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Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga’ movie review: Old wine in an old bottle
This is the season of nostalgia at theatres. In August, Mahesh Babu’s birthday (August 9) was marked by the re-release of Okkadu and Pokiri in cinema halls. Then, to mark Pawan Kalyan’s birthday on September 2, theatres are witnessing the re-release of the star’s earlier hit Jalsa. One of the new Telugu films that released in theatres this week, Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga directed by Gireesaaya and starring Vaishnav Tej and Ketika Sharma, has a story that is heavily inspired by Telugu films of the mid-1990s and early 2000s. We don’t know if the story was intended to hark back to comparatively simpler times and talk about family ties and friendships, but with the lack of anything new in the narrative or the treatment, it ends up as an outdated, dull film.