It has been adapted very well to cater to Telegu audience. I personally didn't feel bored in any part of the movie, although climax will have mixed reviews, it is worth watching for its comedy and for being first zombie movie in Telugu.
59 Reviews
Good movie
ashweej-018157 February 2021
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It's not illogical.its just gives us message that nature can resolve it's problems.when Hollywood makes movies like world war z,people call it excellent and whats wrong in showing Shivalinga water can make a zombie back again to his human form.nothing wrong abt it.songs are good.All the actors justified their roles.Good attempt in limited budget.
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rajeshwardevaraj21 February 2021
Fun to watch!!
montysuhas25 April 2021
Best zombie film made in all over india
bhishmavatsava5 February 2021
Firstly thank you prashanth varma for making this film only in telugu. Cinema was beautiful as it is made. Decent writing fantastic screenplay,outstanding baground score, mainly direction is biggest plus point. We loved it from the starting . No negative elements in this film. It also given message telling the importance of god and spirituality. Must watch film for zombie lovers.
India's best action comedy movie
kadechapunamsingh26 July 2021
It's too flat
vikaskundbi29 March 2021
Prashanth varma has so many writers under him and still made a movie out of flat story. It just felt like they were pushing story just to show their little gags here and there. Also the music was very bad. Felt like listening to a YouTube free backgroundround music.
FULLY ENTERTAINING.
MandalBros-527 March 2021
ZOMBIE REDDY is basically an Action - Comedy (mainly in the 1st half), but what differs it from other movies is the perfect blending of Zombie genre and that makes the movie a ZOM - COM which is my favourite genre.
The movie grabbed me from the very first song and it was hilarious. The screenplay is very much engaging. The 2nd half is full of action, also loved the climax. BGM is top notch. As a Zombie genre fan I can say it's A MUST WATCH for zombie movie lovers.
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The movie grabbed me from the very first song and it was hilarious. The screenplay is very much engaging. The 2nd half is full of action, also loved the climax. BGM is top notch. As a Zombie genre fan I can say it's A MUST WATCH for zombie movie lovers.
Available on aha.
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Thrilling Rollercoaster withd Zombie Drama!! 6/10
vasudevaa26 April 2021
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Special Note to Prashant Varma. The director of the film, Prashant Varma, has took the film to the next level just because of the concept and story. The concept of fasctionism meeting with zombies has never done before. Just solely the concept itself has the scope to thrill you forever.
This movie is a very interesting experience for me. The first time I saw it I shut down the TV after the first 30 minutes. That's how horrible the movie was initially. Then I forced myself to watch the whole movie. After finishing the first half, I again shut down the TV. That's how slow and boring the first half was. Another day, my friend told me this was the most thrilling experience ever so I started watching it again. This time I did not off the TV. The whole second half is a thrilling rollercoaster. All the twists, the 1000kmph screenplay, and the thrill of zombies and faction revenge just blew the crap away from me. When I was about to rate the movie as a 4/10 (utter flop movie) bull crap movie, after watching the second half I am rating it a 6/10 (a pretty good movie).
IN DEPTH ANALYSIS:
1st half: the first half starts out by laying out the characters and laying out the main plot by showing the power hungry scientist. The way they show it is executed terribly. The dialogues seem very unnatural and there is so much unnecessary over action portrayed by the characters. Especially the first 30 minutes is brain torture. We might get headaches or brain problems: which we should not be a surprised at all by.
The rest of the first half is just setting up the plot for the second half with zombies. This part is filled with over action. Just for small things Teja acts very very over. "Apara Babu choodaleka chacchchipothunnamu, Yedavannara yedava!." For his over action we expect something to happen but nothing happens and will probably irritate us. Like that, the whole 1st half goes very slowly. The thing the first half does successfully build is extreme curiosity; we keep on seeing zombies and we will be wondering what will happen next.
2nd half: To fulfill our curiosity the interval bang comes. This part starts the thrilllll!! Zombies everywhere and comedy with Jabardasth Seenu. Then the story goes towards factionism and a lot of twists get revealed here. Here the thrill goes up one level. Whatever we wait for gets constantly fulfilled throughout the movie. We will be so glued to watching this movie we can't take our eyes away from the screen for a single second. It is almost as if we are addicted to a drug and cannot give up the thrill because the dose is so freaking high.
One thing bad about the second half is it's duration. It is only about an hour long and we don't get to fully experience the potential of the concept and the screenplay. The screenplay is a little too fast and "hadavidi" so if they increased the duration for the same screenplay; it will have more scope to the already blockbuster idea "bomma daddarilli poyedhi" Just imagine if the same movie is a little more polished with the same amount of thrill; 1000cr box office collection!!
Overall this is a thrilling movie that has a lot of lack of appeal in the first half but full of appeal in the second. This will be great for people who like KGF. The narration style is extremely similar to that of KGF.
Check out my other reviews! I give reviews for all new Telugu movies.
Scale to compare
9.0/10 Mahanati, 8.0/10 Bahubali 1 & 2, 7.0/10 Ala Vaikunta Puramu lo, 6.0/10 ZOMBIE REDDY, 5.0/10 Saaho, 4.0/10 Agnyathavasi.
Special Note to Prashant Varma. The director of the film, Prashant Varma, has took the film to the next level just because of the concept and story. The concept of fasctionism meeting with zombies has never done before. Just solely the concept itself has the scope to thrill you forever.
This movie is a very interesting experience for me. The first time I saw it I shut down the TV after the first 30 minutes. That's how horrible the movie was initially. Then I forced myself to watch the whole movie. After finishing the first half, I again shut down the TV. That's how slow and boring the first half was. Another day, my friend told me this was the most thrilling experience ever so I started watching it again. This time I did not off the TV. The whole second half is a thrilling rollercoaster. All the twists, the 1000kmph screenplay, and the thrill of zombies and faction revenge just blew the crap away from me. When I was about to rate the movie as a 4/10 (utter flop movie) bull crap movie, after watching the second half I am rating it a 6/10 (a pretty good movie).
IN DEPTH ANALYSIS:
1st half: the first half starts out by laying out the characters and laying out the main plot by showing the power hungry scientist. The way they show it is executed terribly. The dialogues seem very unnatural and there is so much unnecessary over action portrayed by the characters. Especially the first 30 minutes is brain torture. We might get headaches or brain problems: which we should not be a surprised at all by.
The rest of the first half is just setting up the plot for the second half with zombies. This part is filled with over action. Just for small things Teja acts very very over. "Apara Babu choodaleka chacchchipothunnamu, Yedavannara yedava!." For his over action we expect something to happen but nothing happens and will probably irritate us. Like that, the whole 1st half goes very slowly. The thing the first half does successfully build is extreme curiosity; we keep on seeing zombies and we will be wondering what will happen next.
2nd half: To fulfill our curiosity the interval bang comes. This part starts the thrilllll!! Zombies everywhere and comedy with Jabardasth Seenu. Then the story goes towards factionism and a lot of twists get revealed here. Here the thrill goes up one level. Whatever we wait for gets constantly fulfilled throughout the movie. We will be so glued to watching this movie we can't take our eyes away from the screen for a single second. It is almost as if we are addicted to a drug and cannot give up the thrill because the dose is so freaking high.
One thing bad about the second half is it's duration. It is only about an hour long and we don't get to fully experience the potential of the concept and the screenplay. The screenplay is a little too fast and "hadavidi" so if they increased the duration for the same screenplay; it will have more scope to the already blockbuster idea "bomma daddarilli poyedhi" Just imagine if the same movie is a little more polished with the same amount of thrill; 1000cr box office collection!!
Overall this is a thrilling movie that has a lot of lack of appeal in the first half but full of appeal in the second. This will be great for people who like KGF. The narration style is extremely similar to that of KGF.
Check out my other reviews! I give reviews for all new Telugu movies.
Scale to compare
9.0/10 Mahanati, 8.0/10 Bahubali 1 & 2, 7.0/10 Ala Vaikunta Puramu lo, 6.0/10 ZOMBIE REDDY, 5.0/10 Saaho, 4.0/10 Agnyathavasi.
Horrible movie
hardikkreddy10 February 2021
Never mind what does the climax say? How can it be Soo senseless first half was okay and second half was a totally down away. Over all you can watch it once or try once for the weekend very bad climax loved Prashanth awe movie
a Fun To watch,,, Recommended
saeedygujjar29 March 2021
A Decently Entertaining Comedy/Thriller
AnirudhGod7 February 2021
Going in without much expectations, I was pleasantly surprised with the no-nonsense, and to the point approach to the story. The movie deals with a Zombie apocalypse amidst factionism, to hilarious effect. Although, I do not understand how factionism and zombies are connected, logically. Do zombies represent the futile nature of the clashes between two groups? Anything goes, as I took the premise at face value. The plot is pretty simple and passable enough to serve up as a decent distraction. The production values are too good, and the acting too. If only the plot was more interesting and compelling rather than being some stupid reason to showcase the corona pandemic, then we would've had some good scientific drama. But instead we get predictable and generic plot points with a superstitious resolution to the story. Overall, just a one-time watch.
Overaction all the way
saisuryaproductions27 February 2021
Surprisingly good...
paul_haakonsen3 June 2023
When I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2021 Indian movie "Zombie Reddy", I have to admit that I was expecting dancing and singing as well. Sure, I have actually never seen a single movie from India, and am familiar with Bollywood movies of course, though never seen one, so I was sort of expecting "Zombie Reddy" to be such a movie.
Writer and director Tajuddin Syed and Prasanth Varma had put together a rather good and enjoyable storyline and script for the movie. And there was no random singing or dancing in the movie, which I found to be a good thing. And while the storyline in the movie is a pretty straight forward and sort of generic approach to the zombie genre, director Prasanth Varma gradually piled up the intensity and thrills, which made "Zombie Reddy" a good viewing experience.
Needless to say, that with "Zombie Reddy" being my first Indian movie to watch, then I wasn't at all familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. I was, however, pleased with the performances on the screen. The actors and actresses put on good performances in bringing their characters and the story to life, pardon the pun, on the screen.
Visually then "Zombie Reddy" was actually quite good. Sure, it wasn't special effects and zombie make-up and prosthetics that would match top tier Hollywood productions, but I definitely found the effects in the movie good and better than I had expected.
If you enjoy zombie movies, which I happen to do, then "Zombie Reddy" is well-worth sitting down to watch.
My rating of "Zombie Reddy" lands on a six out of ten stars.
Writer and director Tajuddin Syed and Prasanth Varma had put together a rather good and enjoyable storyline and script for the movie. And there was no random singing or dancing in the movie, which I found to be a good thing. And while the storyline in the movie is a pretty straight forward and sort of generic approach to the zombie genre, director Prasanth Varma gradually piled up the intensity and thrills, which made "Zombie Reddy" a good viewing experience.
Needless to say, that with "Zombie Reddy" being my first Indian movie to watch, then I wasn't at all familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. I was, however, pleased with the performances on the screen. The actors and actresses put on good performances in bringing their characters and the story to life, pardon the pun, on the screen.
Visually then "Zombie Reddy" was actually quite good. Sure, it wasn't special effects and zombie make-up and prosthetics that would match top tier Hollywood productions, but I definitely found the effects in the movie good and better than I had expected.
If you enjoy zombie movies, which I happen to do, then "Zombie Reddy" is well-worth sitting down to watch.
My rating of "Zombie Reddy" lands on a six out of ten stars.
Stay safe from Coivd or else u r gonna turn into ZOMBIE
sankalpoctober1 April 2021
Hats of to the director who made dis Movie. A Decent Screenplay Nd a powerful BGM. DAMN those BGMs are soo good. Cinematography is osmm. No unnecessary scenes r shown in dis movie. A good concept movie. I felt watching a Hollywood movie. TFI is coming up with new Concepts . V should appreciate upcoming directors Nd writers.
Climax is bit off
rajeshrajesh99826 March 2021
Super movie
advaithkarapakula8 February 2021
Funny movie
abhiramkarnamk27 June 2021
Nothing new or interesting
vaibhavkratos29 March 2021
Indian Film industry has produced very few Zombie movies till date. Bollywood has made Masterpiece like Go Goa Gone(2013) and Tamil Industry had Cliched but thoroughly entertaining movie like Miruthan (2015). Although I would Highly recommend Watching Miruthan over The most boring Zombie Reddy (2021).
"Zombie Reddy" is a Telugu Language Zombie "Comedy". I mentioned Comedy because that's what the makers said it is. I had really high hopes after watching the trailer. It was trying to incorporate current pandemic situation and Zombie virus into one movie, and I said "What a brilliant idea !" But then I saw the movie and it was utterly disappointing. Zombie make up and Vfx look fake. Even action scenes aren't interesting to watch. Comedy falls flat. Supporting characters are cheap and disgusting to see on screen.
I felt really bad for the leading trio of actors. Teja Sajja, Anandhi and Daksha Nagarkar were trying really hard to save this snooze fest. But they were ultimately betrayed by lazy writing and bad dialogues. I wish the best for their future.
So if you have seen the trailer, then you have seen all the best parts of the movie. There is not even an attempt at comedy throughout the whole film, and the focus of the movie is hardly the Zombies. The whole focus was Faction war. So if you don't want to waste 2 hours of your life, don't watch this movie.
"Zombie Reddy" is a Telugu Language Zombie "Comedy". I mentioned Comedy because that's what the makers said it is. I had really high hopes after watching the trailer. It was trying to incorporate current pandemic situation and Zombie virus into one movie, and I said "What a brilliant idea !" But then I saw the movie and it was utterly disappointing. Zombie make up and Vfx look fake. Even action scenes aren't interesting to watch. Comedy falls flat. Supporting characters are cheap and disgusting to see on screen.
I felt really bad for the leading trio of actors. Teja Sajja, Anandhi and Daksha Nagarkar were trying really hard to save this snooze fest. But they were ultimately betrayed by lazy writing and bad dialogues. I wish the best for their future.
So if you have seen the trailer, then you have seen all the best parts of the movie. There is not even an attempt at comedy throughout the whole film, and the focus of the movie is hardly the Zombies. The whole focus was Faction war. So if you don't want to waste 2 hours of your life, don't watch this movie.
A Linking Movie
shanmukhsrivatsav21 April 2021
Good movie with well linkage of comedy with zombie and using of the gods presence is very extraordinary then bgm is classic and linkage.of all the elements but leaving the romantic comedy had missed if thats also present 10/10 well execution of the story by not making it science fictional great movie i enjoyed by watching it hoping for the sequel.
Entertaining Zombie comedy.
grarunkumar199429 March 2021
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Go goa gone is the only successful zombie film in the country till date. This is the next.
Zombie reddy is a film that clearly knows what it intends to tell and stays well within the boundary it draws, yet keeps entertaining in one way or other. Zombie Reddy has a plot wherein a scientist searching for Covid19 vaccine mutates the virus into zombie virus. This virus spreads throughout 2 rival villages in Rayalaseema and in the end all gets cured. This basic plot is mixed with situational/ slapstick comedy and spoof of other films. At times, the film does slip frok comedy to a drama /action which the plot demands. Skipping between horror/action/drama/comedy even within same scenes, is a difficult task yet the film does succeed in what it intends to be.
A surprisingly fun movie. Watchout for last half and hour.
Zombie reddy is a film that clearly knows what it intends to tell and stays well within the boundary it draws, yet keeps entertaining in one way or other. Zombie Reddy has a plot wherein a scientist searching for Covid19 vaccine mutates the virus into zombie virus. This virus spreads throughout 2 rival villages in Rayalaseema and in the end all gets cured. This basic plot is mixed with situational/ slapstick comedy and spoof of other films. At times, the film does slip frok comedy to a drama /action which the plot demands. Skipping between horror/action/drama/comedy even within same scenes, is a difficult task yet the film does succeed in what it intends to be.
A surprisingly fun movie. Watchout for last half and hour.
Superstitious climax
Superman34126 March 2021
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Recently we had seen the case of a mother who killed their daughter in believing in superstition and this film climax is promoting it and im too religious but not blind follower and in this time doctors are working very hard.
Rest all good with movie.
Rest all good with movie.
another new concept to tfi
goginasriram6 February 2021
Another new cncpt to tfi❤a very gud frst half and a blkbuster second half...dont expect much frm the climax.some zombie scenes are well made. STORY👍,SCREENPLAY👍,ACTING👍,BGM👍...and prashanth varma is here to stay in tfi...grt direction and grt visuals..not a grt in its genre but fresh cncpt and frsh direction...a must watch film...finally verdict:-BLOCKBUSTER❤🔥
Much ado about nothing.
hrishikeshav7 February 2021
Overhyped and overrated. The plot is thin, acting is mediocre at best. Lacks logic and common sense, there are big plotholes which are very distracting. Overall, I wouldn't call it a inspired effort. We can't make good zombie movies. Leave it to Hollywood, folks.
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