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| Directed by | Surender Reddy |
| Screenplay by | Surender Reddy |
| Story by | Vakkantham Vamsi |
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| Edited by | Naveen Nooli |
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Running time | 154 minutes[2] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Budget | ₹65crores[3] |
| Box office | ₹20crore[4] |
Agent is an 2023 Indian Telugu-language action spy film directed by Surender Reddy and written by Vakkantham Vamsi. It stars Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, Dino Morea, Sakshi Vaidya and Vikramjeet Virk. The film marks the debut of Vaidya and Morea in Telugu cinema.[5]
The film was announced in September 2020. Filming took place in Hyderabad, Budapest, Visakhapatnam and Manali. The release was deferred multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and production delays.
Agent was released on 28 April 2023 and received negative reviews from critics, where it became a box office bomb and also prompted producer Anil Sunkara and Akkineni to apologize, accepting that the production commenced without a bound script.[6]
Plot[edit]
RAW chief Colonel Mahadev alias "The Devil" gets interrogated about orchestrating an impossible mission to kill two terrorists, where Mahadev reveals that the two terrorists were working under a private terror organization called "The Syndicate", which is headed by Central Minister Jai Kishan and Dharma alias "The God".
Meanwhile, Ramakrishna "Ricky" alias "Wild Saala" is an aspiring youngster who wants to become a RAW agent despite many failed attempts. After seeing his capability, Mahadev assigns Ricky on a mission to disguise himself as a rookie to capture Dharma. It is revealed that Dharma was a former RAW agent who went rogue after Mahadev forced him to kill his girlfriend and now plans to spread a deadly virus dubbed "Super Cells". During a shootout with Mahadev, the device containing the virus is damaged and leads to a technical problem.
Ricky kills Jai Kishan in a shootout at the harbour and heads to Kashmir to learn about Dharma's other handler of the Syndicate, but the police arrest him, and Mahadev denies him as a RAW agent. Shortly after doing so, Ricky escapes from custody with Dharma's help. It is later revealed that Ricky's arrest was a ruse planned by both Ricky and Mahadev to learn about Dharma's operations. Meanwhile, the device containing the virus is fixed and a meeting is arranged to sell the device to the highest bidder, which Mahadev learns about this from Ricky and assigns him to retrieve a copy of the device, which also consists the names and identities of all active RAW agents.
Dharma finds out that Ricky is copying the device, upon which, he confronts Mahadev and forces him to shoot himself or he would spread the virus through missiles. Mahadev tells Ricky to shoot him, which he relucantly does. Ricky tracks down Dharma and kills him, whilst also stopping the missiles from releasing the virus in the country. Afterwards, he heads on a new mission dubbed "Rabbit Fire".
Cast[edit]
- Akhil Akkineni as Ramakrishna "Ricky" alias "Wild Saala"
- Mammootty as RAW Chief Major Mahadevan alias "The Devil" alias "Guruji" (extended cameo)
- Dino Morea as Dharma alias "The God"
- Sakshi Vaidya as Vidya, an aspiring pilot training officer in NASA[7]
- Vikramjeet Virk as Deva
- Denzil Smith as Abhijeet Mehta
- Sampath Raj as Jai Kishan
- Murali Sharma as Ricky's father
- Varalaxmi Sarathkumar as Ricky's mother
- Posani Krishna Murali as Shiva
- Anish Kuruvilla as Ramesh
- Urvashi Rautela in a special appearance in the song "Wild Saala"[8]
