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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Story of the film is simple and predictable. But the backdrop of USA offers some variety. Direction by Yogesh is partly OK. He could able to introduce and establish all primary characters well. But he could not run the story with interesting narration in the middle of the film. But he manages the climax decently. He handles some of the humor scenes well. However there are a few inspired comedy scenes like exam scene (Mr. Bean series), kitikilu 2008 (windows 2008 Telugu version forward mail) etc. There is some toilet humor too. Narration of the film is slow.The first half an hour of the film is pretty good. It slows down after that and the film picks up again from the last song (bagunde bagunde). The plus points of the film are Venkatesh and mother sentiment. On the flip side, the latter part of the first half and the former part of the second half should have been made in an interesting way. The mother sentiment and the marriage ambiance towards the climax could attract the Venky's strong base of family crowds. On a whole, Chintakayala Ravi is an OK film if you can excuse bit of screenplay glitches in the middle of the film.

The first half of the film is okay, second half is worse. The only good thing about the movie is venky's acting and his trademark comedy. May be that will bring some families to the theaters.Vishal sekhar does a reasonable job on the music. One of the songs "bagunde bagunde" is pretty good.The store line is predictable. There are many plot holes. Screenplay is good. Backdrop of USA in the first half offers something for the viewers The character development is bad. Too many things going around in too little time. It looks as if many clips are somehow merged together.Even a scene from hum tum is copied as is, and it is a shame that its done so badly.All in all a mediocre film. I will give it a 3/10. Go watch it if you are venky fan(You'll watch it anyway if you're)