Story:
Chandu (Ram) is the son of Raghava (Tanikella Bharani). Theirs is a joint family with an elder brother Raghupati (Nazar) and a younger brother Rajaram(Chandramohan). Chandu helps Raghupati's daughter to marry her lover (Navadeep) against the wishes of their family. As a result, Chandu is forced to stay off from the family. He, somehow, continues his studies and happens to see Puja (Genelia) and loses his heart. Chandu kidnaps Puja due to mistaken identity. Puja's uncles Peddi Reddy (Kota Srinivasa Rao) and Chinna Reddy (Jayaprakash Reddy) are factionalists of Rayalaseema. Each of them plans to get Puja married to their sons to bequeath her Rs 100 crore property. In order to save her, Chandu manages her to stay with his parents. The family learns that Chandu and Puja are in love with each other. However, when the entire family goes to a temple, Peddi Reddy notices her and takes her away. To win her love and marry her with the acceptance of all the family members of Puja, Chandu takes the help of McDowell Reddy (Brahmanandam), an auditor of Peddy Reddy and Chinna Reddy. Slowly, he hatches a plan and gets both the warring families united. Later, Chandu makes them believe that Puja has no property and is in debt trap. He convinces both the Reddys and make them accept to look for another alliance and introduces Raghupati and Raghava as millionaires from the US. After a sequences of events, both the Reddys agree to get Puja married to Chandu. In the climax, Chandu makes them realize that money is not the criteria but the human relations that are great. The film ends with a happy note.
Performance:
Ram looks glamorous and has appreciable histrionics too, and his ease on the screen can be felt. He did well in dance and action sequences too, while delivering impressive performance all through. His action scenes as Krishh and Spiderman were received well too. He has shown lot of improvement in his performance and came out with originality. In 'Devadas' and 'Jagadam', knowingly or unknowingly he has shown the influences of Pawan Kalyan and Aditya Om. But now he improved a lot.
Genelia has a limited role in the second half, as comedy takes the front seat, but she's at home in her role of a girl who is attached to her family. She justified her role completely.
Brahmanandam as "McDowl" (McDowell?) Murthy plays a role that gets confused at the story getting weaved around him, and offers good comedy like in the director's earlier movies. Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam gets a limited role that still entertains the audience until his last dialogue. Srinivasa Reddy offers good comedy in the first half. Both Kota Srinivasa Rao and Jayaprakash Reddy have roles with shades of faction and comedy that they handle with ease. The rest of the cast is adequate, but with such a huge star cast, it's tough to give them all roles of their range, and thus some of them get wasted. One such role is that of M.S. Narayana, who's limited to two scenes. Ravi Varma looks good in his new look, but is limited to two scenes too. Sunil's role of a classical dancer that develops feminine characters due to his art is in bad taste, and thus thankfully limited. Navadeep and Tamanna (a relative of the protagonist) appear as a pair that get married with the help of the protagonist, with their screen presence for not more than a couple of minutes.
Technical Departments:
Story of the film is intricate. The screenplay in the second half delivered the much required punch. You do not see Seenu Vytla brand of comedy in the first half except for a couple of scenes with Sunil. Most of the second half belongs to Seenu Vytla. The way he introduced Brahmanandam and made him an integral part in the second half is strategic. He extracted solid performance from Brahmanandam without being repetitive. Direction of Seenu Vytla is good in the second half. Songs and background score by Devi Sri Prasad is good. The bonhomie song towards climax is a good on the screen. Dialogues in the film are in good health, away from vulgarity. We do except a better cinematography for a film of this stature. The money spent on the film could not reflect on its visuals, showing mediocre output in patches in certain scenes. Fights by Peter Hynes are well choreographed, but the script of the film does not really demand such buildup. Editing of the film is passable and the first half needs some trimming. Production values by Sravanthi banner are very good.
Final Analysis:
Kona Venkat has scripted the story which reminds the audiences of films like Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, and Dhee, with good family backdrop. The film highlights the values of combined families, which are on the wane and nuclear families have become vogue. Dialogues penned by Gopi Mohan in association with Kona Venkat are also very casual. It is Sreenu Vaitla's directorial ability that is the major plus point of the movie. He showcases the comedy with utmost easy and each and every scene and frame evokes good entertainment. Ram has also showed good comedy timing. He showed fantastic ease in dances and action scenes as well. Genelia repeated her chirpy performance on the lines of Bommarillu and Dhee and proved a perfect match to the hero. Once again Brahmanandam has taken the cake and Sreenu Vaitla has given fantastic role to this comedian and he proved that he is a king of comedy. Though Sunil plays another comedy role, he has failed to make the audiences laugh with his humour. All the character artistes have done their best to entertain the audiences. Though the film is quite okay in providing entertainment, many scenes are out of logic. The director, though runs the film with a firm grip till climax, he has failed to give a convincing end to the subject. There is a big comment from the audiences that the climax is little dull. Music by Devisri Prasad, though okay in the film, almost all the tunes appear quite old and many songs are on the lines of Devisri Prasad's earlier movies. It lacks novelty and contains the same kind of beat like his earlier films. The director ignored to give a good end to the roles played as hero's sidekicks and they suddenly disappear. However, none of these lapses turn an obstacle for the success of the film.
Cast: Ram, Genelia, Nazar, Tanikella Bharani, Giridhar, Chandramohan, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Jayaprakash Reddy, Raghu, Shafi, Ravi Varma, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Srinivasa Reddy, Suman Shetty, Master Bharat Kumar, Gautham Raju, M.S. Narayana, Sudarshanam, M. Balayya, C.V.L. Narasimha Rao, Sudha, Pragathi, Saranya, Rajitha, Surekha Vani, Satya Krishnan, Preethi Nigam, Nagababu (guest), Navadeep (guest), Tamanna (guest), etc.
Story: Gopi Mohan, Kona Venkat
Dialogues: Kona Venkat
Art: A.S. Prakash
Camera: Prasad Murella
Choreography: Shankar, Suchitra Chandrabose, Prem Rakshit
Music Director: DeviSri Prasad
Lyrics: sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Ramajogayya Sastry, Benny
Playback: Karthik, Franco, Priya, Benny, Kunal Ganjawala, Shreya Ghosal, Ranjith, Kalpana, Sagar, Gopika Purnima, Neeraj Sridhar, Divya
Fights: Peter Haines
Editing: A.V.R. Varma
Producer: 'Sravanthi' Ravikishore
Banner: Sri Sravanthi Movies
Co-Director: Saikishore
Screenplay and directed by: Srinu Vytla
Release Date: June 19, 2008
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