Rating : 2.75/5
Banner : Sri Satyanarayanamma Productions
Presented By : Chengala Harinath
Casting : NTR, Sameera Reddy, Amisha Patel, Arti Agrawal (Guest Appearence), Bramhanandam, Chalapathi Rao, Darmavarapu Subramanyam, Ali, Puneet Isaar, Asish Vidhyardhi, Satyanarayana, Krishna Bagvan, Tanikella Bharani, Rallapalli, Srinivas Reddy and others.
Music: Mani Sharma
Lyrics: Veturi, Bhuvana Chandra, Vennelakanti
Story: P Ravi Shankar (Sai Kumar Brother)
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Cinematographer: K Ravindra Babu
Fights: Vijay
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswar Rao
Director: B Gopal
Producer: Chengala Venkatrao
Theatrical release date: 20th May 2005



Story:  It is all about a young man named Narasimhudu, who lost his parents during their effort to save the village from floods, in which the boy also took part. He eventually grows up in the village as everybody’s and every family’s man. This aspect of belonging to everybody is asserted, when all the families ask the rationing officer (Nazer) to include the name of Narasimhudu in their family list. Therefore what all he does in this film is either to avenge wrongs done to others, whom he regards as his people, or beating back those goondas sent by their bosses to murder him. The major scene in this line of drama, is the way two rogues Pahni (G.V.) and Mani (Rahuldev) visit this village along with an MLA (Jayaprakash Reddy) to settle a land deal but rape and assault a fourteen year old girl and escape. Narasimhudu who tries to save her, but the child dies in his hands, after revealing the names of the two who assaulted her.

On another track runs a political drama with an illiterate Pothuraju (Kalabhavan Mani) and J.D (Puneet Issar) vie for a political favor. The film opens showing the hero Narasimhudu hunting silently his targets and then in the second part he narrates why he did so that comes to us as flashback. Then says a title card on screen almost at interval that announces, “The real story starts now”. This means what all we saw till then was not real story. The film presents nothing substantial from that point except taking us on the route of action drama. The story ends with Narasimhudu clearing all the wrong doers with the help of a police commissioner (Asish Vidyarthi). He surrenders to him after he wiped out all. But the police officer says that what all he did was in the interest of the people and hence he was letting him to go. And Narasimhudu straight goes to his lover (Amisha Patel), daughter of MRO (Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam).

Analysis: Fight scenes dominate the scenario. They are all mostly hand fights, sometimes in Karate style. However the way they are shot using jerk photo technic proved quite disturbing to the eye. We notice some of the blows don’t even connect to the enemy’s body. 

A couple of song scenes come at odd places where the mood was counter to the mood of the song. It is unfortunate that nobody has a second thought about the story they have written for NTR. It is undoubtedly a costly production and must have cost the producer heavily. B.Gopal has developed a style of his own that is invariably marked with fights and blasts that send dozens of vehicles flying into sky. The shooting is lavish, but most of it is purposeless. 

There is a long dialogue specially written for NTR, as if to test his memory faculty and how he would shoot it in a single shot. The content of it is not clear. It is artificial too. Nothing in this film runs in a natural way, including the romantic part. There are plenty of characters like those played by Satyanarayana, Narra and others but they don’t register well. They are all namesake characters. The villain roles are also plenty. Battalions of paid goondas attack Narasimhudu, only to be beaten back. Some artistes have no role at all. Perhaps the director brought them to play a certain part, but could not. Or those scenes must have been edited out.

Even then the film is needlessly long. But you would discover a method in this madness. NTR has grown out of his shoes as a fine actor. Some scenes appear to have been specially composed for him to display his histrionic skill, especially like the way he reacts to the rape and murder of a child, he loves most. Mani Sarama’s songs are basically beat oriented. Melody is missing. He could have given that musical sense at least to a couple of songs. All the songs sound akin to each other. Indeed the delay in the release of the film also has added to the doubts about the quality of the film. Yet NTR has already built a good image that may not get disturbed from this kind of mishaps.

Movie reviewed by Sriram