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Story
Mario (Teja Sajja) is a game developer. He develops a game along with his team and it becomes popular overnight. They find out about a bug and they need to fix it with the help of their friend Kalyan (Mirchi Hemanth). But he is busy with marriage preparations in Rayalaseema. They visit Rayalaseema and on the way their friend is bitten by a Zombie which they are unaware of. As Kalyan is getting married to a factionist family, the rival factionist plan to kill him. As the faction rivalry is underway, there is a wave of zombies who are converting normal people into zombies. Rest of the story is all about how Mario takes care of everything.
Artists Performance
Teja Sajja is very good as the main lead. He is at ease and has done complete justification to the character. Anandhi is pretty good with traditional looks and performed well. Mirchi Hemanth gets a meaty role and is good. Among the jabardasth batch, Getup Sreenu gets a good role and creates fun moments. Daksha Nagarkar is alright as the gaming team member. Veteran actress Annapurna gets a variety role and she is funny. Vinay Varma, Harsha Vardhan, Kireeti D, Pruthvi Raj, Vitta Mahesh, Raghu Karumanchi, Tripuraneni Chitti etc have done decently.
Technical departments
Story - screenplay - direction: Director Prasantha Varma who is known for tackling variety subjects has come up with the first Zombie film in Telugu. He has taken a faction subject and added a Zombie dimension to it. He should be commended for taking the risk of making a Zombie film in Telugu. He has added divine angle to offset the zombie effect. Since the story happens in Seema, he tried to replicate the scenes with a loud writing. It’s like watching a loud and violent faction film, but with a zombie twist. Some of the comedy scenes are well-conceived and creative (artificial jaw set of Annapurna and how they played around it wrt zombies). Screenplay of the film is very predictable since they have made this film as a faction genre spoof. The director should have explained more about the nature of zombies to the audience through some of the scenes (only one scene is used where they explain zombies can smell). You don't see any of the government machinery in the film while tackling zombie menace. Adding too many genres along with movie spoofs made the scenes familiar, but resulted in scenes appearing chiched.
Other departments: Music by Mark K Robin adds to the horror factor in the film. Cinematography by Anith complements the mood. Dialogues are good. Production design by Nagendra T is good. Editing by Sai Babu is alright. Action sequences are okay. Production values by Apple Tree Studios are good.
Analysis: Director Prasanth Varma who has done different films in the past has come up with yet another novel film with a Zombie makeover. He has taken the age-old faction film setup where one group tried to kill another group and added a Zombie angle to it. Plus points are Zombie concept and comedy episodes in the second half. On the flipside, the entire film is loud and there is a lot of violence. Screenplay is predictable. The climax of the film is extended a lot. Though it is a 2 hour duration film, you find the film to be pretty lengthy. On the whole, Zombie Reddy is a mixed bag where you get familiar faction/horror entertainment with a Zombie backdrop.
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