Allari Naresh's UGRAM (2023) New Released Full Hindi Dubbed Movie | Mirnaa Menon | South Movie 2023

After taking on police brutality in the 2021 crime thriller Naandhi,director Vijay Kanakamedala teams up with Allari Naresh yet again, and turns critique on its head by presenting the audience with the character of K. Shivakumar (Allari Naresh), a Circle Inspector who has four murders to his name and dishes out custodial torture liberally in his quest for ‘justice’.

Very early in the film, we are forced to believe that Shivakumar is an upright cop after he busts an illegal drug smuggling business and refuses to give into the jaws of corruption.

However, the ‘sincere’ cop also has his share of romance to muddy the chaotic thriller; Aparna (Mirnaa Menon), the daughter of a rogue politician gives in to marry Shivakumar after he stalks her for months and the director seems comfortable in passing it off as love. Soon enough, the audience is given a lesson in respecting women by Shivakumar himself after he rescues girls living in a gurukul from the clutches of men high on marijuana. While the director is clear that weed is only for the villains, he is unable to make up his mind about the treatment he dishes out to the women in his film, often building his hero into a character with a massive saviour complex.  

The one saving grace is Allari Naresh’s performance. He is sincere and agile in decently-choreographed action sequences and his body language as a livid cop translates well on-screen despite his average dialogue delivery.