Duvvada Jagannadham (DJ)
Genre: Action, Romance
Language: Telugu
Right from the poster release, audience thought it is going to be another "Adhurs". After trailer release, people compared it with Arjun's Gentleman. Let's see what exactly is DJ.
Story: Duvvada Jagannadha Sastry owns Annapurna caterings-pure vegetarian from Vijayawada agraharam (Brahmin Hamlet). His another avatar DJ cleans up the society by killing all top most criminals, with the help of FIR writer(Murali Sharma). Sastry meets Puja (Pooja hegde) in his cousins (Vennela Kishore) marriage. He falls in love with her and reveals her love with her. Puja rejects his love as she belongs to affluent family - Home ministers (posani) daughter. In the meanwhile, his uncle Chandramohan commits suicide as he is cheated by agro industries led by royyala Naidu (Rao Ramesh). How DJ faces Royyala Naidu and how he wins love of puja forms rest of the story.
Analysis: Age old story and dialogues made DJ routine fare. Weak script and routine direction made DJ, an ordinary product. All arjun as DJ did a great job but as Sastry, he looked very ordinary. NTR has set a high benchmark with Adhurs and Allu Arjun is not impressive because of recurring dialogues (Sabhya samajaniki em message isthav etc). Allu Arjun is a great dancer and 'Seeti maar' is a perfect example of his dance stamina. Saving grace of this movie is Pooja's glamour. She looked ravishing. She danced really well. She "performed" as if this is her last movie 😀. Some sleezy dialogues may not appeal to family audience but may fare well with B,C centers. Few dialogues of Rao Ramesh are good. Subbaraju character is funny. Songs are really bad except "gudilo badilo".
Surprisingly DJ has already collected 50 crores in first 3 days and inching towards 100 crores. DJ may not appeal to multiplexes audience but may fare at B,C centers.
My rating: 2.5/5
Strictly avoid it. You can watch it during Dasara in TV's.