Mohanbabu, after a long time realized that his heroism is getting faded and time has come to give way to fresh faces for the hero roles. He made a right choice by doing a nice character as an elder brother’s role by maintaining an identity of his own and at the same time made way for an young pair to do the routine commercial formula dances to suit the taste of the youth and mass audiences. His formula worked out perfectly and the film came out as ‘Raju Maharaju’, a complete family, sentimental drama which was interlaced with a triangular love and revenge story.

Vijaykumar (Vijaykumar) is a contractor. He is very kind at heart and doesn’t mind to lose money for the sake of helping some one in need. JP (Jayaprakash Reddy) is his rival, who could not beat him in bagging contracts. In order to bag one contract, JP plays the sentimental drama by pushing a just born child on road. Vijaykumar moved at the plight of the child admits him to a hospital, thereby loses a contract worth some lakhs of rupees. He takes the child to his house and gives it to his son Chakravarthy (Mohanbabu) stating to look after him as a brother. Chakravarthy names him as Kalyan (Sarwanand). Chakravarthy grows up and also become a good contractor on the lines of his father and JP’s rivalry also grows up. Ramya (Ramyakrishna) marries Chakravarthy.

Meanwhile, Kalyan turns arrogant because of richness and thinks that he could do anything with money. Once he comes across Sneha (Survin Chawla), a girl with social consciousness, and falls in love with her at first sight. But Sneha, who comes to know about his bad habits keeps avoiding him. As Ramya pampers Kalyan, appeals to Sneha to befriend with him for a few days and she would change his Kalyan’s mind in the meantime. After Kalyan and Sneha start moving closer to each other, Kalyan hits a person with his jeep and did not feel bad for it, which forces Sneha to hate him again. Incidentally, the person whom Kalyan dashed is none other than Sneha’s father (Nazar). He dies in the incident and police arrest Kalyan. In order to withdraw the case, Sneha demands their entire property and Chakravarthy gives up all the property for the sake of honesty. From that time, Kalyan realizes the value of love. He also comes to know that he is not the real brother but an orphan brought up by Chakravarthy and his father. This enhances Kalyan’s responsibility towards Chakravarthy further. With vengeance Sneha makes Kalyan lose his job. It takes another twist and Chakravarthy suffers stroke. In order to get him operated, Kalyan hypothecates his certificates and bring money. But the doctor lies about that money.

But Sneha gets the certificates and destroys them. With no option left, Kalyan sells off his kidney and JP kidnaps the person who vows him the money. Finally, Kalyan readies to embrace the death by giving his body for pharmaceutical experiment and brings the money and completes the surgery to Chakravarthy and gets him healthy. In the climax, Sneha reveals that she did not all those things with vengeance but only to wake up the real human being in Kalyan, and make him to love all the people around him. The film ends on a happy note.

Plus:

Producer Pathikonda Kumaraswamy should be complimented first for bringing out such a good family subject on the Telugu screen after a long time. The major plus point in the film is the story which was prepared with elements like family, human relations, sentiment, perseverance in extension of love, the relationship between brothers, sister-in-law, sister. At the same time, the triangular love story with a young hero and two heroines. Circumstantial villainy by a girl, another girl who still loves a person, despite knowing that he loved some other girl and also lost all his property, the greatness of true friendship and the director’s ability to keep romantic songs at perfect timing, when the audiences are getting bored with total seriousness of the film. Tashu Kaushik’s exposure of the glamour would be a feast to the eyes of young and mass audiences, while Survin Chawla’s girl-at-next door kind of role has quite contrast. Villainy by Jayaprakash Reddy is of course appeared routine.

Minus:

Comedy by Brahmanandam, Sunil, MS Narayana and others failed to tickle the funny bones of the audiences at expected levels. The entire first half of the film was devoted to the characterization of the young hero and to run the basic love drama. The audiences who watched the first half would come to a conclusion that the film has nothing much to offer and it is just an average movie at the most. However, the entire crux of the film was completely filled in the second half with 100 per cent drama with different twists. This act of director made some of the audiences lose a nice film, as they walked out of the theatres feeling the film has no depth. Even the climax was also not properly established. It is not that easy for a person, who donated his kidney to move out of the operation theatres in few hours after surgery. It is also impossible for a person who donated his kidney to offer his body for pharmaceutical experiments. It is also unimaginable that a person who got operated upon for kidney removal to fight with goons with so much energy. But all these happen in a cinematic manner.

REMARKS:

Sarwanand showed a balanced performance in the second half. After the success of ‘Gamyam’, he realized his responsibility in making a film success which would be possible only with perfect body language and performance. Music by Chakri is average and the tunes are not that great. However, the choreography of romantic songs in the combination of Sarwanand and Tashu Kaushik was perfect, while the song between Sarwanand and Surwin Chawla is neat with no exposures. The only family song involving all the lead artistes was choreographed well. As a whole, the Tollywood had got one more nice family drama which could be watched by the entire family by sitting together. Though not a must watch film, there won’t be any harm in watching the film in terms of entertainment and time.

Cast: Dr Mohanbabu, Ramyakrishna, Sarvanand, Survin Chawla and Tashu Kaushik, Jayasudha (guest appearance) Rani, Dr Brahmanandam, Chandramohan, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, LB Sriram, Raghubabu, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Nazar, Jayaprakash Reddy, Vijayakumar, MS Narayana, Sunil, Sudha, Bhargavi, Surekhavani, Delhi Rajeswari and others

Music – Chakri, Camera – Rameshbabu, Lyrics – Bhaskarabhatla, Ramajogaiah Sastry and Kandikonda, Action – Kanal Kannan, Editing – Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao, Choreography – Prem Rakshit and Brinda, Producer – Kumaraswamy Pathikonda, Story, screenplay and direction are by Durga Shankaranath.

Banner: Sri Kumaraswamy Productions

Release Date: June 18th 2008