Brahmotsavam Telugu Movie Review

For nearly one half of the film of 156 minutes, the narration is so filled with songs dance and the feel good factor you wonder if this from the Sooraj Bharjatiya archives. The syrupy return to the Hum Aapke Hai Kaun sets gets a tad too tedious for the audience that is out there waiting for something to happen. Here all the world is but a family. It is headed by Satti Babu (Satya Raj). The entire squad includes wife Mahalakshmi (Revati) his brothers in law (Rao Ramesh, Naresh, Shiyaji Shinde and Krishna Bhagwan). In attendance are their spouses children and the grand old man of the family Tanekella Bharani. While all the members of the family lie under one roof Mr. Disgruntled (Rao Ramesh) and his spouse (Jayasudha) and their daughter Ms Aspiring (Pranita) live separately. Satti Babu’s son is the mainstay of the family and the script Mr Heir Apparent (Mahesh Babu). Into all this and the large family enters good friend (Sudhakar) whose daughter Kasi (Kajal Agarwal) enters the picture from Australia. Her passionate smooch with Do Gooder disturbs the happiness. Mr. Disgruntled who hitherto was hoping that his daughter would be daughter in law in the haveli sees his ambitions evaporate. His revolt results in the change of guard and it’s time for a break
Heir Apparent is however busy having romantic interludes. First with Ms Aussie Gone Kasi and now Ms From Nowhere (Samanta). Like poles attract is the magnetism of persons and so Heir Apparent and Ms From Nowhere are quickly singing songs on sets where they forgot to shoot with Ms Aussie Gone. Also the twosome a la Alex Hailye and characters in a Paulo Ceholo work go on a road trip from Nagpur to Haridwar and literally gather their old relatives which include Sarnaya Povannan, Vennealla Kishore and Mukesh Rishi. Why they need to fit in and what is the total population of the last group pic is so irrelevant that the audience has any way lost interest.
You know from the very beginning that the only purpose of the outing is to give a larger than life canvas for Mahesh Babu. The film sticks to the purpose and does not care a damn about any their aspect. This includes, story screenplay, script, or any other ingredient of cinema. It is an all and only about Mahesh Babu and whether you like the film or not depends upon your take on the star. After Srimanthudu this is a huge let down for the fans. The hero this time round is singing songs more often than in a reality dance show and it gets tiring after a point.
The purpose of creating a new image for Mahesh Babu keeping in view the future is not a bad idea. However the film maker Sreekant Adella completely looses tack of the fact that no star is bigger than a film. Here the film maker goes terribly wrong, completely wrong and resultantly gives you a film that is a prey to the star and not the cause of the star. Song after dance, dialogue after scene, we have nothing else but a representation on how good charactered our protagonist is a, how nibble footed and charming, how committed and focused. This is Maheshotwavam.
Rating: 3 stars.
_ Too long and purposeless
+ Mahesh Babu
L. Ravichander.