‘Arjun Chakraborty’ Movie Review: This sports drama makes very difficult efforts

There is a difference between an idea that seems interesting and the way it is developed in a script, and later in a film. Arjun chakravartiThe Telugu film written and directed by Vikrant Rudra, in the title role with Vijaya Ram Raju, is one such example. The effort that has gone into its construction is clear, yet the narrative feels clinch and emotionally different.

The story is like a biopic of an unseen player. Based on true events, the film center on Kabdi, focusing on a player from rural Andhra Pradesh during the 1980s and 1990s.

With music by Jagdish Chikati by Sapia-Tond Visuals and Vignesh Baskaran, Arjun chakravarti A kabaddi plays the rise, fall and revival of the player.

Contemporary Indian cinema has watched many sports plays, including biopics in languages. Many of these films have followed the underdogs that remove their identity to overcome economic difficulty, social inequalities, politics and bureaucracy. Others have detected the emotional echoing stories of the former champion, which are often scared of previous failures, which are meant to find a redemption in the form of masters.

For Telugu Movie Buffs, the idea of ​​a fictional biopic about an unseeded game hero essentially remembers Nani-Starr JerseyDirected by Guatam Tinnuri. The key to any sports play – imaginary or real – audiences have the ability to invest emotionally. That’s where Arjun chakravarti Lightning Elements for a stirring, the story -charged stories all exist, yet the story never finds its feet.

In the 1990s, the film opens from the film Kabdi Association with Kulkarni (Ajay), which discovers a time-equipped national champion Arjun, who is now immersing her days in alcohol. From here, the story detects Arjun’s formal years and even in the 1960s, and in the 1960s, and under the patron Rangayah (Dayanand Reddy), his initiation in Kabdi describes himself as a stained-game. On paper, this is the perfect arc: a boy who rises from rags to glory is guided by a mentor bound by shared wounds.

But the execution remains on the surface. Arjun’s natural nature for kabaddi and his training diet has been skimmed, in which the district is mechanically revealed from the district to the national level. Even the film’s visual motifs – such as mirrors mean reflection and introspection – failed to translate into anything meaningful.

Rangaiyah being a failed champion, but the film never earns our sympathy for its character. The romance between Arjun and Devika (Sija Rose) feels equally hollow, stitched together with tired trops. We are never told why Devika’s father is not for his relationship, nor is we given the backstory of Arjun. We are left to guess that it is a matter of conservative, caste, or class difference – the best writing.

The idea of ​​Arjun’s national level match intercounting with a decisive moment in Devika’s personal life may seem clever on paper, but it becomes flat on the screen. When there is a lack of conviction in a love story and we fail to make root for its characters, their struggles feel loaded.

The big issue lies in writing, which never dug under the surface, and in demonstrations, which fail to lift the weak material. Arjuna’s high, climb, and the pain point is believed to buy paper-thunder sketches of his character.

By the last hour, the film sinks forward under the weight of Clich-prominent, corrupt officials who give up the glory of single-Ajur Arjun. We are asked to believe that a person’s manipulation derails a national level athlete, which has no complaints, no prevention mechanisms, no governing body is in sight. The absence of logic makes the story unrelated and leaves the audience.

Every now and then, Arjun numb himself with alcohol, almost immediately to bounce back into the competition. His turnaround is suddenly in the form of his collapse. The climax leads even more on the climax, especially how Devika’s arc is wrapped.

Arjun Chakraborty sets with the right intentions-to spot the spotlight of an unseeded Kabari player-but the intention alone cannot save clumsy writing and half-incomplete performance. The result is a sports drama that never earns the lap of its victory.

Published – August 29, 2025 05:15 pm IST