Rocky: The Revenge
Poster
Directed byK. C. Bokadia
Produced byHaresh Vikram Vijayakumar
StarringSrikanth
Eshanya Maheshwari
Nassar
Sayaji Shinde
OAK Sundar
CinematographyAzmal Khan
Music byBappi Lahiri
Release date
12 April 2019
Running time
152 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesTamil
Telugu

Rocky: The Revenge also simply known as Rocky is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film written and directed by Bollywood filmmaker K. C. Bokadia in his Tamil directorial debut. The film stars two German Shepherd dogs as central titular characters with Srikanth and Eshanya Maheshwari.[1] The film's story is loosely based on the 1985 film Teri Meherbaniyan which is itself remake of 1984 Kannada film Thaliya Bhagya.[2] This film was partially re-shot in Telugu as Namaste Nestama.[3]

Plot

The movie begins with a few animal smugglers entering a bungalow and stealing two German shepherd puppies. While on the way, the door of the van opens, and one of the puppies falls down. ACP Santhosh (Srikanth), who rescues the pup, takes it to his house. He and his wife (Eshanya Maheshwari) name it Rocky and send it to a police dog training school. A few years later, the fully trained Rocky returns home. Meanwhile, Santhosh is at loggerheads with the local MLA Thenappan (Sayaji Shinde). Santhosh arrests Paandi (OAK Sundar), the henchman of Thenappan, on a weapon smuggling case and puts him behind bars. An irked Thenappan waits for a chance to kill Santhosh and bumps him off; the eyewitness to the murder is Rocky. The rest is all about how Rocky avenges the death of his master.

Cast

Production

The venture was announced by a prominent figure in the Bollywood industry K. C Bokadia in 2018, who has produced in excess of 50 Hindi films in his career, this film marked his directorial debut in Tamil cinema.[2] The portions of the film were shot and set in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Udaipur and Kulu Manali.

Soundtrack

The songs were composed by Bappi Lahiri.

Track listing
  • "Sanjari" - Hariharan, Sreedhip, Naina Nayar
  • "Ulley Ulley" - Jeanath, Monika
Telugu
  • "Bangaru" - Hariharan, Sreedhip, Naina Nayar
  • "Dil Se" - Jeanath, Monika

Plea

The filmmakers were made aware of a plea at the Madras High Court regarding the change of film title during early April 2019.[4] The plea suggested to not to use the term Rocky in the film title as another completed Tamil film which is on the frontline to have its theatrical release also possess the same name. The filmmakers initially announced the film title as Rocky before commencing principal photography, and then after the conclusion of the filmmaking, the director renamed the title as Rocky The Hero for a temporal reason. However, the teaser of the film revealed the title as Rocky The Revenge.[4]

Reception

The film released to negative reviews.

A critic from The Times of India opined that "The story is what 80s staple revenge dramas are made of and could have worked in today’s time had a little more attention been paid to the narration".[5] A critic from the Deccan Chronicle noted that "Had the director concentrated on a tauter screenplay keeping the present scenario in mind, the film would have been more palatable".[6] Regarding the Telugu version titled Namaste Nestama, a critic from 123 Telugu wrote "On the whole, Namaste Nesthama is a very old school revenge drama that has nothing going its way."[7][3]

References

  1. ↑ Subramanian, Anupama (2 April 2019). "Srikanth back as a cop in Rockky". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Bollywood's Bokadia ventures into Tamil film world with 'Rocky'". News Today | First with the news. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Filmmaker Bokadia experiments in Telugu with 'Namaste Nestama'". Telangana Today. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Plea to restrain filmmaker from using 'Rocky' title for Tamil movie". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "Rocky:The Revenge Movie: Showtimes, Review, Trailer, Posters, News & Videos | eTimes", The Times of India, retrieved 9 April 2019
  6. ↑ "Rocky - the Revenge movie review: A Canine's Revenge". 14 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Namaste Nestama". 123 Telugu. 3 January 2020.
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