patas (2015) telugu movie review and rating

Rating: 3.25/5

Genre: Action/Entertainment

Type: Stright

Banners: Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao Arts

Cast: Kalyan Ram Nandamuri, Shruti Sodhi, Sai Kumar, Ashutosh Rana, Srinivas Reddy, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Posani Krishna Murali, Kasi Viswanath, Prabhas Seenu, MS Narayana, Sivannarayana, Praveen, Karumanchi Raghu etc

Cinematography: Sarvesh Murari

Editor: Thammi Raju

Music: Sai Karthik

Art: M. Kiran Kumar

Action: Patas Venkat

Lyrics: Bhuvana Chandra, Sri Mani, Taidala Bapu, B Subbaraya Sharma

Story, Dialogues, Screenplay & Direction: Anil Ravipudi

Producer: Nandamuri Kalyan Ram

Release date: 23 January, 2015

:Story:

Kalyan (Kalyan Ram) is the new IPS officer in Hyderabad city. He is a corrupt officer who becomes a headache to entire police department. GK (Ashutosh Rana) is a MP and a mafia man. Then there is a death of a techie girl in Hitech city which changes the attitude of Kalyan. The rest of the story is all about reasons behind Kalyan becoming a corrupt cop and how he ended the menace of GK.

:Artists Performance:

 Kalyan Ram has carried off cop role convincingly. His serious (heroism oriented) dialogues are good. He did well in emotional scenes as well. There is nothing much to do for new actress Shruti Sodhi in this film and she is just okay. Sai Kumar gets a meaty role and plays it perfectly. Asutosh Rana is alright as a bad politician. MS Narayana plays the role of an aged NRI Telugu hero Tsunami Star Subhash. He is highly entertaining (including in the title-rolling scenes). Posani Krishna Murali get another entertaining role. Srinivas Reddy character provides entertainment with modulation of various actors.

:Technical departments:

Story - screenplay - direction: Story of the film is normal. However, debutant director Anil Ravipudi has displayed his ability at doing mass scenes and entertainment oriented episodes correctly. Though the conflict between son and father is not convincing enough, he made sure that the game plan between hero and villain in second half goes in an entertaining way. The ‘parthaya 801’ episodes have worked well. And the mother rapid force is also hilarious. The climax should have been more interesting. Anil should work more on script and should have depth in story if he had to succeed in a big way.

:Other departments: 

Background music by Sai Kartheek is nice. Cinematography by Sarvesh Murari is good. Action sequences are composed by Venkat. Nandamuri Kalyan Ram who has been trying to get the film right in past few years seems to have got it right with Patas.

:Analysis:

 First half of the film is alright. Second half is engaging with entertainment. Climax should have been more impactful. Plus points of the film are Kalyan Ram and mass entertainment. On the flip side, it’s a normal story which we don’t expect from Kalyan Ram’s movies. On a whole, Kalyan Ram’s Patas has enough content to click with masses and general audiences.