Jakanna Telugu Movie Review

More than entertaining this is amusing. Amusing that one could hold on for 142 minutes a story less narration with actors who do not deliver, jokes that fall flat or are over the roof and a comedy with a consistent tragic sense of humour that tests your intelligence. Every ‘f’’ has his own set of admirers and this “film star” – Sunil too has and thus the initial draw. It is now however clear that the reverse metamorphosis – from butter fly to caterpillar is a choice gone adventurous. That effort of some degree has gone into this product is inexplicable and beyond human reasoning. To me it appears that the film maker (Vamsi Krishna) armed with the dates of Sunil and a Chopra sibling and motley group of comedians decided to go ahead with a film and every day on the set he went about collecting one liners and built his tale around it. Only if it is a design to insult a moron’s intelligence is it justified. It there be any other intent it is lost in the quagmire.
Dad (Nagineedu) is a school teacher who leaves a lasting impression on his student come son Ganesh that gratitude must be eternal. He understands this as eternal and excessive. So he goes about overdoing his thanks giving. As a kid he treats a kid to candy sticks so much that he lands up in hospital. He grows up with the same weakness. The little guy is now grown up and in the big bad world as Ganesh (Sunil) who confessedly would believe: commit ayate limit undadu. He is out there to save Bairagi (Kabir Duhan Singh) – himself a terror in the city. He ends up falling in love with Bairagi’s sister Sahasra (Manara Chopra). As he goes about wooing her, the script(!) catches up with Kung Fu master (Saptagiri – who seems to have lost it), small time goonda (Raghu and Prabhas Seenu). For a side kick he has Chitram Srinu. Though a terror Bairagi is in hiding under the umbrage of Nallu Swami (Satyaraj). Sahasra decides to learn Kung Fu from the master to avenge an insulting eve teaser and gives him a month’s time for her self-declared vendetta.
Enter Inspector Katappa (Pridhvi) who in yet another extended screen presence is out there to arrest Bairagi but is constantly saved by Ganesh. The twist in the tale – as lame as the tale is as to why Ganesh is bent upon saving Bairagi from the police and his enemies and rival gang leader (Raghava Uday).
This is a few inches further into the abyss. To be fair to the film maker he delivers what he promises – which is nothing. The entire outing is a painful exercise. It is just a whole set of jokes put together to make you laugh till you realise the joke is on you.

Rating: 1.5 stars
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