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Lover boy looks to action film
Varun Sandesh, who made his debut with a hit film like ‘Happy Days’ successfully overcame the second film hitch with ‘Kotha Bangaru Lokam’ by making it run above average to hit mark. However, his third film ‘Yevaraina Yeppudaina’ did not do so well at the box office. Realising that sticking to a particular image won’t help him, Varun chose to throw his weight to action masala too. Anandi Arts had come forward to do one such film introducing Sandeep Gunnam as director. Though not so great, Varun tried his best to do action scenes, but could not impress the audiences with his lean personality.
Varun Sandesh, who made his debut with a hit film like ‘Happy Days’ successfully overcame the second film hitch with ‘Kotha Bangaru Lokam’ by making it run above average to hit mark. However, his third film ‘Yevaraina Yeppudaina’ did not do so well at the box office. Realising that sticking to a particular image won’t help him, Varun chose to throw his weight to action masala too. Anandi Arts had come forward to do one such film introducing Sandeep Gunnam as director. Though not so great, Varun tried his best to do action scenes, but could not impress the audiences with his lean personality.
STORY:
Varun (Varun Sandesh) is an irresponsible, happy-go-lucky teenager, who completes his BA degree. He is fond of motorbike since childhood, but his father (Tanikella Bharani) could not buy him a bike as he runs a middle-class family. Varun had several other wishes and one among them is partying with his friends. He steals money from his father’s pocket and throws a birthday party. He returns home after boozing and revolts against his father for not having money and not giving him any money. Varun’s father gives off Rs 70,000 saved for his daughter’s marriage the next day. Varun fulfils his long time wish of owning a bike, TVS Apache, and soon secures a job of loan recovery agent in a bank. He starts getting salary and proves that he is also a responsible youth.
Varun who is in love with a girl called Hema (Neha Sharma) for two years, proposes her after procuring the bike and securing a decent job. She too agrees and both of them roam happily on the bike. On the other side of the coin, Satya (Bommali Ravi Shankar), runs a mafia with help of his brother Ravi and a trusted lieutenant Bullet. Ravi is envious of Bullet as his brother always trusts him. Satya’s men once kill a corporator. The same day, Varun takes Hema to her house and parks his bike outside and drops her at her doorstep. By the time he returns he finds that his bike is missing. Nobody there could give a clue about the bike as every one is discussing about corporator’s murder. The bike was lifted by a regular offender called Bhagawan, a gang member of Satya. Once Satya surrenders to police in one case and Ravi agrees to handle the transport of ganja as was asked by a Seth. He transports the ganja by stuffing it in small packs in the petrol tanks of stolen motor vehicles to avoid police checks. Varun’s bike was also used for the same purpose. Varun searches several places and contacts people who deal with stolen vehicles but could not find his bike. He even lodges a complaint with the police.
Learning that Varun lodges a complaint against Bhagawan, Ravi warns Varun to withdraw the complaint. In the process, he pushes Varun’s father and injures him. Unable to digest this, Varun beats Ravi black and blue. So Ravi wreaks vengeance against Varun and tries to attack Varun again but loses in his hands. After Satya’s return from jail, he chides Ravi for attacking Varun again and again. Unable to hear chidings from his own brother, Ravi plans and kills Satya when Bullet was not in the city. After his return Bullet starts a killing spree and targets Varun too. Meanwhile, he comes to know from Seth that Ravi killed Satya. Knowing this, he allows Varun to kill Ravi. In the meantime, police take away Varun in narcotics case as the bike belonged to him. Varun proves his innocence as he lodged police complaint earlier that his bike was stolen. The police return his bike. With getting his bike back and teaching a lesson to Ravi, the film ends on a happy note.
PLUS:
Though a debutant director Sandeep handled the story efficiently with a gripping screenplay and tight movement of the subject. The entire story revolves around the hero and his bike. This delicate storyline was aptly handled by the director, by mixing elements like sentiment, love and friendship. Surprisingly, the character of main villain in the film was suppressed and the second villain was highlighted. The main villain gets killed by the second villain, who is also his brother. This highlights the greatness of the director who proved that criminals would have no sentiment. Though not all the songs are impressive, a couple of tunes by Achu are good to listen, while the remix of a hit song ‘Kurralloy Kurrallu’ was perfectly tuned and choreographed on the screen. Another song with Hindi film titles is also good to listen and was shot well. Action scenes by Rambo Rajkumar are also impressive with a good amount of nativity. Varun gave a better performance than his earlier films. For a change he played a responsible teenager and tried his best to do action scenes. However, he should improve his dialogue modulation. Neha Sharma of ‘Chiruta’-fame is okay opposite Varun and she shed her weight and appeared cute and slip. Others like Tanikella Bharani, Ravishankar and others did justice to their roles. Ali plays the role of Jilani, a loan defaulter, and tickled the funny bone of audiences, while MS Narayana and Nalla Venu also did a decent job.
MINUS:
Though looked glamorous, Neha Sharma still needs to hone her acting skills. The major draw back of the film is the lean personality of Varun Sandesh. He should tone up his body he wants to continue his career in action films. The director, though ran the story in a gripping manner, he should also concentrate on comedy scenes as it gives a good relief and provides good entertainment. Varun Sandesh failed to impress the audiences in action scenes and it appeared quite cinematic despite a good show by the hero.
REMARKS:
Anandi Arts, which is known for bringing out family and love subjects chose to do an action film, of course with a touch of love and sentiment. The banner succeeded in its attempt to select a good director who efficiently managed to bring out the film with mass elements. The entire film was targeted the youth and mass audiences and it almost succeeded in it. However, with less saleability of the hero, the openings are quite low and it may pick up after good publicity and mouth-talk among the young generation and mass audiences. One had to wait and watch how far Varun Sandesh succeeds in pulling crowds to the theatre.
PLUS:
Though a debutant director Sandeep handled the story efficiently with a gripping screenplay and tight movement of the subject. The entire story revolves around the hero and his bike. This delicate storyline was aptly handled by the director, by mixing elements like sentiment, love and friendship. Surprisingly, the character of main villain in the film was suppressed and the second villain was highlighted. The main villain gets killed by the second villain, who is also his brother. This highlights the greatness of the director who proved that criminals would have no sentiment. Though not all the songs are impressive, a couple of tunes by Achu are good to listen, while the remix of a hit song ‘Kurralloy Kurrallu’ was perfectly tuned and choreographed on the screen. Another song with Hindi film titles is also good to listen and was shot well. Action scenes by Rambo Rajkumar are also impressive with a good amount of nativity. Varun gave a better performance than his earlier films. For a change he played a responsible teenager and tried his best to do action scenes. However, he should improve his dialogue modulation. Neha Sharma of ‘Chiruta’-fame is okay opposite Varun and she shed her weight and appeared cute and slip. Others like Tanikella Bharani, Ravishankar and others did justice to their roles. Ali plays the role of Jilani, a loan defaulter, and tickled the funny bone of audiences, while MS Narayana and Nalla Venu also did a decent job.
MINUS:
Though looked glamorous, Neha Sharma still needs to hone her acting skills. The major draw back of the film is the lean personality of Varun Sandesh. He should tone up his body he wants to continue his career in action films. The director, though ran the story in a gripping manner, he should also concentrate on comedy scenes as it gives a good relief and provides good entertainment. Varun Sandesh failed to impress the audiences in action scenes and it appeared quite cinematic despite a good show by the hero.
REMARKS:
Anandi Arts, which is known for bringing out family and love subjects chose to do an action film, of course with a touch of love and sentiment. The banner succeeded in its attempt to select a good director who efficiently managed to bring out the film with mass elements. The entire film was targeted the youth and mass audiences and it almost succeeded in it. However, with less saleability of the hero, the openings are quite low and it may pick up after good publicity and mouth-talk among the young generation and mass audiences. One had to wait and watch how far Varun Sandesh succeeds in pulling crowds to the theatre.
Cast: Varun Sandesh, Neha Sharma, Tanikella Bharani, Bommali Ravi Shankar, Ali, MS Narayana, Venu, Naveen and others
Credits: Camera – Sarvesh Murari, Editing – Marthand K Venkatesh, Action – Rambo Rajkumar, Lyrics – Anant Sriram, Music – Achu, Presents – Gemini Television, Producer – P. Kiran, Direction – Sandeep Gunnam
Banner: Anandi Arts
Released on: November 12, 2009
The Nandi award winner for best debut direction, Kirankumar Adavi, once again came up with another neat comedy film like ‘Villagelo Vinayakudu’. The healthy comedy and non-stop entertainment, coupled with the family sentiment thread worked out well. The film would definitely go well with family audiences and have many chances to prove a hit film, provided it gets good publicity through mouth-talk. Once the film gets a good mouth-talk publicity, definitely the film could ring the box office with family audiences. However, the absence of mass elements may have a negative impact on the film as the mass audiences may not like such neat comedy entertainer. But as a whole it is a wholesome entertainer and a decent watch for the entire family, though not so big when compared with the earlier film ‘Vinayakudu’.
Cast: Krishnudu, Saranya Mohan, Yandamuri Virendranath, Rao Ramesh, Dr Bharat Reddy, Jogi Naidu and others.
Credits: Story – Mahi, Music – Manikanth Kadri, Lyrics – Vanamali, Cinematography – Rams, Editing – Marthand K Venkatesh, Producers – Mahi, Saikiran Adavi, Screenplay, direction – Saikiran Adavi
Banner: Moonwaters Pictures
Released on: November 5, 2009
Cast: Krishnudu, Saranya Mohan, Yandamuri Virendranath, Rao Ramesh, Dr Bharat Reddy, Jogi Naidu and others.
Credits: Story – Mahi, Music – Manikanth Kadri, Lyrics – Vanamali, Cinematography – Rams, Editing – Marthand K Venkatesh, Producers – Mahi, Saikiran Adavi, Screenplay, direction – Saikiran Adavi
Banner: Moonwaters Pictures
Released on: November 5, 2009
Good
The film Bendu Appa Rao is a comedy film from the stable of EVV Sathyanarayana. Allari Naresh plays the title role in the film which is touted as a rib tickling comic entertainer. However the film has more sentiment than comedy.
Story:
Bendu Appa Rao (Naresh) is a RMP doctor in Bobbarlanka. He treats patients in his own inimitable style and he is assisted by his compounder Suman Shetty. Naresh makes a lot of money by conning his patients but all this is only to clear the dowry owed to his brother-in-law Krishna Bhagawan. Padma (Kamna Jethmalani) is the daughter of a rich landlord Ahuthi Prasad. She fails 10th class several times and gives up studies.
Padma meets Appa Rao and falls in love with him. Appa Rao too loves her but he is given a big responsibility by a young man who has met with a fatal accident. He asks Appa Rao to trace his parents and handover to them the 15 lakhs rupees he had earned in Dubai after running away from home.
Appa Rao along with his friends Srnivas Reddy and Uttej try to trace them but in vain. Appa Rao gives two lakhs each to both his friends to clear their debts and with the reaming amount, constructs a new school building in the village. He names the school after the dead young man Sivaji.
A new school teacher Meghana comes to the village along with her parents. She is none other than the sister of the dead man Sivaji. Appa Rao is guilt ridden and he cannot tell them the truth. He instead arranges money for the heart operation of Meghana's father by mortgaging his own house and also agrees to marry Meghana.
The village president Chalapathi Rao learns about this and stops the marriage of Appa Rao with Meghana. The film finally ends on a happy note with all misunderstanding cleared and Apa Rao getting to marry his ladylove Padma.
Performance:
Allari Naresh once again gets a chance to play a role that he has been totally identified with all these days-a well meaning young comic hero. He does a good job and carries the film on his shoulders. Kamna Jethmalani is okay as the young daughter of a rich landlord. The other heroine Meghana is just average.
Ahuthi Prasad does a good job as a rich landlord who takes extremely good care of all his guests. Srinivas Reddy and Uttej manage to raise some laughs. Ali appears in a guest role. Telangana Shakunthala, Jeeva, Chalapathi Rao and others are okay. Raghu Babu does a neat job as the servant of the Ahuthi household.
Music is okay and the production values adequate. The film is touted as a rib tickling comic entertainer but the film turns sentimental in the second half and the sentiment overshadows comedy.
Bednu Appa Rao is a film in the trademark EVV style but the comedy is not up to the expectations. The film ends up as a below average entertainer.
Credits
Jeevi rating: 3.25/5
Punchline: Rajendra Prasad rocks
Banner: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rajendra Prasad, Nasser, Rambha, Raju Sundaram, Anu Menon, Vinay Pathak etc
Music: Daniel B. George
Cinematography: R. A. Krishna
Art: Rakesh Morchhale
Editing: Rabi Ranjan Moitra
Story, screenplay - dialogues: Rajesh Devraj
Director: Shashanka Ghosh
Producer: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Release date: 31 July 2009
Review
Story
The story starts in 1970's. Quick Gun Murugan (Rajendra Prasad) is a vegetarian cowboy who is against killing cows and other animals. He takes it as his duty to protect the world against non-vegetarians. Rice Place Reddy (Nasser) is on a mission to convert all vegetarian hotels into non-vegetarian hotels so that he could expand his chain of non-veg hotels. In the process, he confronts Quick Gun Murugan and succeeds in killing him. Quick Gun Murugan is taken to heaven and there he appeals to Chitra Gupta (Vinay Pathak) about how the fate has terminated his mission to save the world from non-vegetarianism. A convinced Chitra Gupta sends him back to the earth. And it is 2007 by the time he returns. By now, Rice Plate Reddy became all-powerful food baron who is on the verge of coming up with 'Mc Dosa' brand of hotels that serve only non-vegetarian dosas. The rest of the story is all about how Quick Gun Murugan saves the world.
Actors:
Rajendra Prasad comes up with another entertaining performance. Language might be different, but the comedy timing is same for Rajendra Prasad even in English version. He is just perfect. He has to look serious and at the same time he need to make us laugh. His dialogue delivery is too good. Rambha is charming and sensuous as 'Mango Dolly'. Nassar entertains as a Rice Place Reddy who gets tensed whenever he listens to Murugan name. Raju Sundaram did the role of Rowdy MBA and he is nice. Ashwin Mushran's foreign accent is good. Vinay Pathak is apt as Chitra Gupta. Sandhya Mridul and Ranvir Sheroy did the roles of TV reporters. Anu Menon (Lola Kutti of Channel V) did the role of QGM's locket love.
Technical departments:
Story - screenplay - direction: Quick Gun Murugan is based on a character developed by Rajesh Devraj for a 2-minute spoof on Channel V. Rajesh developed a full legth story on this character by making it a spoof on all routine Indian potboilers of 1970's and spaghetti westerns. It is an outrageously funny script handled neatly by the director Shashank Ghosh. There are funny and wacky moments in the movie. The director has stuck to quirky way narration and succeeded in tickling your funny bone. They made spoofs on cow-boy movies, maa sentiment, vamp character, dialogues of typical indian heroes, old Tamil films etc. However, there is gore and bloodshed in this movie. I have liked the following things in this movie -
1. The flashback episode where spaghetti western is mixed with sambar and masala dasa.
2. Naming of various departments: Yamalokam as ministry of deaths and another place as institute of coconut climbing. The entire Yamaloka administration is replicated with typical government officer's set-up.
3. Tears of Quickgun falling into the whiskey glass.
3. The gun fights of Murugan (generally we get description of these fights with Rajnikant as caricature in forwarded e-mails. Rajni himself has done it in the last song of his blockbuster Sivaji)
4. Murugan's girlfriend locked up in a locket.
5. Mango Dolly stealing the blue print from the underwear of Rice Place Reddy.
6. The music of the movie (happy birthday tune for death scene) and the way cowboy music is played with Indian instruments.
Other technical departments: Camera work of the movie is alright. Dialogues are very funny. Especially 'mind it' and 'i say' which are made popular on Quickgun Murugan series of Channel V. Music is funny and entertaining. Art direction deserves appreciation for coming up with creative work with a limited budget. This movie is made on shoe-string budget.
Analysis: If you are a guy who likes the spoofs on Channel V, Quick Gun Murugan is for you. The plus points are ever-green Rajendra Prasad as the green cowboy and the comedy. The negative points are blood shed and boring moments towards climax. There is a bit of Tamil language in the movie. Telugu guys are advised to watch the English version of the movie to get an authentic feel of the movie
Film: Banam Cast: Nara Rohith (debut film), Vedika, Ranadheer, Shayaji Shinde, Bhanuchander, Rajeev Kanakala, AVS, Shivanarayana, Ragini, Giridhar and others Dialogues: Nagaraju Gandham Music: Manisharma Cinematography: Anil Bhandari Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Art: Bhupesh R Bhupati Action: Ram-Laxman Executive producer: K Saibaba Produced by: Seshu Priyanka Chalasani Banner: 3 Angels Studio Story, screenplay and directed by: Chaitanya Dantaloori Release Date: September 16, 2009 CBFC Rating: U/A What’s it about! The film is set in 1989 at Ranasthali in Srikakulam district. Bhagat (Nara Rohith) is an idealistic youngster who aspires to become IPS officer, as he believes that only justice can be brought through ‘legal system’. His father is a Naxalite leader but ‘retires’ from the movement to spend time with his son. One day, Bhagat happens to see newly wed woman (Vedika) sitting at Railway Station alone and he comes to know from her that her in-laws sent her away to bring dowry. On the same day, her father dies, her in-laws reject her, and so he brings her to his home. Soon a local rowdy eyes on her that makes Bhagat to fight with him. In the melee, the rowdy dies and Bhagat goes to jail. On the other hand, several police offices try to contain the activities of the rowdy’s boss, Patnaik (Ranadheer), but couldn’t do so. How our hero Bhagat does it being within the ‘system’ forms the rest of the story. Analysis Banam is a sensible movie. Niche audiences who like films with different approach and offbeat stories can like it. Although it starts off pretty promisingly and sets you up rather well, it fails to continue the same till the end. Debutant director Chaitanya should be commended for treading off the beaten track in narrating the movie and in selecting the story. Despite snail pace of the movie, first half arrests you and intrigues you. The director has tried to bring certain stylized depiction of heroism and scenes. Climax scenes are pretty ordinary. The film is essentially about an idealistic guy who wants to cleanse the system. Question is: why should the film happen in 1989? What is so important about that period? Was it Naxalism? Even hero employing four police officers under training to cleanse the system is not told in convincing manner. Other than these faults, the film on the whole is sensible and a very good attempt. Nara Rohith’s look and his acting skills, some good locales, first half of the movie are interesting part of the film. Performances Nara Rohith, son of former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s brother, makes a very confident debut. He has good looks and his subtle acting (is it deliberate) is very impressive. At a time, all star sons and newcomers are debuting with a commercial film; Nara Rohith should be commended for choosing this offbeat film. Like Abhay Deol in Bollywood, he can be good choice for certain roles. He looks promising. Dialogue delivery is his strength. Vedika in a Brahmin girl is okay. Looks like her role is created to show off hero’s idealistic nature than weaving a romantic thread. Shayaji Shinde’s role of a former Naxalite is poorly etched. Other actors are okay. Ranadhir as main villain does justice to his role Technically, the film is very nice. Cinematography by Anil Bhandari (is he the same cameraman who did the shabby Mallepuvvu?) is excellent. The locales they have chosen (near Bobbili and Pollachi) also have brought freshness on to the screen. Dialogues by Gandham Nagaraju (of Gamyam fame) are poetic. Art director has succeeded in recreating 80’s look. Even the director has intelligently created scenes like Shiva cycle chain scene, and a theatre showing Geetanjali film, to depict that period. After a long time, Manisharma has given good music especially his background score is splendid. The song, Kadile Padam , has good lyrical value (Vanamali.). It is nice that debutant director Chaitanya Dantaloori has brought some realism into Telugu films at a time Tollywood increasingly falling into the trap of masala movies. He definitely seems to have innovative ideas but he needs to put it in more channelised way. His shot making style resembles to RGV’s. Though he lost his grip in the climax scenes, as a director he looks a promising talent. Producer Seshu Priyanka has good taste. Bottom-line! Banam is an offbeat film with sensible approach. Although it has its faults, it should be appreciated for attempting such films. Nara Rohith and director Chaitanya look promising. The film might be liked by niche audiences.
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Punchline: lacks Josh Genre: Action Type: Straight Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Karthika, Prakash Raj, JD Chakri, Sunil, Surya, Brahmanandam, Hema Sreya & Sitara
Music: Sandeep Chowta
Cinematography: Sameer Reddy Stunts: Vijay Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Story – screenplay - dialogues – direction: Vasu Varma Producer: Dil Raju Release date: 5 September 2009 | |||
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Satya (Naga Chaitanya) is a student who discontinues his college in Vizag and comes to Hyderabad to stay with his uncle (Sunil). He observes that a small time politician called JD (JD Chakri) manipulates two student gangs in a college to serve his interests. Satya joins the same college and tries to unite students and reform them. The rest of the story is all about why he discontinued his studies in Vizag and joined college in Hyderabad.
Naga Chaitanya: It's a big challenge to do a character that is underplayed for a debutant like Naga Chaitanya. And Naga Chaitanya passes it with flying colors. He is extremely good in emotional scenes. And he is a very good actor when it comes to scenes that require histrionics. However, he looked little shy in romantic scenes with heroine. He needs to be more casual in general scenes. His voice is good. With better modulation he can deliver any kind of Telugu dialogues efficiently. And he has got the same charming eyes and screen presence like Nagarjuna. If he gets the right scripts with apt commercial elements, he will become a huge star in the days to come. ANR and Nagarjuna are known for having tremendous female following and Naga Chaitanya inherits that legacy now right with his first movie.
Others: Karthika is adequate in the acting department. However, she didn't suit the character. This type character is tailor-made for actresses like Genelia/Asin who have tremendous mischievous screen presence. Dubbing done by Savita Reddy suited the character, but didn't match with the actress (Karthika). Prakash Raj has a relatively small role, but has a vital part to play in the film and he is extremely effective as the principal who brings change in hero's outlook. It's a sleep walk for JD Chakri to play this role and he is extremely casual. Brahmanandam entertains in a limited role. The guy who did the role of a student leader Guna is talented. Sreya D suited the role well. Two cute kids who follow the heroine have performed well. Sunil provides some comic relief. Surya, Hema and Sitara are adequate. All the new cast in the movie could able to bring freshness.
Story - screenplay - directon: The basic story of the movie is about a student's redemption. He does a mistake and he want to redeem himself of that sin by achieving a goal. It looks quite different and noble when we read it on paper. However, the
Other departments: Songs scored by Sandeep Chowta are neat. Title song makes an impact in the theater. Background music and mixing dominates the scenes at times. Cinematography by Sameer Reddy is nice. Dialogues written by Vasu Varma deserves applause (naa mundu nee paina jarchaku (hero to JD) and school paaTalu cheppi pariksha pedutundi, jeevitam pariksha petti paataalu nerputundi. etc). The location of college shot in Amritsir is aesthetic. Fights are good and bike races are shot slickly. Editing should have been crisper as there quite a few unnecessary scenes in the movie.
Analysis: First half of the movie is inadequate. Second half is better. This movie can be made in two ways. One way is to insert commercial elements and make it a masala movie. The other way is to stick to story and stay away from commercial gimmicks. Producer Dil Raju should be commended for sticking to the basics though it is a risky proposition. But films like these need a tight screenplay and gripping narration. The narration and screenplay given by Vasu Varma diluted the main point. Naga Chaitanya proves to be a prospective
| Movie Name : Jayeebhava Banner : NTR Arts Cast : Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, Hansika, Mukesh Rishi, Ashish Vidyarthi,Jayaprakash Reddy, Brahmanandam, Ali, Raghubabu, Venu Madhav,Chalapathi Rao, Sudha, Hema, Benerjee, Vakeel Khan and Others Dialogues & Story : BVS Ravi Cinematography : Dasarathi Sivendra Art : Rajeev Nair Music : Thaman S Producer: Nandamuri Kalyan Ram Director: Naren |
STARRING :
Ram, Kajal Aggarwal, Brahmanandam, Ashish Vidyarthi and others
MUSIC : Mickey J Meyer
DIRECTOR : M Saravannan
DIRECTOR : M Saravannan
RELEASE DATE :
24th September, 2009
Movie is :Good
Ram comes up with a much improved performance in Ganesh. He shows great ease in acting and also dances and fights well.
Kajal looks really gorgeous and she performed well too
Ashish Vidyarthi plays the villain more like a comic villain
Brahmanandam did a role named yadgiri..it is really funny
