Nithiin revived his sagging fortunes at the box office with Bheeshma, teaming with Venky Kudumula. However, after Bheeshma, he failed to maintain the momentum and the success run at the box office. He once again teamed with Venky Kudumula for Robinhood. The film directed by Venky Kudumula is releasing on 28 March 2025. The film marks the debut of star Australian cricketer David Warner on the Tollywood screen. Robinhood's OTT rights are yet to be locked and details will be revealed at the later date. Let us see whether Nithiin as Robinhood is able to rob the heart of all or not.
Robinhood story revolves around a youngster who following the incidents in his childhood decides to adopt the policy of Robinhood to help the poor by robbing the rich.
Ram (Nithin) joins as a security guard in John Snow (Rajendra Prasad) India's No 1 Security agency, and they are entrusted to oversee the security of Neera (Sreeleela), daughter of Australian Pharma Company owner Vasudev (Shiju).
However, shocking developments happen, and what is the secret of Rudrakonda, and how it is connected to Victor Varghese (Shine Tom Chacko,) Criminal Robinhood, and others form the rest of the narration.
Nithin is in his usual self and performed his role effortlessly. His character, however, offered no scope to show variations in his role. While the character turned out to be bland, Nithiin too did not try do come up to show variations. He came up with singular expressions and did not even blink his eyelid. Much to the shocker of all,most of the time, he used sunglasses even during the night time to make up for his lack of expressions.
Sreeleela got the dumbest role similar to her earlier roles. She got no scope to showcase he acting talent and she seems to be happy with it. She just tried to attract viewers with her glamor and dances. But she should reailse that glamor and dances alone will not take her career to the next level.
Rajendra Prasad, Vennela Kishore and others tried to evoke few laughs with their one-liners. Though few of them worked out well most of the time, they looked cringe. All the scenes looked forced. Shine Tom Chako's role is just ok. Others like Devdatta Nage, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Brahmaji, Aadukalam Naren, Mime Gopi, Shiju performed according to their roles. Kethika Sharma sizzled in a special song. Star Cricketer David Warner's cameo excites all. Though he made a stylish entry and showed his swag and mannerisms, his less than one minute role disappoints all his fans.
Robinhood story is penned by Venky Kudumula. Expectations increased on Robinhood as Nithiin and Venky Kudumula earlier came up with a hit film Bheeshma. Venky Kudumula this time, however believed more on including more hilarious scenes and generating comedy to entertain viewers rather than come up with a strong story. The story took a backseat and in fact turned out to be so weak that the film was left with virtually no story.
Right from the first scene till the end, the narration is loaded with monotonous and routine elements. With lack of story and the weak character developments, all the actors seems to be just passing through the motions. With few laughs in the first half, it ends in a predictable way.
The second half narration nosedived with the dialogues loaded with one-liners testing the patience of viewers making them wonder why and how Nithiin gave the green signal to the project. Venky Kudumula seems to be at his wits end on how to take the story forward and so passed time in slo mo shots on Nithiin and others and repeating the same for umpteen times. Viewers after the period of time, gets so vexed as to when the climax will come but it seems to be never ending and one even gets doubt whether David Warner's cameo was present in the film.
Finally David Warner appears on the screen and his role also turns out to be silly with lollipop in hand. But at least he was saved of facing the same kind of ingonmity like Mike Tyson as his role was less than one minute. The film ends with the lead to the sequel, with the title Brotherhood of Robinhood before viewers could breath easily that the ultimate torture ended finally.
GV.Prakash Kumar who is known for his music, failed with his songs. None of the songs are catchy and appealing and they infact acted as speedbrakers. His background score is below average and did not make any impact on the screen. Sai Sriram's cinematography is good and depicted the scenes in an appealing manner. Editing of Koti left a lot to be desired. There are many scenes that ended up testing the patience of the viewers. Production values of Mythri are good.
Altogether, Robinhood turns out to be a clichéd entertainer. Venky Kudumula and Nithiin joined hands to recreate Bheeshma magic. However, Venky Kudumula did not come up with a concrete story and depended only on hilarious scenes to score a hit. This impacted the film's screenplay and direction, and Nithiin seemed to have lost completely as he came up with blank expressions, passing through the motions. One hearsay is Nithiin okayed the film without listening to the script and now if this is true then he made his biggest blunder as his career is already in the slump.
Venky Kudumula planned to turn the film into a hilarious flick and shot many scenes in Australia but most of the scenes were done away with and they tried to turn the film into an hilarious action entertainer. With so many contradtions, the final output of the film suffered ultimately. Considering all these elements Cinejosh goes with a 2.25 rating for Robinhood.