Return of the Dragon Review: This Youthful Comedy Tests Your Patience

Return of the Dragon Review: Tamil hero Pradeep Ranganathan’s upcoming film ‘Return of the Dragon’ stars Anupama Parameswaran and Kayadhu Lohar as the heroines. Directed by Ashwath Marimuthu, who rose to fame with the film ‘Ori Devuda’, the film was released today. Let’s go into the review and find out to what extent this movie impressed us

Release Date: February 21, 2025
Cast: Pradeep Ranganathan, Anupama Parameswaran, KS Ravi Kumar, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mysskin, Kayadhu Lohar, Mariam George
Director: Ashwath Marimuthu
Production: Kalpathi S Aghoram, Kalpathi S Ganesh, Kalpathi S Suresh
Music: Leon James
Cinematography: Niketh Bommi
Editor: Pradeep E Raghav

Story:

D.Raghavan (Pradeep Ranganathan) is a good student in intermediate. He passes with over 96% and gets a seat in a good college. However, he becomes a bad boy because of a girl. In this process, he fails in 48 subjects in engineering. On the other hand, he falls in love with Keerthy (Anupama Parameswaran) in the same college. After college, Keerthy breaks up with him and leaves. After some dramatic developments, D. Raghavan gets a job in a software company and becomes successful in his life.

His marriage to Pallavi (Kaiyadu) is also set. Due to an incident that happens later, his college principal comes into Raghavan’s life. Why did the college principal come to Raghavan?, What was the unexpected shock that Raghavan got?, So, did Raghavan marry Pallavi? Or not?, What did Keerthy do when she came into Raghavan’s life again?, What happened in the end? is the rest of the story.

Plus Points:

Pradeep Ranganathan, who became close to the Telugu audience with the movie Love Today, impressed with this movie too. The scenes written based on the events happening in the lives of the youth of today’s society are good. Especially the topic of getting jobs by faking is very well told. Director Ashwath Marimuthu tried to cultivate entertainment in the youthful story. With that, the comedy touch was well achieved in the movie. The way the hero Pradeep Ranganathan’s character was established from the opening is good.

Especially the scenes and comedy scenes between Pradeep Ranganathan’s character and his father’s character were a plus for the movie. The performance of the actors is also very good. Pradeep Ranganathan, who played the lead role, got into his role. Even in serious situations, ‘Pradeep Ranganathan’ cultivated his role very well with his timing. George Marion lived the role of his father. His performance was amazing. Anupama Parameswaran’s performance as the heroine was impressive.

Kayadhu Lohar, who appeared as another heroine, looked very glamorous. Her performance was also good. Similarly, his dialogues and his gestures along with the role of Mysskin were good. Gautham Menon’s performance as the head of the IT company was good. Harshit Kanna and the rest of the actors who played other key roles also did justice to their roles.

Minus Points:

Director Ashwath Marimuthu, who designed the character of Dragon and the scenes related to that character very well, did not write the treatment of this film at the same level. Especially in key scenes, he failed in writing an interesting story at some places. Moreover, some scenes feel slow and regular. It would have been better if the scenes that come in the order of the hero’s success were built more interestingly.

In the second half, except for one climax, the rest of the story lacked excitement. Although there was a chance to make the story more interesting, the director ended the film in his own style. Overall, although Ashwath Marimuthu’s direction skills, hero characterization, and BGM are good, the film feels below average. The film would have been better if the second half screenplay and the main characters had been written more strongly.

Technical Aspects:

Although director Ashwath Marimuthu impressed with his take, he could not write the screenplay in a way that was fully impressive for the story line he took. The background score in the film is good. The songs provided by music director Leon James are not bad. The cinematography is also good. Niketh Bommi has shot many scenes in the film very beautifully. When it comes to editing, editor Pradeep E Raghav should have reduced some of the stretched scenes here and there. Producers Kalpathi S Aghoram, Kalpathi S Ganesh, Kalpathi S Suresh have produced this film without compromising anywhere. Their production values ​​are very good.

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Verdict: Return of the Dragon Review

In this film, which is called ‘Return of the Dragon’ and is a youthful comedy entertainer.. The main theme, comedy and some emotional scenes are good. However, aspects like regular screenplay and the heavy number of lag scenes are minus points for the film. Overall, some youthful elements will connect this film to audience.