Lakshmi Vara Prasad
(Navin) is famous criminal lawyer and is known from
fighting against injustice. He falls in love with a
film heroine Surekha (Sridevi), as usual love at first
sight. Surekha’s film producer is murdered and
Aadhi (Srikanth) is arrested for the murder. Surekha
approached Lakshmi for bailing out Aadhi from this case.
While investigating the Lakshmi, with the help of psychiatrist
(Poornima, the erstwhile Jhandyala’s heroine),
discovers that Aadhi is suffering from split personality
and it was one such occasion that the producer was killed.
Lakshmi fights the case
and gets Aadhi acquittal. At this point the story takes
an interesting turn, Aadhi tells to Lakshmi he had fooled
him and everybody that he is suffering from split personality,
but there was nothing of that sort. Aadhi also vouches
to kill anybody and everybody who would love Surekha
or come in between his love for the heroine.
This leads to a battle
between the good versus the bad. The battle could have
been shot well and the film would be have definitely
become very interesting. But the director let loose
the film and this leads to one hour of continuous boredom,
moreover you know the ending the good will ultimately
win!
Apart from Srikanth’s
performance there is nothing worth mentioning in the
film Srikanth surprises everyone with his acting ability
and look definitely better than all his previous films.
This could be a land-mark film for Srikanth, unfortunately
the director never lets this happen. Vadde Navin look
good as a lawyer, but is still not at ease with his
body language, he has lots of difficulty in enacting
the emotional scenes. Sridevi adds the glamour to the
film.
The comedy of Ali, Abhinayasri
and Uttej is vulgar and fails to impress the front-benchers
also. The comedy doesn’t gel with the film story
and is a separate track by itself.
Other departments like
camera of Bhupathi is at times eye-straining with lots
of zoom-outs and unnecessary panning during the crucial
dialogue in court room is quiet irritating. Editing
is apt according to the script and no extra dimension
is added to fillip the film. Though this is Chakri’s
50th film has the music director, he has never put his
heart into any song. The background music is too loud
and most of the time doesn’t match the scene.
Indeed a very mediocre effort by Chakri!
The director once again
proves to be an amateur. Though RV Suresh, under various
other names has directed few films earlier (remember
Subbu of NTR Jr.), looks like a debutant and could carry
this novel idea forward. Though the film takes off on
the right note, it slips off and all this is due lack
of proper treatment. If the director had put some more
effort, this would have been the surprise hit of the
year.