Believe it, you are nuts. Watch it you are tolerant. Walk out you are
intelligent. With those promos and pics, you expect a lot of jokes at the
expanse of the central character. The film over reaches your expectations. It
banks heavily on crass cracks and is grossly politically incorrect. From the
word ’go’ you cringe. Those who came out of curiosity, compulsion or incurable
carelessness, are called to pay a heavy price. They rue the decision of every
moment of the 143 minutes running time of the move.
The Allari Naresh brand is lost in the new mass of creativity. The resultant
product seems as insufferable as that ‘African encephalitis’ bug that infects
Ravi – who becomes Laddu Babu (Alari Naresh). The paradox is that the barbs
come not from strangers and viewers but his own Dad. The entire script is so
unbelievable and the narration so non-descript you wonder if the entire film is
the product of some somnambulism or a comatose aberration. To belittle a film
is easy. Most film makers see critics as their professional foe and strongly
believe that their product gets unwarranted comments from the later. Surely
Director Ravi Babu would prove to be an exception to this.
The Director is also the story writer. This means he gives image to his own
imagination. None to blame. Single hand effort. There come moments when even
the very lay audience develops a frown for being robbed of a couple of hours
when out of home. No, not the highbrow critic who expects a perfect film, no
not the one who expects a masterpiece as if this was from the likes of K
Vishwanath, but even the guy who is resigned to the kind of films that …..
spoke of would find this outing amiss.
Laddu Babu (Alari Naresh) dreams of being a drag queen waylaid by men who would
want to rape him and he being slim. He wakes up to the daily reality of being
obese (200 kgs.) His grandmother and then his Mom on the way to executing a
will in his favour die natural deaths in the process. The original will
requires Laddu Babu to be married to enable Dad Krishtiah (Kota along with a
horrendous wig). Dad taunts the obese son on a regular basis and makes crude
attempts to get his son married. A group of friends including Giri Babu,
Rallapalli, hang around witnessing all this. In the meanwhile Laddu Babu does
various odd jobs from playing part time gardener, to distributing pamphlets, to
playing statue at a chocolate shop. It is here that he notices a regular
customer Poorna and falls for her. She is blissfully unaware of the guy. In the
meanwhile Laddu Babu is stalked by kid Murthy (Master Atul) who plays every
dubious prank to befriend Laddu Babu. Soon they become friends and Ladu Babu
goes to live with Murthy and his widowed Mom (Bhumika). There are villains and
others with an eye on Murthy’s property and are planning to kidnap him.
Meanwhile for comic relief we have Krishtiah trying to get married and have a
whole lot of comedy actors including Brahmanandam, Ali, Jaiprakash Reddy, MS
Narayana, LB Sriram, Telangana Shakuntala, Krishna Bhagwan, Raghu Babu make
momentary appearances. In the meanwhile Laddu Babu plays on the confidence
imposed on him and runs away with money from Bhumika’s vault for a bariatric
surgery. When the mother and son are sought to be kidnapper the late suffers a
bronchial attack. Now Laddu Babu has to return and fulfil the dying wish of
Murthy. Nothing in all this is inspiring. There is a postscript which has a
scene involving Kota and Venu Madhav – a good laugh. It almost appears that
having had a good one at out expense the film maker decides to give us a minute
of it.
L. Ravichander
Rating: 1 star.
+ last one minute.
– Everything .