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The franchise may have begun humbly as the brooding bromantic saga of DVD player-stealing L.A. street racers, but it has swelled to increasingly bombastic heights.

This is a bromantic love story.

Rajamouli’s ferociously entertaining anti-colonialist blockbuster has infectious dance sequences, outrageous stunts and computer-generated wild tigers, none of which would be half as engaging without Charan and Rao’s ride-or-die bromantic chemistry.

Reid, a Maplewood, N.J.-based writer and filmmaker, published a graphic novel titled, “The Adventures of Barry and Joe” — an account of the dynamic duo’s “bromantic battle for the soul of America.”

He’s trying to show us how coaching Bo rejuvenates Stan, igniting bromantic sparks and turning the usual mentor-mentee dramatic formula slyly on its head.