Story
Swamy (Ravi Teja) is a good hearted man who keeps changing jobs due to his attitude. Anand Chakravathy (Ravi Teja) is a rightful heir for big corporate People JP (Jayaram) is a greedy corporate giant who wants to take over People Mart by force/threat. Pranavi (Sree Leela) meets both Swamy and Anand Chakravarthy and likes them both. Rest of the story is about how Swamy/Anand foil JP attempts of takeover.

Artists Performance

Ravi Teja is in his element in this film. He has shown good variation between the characters of Swamy and Anand. He is highly energetic with mass scenes and dances. Sree Leela is very good as the female. She is excellent with her dances (expressions and body language). She is one of the rare Telugu-based heroines who has such a command on dances in recent times. Jayaram is okay as a baddie. Rao Ramesh is decent as a comedy villain. Aadhi who did the role of Rao Ramesh’s sidekick/driver attracts our attention with his one-liners. Sachin Khedekar, Pavitra Lokesh, Tulasi, Tanikella Bharani and Praveen are good.

Technical departments

Story - screenplay - direction: Story of the film doesn't have any novelty, but has enough ingredients to cater to masses. You can see influences of many older films like Rowdy Alludu. Director Trinadha Rao Nakkina is aware of how the mass psyche works. He has used Ravi Teja well to exploit his strengths. Though scenes are not fresh, he made them work with performances. He has dealt the first half reasonably well by maintaining a suspense element. However, he should have made the 2nd half more gripping by writing more family/corporate entertainment scenes (like in Rowdy Alludu). Screenplay should have been better in the second half. He has dealt with entertainment episodes well. Though it’s a mass film, we expect a little bit of sophistication in the corporate set-up and in the corporate villain (like in Trivikram’s movies). Indra spoof episode is good.

Other departments: Music scored by Bheems Ceciroleo is very good. Jinthak is a huge hit. Jinthak, Dandakadiyal and Pulsar Bike songs are highly energetic on the screen. Choreography and performances by the lead pair helped the songs a lot. Just like they used a private song Gunna Gunna Mamidi in Ravi Teja’s Raja The Great film, this unit has used the hugely popular viral Pulsar Bike song in this movie. Cinematography by Karthik Gattamneni is decent. Dialogues by Prasanna Kumar Bezawada are good. Fights by Ram Lakshman are fine. Production design by Srinagendra Tangala is okay. Editing by Prawin Pudi is alright. Production values by Peoples Media Factory are good.

Analysis: Dhamaka depends majorly on Ravi Teja’s energetic/comic performance and entertainment/mass episodes. A better second half would have done wonders to the film. Dhamaka is a film that’s made on a commercial meter with entertainment, Ravi Teja’s performance and good mass songs. It works partly and is going to entertain all classes to a certain degree.