hyderabad (A city in South Indian state Telangana), Arjun visits Preethi at her house, where Preethi's father, Devdas Shetty (Portrayed by Gopinath Bhat), catches them kissing and throws Arjun out of the house. A few days later, Arjun hears that Preethi is going to get married to someone from her caste and society. As soon as he has learnt about it, he goes down to Preethi's house to object to the marriage but again, he was thrown out of the house. Ever since then, he starts to go into a self-destructive path, where he consumes drugs and drinks alcohol to the core. So, this is the first film that I have seen of Vijay Devarakonda's. And honestly speaking, his acting was MINDBLOWING! Yes, I am typing that in caps because I just love how explicit he was in the film and how he just made the character so believable and relatable. It is definitely not an easy character to play, but he has made it look so easy. But I am very sure that it was not easy for him to play such a character because I am very sure that he is not like that in real-life. In the Hindi version of Arjun Reddy, which is named as Kabir Singh, which releases today, Shahid Kapoor portrays the main lead, basically playing the character of Kabir Rajdheer Singh. Since Kabir Singh releases today, I would definitely want to watch it. But, not in cinemas. I will watch it once it is released on einthusan.tv. The attached website is where I always watch my South Asian films whenever I am out of India. Since the Kabir Singh trailer looks very promising in my eyes, I will definitely watch it! Coming to Shalini Pandey's performance. Well, it is normal for the South Indian film Industry, whether it is the Tamil or Telugu film Industry, they will take North Indian girls as the female leads most of the time. But even though she spoke little Telugu in the film, she portrayed the character of Preethi Shetty pretty well! So, Shalini's character comes from a very conservative community that originates from the city of Mangalore, that is located in the South Indian state of Karnataka. The supporting cast, which consists of Anisha Alla, Kalyan Subrahmanyam, Rahul Ramakrishna, Aditi Myakal, Gopinath Bhat, Kamal Kamaraju, Kanchana and Sanjay Swaroop were assigned to supporting characters in the film. They have made the film more entertaining with their scenes and acting skills. Now, I will go to the music of both Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh. So, I have both the film's soundtracks on my phone and I will write about how I feel about both the soundtracks. First, I will obviously write about the soundtrack album of Arjun Reddy. The music of the film was good. However, it did not impress me as much as the soundtrack of Kabir Singh did. I did not like all the songs in Arjun Reddy. I only liked the songs Emitemitemito, Oopiri Aaguthunnadey and Madhurame. The other tracks did not impress me, but rather, I was just like "meh". So, I would probably give the Arjun Reddy soundtrack a 3/5, which I will add to the rating given at the end of the post. Now, let me write about the Kabir Singh soundtrack. Yesterday, I heard all of the songs and I was wowed by ALL the songs. There was so much emotion, passion and the voices are just so powerful, yet touching. Especially, I used to watch this singing show called The Voice India and seeing talents from this show like Sachet Tandon and Parampara Thakur composing one to two songs for the Kabir Singh soundtrack for a start shows that they have come a long way. The songs that both Sachet Tandon and Parampara Thakur have composed would be Bekhayali and Mere Sohneya, which are really beautiful songs by the way! But honestly, I loved all the other songs, which are Yeh Aaina, Pehla Pyaar, Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage, Kaise Hua and Tera Ban Jaunga. Just download the Kabir Singh soundtrack guys! The songs are just so soothing to the ears and they are so moving emotionally, yet powerful. I will probably give this soundtrack a 4.5/5 because even though I was really impressed by the Kabir Singh soundtrack, the song Tera Ban Jaunga, was sung by Tulsi Kumar and Akhil Sachdeva. Even though I liked the song Tera Ban Jaunga, I felt that Tulsi Kumar's voice did not suit the song. But also, I am not a big fan of her voice as I feel it is too childish for my liking and it sounds like some 9-year-old is singing. So, that pulled down my personal ratings for the soundtrack album for Kabir Singh. Otherwise, it would have been a 5/5 for me! Kabir Singh's soundtrack would suit the story better than the soundtrack of Arjun Reddy. Arjun Reddy is a very relatable film for Indians because even though it is the 21st century today, not every Indian parent is open to an inter-caste, inter-faith or inter-cultural marriage or relationship. For them, especially most Brahmin parents, their caste is their pride and they would do anything to stick to their caste. There are Brahmin parents who are chilled, but also, there are those who are not. Also, Arjun Reddy shows that there are lovers like Arjun in the film, where one can go into a self-destructive mode of drinking 24/7, consuming cocaine, looking very unkempt and smoking to the core because he is only thinking about the love of his life all the time. But however, Arjun knew how to keep his personal and professional life separate. There are parents like Devdas Shetty, who would care about their caste and community more than their child's happiness and interests. There are girls like Preethi who are very passive by nature, but would fight for their love in a passive manner and patiently wait for him to come back to her. I just loved the whole story of Arjun Reddy. It is so real, moving and it is pleasant to watch as a whole. Kabir Singh releases today. So please, go and watch Kabir Singh! Please show your love to Shahid Kapoor because he broke his no smoking and no drinking rule just to do this film. He shares that he is an actor first before he is a star, which wins my heart further. I will attach the trailers of Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh at the very end of the post! Should I watch it? Watch it! But I would also recommend watching Kabir Singh because Kabir Singh was directed by the same director as Arjun Reddy. The director's name for both Kabir Singh and Arjun Reddy is Sandeep Vanga. Who is it suited for? It is suited for: - Diehard Romantics - People aged 18 and above - People who do not follow inter-caste marriages. My Personal Film Rating: Music: 3/5 Screenplay & Dialogues: 4.5/5 Direction: 4/5 Storyline: 4/5 Performance: 5/5 Overall: 20.5/25 In 100s: 82/100 IMDB: 8.2/10
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