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Jeevi
rating: 3/5
Punchline: Lot of fun & little frustration
Genre: Comedy/Family Drama
Type: Straight
Banner: Sri Venkateswara creations
Runtime: 148 minutes
Censor Certificate: U/A
Release date: 12 January, 2019
Theater watched: KSP Prime, Guntur
Cast: Venkatesh, Varun Tej, Tamannaah Bhatia, Mehreen Pirzada, Rajendra Prasad, Prakash Raj, Jhansi, Vennela Kishore, Priyadarshi Pullikonda, Raghu Babu, Srinivasa Reddy, Pragathi, Pradeep, Pruthvi, Hari Teja, Annapoorna, Y. Vijaya, Nassar .etc
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematographer: Sameer Reddy
Lyrics: Kasarla Shyam, Shreemani, Balaji, Ramajogayya Sastry & Shreemani
Acrt: AS Prakash
Actions: Venkat
Editor: Tammiraju
Story, Sreenply, dialogues & direction: Anil Ravipudi
Producers: Shirish - Laxman
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Venky (Venkatesh) and Harika (Tamanna) get married through a matrimonial site. Varun (Varun Tej) and Honey (Mehreen) are lovers and want to marry. Venky and Varun realise that they are being controlled and dominated by Harika and Honey respectively. They wanted a break and escape to Europe just about when Varun is supposed to marry Honey. Rest of the story is all about how Venky and Varun realise their mistake,
Actors: Venky entertains us with his perfect comedy timing. His body language and funny (frustrated) expressions are hilarious. Varun Tej is good as a Telangana lover boy. He has also shown good timing in comedy. Tamanna is good and looks very sensuous in a song. Her dubbing is also good. Mehreen is nice as a girl who is in love with herself. Priyadarshi is very good as buddy of Varun. Rajendra Prasad provides ample dash of humor. Raghubabu provides good comedy as MLA and Mirchi Kiran is good as his bodyguard. Pradeep has a single dialogue in the film as husband. Pragati is very good as heroines mother. Prakash Raj plays the role of an NRI european who is fixated with Gundamma Katha film. Hari Teja is nice. Jhansi does her role effectively with Telangana dialect. The characters of Pruthvi and Srinivasa Reddy are ineffective. Vennela Kishore’s character starts on a dull note and gets better in climax. 
Story - screenplay - direction: There is not much to the story of the film. The main twist of heroes going to Europe to avoid frustrating women look very illogical. It’s Anil Ravipudi’s comedy sense that works big time. There is a comic flaw for almost all the characters in the film (like the characters we find in Jandhyala films). Entire first half is hilarious with comedy. Director couldn’t come up with a matching comedy sequences in second half. The comedy part in Prakash Raj’s house doesnt work the same way it did for the first half. And it looks forced. However, Nassar’s episode followed by climax makes you go out of the theatres in good mood. Anil Ravipudi has a rare talent to write entertaining characterizations and get the comedy right. He should have worked more on the second half content.
Other departments: Music by Devi Sri Prasad is decent. Cinematography by Sameer Reddy is good. Dialogues by Anil Ravipudi are hilarious. The entire sequence of highlighting PA to MLA is very humorous (PA ki MLA). Editing is fine. Art direction is nice. Production values are decent (except for the graphics in climax). 