Rama Krishna aka Rakhee
(NTR) is the son of a Railway Station Master (Chandra
Mohan). Rakhee’s grandfather (Kota) was a retired
Railway Coolie. The family holds great respect on Indian
Railways and even Rakhee wishes to get into Railway
Service.
Tripura (Ileana) is
a reporter in Sri Devi TV. She is highly concerned about
dowry deaths, harassments on women and flesh trade.
She also gets into some sting operations in those lines.
Gowri (Charmy) is the
sister-in-law to Rakhee and she hails from a village.
Above all, Gayatri (Mamatha)
is the only sister to Rakhee. Rakhee loves her a lot
and she reciprocates in same way. In an arranged way,
Gayatri gets married to a guy who awaits Visa to fly
America. Though difficult, Gayatri’s father Chandra
Mohan gives a dowry of Rs. 10 lakhs to the groom’s
family. But, ordeals start for Gayatri after stepping
into new house. Gayatri’s husband gets another
match that promises Rs. 1 Crore as dowry. Luring by
that, Gayatri’s husband along with in-laws kills
her by setting fire. They show this hardcore murder
as accident from the eyes of law.
With the brutal killing
of his sister, Rakhee turns mild first, wild next and
for the reason of getting beguiled he sets fire to entire
family of Gayatri’s in-laws. He continues the
same by setting fire to any one who harms, harasses,
molests, rapes or kills any girl. All that he does is
throwing a plastic bag of petrol on convicts and dropping
a lighted match stick on them. He hides from law and
keeps on committing those serial murders. He turns a
hero of ladies. Women Organizations support him. Then
Meenakshi Iyer (Suhasini) comes into scene as special
officer to deal with Rakhee’s case.
Rest of the film
has to be watched on screen.
NTR is at his best
in performance. He performed as an actor but not as
‘star’. Mere ‘hero-worship’
is kept aside at least in this film and he acted with
all required histrionics. He is good at dances although
grown plump. There were a few dialogues in the film
that quote him as ‘Bondam’ and ‘Fatty’.
It’s high time and he has to take utmost care
of his body.
Ileana is good and
looked voluptuous in a few songs. She performed considerably
well.
Charmy is glowing
in this film and gave good visual treat through songs.
Costumes used On Charmy are interesting and exquisite.
Suhasini at times
appeared in overdose while enacting emotions. Krishna
Vamshi recalled Lakshmi’s character in ‘Murari’
whilst depicting histrionics.
Brahmanandam and Sunil
could spill little comedy in the shortest time they
appeared on screen. Other than that there is no big
comedy in this film.
Shayaji Shinde’s
villainy is for a short time and the real villains
in this film are the guys who harm girls.
Editing by Shankar
is subtle and immersing. Krishna Vamshi’s screenplay
and direction is impressive this time. But he would
have worked little well on comedy track and logic
in action episodes.
