Junior Review

Junior(2025) Movie: What's Behind

Mining Baron Gali Janardhan Reddy's son Kireeti is making his debut with the youthful entertainer Junior. The film directed by Radha Krishna Reddy is releasing on 18 July 2025. The film's OTT rights are yet to be inked. The film is bankrolled by the prestigious banner Vaarahi Chalana Chitram, and this is exciting. Let us see whether Junior gave joy to viewers or not.

Junior(2025) Movie: Story Review

Junior story revolves around a youngster who goes all out to get back the sweet memories which he couldn't due to various reasons and where this leads to form the interesting part.

Abhi ( Kireeti Reddy) after going to college and becoming the topper in the entrance exam, decides to get all the memories which he missed in his childhood due to his over-concerned father Kodandapani ( V.Ravichandran).

In the process, he comes into contact with a beautiful girl Spoorti ( Sreeleela) who believes in having an ambition and aims to achieve a goal in life.

Where this leads to and how it is connected to Gopalam (Rao Ramesh), Founder of Rise Solutions, his daughter Vijaya Soujanya (Genelia), HR Manager Manish (Satya) and others form the rest of the narration.

Junior(2025) Movie: Artists Review

Kireeti Reddy put in a lot of effort for his debut film. As all the youngsters and aspiring actors do, he showed his talent in enacting good, energetic dance moves and breathtaking stunts. Kireeti Reddy appears confident especially when it comes to his dance moves as It's sharp and smooth. If Kireeti Reddy chooses better scripts he has a scope to become a Promising Hero on screen.

Sreeleela, as usual, looked cute and beautiful on the screen, and she did what was required of her. Sreeleela’s performance in “Viral Vayyari” alongside Kireeti is a highlight. But She didn't get much scope to show her acting talent and disappears completely in the second half.  

V.Ravichandran did well in the role of the concerned father and showed good emotions and expressions, and made an impact. However, at times he overdid himself.

Rao Ramesh showed his experience once again and elevated the scenes with his screen presence. Genelia Deshmukh got an important role, but she came up with a singular expression. Sudharani played the role of the hero's mother and is ok, while Satya and Viva Harsha tried to evoke a few laughs with routine antics. Others performed according to their roles.

Junior(2025) Movie: Technicians Review

Junior story is penned by Radha Krishna Reddy. He came up with a youthful entertainer loaded with intense emotions revolving around father-son bonding and brother-sister relationship and father-daughter affection. Though the story has all those elements, right from the start till the finish, the screenplay and direction turned out to be pathetic.

Radha Krishna Reddy starts the narration with emotional scenes before shifting to the youthful and romantic elements after the introduction of the hero with a heavy duty action sequence. The romantic elements and the comedy scenes with his friends look completely outdated. Even the father-son scenes instead of elevating the emotions turn out to be bland and irritating to viewers. The introduction of Genelia and Rao Ramesh into the proceedings generates little interest. The interval sequence is good.

When many expected the film to take off in the second half, it hits the downslide with the serial like 80s narration. The narration keeps on swinging to and fro when many expected the film to end but the director tested the patience of the viewers and give them torture dragging the scenes completely.

The story turned out to be weak and the entire first half lacked substance. The second half, though feels better, is loaded with predictable emotions and 80s-like predictable slow screenplay added to the woes of the viewers. Director looked listless and directionless and one gets a feeling that the more woes he shows about the members of the hero's family, movie lovers get emotionally charged up.

The director failed to realise that to connect chords one should have a good story with strong emotional connect and racy screenplay. He didn't score on any of these points and completely disappointed everyone.

Devi Sri Prasad came up with foot-tapping and youthful tunes for the songs. The songs are choreographed and shot against the backdrop of lavishly erected sets. His background music is in sync with the story, and he managed to carry the narration to the viewers to good effect.

The Cinematography of Senthil Kumar turned the scenes colourful, and he, with his camera angles, gave a rich feel with the visuals. Kalyanachakravarthy Tripuraneni's dialogues are outdated to the core.

Niranjan Devaramane's editing is ok but could have been better. There are many repetitive scenes and drags which increase the monotony in the narration. Production values are grand.

Junior(2025) Movie: Advantages

• Kireeti 
• BGM
• Cinematography

Junior(2025) Movie: Disadvantages

• Clichéd Narration
• Silly, Outdated Scenes
• Routine plot

Junior(2025) Movie: Rating Analysis

Altogether, Junior turns out to be an outdated entertainer. Director Radha Krishna Reddy tried to cushion Kireeti Reddy's youthful role with the heavy emotions of senior actors like Genelia, Rao Ramesh and V.Ravichandran. Though the idea is good, he came up with a routine and outdated story and clichéd narration, dragged scenes, ridiculous comedy, shabby climax and the so-called twists that looked childish played the spoilsport. Director should have worked hard on the story and the script and Kireeti Reddy should have taken immense care before proceeding ahead with his debut project. Considering all these aspects Cinejosh goes with a 2.25 rating for Junior.