After the magnum opus Baahubali 2, we see Rana Daggubati on the big screen with director Dharma Teja for a love-political film Nene Raju Nene Mantri under Suresh Productions. The expectation levels for the movie are high and has it lived up to the hype?

Director Teja has taken on a political premise, but the script, on the whole, looks clumsy and disoriented. In fact, there is hardly a strong reason to make a movie out of it. There are of course one or two exciting scenes, but you can't do a movie just because you have two good scenes in hand.

Rana as Jogendra who loves his wife so madly and wishes to satisfy every wish of hers. He does all evil things to earn money to make her better half pleasantly upbeat. He in fact dreams to become the Chief Minister of the state to make her wife happy and in the process of doing so, he becomes greedy. How that hunger for ambition changes his life is what NRNM is all about.

At first, the story by itself is not flashy. Secondly, there is absolutely no logic in the film whatsoever. Rana keeps killing people mercilessly, and no one bothers to ask him about it.  Rana is definitely a valuable addition to the movie, but he alone cannot save a lackluster script single-handedly. Even the technical team is comparatively weak. They show glimpses of good work here and there, but overall the production value could have been a tad better.