Nagaram Telugu Movie Review

There are these gory films where broken glass splinters iron rods and crude pistols have greater screen presence than characters. Blood oozing of victims, badly kept guys who need laundering are all over the place and sanity has just taken its exit. This is one such plight you land yourself in for choosing the film from the many on offer this week. This is poor cinema and what is worse it could have been a wonderful premise to tell the very story told. This Nagaram or Metro is nearer to a town gone wrong in the process of aping the metro.
Multiple parallels keep crisscrossing to lay bare the story line. The film deals with multiple perpetrators of crime and its victims caught in an undesignedly mesh (read mess if you like). This thriller genre tale is told with self-defeating sluggishness. By definition a thriller demands being taut. This is bad navigation, poor execution and an unabashed if purposeless celebration of violence. Take a break is what you want to scream in the midst of the violence projected in the guise of telling the story.
Most guys in this dark dirty world do not have names. For convenience, they are herein after referred to my roll numbers in the order of their appearance on screen. We have Guy One (Sri) naïve and new to the ways of the bad world but fortunate to have been selected for a job at Infotech. Guy Two (Sundeep Kishan) is the anti-hero who we have all been trained to like and fall in love with just as the HR lady Gomati (Regina) has. One stream of the story deals with Guy One and his travails in the city. He is the victim of an attack based on mistaken identity and in the process he loses all his original certificates and thus his job is in jeopardy. Then there is Guy 2 who has this romantic incline for Gomati and does nothing else but stalk her and gets into fights with even less qualified competitors and gets sucked into an acid attack. There is also the stream dealing with a taxi driver Guy 3 (Charlie) with a chronic ailing minor son. Guy 3, like Guy 1, is clueless about the ways of the big bad city. Evil is now represented by KPK (Madhusudan) who runs a mafia that could make Sicilian counterparts blush. A minor group in his pay rolls manage to kidnap, again by mistaken identity, his son who shares his name with another boy in school from whom ransom is sought to be collected. Goofing up the kidnap is Guy 4 (Ramdoss). Add to this is the corrupt police officer who is trying to make quick money from every opportunity.
The guys for ransom, PKP as Don and the father whose son is kidnapped, Guy 2 now implicated in the acid test and with a huge misunderstanding with his girlfriend, Guy 1 in Guy 3 taxi, the acid gang in search of Guy 1 are all on the street on the same dark night with a huge off key background glaring song. The tale has now to end by tying up the loose ends. How it goes about is what this needlessly long story is about.
Sincere performances from Sundeep Kishan, Madhusudhan and Regina comes in as poor consolation or all the blood and fist fights you are called upon to witness. Ramdoss gives amazing comic relief.
Nagaram asks but cannot answer the question: Seene emin jalan aankhon mein toofan sa kyon hai;
Is shaiher mein har shaks pareshan sa kyon hai.

+ Ramdoss and Sandeep
– Boringly vioent
Two stars L. Ravichander.