Dear Comrade preview: Will it live up to the hype?

Debutant Bharat Kamma’s Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna starrer 'Dear Comrade' released this Friday.
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With Justin Prabhakaran’s music, Sujith Sarang’s cinematography and Sreejith Sarang on editing, 'Dear Comrade' has high expectations pinned on it thanks to the lead pair. The film’s music, teaser and trailer too generated a lot of hype around the film. Filmmakers too left no stone unturned to promote it, not just releasing the film in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam too but also conducting ‘Music Festivals’ to draw in the crowd.The pre-release event of the film in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday was a comparatively simpler affair.
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While nothing much about 'Dear Comrade' is known, what is clear is that Vijay Deverakonda plays the role of a student-union leader called Bobby who has anger issues. Rashmika Mandanna on the other hand plays the role of Lily, a state-level cricketer aiming for the nationals. The film’s actual story has been kept under wraps and initially, there was buzz that it will be based on Dulquer Salmaan’s ‘Comrade in America’. However director Bharat cleared up the rumours soon.

Talking to Hyderabad Times before Dear Comrade’s release, Rashmika called her role the “most physically demanding role” of her career. “I played a lot of sports growing up and was particularly good in athletics, basketball and swimming too. But cricket was never my thing. So when I first read director Bharat Kamma’s script, I was like, “I never held a cricket bat in my life! But the script was so engrossing, I finished reading it in one hour flat. I’m not really much of a reader honestly, yet I was so fascinated by the story and its female character’s journey; I just had to do it,” she had said.
It remains to be seen if 'Dear Comrade' will live up to expectations.