Pataas (2015)

Original title

పటాస్

Directed by

Anil Ravipudi

Genre

action film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

A

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A corrupt police officer transfers to Hyderabad to spite his estranged father who is the police chief. He supports a local criminal but later has a change of heart and teams up with his father to take down the villain.

action-packedcomedicfast-pacedemotionalcorrupt-to-heroicfamily-dramastylishrevenge-driven

What happens

Pataas (transl. Cracker) is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by debutant Anil Ravipudi and produced by Nandamuri Kalyan Ram under his banner N.T.R. Arts. It stars Kalyan Ram, Shruti Sodhi, Sai Kumar and Ashutosh Rana. Sai Karthik composed the film's music. The film revolves around Kalyan Sinha, a corrupt police officer, who gets himself transferred to Hyderabad, where his estranged father, Murali Krishna, is serving as the DGP. Kalyan hates his father and intends to teach him a lesson, and in the process, supports a local MP and criminal named GK. With time, realizing some of his actions have gone wrong. Kalyan has a change of heart and decides to stand by his father and help the force take down GK and his allies. Releasing theatrically on 23 January 2015, Pataas received positive reviews from critics and turned out to be Kalyan Ram's second most successful film at the box office after Athanokkade. It was remade in Tamil as Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva and in Kannada as Pataki. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• En Vazhi Thani Vazhi (2015)
• Bengal Tiger (2015)
• Adhibar (2015)
• Sandamarutham (2015)
• Jil (2015)
• Dynamite (2015)
• Lion of Gujarat (2015)
• Jadoogadu (2015)