Venkatesh's Shadow Movie Review


Starring : Venkatesh, Tapsee, Srikanth, Madhurima, Nasser, Naga Babu and others
Direction : Meher Ramesh
Producer: Paruchuri Kireeti
Music: S S Thaman
Screenplay-Dialogues: Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan

Rating : 3/5

Story :

Mafia Don, Nana Bhai (Aditya Pancholi) kills an investigative journalist, Raghu Ram (Naga Babu) and his family for preparing a report ‘Shadow’ on his illegal activities. Raghu Ram’s son , Raja Ram (Venkatesh) survives from the attack and grows up with the help of Nasser. He vows to take revenge on Nana. How he brings down Nana’s mafia to zero forms the core of the story.

Performances :

Venkatesh had donned different get ups in the movie. The bearded look is the look of Shadow which was not conceived well. His normal getup, Raja Ram is good and he looked a lot younger than in Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu. And the other character, Chanti, a memory loss patient is horrendous.

Tapsee looked glamourous as Madhu Bala but has very little scope for acting. Srikanth gets an insignificant role as Police cop, Pratap and Madhurima plays his wife. MS Narayana as Psycho Srinivas, a Post Mortem specialist and JP as Home minister managed few laughs here and there. There are several other notable stars like  Suman, Nasser, Shiyaji Shinde, Vennela Kishore, Thagubothu Ramesh who are not used to their potential.


Positive Aspects :
  • Venki Performance 
  • Getups and Costumes of Venki 
  • Taapsee skin show 
Negative Aspects :
  • Pretictable story 
  • Thaman background score
  • Unimpressive Screenplay 
  • No Suspence element of revenge drama 
  • Lenghty Climax 
  • Songs
Botttom - Line : Shadow is a film with Routine story. Except Venkatesh and Tapsee, Nothing good in the movie. If you are expecting entertainment Only watch the film, If you are die hard fan of Venkatesh. Else, skip the film.