Tuck Jagadish Review: Makes You Regret the 146 Minutes You Allotted for this Film!

Tuck Jagadish served as ‘Natural Star’ Nani’s second direct-to-OTT film after last year’s ‘V,’ which received mixed to negative responses from the audience. Directed by Shiva Nirvana, the movie also stars Ritu Verma, Aishwarya Rajesh, and Jagapathi Babu in supporting roles with Thaman S composing the music.

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Set in a small town named Bhudevipuram in East Godavari, Tuck Jagadish revolves around an extended family, who struggle with a particular set of problems ranging from personal to professional within their vicinity and beyond. Jagadish (Nani), a typical Tollywood macho dude, refuses to turn a blind eye to all the corruption happening around him and decides to take matters into his own hands and attempts to fix the village with his intense superhuman powers.

Written and directed by Shiva Nirvana, Tuck Jagadish narrates an age-old story about family emotions, drama involving money, and real estate, the actual small-town reasonings, and more. Now, although we’ve witnessed tackled in a million different iterations before, I’m not going to complain or criticize the main crux of the story, primarily because it is still relevant and can be witnessed in 2021. Therefore I can see why Nirvana thought that it would be a commercially viable idea to weave the screenplay around this subject.

And that’s exactly where Tuck Jagadish suffered from the beginning to the end. The lack of imagination, creativity, and innovativeness. Executing a commercial film is no easy task. You’ll be seduced to employ or try a million commercial tropes that worked before. But, in the year 2021, I do not see this movie working in any aspect, the 1990s would’ve been a better bet.

The protagonist being invisible, immune from any sort of threat, danger, or emotional pain doesn’t make the character captivating or worthy enough for us to root for him throughout the runtime. The mundane slow-mo fight sequences are an overly used trend, and it isn’t stylistic anymore to watch them on-screen. Furthermore, the predictable and one-dimensional bad guys who only possess a particular set of qualities from misogyny, anger, to the art of performing murders were, for all the obvious reasons, utterly tedious to watch.

On to the performances. First off, I do not understand why Nani continues to choose these unusually bland commercial movies here and there. Last year’s ‘V’ was, in my opinion, plain and predictable. Krishnarjuna Yudham was a disappointment and many more. In Tuck Jagadish, sure, he looks very stylish, but he had nothing exciting to offer as an actor.

Regarding others, there are a few interesting choices. Ritu Verma felt like a breath of fresh air compared to her other industry equals, moreover, she is an amazing performer, and she carried her role with ease. Daniel Balaji was a welcoming surprise as the antagonist, but his character was poorly written. Aishwarya Rajesh, who plays Nani’s cousin in the film, was decent at best.

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Overall, Nani’s Tuck Jagadish on Amazon Prime Video is, for the lack of a better word, a NONSENSICAL movie. Writer-director Shiva Nirvana, in the process of making a universally accepted commercial film, spoiled almost everything in his path with a wearying screenplay, run-of-the-mill Telugu cinema tropes, and everything in between. This 146-minute isn’t funny or emotional or, to the least, entertaining. Even the ‘Telugu Movies Dubbed to Hindi’ audience on YouTube will not like this attempt to please their interests.

‘Tuck Jagadish’ Rating – 1.5/5

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