Paradha Review

Paradha (2025) Movie: What's Behind

Anupama Parameswaran who is known for her powerful and impactful performances is coming up to test her luck with the film titled interestingly as Paradha. The film is directed by Praveen Kandregula of Cinema Bandi fame and this is exciting all. Paradha OTT rights are bagged by Amazon Prime. Let us see how the film impressed movie lovers.

Paradha (2025) Telugu Movie: Story Review

Paradha story revolves around a young girl who lands in trouble and how she overcomes to protect the village customs and traditons. In the village of Padati where villagers follow a shocking tradition for the fear of attracting the wrath of Goddess Jwalamma, Subbu (Anupama Parameswaran) is engaged to the Rajesh (Rag Mayur) son of the Village president.

Two days before their marriage, Subbu gets a shock of her life and everything turns upside down with questionmarks thrown on her character and the protection of village customs. Where this leads to, how she react to it, what is the curse of Jwalamma, what role Photographer (Gautam Menon), Subbu's aunt (Sangeetha Krish),her husband (Harshavardhan), Construction Engineer Amishta (Darshana Rajendran), Traveller (Rajendra Prasad), played form rest of the developments.

Paradha (2025) Telugu Movie: Artists Review

Anupama Parameswaran did full justice to her role. She is mostly seen in Paradha and she expressed herself through her eyes. She showed good emotions and expressed herself showing the pain of the woman in trouble. She delivered dialogues with ease.

Darashana Rajendran on debut came up with a powerful performance. She got good role and powerful dialogues and made an impact with her performance. Sangeetha Krish made her presence felt showing variations in her performance. Harshavardhan evoked few laughs as her husband.

Rag Mayur is good as a sincere lover who is crushed between love and village traditions. Gautham Menon and Rajendra Prasad appeared in small cameos. Others performed according to their roles.

Paradha (2025) Telugu Movie: Technicians Review

Paradha story is penned by Praveen Kandregula. With the story he tried to highlight the village rituals, beliefs and how women are impacted and how women are often made scapegoats by men even while coming up a narrative involving Goddess and the stories surrounding them.

He starts the narration in an interesting way and the first half treads in a decent manner but at a snail's pace with routine elements. However the second half goes for a toss and instead of addressing the core problem, he deviates talking about various issues. With various issues cropping up, the intensity gets diluted.

Screenplay tests the patience of the viewers and direction turned out to be unidimensional. After touching all the topics regarding women empowerment inthe second half, he rushes through the climax. The story had potential to become a powerful female oriented one but Praveen Kandregula's script and screenplay left a lot to be desired.

To the top of it, many such films came up earlier with similar backdrop and with heroine mostly in Paradha, viewers get disinterested as other characters got limited screenpresence and didnot play roles of much importance. Except for couple of scenes and few dialogues that increased the intensity levels, everything else turned out to be stale.

Gopi Sundar's music and songs are situational. Yatra Naryasthu song got powerful lyrics penned by Vanamali and highlighted the importance and power of woman. The song is well picturised and is song in an impactful and powerful manner by Anurag Kulkarni.  He elevated few important scenes with his thumping background music. The BGM is in sync with the storyline. Mridul Sujit Sen used the cinematography to show the locations especially in Dharmashala in a beautiful way. He showed the rustic village atmosphere quite well. The editing of Dharmendra Kakarala left a lot to be desired. There are many scenes that were repeated and impacted the pace of the narration. Dialouges are good, powerful and thought provoking. Production values are good.

Paradha Movie: Advantages

• Anupama Parameswaran
• Cinematography
• BGM
• Few Powerful Dialogues

Paradha Movie: Disadvantages

• Routine Plot
• Preachy Elements
• Second Half

Paradha (2025) Movie: Rating Analysis

Altogether, Pradha turns out to be half baked female-oriented flick. Director Praveen Kandregula who impressed with his films like Cinema Bandi, tried to touch another interesting and burning topic. Though he started the narration in an interesting away, and Anupama Parameswaran came up with a spirited performance, everything fell flat with average screenplay and direction. He tried to champion the cause of women empowerment and upliftment and he succeeded only to some extent. He could have added more strenth to the character arcs and reduce redundancy for a better impact. At times he has taken cinematic liberties as he left out of ideas. A little finetuning of script and story would have added more firepower to Paradha. Considering all these aspects, Cinejosh goes with a 2.25 rating for Paradha.