Venkatesh, whose latest film ‘Babu Bangaram’ is slated for release on August 12, is busy giving an interview to media houses.

He has already confirmed that his next film will be the Telugu remake of Madhavan’s boxing drama ‘Saala Khadoos’. Venky will be seen as a tough boxing coach in this film. To get into the skin of the character, Venky has decided to build muscular body just like Madhavan’s in the original.

Venkatesh, who has started working out in a gym, has received a stern warning from his doctors. The team of doctors is said to have advised Venkatesh not to indulge in heavy workouts at this age. A cautious Venky is in a dilemma now of whether to continue workouts to build body or obey the healthy advice of his doctors?

He has signed another film with Kishore Tirumala titled ‘Aadallu Meeku Joharlu’.

Senior hero Victory Venkatesh is said to be undergoing rigorous workouts to bulk up for his next film.

We have already reported that Venkatesh will act in the Telugu remake of R Madhavan starrer latest released boxing drama ‘Saala Khadoos.’ The film was released simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil and was a critical success. Madhavan’s physical transformation and performance were highly praised.

Director Sudha Kongara has also confirmed the Telugu remake news. Venkatesh is well known for remaking films with good content. As he was pleasantly impressed with Saala Khadoos, he has decided to remake it in Telugu.

Being an actor of 50 plus age, it will be hard for him to get into shape to play a boxing coach but Venkatesh is game for it.

Moviemakers are doing so much to entertain audience in the best possible way and exploring many to create new stories based on sports and lives around it. We have seen many films based on sports like Chak De India, Mary Kom, Lagaan, etc. Today a new film is releasing based on boxing with R Madhavan as lead. It is his comeback film as Protagonist titled “Saala Khadoos” a bilingual, directed by Sudha Kongara and presented by Raj Kumar Hirani under his RKF banner produced by Maddie himself.

Story

Adi Tomar aka Adi (R. Madhavan), who happens to be a coach of the girls boxing team by Profession. With the dirty politics, he gets transferred to Chennai. Adi looks for a girl who has the much required passion and fire to achieve. His search ends in the most unlikely person for the job Madhi (Ritika Singh), who, despite being a fisherwoman by profession, is a born talent in boxing who adores Mohammad Ali and Adi agrees to pay her money per day for training. On the other hand, Madhi’s elder sister Lakshmi aka Laks (Mumtaz Sorcar) also happens to be a boxer wanting to get into police department so that she can take care of the family. With having jealousy on her sister, she plays tricks and fails her sister in a match. Things twist up in an unexpected way and Madhi ends up in jail. What action of Madhi leads her to be jailed, who is the person who tries to take advantage of her, does Adi ever get to coach his once favourite student Madhi all over again, what ultimately happens to Adi and Madhi is what forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

R Madhavan as Adi is excellent. His gigantic cutout is apt for the role and his powerful performance takes movie to a greater heights. His expressions speaks a lot in climax. Ritika Singh, who is a boxer by profession is a perfect selection for her role. She performed equally to R Madhavan. Her performance makes us to forget that it is her debut film. Her transformation from a naughty girl to responsible girl is superb. Another newcomer Mumtaz Sarcar did a nice job as Lakshmi aka Laks, sister of Madhi. Nassar, Radha Ravi, Zakir, Kaali Venkat did what is required for their small roles.

Writing Department

Story by Sudha Kongara is nice. Many movies had came in past on sports and athletes but this one certainly differs from them in every aspect. Sudha Kongara seems to have done extensive research. Screenplay is crispy and bounds us to screen, especially the last 30 minutes. Dialogues are situational and are good. Overall, writing of the movie is excellent.

Technical Departments

Songs by Santosh Narayan are good and are apt for the situations. Background score by Santosh Narayan is superb. He proved his knack once again in composing background score. Cinematography by Siva Kumar Vijayan is superb and his visuals present the movie in a superb way. Editing by Satish Suriya is perfect and there is no dull moment throughout the movie. Production Values are rich.

Highlights

R Madhavan as Adi Tomar
Ritika Singh as Madhi
Santosh Narayan’s background score

Minus

Not much

Verdict

Movie runtime is short and is a huge bonus for this movie. It is very crispy with its spell bounding screenplay and sharp dialogues. Finest filmmaking and superb writing with Santosh Narayan’s superb background music adds to this movie. Casting of the movie is so good that their performance talks more. Last 20-30 minutes of the movie is too excellent and we can’t even take our eyes off screen. To sum up, it’s a superb comeback for Madhavan aka Maddie.

Senior hero Venkatesh, who is relying only on remakes these days, is currently acting in a non-remake film in the direction of Maruthi.

Since he feels that there are not many stories in Tollywood that suits to his image and age, he is looking at films of all languages for possible remakes. It seems that he zeroed in on upcoming Hindi-Tamil sports drama ‘Saala Khadoos’. Venkatesh has reportedly watched the film and liked it. Sources further said that Venky is keen to remake it in Telugu.

The film deals with the relationship between a boxing coach played by Madhavan and his student, played by newcomer Ritika Singh.Director of the movie, Sudha Kongara Prasad, also confirmed that the Telugu remake is on the cards, and she would like to direct it.

Venkatesh has to undergo a huge physical transformation for this role.