Brochevarevarura is a fun and entertaining ride throughout. It’s the debut of director Vivek Athreya, and though you can tell that this is his first feature film, it’s still a very solid effort.

There is a wonderful scene in the beginning where Rahul and his R3 friends are looking for a cell-phone he has lost, its a nice way to introduce the gang and their quirks but what I was impressed with was how well this issue of Rahul loosing his phone was carried over into the second half where this becomes a matter of life and death. I liked this because it was something that didn’t just happen, it wasn’t coincidental, it was built up from the start and when it happens in the second half you understand why it happened. This is smart storytelling and the film has a lot of moments like this which is necessary for a film that takes a lot of twists and turns. When the film begins to connect all the dots together, it could have very easily lost its way or lost the fleshed out characters that it has built up, and for the most part the film doesn’t do that. It still holds together in these places where I have seen many other films fall apart.

This is a film where different storylines collide together and where it takes many twists and turns, and is structured similarly to previous films in this category; however, the greatest strength of these films is not their labyrinth storylines but rather the characters that get pushed into them. And Brochevarevarura has no lack in that, the characters in this film are funny and well-flushed out, and when you begin to see how everything connects you can’t help but admire this film.

My only issues with the film are that you can kind of tell that this is a first-time directorial effort. The acting isn’t as well directed as you would expect and this leads some of the actors in the film to line deliveries that felt a little off and out of character. Rahul can exemplify this the most, at times his acting can feel off and more crowd-pleasing rather than adding to any development of the character for the film. There are also a couple of shots in the college here and there that are unnecessarily hand-held, I’m not sure why that approach was taken for these shots but it was quite jarring and shaky, which took me out of the moment.

Nevertheless this is a solid film that overcomes most of the issues that I had, it’s quite funny, entertaining and worth a watch. Now that Athreya has established himself as a director, I hope he moves onto something more ambitious and hones in his craft even more. It’s an exciting time in Tollywood where some of the best films I’ve seen in the industry are from new directors and Brochevarevarura is certainly one of them.