Most pretentious movie of the year Dear Comrade tries hard to be a unique love story with a message. It is a story about Bobby who is Arjun Reddy 2.0 and Lilly, a timid girl who plays state level cricket. The story fails miserably as it attempts to bring in so many topics of communism, anger issues, women's cricket, mental health, breakups, sexual harassment, pseudoscience like sound therapy etc. It is annoying to watch such broad and complex topics being used as props to make the story compelling. Even sensitive topics like mental health and sexual harassment are casually thrown in and their treatment is insulting.
Vijay Deverkonda is channeling Arjun Reddy and Rashmika's acting is terrible. The only saving grace of the movie is the music. After a slow and tortuous journey for these characters, the climax is very unimpressive. I couldn't wait to get out of theater. Dear Comrade is a hard pass.