Ride Review

Rating: 2.75/5
Genre: Youth/Family
Type: Straight
Banner: Sri Sai Ganesh Productions

Cast: Nani, Tanish, Shweta Basu Prasad, Aksha, Adarsh, Ahuti Prasad, Sudha, Kasi Viswanath, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, Tulasi, Kinnera, Bikshu, Hema etc

Music: Hema Chandra
Background score: Chinna
Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu
Dialogues: Shashank Vennelakanti
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art: Chinna
Fights: Ram Lakshman
Executive producer: Ravi Uppalapati
Story - screenplay - direction: Ramesh Varma
Producer: Bellamkonda Suresh
Release date: 5 June 2009

Mahesh (Tanish) is the son of a just retired middle class government officer. He is a responsible guy and shares the responsibly of running the family. He gets an offer to work as a collection agent in a chit fund company. But it requires him to own a bike. He buys the bike with her mother savings. Arjun (Nani) is a carefree youngster who is passionate about bikes. His dream is to own a bike. But his miser father never buys him one. Mahesh’s bike is stolen one day and the next day Arjun is riding on that bike. The rest of the story is all about what happened to the bike and how they resolved the conflict.

Music by singer turned music director Hema Chandra is adequate. A couple of songs are good in picturization (the 3rd song shot in ICRISAT and Danchave Menatha Koothura remix).

Analysis: The movie takes off really well with nice establishment of the two main characters and their family backgrounds. First half is satisfactory. Ideally the movie is over the moment these two guys come to an understanding. The last 20 minutes of the movie appears like an extension. For people who have seen uber stylish bike ads on TV, the chases and races shown in the film pretty mediocre. Ramesh Varma did a better job compared to his last film.