Akhanda 2 - Thaandavam

2025 [TELUGU]

Action / Fantasy

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 4680 4.7K
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2 hr 44 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ffadityawahyudi 5 / 10

A Powerful Spiritual Journey, even if it stumbles a bit in the middle

I've always been a sucker for movies with deep spiritual themes, so Akhanda 2 - Thaandavam was right up my alley. There is something fascinating about watching the divine clash with the mundane. However, I have to be honest: the balance between the realistic elements and the spiritual ones felt a bit off at times.We all know and believe that God can do things far beyond human capability-that's a given. But in a movie, I feel like there needs to be a clearer distinction or a more seamless "bridge" between the strength of the hero and the forces of evil. Sometimes that gap felt a little jarring rather than being a cohesive part of the storytelling.I'll admit, the beginning was a bit of a slog. It started off leaning towards the boring side and took a while to find its footing. But if you can push through the slow start, the climax is absolutely worth it. It's intense, high-energy, and visually gripping.What really stood out to me, though, were the dialogues for the "Wise Man" character. The choice of words was incredibly inspiring and gave the film much-needed depth. Those moments of wisdom really elevated the experience for me. Overall, despite the pacing issues, it's a pretty thrilling watch if you appreciate a movie that isn't afraid to wear its spirituality on its sleeve.
Reviewed by Jayd_0039 5 / 10

A Strong Message Drowned in Over-the-Top Noise

I wanted to like Akhanda 2 more than I actually did. On one hand, the film carries a very powerful and relevant message about upholding Dharma and protecting our cultural roots from external threats. As a history and culture enthusiast, I appreciated the intent behind the story. However, having a good message doesn't automatically make it a good film. Everything else about the movie felt like a relentless assault on the senses. The background score was so loud it was almost distracting, and the action sequences were pushed so far past the point of logic that they lost their impact. While Nandamuri Balakrishna has an undeniable screen presence as the Aghora, the script felt incredibly thin and repetitive compared to the first part. It's a movie that demands you surrender your logic completely, but even then, the nearly three-hour runtime feels like a stretch. If you're a die-hard fan of "mass" cinema, you might enjoy the elevations, but for me, the great message deserved a much better and more balanced film.
Reviewed by CrimsonRaptor 5 / 10

⚡??Divine Fury Drowning in Its Own Excess ??

Why does every character sound like they're auditioning for a motivational speaker circuit? That's the question gnawing at me forty minutes into Akhanda 2, where even asking for water feels like a TED Talk about hydration and national pride. Boyapati Srinu doesn't make films so much as he constructs sonic monuments to volume itself, and this sequel cranks that aesthetic past eleven into some stratospheric realm where subtlety went to die screaming.Balakrishna arrives early this time, trishul gleaming, eyes ablaze with that specific brand of divine rage only Telugu mass cinema can conjure. He's magnificent in flashes (that Sanatana Dharma monologue hits like a freight train if you're in the right headspace), but the film surrounding him can't decide if it wants to be a spiritual epic, a bioterror thriller, or a one-man-army showcase. So it tries being all three simultaneously and buckles under its own ambition. The premise is genuinely wild: a 16-year-old with an IQ of 266 developing vaccines while enemy nations plot metaphysical warfare. On paper, that's the kind of bonkers swing I usually love. In execution, it's a tonal car crash where geopolitical punchlines collide with black magic detours, and nothing breathes long enough to matter.Harshaali Malhotra feels catastrophically miscast as Janani. She's playing a prodigy carrying the nation's survival on her shoulders, but there's no weight to her presence, no lived-in intelligence that makes you believe this girl outwitted DRDO scientists. A role this pivotal needed someone who could anchor the stakes emotionally, not just hit marks between Balakrishna's setpieces. Samyuktha and Aadhi Pinisetty vanish into the film's overcrowded margins, given dialogue so flowery it curdles in their mouths, performances strangled by a screenplay that treats every human interaction like an opportunity for a ringtone-worthy quote.But here's what keeps me partially hooked: those action sequences where Akhanda becomes something elemental. Boyapati understands spectacle at a cellular level. When Balakrishna goes full berserker mode, armies crumbling around him in slow-motion carnage, there's a primal thrill the film briefly earns. The problem is pacing. Between these bursts of kinetic lunacy, we're drowning in exposition delivered at operatic volume, scenes that mistake shouting for intensity, spiritual symbolism laid on so thick it becomes white noise.I wanted to love this more than I did. There's a version of Akhanda 2 that trusts its premise enough to let moments land instead of pummeling you with ten more before you've processed the first. The Maha Kumbh attack setup is genuinely chilling conceptually, but the film races past its own best ideas to get to the next mass moment, the next CGI-assisted massacre, the next speech about dharma that sounds identical to the seven preceding it.Would I watch it again? Maybe the action cuts on YouTube at 2am when I need something visceral and unhinged. The full experience though? That's a harder sell. Akhanda 2 is exhausting in ways both intentional and accidental, a film so committed to being MORE that it forgot to be better. Balakrishna deserved a tighter script. We deserved characters we could actually care about beyond their utility as dialogue delivery systems.
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