Tiger Nageswara Rao 2023
Sinopsis
Based on the life of the notorious thief Nageswara Rao, who was the most wanted thief of south India& managed to evade the authorities on several occasions in the 1970s, earning him the moniker of ‘Tiger.’
Cast
- Ravi Teja as Tiger Nageswara Rao “Nagi”
- Anupam Kher as IB Officer Raghavendra Rajput
- Jisshu Sengupta as CI Mouli
- Murali Sharma as DSP Vishwanath Sastry
- Gayatri Bharadwaj as Mani, Tiger’s wife
- Nupur Sanon as Sara, Tiger’s love interest
- Renu Desai as Hemalatha Lavanam, social reformer
- Hareesh Peradi as MLA Yelamanda
- Sudev Nair as Kasi, Yelamanda’s brother
- Anukreethy Vas as Jayavani, Tiger’s admirer and Jaya Rao’s love interest
- Nassar as Gajjala Prasad, Tiger’s trainer
- Aadukalam Naren as Tiger’s father
- Pradeep Rawat as Angee Seth, businessman
- Kancharlapalem Kishore as Yaari, Tiger’s best friend
- Praveen Dacharam as Jaya Rao, Tiger’s friend
- Surya as School teacher
- Chakrapani Ananda as Mani’s father
- Meesai Rajendranath as Inspector Ponnu Saamy
- Besant Ravi as Tamilian goon
Review
When director Vamsee’s ambitiously mounted Telugu film Tiger Nageswara Rao (TNR) begins with a note ‘inspired from true rumours’ and a voiceover informs us that it is a tale of blood and tears, it indicates the tone of the film. Ravi Teja plays the title character inspired by the real-life dacoit of Stuartpuram in Andhra Pradesh, Nageswara Rao who earned the moniker ‘tiger’ for his daredevil acts. In the absence of substantial documentation, the director and his team relied on accounts shared by the late dacoit’s wife and a few others in the village and the police. Sharing the writing credits with Srikanth Vissa, Vamsee attempts to unravel the murky sociopolitical story of Stuartpuram and its notorious thief. A story like this would ideally be complex with grey areas. But this film presents black and white characters and the promising narrative is gradually diluted into an oft-repeated mainstream story.
