Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan starrer Acharya is one of those movies you’d only want to watch because it has the two together. Despite all the hype, Acharya ends up as a largely predictable action drama that needed better writing. After delivering four highly enjoyable commercial entertainers laden with social messages in Mirchi, Srimanthudu and Bharat Ane Nenu, Koratala Siva returns with the highly anticipated Acharya.
The story is set in a fictional temple town called Dharmasthali where wannabe-MLA Basava (Sonu Sood) rules with an iron fist. He controls the village with various illegal activities and nobody dares lift a finger against him. The people of the village are helpless and hope to be rescued from the clutches of Basava.
A businessman, Rathod (Jisshu Sengupta), wants to encroach the forest for illegal mining. But Siddha, who looks after the forest, poses a great threat to the man who wants to protect it.
Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan’s Acharya fails to live up to the hype and struggles to keep the entertainment factor alive. The film wants the audience to wonder about Acharya’s identity and what brought him to Dharmasthali. But the promotional material of the film already revealed it. Also, most of the scenes are so predictable that you can easily guess how it’ll end.
The subplot involving Ram Charan is more exciting than the one involving Chiranjeevi. The scenes involving both of them are probably the film’s best moments. Acharya doesn’t live up to the expectations one would have from the combination of these two superstars.
