Make it gory, it becomes heroic.
Make it sadistic, it becomes bravery. Make it unbelievable it becomes
cinematic. Push the scale it becomes acceptable. Bring in the stars with blue
blood than the initial draw is guaranteed. Then what. The thud can be heard.
Krishna Marimuthu decides to run on the star value of Naga Chaitanya and gets a
script that has the usual story line of doting parents, romance and hate
interloped to show case the varying skills of the protagonist. In case you are
willing to be taken by the former of the above, you will stay to be the later
as stated above. For the rest, this is just another apology of entertainment
with the cast for an excuse. Some amazing talent (Rao Ramesh and Revathi) fight
hard to add credibility. Stars (Chaitanya and Lavanya) fight hard to keep their
image alive in the context of their bread and butter stance. For the rest, it
is a predictable story told ever so often with minor variations and sometimes
just the same. The audience is strangely surviving a pathological sense of déjà
vu.
Arjun (Naga Chaitanya) is working on a drone while medical intern Anjali
(Lavanya Tripathi) walks into his life. They fall in love. Arjun reviews his
near perfect life: wonderful parents Sita (Revathi) and Murali (Rao Ramesh),
siblings who are settled and happy, the parents are into social work,
reasonably affluent. All is fine: the bees buzzing the butterflies flying, the
lyricist is doling out those romantic numbers and the choreographer is
overworking the dreams. Just when you would vouch that the angels have wagered
on their favourites the cosmic dice is cast. So, we have the corrupt Minister
(Vinod Kumar) who stage manages a terrorist attack with the help of Jogi
(Pawan). Stepping in is the police officer JD Sastry (Murali Sharma the new
avatar of Siyaji Shinde) who is to investigate the crime. The happy family line
crosses the evil political line and hell knoweth no fury greater than a
Tollywood script. Every twist to the tale is straight jacketed to a fault and
even a four-film old viewer will tell the route and the road of the tale to the
finale. Some die, some fight, kick up dust, break bones and furniture raise
dust and noise and finally settle down to a keeps sake smile filled finale.
Chaitu is sincere and shows a nice friendly awkward presence. His dialogue
delivery is seriously suspect. It should not be difficult for him to train in
this area provided he admits with modesty that it is never too late to learn.
Lavanya plays glam doll without a complaint. Srikant as the bad guy adds more
beard than anger to his role to be seen as a fearsome baddie. Mukul Sharma,
Pavan et al do their best. Rao Ramesh and Revathi as the elder couple are worth
watching the film for. Do not miss the elegance and grace of Revathi – from her
silks to her terracotta accessories is worth going gaga about. Rao Ramesh yet
again reiterates his superior quality as an actor. For those who want the usual
menu and nothing more this is an outing just worth it. For those who seek
anything more this is woefully short.
L. Ravichander