Rating : 2/5
Banner : Geetha Chitra International
Casting : Prabhash, Asin, Charmy
Choreography : Raju Sundaram
Photography : Bala Murugan
Director : Krishna Vamsi
Producer : C.Venkata Raju and G.Siva Raju
Release Date : 25th March 2005

Story: 
Chakram (Prabhas), otherwise known as Chakradhar, and his uncle’s daughter Lakshmi (Asin) study medicine abroad and after completing it they plan to come to India to start a huge specialty hospital.  For this purpose they even make their specialist doctors to come to India and serve in the hospital.  Both Chakram and Lakshmi are back in India and arrangements are made to get them wed.  His father Reddi (Prakashraj) and Lakshmi’s father (Tanikella) are quite eager to complete the job. To their surprise Chakram disappeared after leaving a note that he does not like the girl and hence running away from the marriage.  Chase has begun to trace him and bring back. 

Chakram enters a township and finds a goon (Jeeva) torturing an old man. He is Padma Rao (Padmanabham). Chakram saves him from their hands and announces to them that he is Padmarao’s grandson.  He starts residing in that old man’s house. There are a number of odd kinds of persons living there. Each one of them is introduced. And a girl (Charmi) falls in love with Chakram.  Chakram’s main avocation is to reform every one and make them always think good of others. His father suddenly appears there with his men and takes him back to Hyderabad. But Chakram refuses to marry Lakshmi. Only then he reveals to his father that he is already suffering from blood cancer and never wanted to ruin her life.  Asin also listens to this and starts crying. On knowing this from her foreign contact, Lakshmi too starts crying.  The father is already crying. Mother also gets to know of it and is crest fallen. The end scene is Prakashraj sitting with the pot of ashes of his son. 

Performances:
Prabhas image as upcoming actor takes a beat in this film, for he is given senseless scenes to perform with different attributes. He appears as a magician at times. He then behaves like a eunuch and an entertainer of children and then a fighter. In every chunk he looks amateurish. Asin and Charmie and Prakashraj cry repulsively. We feel repulsive because the entire get up of the film is so amateurish that it looks clearly a director made fake cancer drama. It is purposeless and disappointing. Time for Krishna Vamsee to look back and assess what he is planning to do and what kind of import his subject is carrying.

Analysis:
The story line in short reveals the nakedness of thought and imagination, which drove this film into a futile exercise. Padmanabham says he is having this house because NTR got it constructed for him. What relevance it has to theme. Jeeva’s rowdy role is aimless presentation. The dialogue given to Prakashraj asking his son why don’t you marry Lakshmi and the boy replying: “I don’t like her.” Reflect senseless approach sounding as if rubbing salt on the wound, that is mental agony of the girl whom he was to marry. This dialogue is needlessly repeated. The general approach of dialogue other wise has a single objective of preaching goodness to all. They sound as if he is giving personality development lessons. The flashback in latter half set an atmosphere of foreign land. At one stage he tells the residents of Sahara Colony that is of Padmanabham that he is a Naxalite and came there to teach lessons to corrupt. The corrupt include a money lender (AVS), boaster Raghubabu of high contacts, bad students, a quarrelling couple and some more. None of them have a specific role to play. Even the Bigamy role of Narayana Rao is not properly developed. Every bad man and woman change, with a couple sentences uttered by the hero. The last parts of drama is terribly dragged, inviting audience’ negative response. The narration lost its direction soon after the hero deserted his house. Why so much of fuss to avoid marriage, if it is in the interest of the girl? The entire narration becomes irrelevant. Once the Cancer drama is set, the interest in the film is lost. Can a man suffering from blood cancer for almost more than a year fight with dozens of goons. It is a lackluster drama.

Movie reviewed by Sriram