The romantic songs seem so out of place that you want to wish them away. However, a few niggles crop up now and then. Keeravani’s background score and songs likeĪkhilanda Koti are the perfect foil for this devotional. The story unfolds in an aesthetic setting with Gopal Reddy’s cinematography, Kiran Kumar Manne’s art direction and visual effects coming together beautifully. Through brief anecdotes explained through a song, you get the history of Varaha Swamy, Venkateswara Swamy Kalyanam, what the lord’s debt to Kubera signifies and much more.
This part of the film feels like reading Amar Chitra Katha, with nuggets explaining the reason behind certain practices diligently followed in Tirumala. His journey is aided by Krishnamma, a Goda Devi or Andal-inspired fictional character played by Anushka Shetty. He doesn’t falter in his portrayal of Rama. Nagarjuna has been on this devotional path before, in The clash between Rama and Govindarajulu, Rama setting up an ashram and with persuasion setting things right in the temple premises is well narrated. In the cinematic version, this allows for Rao Ramesh to play Govindarajulu, a corrupt and powerful templeĭharmadhikari. Rama, as legend has it, was a reformist devotee who had to clean up the functioning of the temple. Raghavendra Rao narrates this story with the help of writer J.K Bharavi, taking cinematic liberties. How Rama proves he’s no ordinary devotee and earns the name Hathiram is a story one hears in Tirumala.ĭirector K.
Pachikalu with the lord himself and won those jewels. Eventually, the temple priests notice the lord’s idol bereft of jewellery. The lord loses all his jewellery which he stakes. The lord has lost to his devotee a few times earlier and this time, has arrived with his own dice and with Garuda (a brief role by Ajay) who monitors the game. Rama (Nagarjuna) and Lord Venkateswara or Balaji (Saurabh Jain) as his devotee Rama calls him, are seated overlooking a precipice, playing a game of dice (
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