empressoftheflames The hero is born into wealth and without any effort becomes a great surgeon who has a drinking/drugs problem and anger issues. Due to his unreasonable brashness, he looses his girlfriend and sulks about it for months. Even how he got the girlfriend is disturbing; from the second she steps foot on campus he tells everyone she is his and protects her from bullying. Their difference in personalities (she's shy) and age (he's a senior) makes it seem like he is taking advantage of her rather than a natural mutual attraction. Meanwhile, in present day, he has no respect for anyone, performs surgeries drunk and brings misery to everyone in his life. However there is a happy ending as he magically gets over addiction when his grandma dies and gets back his girlfriend who turns out to be pregnant with his child. The miscommunication and reactions of the hero and girlfriend are illogical and unbelievable. Even when he have lost everything, the audience may find it to sympathize with such a terrible human being. Also the director applies slow motion to scenes often, even when it doesn't make sense. The background score is edgy and features English songs, probably inspired by Hollywood soundtracks. I agree that this is different from a typical Telugu movie but it also lacks proper plot and pacing. It glamourizes bad behavior and is more of a temper tantrum than a love story. If you want to waste 3 hours or are in the mood to hate-watch something, be my guest.

chirukiranu By now, around 100% of you might have watched the latest telugu movie called Arjun Reddy. 70-80% have liked it and around 20-30% have been nagging, mocking and loathing it in various platforms either because of religious bigotry or cultural divide or their teeny tiny brain can't comprehend on how to watch a movie or total lack of movie sense or sheer stupidity or some other BS. Whatever may be the reason, I'm not going to butter up here and profess that yeah, people have different tastes kind of mundane stuff. Arjun Reddy is raw, bold and intense story telling criterion. It mocks the age old commercial format in telugu cinema and razors every conventional way of story telling in TFI.Here are some specific scenes and details which I adored in Arjun Reddy. These are a true testament to Sandeep Reddy Vanga's capability as a narrator. And btw, who's Vijay Devarakonda? I only saw Arjun Reddy setting screen on fire :). Absolute brilliance.Scene 1 - Holi Fight: One of the best confrontation scenes between two characters. Pure adrenaline rush. Arjun creates the required impact thru his angry tears after that 'angerorgasm'. Shalini expressing her love, Amit's promise after flashing his ego and Arjun's victory all have been etched exquisitely into one episode.Scene 2 - Interval bang: It was a WTF moment in a spellbinding way. The way the scene shifts from 'the spread on the bed' to the glaring title with blood dispersed in background is too good for a telugu movie. Such nuances make movie watching enthralling.Scene 3 - Shalini's minor injury: Arjun gets injured by a piece of glass on the floor. He tries to pluck it out and the scene cuts to Arjun's friend removing a piece of glass from Shalini's leg in the flashback. Again, this is one more deftly crafted episode. Amazing screenplay overall.Scene 4 - Football fight: Amit abuses and hits Arjun. And how does Arjun respond? He first smashes the referee who had fixed the match, then goes on with Amit. Not instantaneous. Well thought and controlled outburst like a fusion in a nuclear reactor.Scene 5 - Shalini trying to calm down Arjun (6 hrs deadline): After the big fight with Shalini's dad, Arjun's arrogance and attitude comes out in brute force. His BP could have broken the sphygmomanometer. Shalini's tries her best to calm him down, soothe Arjun in every possible way. Does Arjun come back to his senses? Hell, No. This is Arjun Reddy. His characterization is linear throughout (always in the peaks). He still reminds Shalini of the deadline and storms away.Scene 6 - Arjun snorting coke before trial: This is a direct lift from Denzel Washington's Flight. But what stands out is the BGM composed for this episode by Radhan. As Arjun snorts and gets high on coke, audience do get the same high curtsy BGM.So, what are you still waiting for? If you are true movie lover (keeping aside all your religious and cultural limitations) go watch it again and again and get absorbed into the riveting world of Arjun Reddy. Welcome to new age Telugu cinema !!!

Ajay Hooda It's such a bloody waste of time. The actors should jump in the river.

Shravan Belde The best there was, the best there is and probably the best there ever will be. Arjun Reddy is a 5/5 film and rating all the remaining films in the industry below 2.5/5 will do it justice. Vijay Sai Deverakonda delivers the best performance ever seen by a male lead in 75 years of our cinema. Thanks a ton for giving us this film Sandeep!