BAADSHAH REVIEW (MOVIES)

'Badshah' Review: Jolly Summer Treat

Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: Parameshwara Art Productions
Cast: Jr NTR, Kajal Agarwal, Mukesh Rishi, Navdeep, Kelly Dorjee, Brahmanandam, Nasser, M S Narayana and others
Music: Thaman
Cinematographer: K V Guhan
Dialogues: Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan
Editor: M R Varma
Story, screenplay, direction: Sreenu Vaitla
Producer: Bandla Ganesh
Release date: 05/04/2013

It has been quite a while since Junior NTR has scored a hit and this time he has teamed up with Sreenu Vaitla for an entertaining venture. Has it been good enough to get him a hit? Let us see

Story
Sadhu Bhai (Kelly Dorjee) is a big don living abroad and he is using his power to create terror and anarchy in India. But soon, he starts getting competition from one person called Baadshah (Jr NTR).

Baadshah’s father Dhanraj (Mukesh Rishi) has a casino in Macau which is eyed by Sadhu but Baadshah hatches a plan and starts creating trouble for Sadhu Bhai.

At the same time, he also makes another plan, goes to Italy and catches the attention of Janaki (Kajal). Soon, Baadshah and Janaki fall in love but she doesn’t know his identity. Who is Janaki? Why did Baadshah go for her? Does he eliminate Sadhu Bhai? All this forms the rest of the story.

Performances:
Jr NTR is back with a bang. He danced with enormous fire and ‘Kasi’ and the energy levels in his performance were also quite high. Some of his dialogues will create a flutter among his fans.

Kajal Agarwal was there to give the visual feast and some tender moments. Role-wise there is nothing much for her but she made her presence felt wherever possible.

Brahmanandam is the one to watch out for. In fact, the entire film takes a different turn as soon as he arrives and his versatility and expressions are entirely hilarious.

Kelly Dorjee carried out his role as required, Mukesh Rishi was good and made his presence felt, Navdeep proved well with his villainy looks, M S Narayana gave his share of humor as Revenge Nageshwara Rao but didn’t work as per expectations, Vennela Kishore was apt and brought some laughs, Nasser was natural and exhibited different angle in him dancing like Kamal Hasan, Siddharth was very brief, Meenakshi Dixit is sizzling hot in a song, Suhasini was standard as mother. The rest of the artists were there to fill the screen and added good value to the film.

On a whole Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan delivered a very good comedy plot to stir laughs.

Highlights

• Second half
• Brahmanandam
• Comedy
• N T Rama Rao’s song medley

Drawbacks

• First half
• Routine plot