‘Acharya’: OTT release date made official

‘Acharya’, starring Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan, is gearing up for a major digital premiere worldwide. The Koratala Siva directorial will hit Amazon Prime Video on May 20.

Starring Pooja Hegde, Sonu Sood, Ajay, Jisshu Sengupta and others, the film was released in theatres on April 29.

The film had a template story. Acharya (Chiranjeevi) learns that Dharmasthali is under the vice-like grip of an evil man named Basava (Sonu Sood). He migrates to the holy town and starts planning the downfall of Basava. In this, he has to lock horns with Rathod (Jisshu Sengupta), a mining baron, as well. The flashback tells us about the bond between Acharya and Siddha (Ram Charan), an orphan who grew up in Dharmasthali and got deeply wedded with its sacredness.

A box-office disaster, ‘Acharya’ was produced by Konidela Production Company and Matinee Entertainments. “Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan deserved a better film than ‘Acharya’. Watch it if you have a stomach for stock scenes and stock characters,” our review of the big-ticket movie said.