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Extra Ordinary Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vakkantham Vamsi
Written by	Vakkantham Vamsi
Produced by	Sudhakar Reddy Nikitha Reddy
Starring	Nithiin Sreeleela Rao Ramesh Brahmaji
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 (2023-12-08)
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 Entertainments. It stars Nithiin and Sreeleela. The film was released theatrically on 8 December 2023, and received mixed to negative reviews from critics.

Plot

This story narrattes to Selvamani, a drug lord but a musical buff by Abhinay a new recruit in his gang after a successful police chase in his hideout. Abhinay, aka Abhi, a junior artist with the goal of becoming a mainstream actor, fails in multiple attempts. He then becomes the CEO of his lover Likitha's company. Unexpectedly, he got a hero chance in a story based on true events. He resigned from the company and left his girlfriend and family for his goal and prepared rigorously for the movie. Suddenly, the director Rakesh changed his mind and removed abhi from the movie. He was heartbroken by the incidents and went to a dhaba to drink. While drinking some goons, come there and ask everyone to go aside as their boss is coming. Abhi moved aside, but still, the goons ask him to backoff completely as their boss is coming, which triggers abhi that everyone in his reel and real life asking him to move back and thrashed the goons. The boss of goons arrived there , and abhi started to fight with him. In turn of events, he comes to know that he is the brother of the villain and the occuring is according to the movie script. He thinks that it is as per god's wish, so he got removed from the movie and followed the script in real life. He then confronts a criminal Nero in a film-like scenario as 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, and makes a pact with him to raise him as a hero against him, then kills him to sustain his power. Then, as per the plan, Sai stops the crimes of Nero. Meanwhile Likita and Abhi's father Somasekhar and his wife Usha came ro meet him thinking he was in a shooting but after observing the situation they decided to act in front of the people as Likitha's parents who actually portrayed himself as an orphan later the village people takes initiative to fix the marriage of Sai and Likitha. Later Nero involves his old nemesis IG Vijay into the issue but believing the facts Vijay supports Sai and adds more fuel into the fire. Then in a final confrontation Nero stabs Sai and sent his real identity to Vijay to declare him as a cop to save their reputation. However Abhi manages to survive fights with Nero telling him that last confrontation is a Pre-climax in the film, this is the actual climax of the film and kills him in front of Vijay. But he manages the situation gives Abhi a new identity "Erra Balu" to catch Selva Mani in a 2 hours span. Then coming to present Selvamani is under arrest but he left his revenge on Abhi because of respecting his acting skills. Later Vijay assigns Abhi a new task to catch an international criminal along with him which hints towards a sequel.

Cast

• Nithiin as Abhinay "Abhi"/SI Sai Nath "Saithan" /Erra Balu
• Sudev Nair as Niranjan "Nero".
• Sreeleela as Likitha
• Rao Ramesh as Somasekhar, Abhinay's father
• Rohini as Usha, Abhinay's mother
• Rajasekhar as IG Vijay (cameo appearance).
• Pavitra Lokesh as Likitha's mother
• Harsha Vardhan as Mohanthi, Likitha's manager
• Sampath Raj as Selvamani
• Brahmaji
• Ajay as Traffic police officer Bhaskar
• Hari Teja as maid
• Jani Master as a special appearance in the song "Ole Ole Paapaayi"

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 is 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 19th January 2024 in Telugu & ] 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 lacklustre." NTV gave 2/5 stars and wrote "The story needs breathing space for all the elements to flourish. Some things look over cooked and over stretched 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".

References

1. Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi (5 December 2023). "Nithiin on 'Extra-Ordinary Man': Comedy can get mechanical if we don't crack it at the earliest". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 6 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
2. "Extra Ordinary Man is a no-brainer filled with non-stop entertainment, says Sreeleela". Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
3. ^ "Nithin-starrer Extraordinary Man Locks New Release Date To Avoid Clash With Salaar". News18. 10 October 2023. Archived from the original on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
4. "Nithiin Turns 'Extraordinary Man' for Sreeleela". 22 June 2023. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
5. "Extraordinary Man: Nithiin and Sreeleela's film warps up 60% of shooting". The Times of India. 25 August 2023. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
6. "Harris Jayaraj To Compose Music For Nithiin's Next Telugu Film". News18. 17 January 2022. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
7. "Danger Pilla from Nithiin's Extra Ordinary Man is delightful". 123 Telugu. 2 August 2023. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
8. "First look of Nithiin's 'Extra' out; gets a release date". The Hindu. 24 July 2023. Archived from the original on 28 July 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
9. "OTT: Nithiin's Extra Ordinary Man makes its digital debut". 123telugu.com. 19 January 2024. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
10. "Extra Ordinary Man movie review: Nithiin-starrer is a silly, outdated film". 8 December 2023. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
11. "Extra Ordinary Man Movie Review: Filmy Silly! - NTV English | Latest News | NTV News Channel". 8 December 2023. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
12. "Extra Ordinary Man review: Nithiin, Sreeleela headline the most ridiculous film of 2023". 8 December 2023. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
13. "Extra Ordinary man a woeful, ridiculous entertainer". Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
14. Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi (8 December 2023). "'Extra Ordinary Man' movie review: Director Vakkantham Vamsi and Nithiin's film is hilarious in parts". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.

External links

• Extra Ordinary Man at IMDb

• India
• Film

• 2023 films