Extra Ordinary Man

Extra Ordinary Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vakkantham Vamsi
Written by	Vakkantham Vamsi
Produced by	Sudhakar Reddy Nikitha Reddy
Starring	Nithiin Sreeleela
Cinematography	J. Yuvaraj Arthur A. Wilson Sai Sriram
Edited by	Prawin Pudi
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Production companies	Sreshth Movies Ruchira Entertainments
Release date	8 December 2023
Running time	157 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Extra Ordinary Man is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by Vakkantham Vamsi. It is produced by Sreshth Movies and Ruchira Entertainment. It stars Nithiin and Sreeleela. The film was released theatrically on 8 December 2023, and received mixed to negative reviews from critics.

Plot

Abhinay, aka Abhi, a new recruit in the gang of Selvamani, a drug lord and musical buff, narrates his life story and how he became a famous junior artist. Abhi is a young man who likes acting like other people since his childhood. He grows up with a dream of being a mainstream actor and lives in Hyderabad with his dad Somsasekhar and his mom Usha. He then meets a woman named Likitha during a traffic jam one day. They both share a close relationship and Abhi gets a job at her company, where he becomes the CEO. During the events, he got a chance to act as a hero in a film by his friend Rakesh. But, Somashekar breaks his leg and relies on Abhi to do his jobs while he is injured. He resigned from Likitha’s company and left his family and his girlfriend to act in a movie, his longtime goal. As a result of this, Likitha gets angry at Abhi, and Somasekhar beats up Abhi as a result of him resigning. Suddenly, Rakesh changed his mind and removed Abhi from the movie.

Abhi, heartbroken, went to a dhaba to drink. While drinking, some rowdies came there and asked everyone to go aside as their boss was coming. Abhi moves aside, but still, the goons ask him to back off completely as their boss is coming, which triggers Abhi, so that everyone in his reel and real life asks him to move back and thrash the goons. The goons boss arrived there, and Abhi started an encounter with him. In a turn of events, he comes to know that he is the brother of the villain, which surprises Abhi. Additionally, he also learns all the events occurring were as per the movie script. Abhi trashes the goons very badly after a very tough encounter between them. Following that, he assumes that this is all God’s will, so he doesn’t act in the movie and he follows the written script and recreates it in real life.

After that, he confronts the villain, who is named Nero, using SI Sai Nath "Saitan" as his pseudonym as per the script, and challenges him to defeat him. After knowing the facts, Nero confronts Abhi and burns the script. After that, he makes a pact with him to raise him as a hero against him, then Nero kills him to sustain his power. Then, as per the plan, Sai stops the crimes of Nero, which results in a fierce confrontation. Meanwhile, Likitha, Somasekhar, and Usha come to meet him, thinking he was in a movie shooting. But, after observing the true situation, they decided to act in front of the village folks as Likitha's parents, who made Abhi act like an orphan. Then, the villagers take the initiative to fix the marriage of Sai and Likitha.

Later, Nero pulls his past adversary, IG Vijay Chakravarthy into the issue. But, after believing the facts, Vijay stands by Sai and adds more fuel to the fire. Then, in a final confrontation, Nero stabs Sai and sends his real identity to Vijay to declare him a cop to save their reputation. However, Abhi manages to survive the fights, with Nero telling him that the last confrontation is a pre-climax in the film. This is the real climax of the film, and Abhi kills Nero in front of Vijay. But, Vijay manages the situation and gives Abhi a new identity, "Erra Balu," to catch Selvamani in 2 hours. Then, coming to the present, Selvamani is under arrest, but he leaves his revenge on Abhi because of his admiration for his acting skills. Later, Vijay assigns Abhi a new task: to catch an international criminal along with him, which hints towards a sequel.

Cast

As per the film's end credits:

Production

The principal photography of the film started in June 2023. The filming was completed in 60 days and wrapped up in August 2023.

Soundtrack

The music and background score are composed by Harris Jayaraj. The audio rights were acquired by Aditya Music. The first single, "Danger Pilla", was released on the 2 August.

Release

Theatrical

Extra Ordinary Man was expected to be released theatrically on 23 December 2023, but preponed to 8 December 2023.

Home Media

The film premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 19 January 2024 in Telugu & Tamil languages.

Reception

Raghu Bandi of Indian Express gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote "Vakkantham Vamshi’s writing is poor, illogical and hardly entertains. His direction is equally lackluster." NTV gave 2/5 stars and wrote "The story needs breathing space for all the elements to flourish. Some things look overcooked and overstretched to the level of feeling cringe at every moment. An ordinary routine film in pursuit of becoming Extra Ordinary became silly and pointless."

In her negative review, Neeshita Nyayapati of Hindustan Times called it "most ridiculous film of 2023". BVS Prakash of Deccan Chronicle wrote "After disasters like ‘Maestro’ and ‘Macherla Niyojikavargam’, young actor Nithin has again chosen a lackluster plot ‘Extra’ Ordinary Man which falls flat on its face. It neither boasts of a novel plot nor has an interesting narration." Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of The Hindu wrote the film "is sometimes smart, sometimes silly and overstretched, but ensures plenty of laughs".