Devi Sri Prasad’s music has nothing much to write home about, but the BGM does manage to complement the film.
PC Sreeram’s cinematography gives the whole film a feel-good vibe with softly lit rooms and a golden glow often surrounding our lead pair. Vennela Kishore, Suhas, Abhinav Gomatam, Brahmaji, Naresh and Rohini too manage to inject some humour. The lead actors get ample opportunity to show off their acting chops and they deliver. Nithiin aces the boy-next-door role and Keerthy steals the show.
Nithiin and Keerthy Suresh seem comfortable in the skin of their characters, with their relationship seeming plausible. But he manages to make the characters relatable and makes the film engaging for the most part. With Rang De Venky Atluri does follow the simple commercial formula of songs, fight scenes and humour weaved into a light-hearted romance that soon turns emotional. Scenes of sexual harassment and pregnancy are dealt with sensitivity and maturity. And she might be head-over-heels for Arjun, but she won't put up with his nonsense. Even when she pulls something shocking to ensure she’s not married against her choice, there’s only worry from her mother instead of judgement. Where Venky manages to set his film apart is the way he writes the character of Anu.
Tollywood has a way with love stories, especially ones that involve close-knitted neighbouring families and leads who are either head-over-heels for each other or constantly at war. What happens when she’s tired of his derisiveness and decides to give him a taste of his own medicine? All Arjun wants is to ensure Anu lives far away from him so people around him can stop comparing him to her, all she wants is to make him happy in hope he loves her the way she loves him. Because she’s better at everything than he is, he is constantly asked to do better, be more like her. That is, till four-year-old Anu (played as an adult by Keerthy Suresh) makes an entrance in a pink frock and adorable pigtails to steal all his thunder. Being the only toddler there, he’s used to getting all the attention since birth.
Little Arjun (played as an adult by Nithiin) is the apple of his parents’ eye and of everyone in his colony. With films like Tholi Prema and Mr Majnu setting the bar as to what one should expect from the film, Venky manages to break his own mould when it comes to certain tropes. Basically everything anyone who’s a fan of Indian rom-coms would want out of a film. Review: With Rang De, Venky Atluri brings forth a ‘cute’ love story (as he put it) that has equal doses of romance, love, jealousy, envy, greed, comedy and of course, family emotions. Will he ever find it in his heart to love her like she loves him? Story: Arjun detests Anu because she has always stolen his thunder ever since she step foot in their colony years ago.