Director: Manasa Sharma
Lead Cast: Sangeeth Sobhan and Nayan Sarika
Supporting Cast: Vennela Kishore, Brahmaji, Tanikella Bharani, and Ashish Vidyarthi
Genre: Fantasy-Comedy / Thriller
Big Expectation
Many people wanted to see the Telugu movie Raakaasa. People had big expectations before the movie came out. The trailers looked very interesting. The movie starts in a very good way. It shows a beautiful world and makes the audience feel excited.
The main actors are good and presentable. The hero is Sangeeth Sobhan.
The story is about an NRI.
The Comedy and the Story Problems
The first half of the movie has many "fun elements." There are many jokes. The lead actor tries to make people laugh. Some popular comedy actors like Vennela Kishore and Getup Srinu are also in the movie.
But as the movie goes on, there is a big problem. The comedy does not have a proper finishing touch. This means the jokes start well, but they do not end well. The funny parts feel like separate small videos. They do not join together with the real story. The comedy does not help the main plot move forward.
The director of the movie is Manasa Sharma.
The story line of Raakaasa simply does not help the film. It is weak. It feels like the writers did not think carefully about how to connect the horror elements with the funny scenes. Because of this, the actors have a difficult time making the movie look good.
A Big Disappointment
The biggest problem of the movie is the ending. The final twist at the end is quite disappointing. It changes everything in a bad way.
The movie tells us about a big monster or Rakshasa.
But at the very end of the movie, the story changes completely. Suddenly, the movie shows that the monster is actually a good person! The director tries to show that the monster has a good heart and a sad past. This twist is very hard to believe. How can a cruel monster that asked for human sacrifices for thousands of years suddenly become a good person? It makes no sense. The audience feels bad because the scary build-up is completely ruined. Another disappointment is...in this modern AI world, the monster still looks graphic and not scary at all. Disappointing!
The Bad Logic
Also, the ending completely ignores its own logic. In the early parts of the story, we learn about a person who died. This person died directly in the hands of the monster. Before dying, that person found a specific method to destroy the monster. It was a special way to kill the demon forever.
The audience expects the hero to use this specific method in the climax. But at the end, the monster is not destroyed by the method suggested by the person who died. The movie completely forgets this rule. This makes the story feel very lazy. The death of the character in the past becomes useless because their advice was not important at the end.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Raakaasa is a movie with good actors but a very bad story. All the casts played their roles well. Sangeeth Sobhan is good at comedy. Nayan Sarika looks beautiful and acts well. The supporting actors like Brahmaji and Ashish Vidyarthi do a great job too. The fort sets look very real and scary.
But a movie needs a logical story. You cannot take a 2000-year-old bad monster and say he is a good guy at the end. You cannot forget the rules of your own story. Because of these mistakes, Raakaasa starts with a big expectation but finishes in a very disappointing way so it gain 4/10 MOVIEW STARS. DO WATCH IN NETFLIX.

