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TollywoodSudheer Varma’s film doesn’t have turmoil or conflict or ethical dilemmas, nor does it invest in characters like a gangster movie should.Krishna SripadaThat Ranarangam is largely influenced by The Godfather is stating the obvious. It has too many shoot-people-and-get-done-with-it scenes to ignore. There aren’t long-winding dialogues about revenge and heroism, about power and ambition, about steel and gumption. The violence, although a little gory by Telugu movie standards, is not the central theme, and the alpha-hero-quotient is understated like in most Sharwanand movies. But, amidst the style and sexiness of gang-wars, director Sudheer Varma only manages to recreate the shallowness of Dohchay, not the masterful narrative of Swamy Ra Ra. Ranarangam traces the rise of a bunch of guys in the clean-crime world (if you know what I mean), who start with the illicit liquor business during the prohibition era in the 90s. There are the...