The final scene in the film with the
horse ride I guess sums up the attitude of Srinu Vaitla who holds back no punch
and clearly declares that the audience has been taken for a ride. 150 plus
minutes of dare dash and high voltage destruction at the hands of a single
person is the distance the film maker is willing to or is designed to walk and
project the scion of the family. Stars hardly make films. They perpetuate
images, they build space for their opulence and call it creativity or
entertainment. Add nepotism to the scheme and the picture is complete. It is
easy to play hero when life is so perfectly scripted.
Young siblings have varying sensitivity quotients. Dad Rama Chander (Rao
Ramesh) can only afford one child at DPS and so prefers his son. The lad
however feigns failure to ensure he translates the dreams in the eyes of
sister. Bro Karthik a la Bruce Lee (Ram Charan) thus sacrifices his future at
the altar of sibling Kavya’s dreams. Kavya (Kriti Karbanda) dreams of becoming
the district collector. Bruce Lee joins the film industry as a stunt man. He
falls in love with Ria (Rukul Preet Singh). Ram Chander is busy with his middle
class life always spiting son for his failures and singing praises for his
daughter who is the Collector in the making. His elder brother (Tanekalla
Bharani) however has smelt the rat and called the bluff but in private. Ram
chander works for Vasundhara Pharmacy which is owned by Jairaj (Sampath Raj)
and his wife (Nadiya). There son Rahul (Rahul Ravindran) is engaged to marry
Ria. Wait the story is not all that simple. We have the purpose less bad guy
Deepak Raj (Arun Vijay) who tries hard to stay away from bullet filled guns and
imitating Hrithik Roshan. Bad crosses path with good. The likes of Mukesh
Rishi, Shinde, Amitabh Pradhan, walk in as characters as real as cardboard.
The good vs bad story stretches for over two and half hours in the midst of
romantic interludes with the heroine in drapes and lingerie mode. She even
wears noodles stripes for a dress and is extremely dumb witted to not realise
that her lover boy is not a police officer as she imagines him to be. So we
have a dad who does not know about his son, a lady who does not her fiancé, a
wife who is clueless about her plotting hubby, a police officer who does not
know his colleagues or his superiors, another police officer who does not know
his duties. Then we have twins who we think are one and a single guy who some
think are twins!!
As you labour to put these loose ends together rather than just give up, the
film draws you to a climax which is actually contrived to a fault and is a damp
squib. I suspect the audience is waiting for most of the time in the hope of
seeing the mega star on the silver screen after the long hiatus. Sampath Raj,
Thanikella Bharani, Rao Ramesh are sincere in etching some life into their
characters. Ram Charan tries hard but simply does not have the screen presence
to take the film on his shoulder. The script is too full of predictable holes
for him to survive. The heroine is so bush getting into her lingerie and
dancing to tunes that the film makes no difference to her. As the sister we
have Kriti Karbanda hopeless miscast. Arun Vijay too is far from convincing.
For comedy we have Brahmanandam, Ali, Vennella Kishore – none making any
impacting moments. On the other hand, it is only Saptagiri who gives the script
some light moments.
Speaking for myself the song Run run has some hidden message – if only you are
willing to take it.
Rating 2 stars
+ some twists and the lighter moments
– Too long and predictable.