Director Sujeeth’s latest action thriller, the Pawan Kalyan gangster drama They Call Him OG (which began streaming on Netflix in October), has a curious pacing problem, one that has become increasingly common among star vehicles in Telugu cinema.

Every time the plot threatens to move in an interesting direction, Sujeeth freezes the main narrative and subjects the audience to yet another flashback that underlines, for the umpteenth time, how lethal Kalyan’s exiled gangster OG (Ojas Gambheera) is, how his very name strikes terror in the hearts of his enemies, how all and sundry bow down to his everlasting magnificence et cetera.

And for some reason, Sujeeth chooses to do this within a Japanese framework here. OG is shown to have trained at a Japanese dojo in his childhood, his weapon o

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