Lie Telugu Movie Review

Gudachari meets Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in Las Vegas for some Indian spice. Not difficult to perceive, in fact tediously predictable, this is just hard to digest. With a major chunk of the creative credits owned up by the Director (Hanu Raghavapudi), he cannot look for cover. It however stresses the need to understand that the various departments of film making require differing skill sets and could sometimes also be contradictory in nuance. Ambitious to a fault and scaled without cause, you are left with the nagging question as to how Nithin agreed to be part of such grandiose hot air. Here is a film that leaves a major chunk of its two hours and more to the stunt man and the music director with they not even stepping out to justify the confidence imposed. Resultantly the film looks imposed.
The one-line story line of a lad wronged by the villains who killed his dad joining the forces to catch the bad guys is as new and novel as Alam Ara. There is simply nothing recommendatory in the film that dares to match other biggies at the BO. It is only reasonable therefore to contextually expect that it would be backed by something special in content or treatment. Nothing is in offing. Spiced up in the name of content it proceeds on the premise that the viewer is a moron and has no artistic /cinematic expectations. When Nithin endorses it he abets the idea, conspires the execution and is guilty of assessing his growing fan following which if nothing is a bad career move after his recent successes.
Satyam (Nithin) and Chaitra (Megha Akash) arrive in Vega in very filmi circumstances. Before that we have a prolonged preface with Lord Indra and Narada (Prithivi and Brahmaji) making some cosmic plans to justify the ludicrous script. On flight is also sleuth Aadi (Sri Ram) as part of Operation Sholay which is to track down international criminals whose names, face and crimes remain a mystery. Aadi is acting at the behest of Intelligence Chief Bharadwaj (Ravi Kishen). The criminal duo who help the globe-trotting excuse are Padmanabham and Vishwanatham (Arjun and Nasser). The clue to get at them is a coat that originates at a tailoring shop near Charminar. The police follow the coat, others follow suit. The zig zag seeming thriller trail unwittingly and without wit involves Satyam and Chaitra with a screen romance as cold as the snow mountains.
While you guess that Satyam has a purpose you wonder why Arjun has a costume fixation (with a penchant to outdo Kamal Hasan). Every one suddenly borrows heavily from Ek tha Tiger, run across Vegas, the lead pair sing songs the bad guys are running the good guys are shooting the police are screaming and the audience is resigned.
If the film maker promised anything intelligent than the film is true to its title. Otherwise it has very little to recommend.
L. Ravichander.