The heterodoxical semantics of
Allari Naresh cinema is self-declaratory. The audience has a very defined
mind-set and a certain kind of expectation when they barter value for ticket.
His cinema needs to be examined from the said defined premise. Even from the
said premise, his latest outing is disappointing. The assembly of comedians and
one-liners notwithstanding. The challenge with comedy is that the end product
either clicks or does not. The effort may well be the same. The effect is not.
After putting together the entire story and the defined narrative, it depends
if the end product jells or fails. Here it does not jell.
Nani (Naresh) is the son of a single parent (Chandra Mohan). Both are very
timid persons. If this is not enough, Nani has a broken engagement with the
daughter of a factionist Narasimha Naidu (Jayaprakash Reddy). The entire family
leave the village and come to the city to ensure that they are not traced and
forced into the nonstarter marriage. He is frantically looking out for the
right girl to walk into his life. Narasimha Naidu and his son (Raghu Babu – a
foreign returned factionist!!) have however not given up their search for Nani.
Now Nani runs into Pooja (Sakshi Chowdary) who is a Don in Dubai who has just
had a few muscled baddies for breakfast. She returns to India to nurse her
ailing Mom (Prabha). Ailing Mom does not have a name too in the film. She is
suffering from some form of cancer where the only visible treatment is to put
her on a ventilator. Pooja comes and occupies her palace in India as a quiet
young girl and Mom is blissfully unaware that she is the Don who is engaged in
an ongoing war with the claimant to don title in Dubai – Bada (Aashish
Vidyarthi). As she adjusts her Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde roles to perfection she
engages a marriage broker (Krishna Bhagwan) to find her a docile husband who
will part take in a mock marriage to satisfy the ailing Mom. The crux of the
plan is that Mom’s time on earth is short. Nani unwittingly becomes the prey to
the plan. The unconsummated marriage has the usual crass humour on the husband
longing for ‘love’ and she denying him his due!! By half time Nani comes to
know of the real Pooja but simply does not have the wherewithal to confront
her. He plans to yet again be on the run – only this time it is not going to be
as easy as it was from the Naidu gang. The Naidu gang and Bada all reach the
city and caught in the cross fire of the various warring groups is Nani and his
family. Then there is all on the run group in burqas in the old city alighting
a RTC bus.
All is going to end and surely you know that the Pooja Nani marriage is one to
stay. Watch and tickle yourself for the odd laugh. This is not a laugh riot and
the actors may have put in their effort but somehow the end product simply
fails to take off.
Rating : 1.5
+ Mindset
– Timing
L. Ravichander.