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The Paradise review: one more epic chasing a borrowed high

Srikanth Odela builds a lived-in 1980s Secunderabad and Nani commits totally, but the film replays a worn mass-epic template through hours of numbing gore.

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Nani as Jadal, bearded with long plaits, snarling against a dark background beside The Paradise title Braids, beard and a fourteen-year grudge: Jadal returns to a settlement with no papers to prove it exists.