Film: Blade Babji
Rating: 2.75/5
Banner: Sri Satya Movies
Cast: Naresh, Sayali Bhagath, Venu Madhav, Ruthika, Harshavardhan, Khayyum, LB Sriram, Dharmavarapu, Jayaprakash Reddy, Krishna Bhagawan, Brahmanandam, Hema and others
Music: Koti
Camera: A Raja
Director: Devi Prasad
Producer: Muthyala Satyakumar
Release date: 24/10/2008
It's an old style of story with stereotype characters and targeted at the B, C centers. The humor that's generated here fits the bill for targeted audiences. Let us look into the details.
Story
A team of four con artistes (Naresh, Ruthika, Khayyum, Harshavardhan) keep duping people and with the money earned they keep distributing it to the residents of the slum they are living in. however, the owner (Jeeva) of the land wants to give it for a real estate venture so now these petty thieves have to come up with a plan of paying him that land's worth. So they end up looting a bank and storing it at a constructed site. They are away for sometime and when they get back the building is actually the police headquarters. Now Babji (Naresh) decides to become a cop and kidnaps a new cop and takes his place. He starts searching for the loot and he also wins the impression of the commissioner. He also manages to win the heart of Archana (Sayali), the commissioner's daughter but then his search continues. Whether he is successful or not forms the rest of the story.
Performances
Naresh was quite sober and did his role without much qualms, moreover he has given a good space to other artistes unlike his earlier movies. Sayali was elegant and decent with good expressions. She has a good charm in her and has shown good potential.
Ruthika is ravishing and had a raunchy sex appeal. Venu was vibrant while Harshavardhan was not utilized completely.
Brahmanandam is in his usual self while Krishna Bhagawan did his bit with ease, Jayaprakash Reddy showed enough humor in his dialogues.
Hema was hot and Dharmavarapu suited best for his role. The music by Koti was good and it was the background scores of Pawan Kalyan's songs and Chiranjeevi's song that was quite entertaining. The item number of Kausha got good response.
The director has done a tremendous job in providing full length entertainment and the twists he provides look quite reasonable. There is a wit in the script and the camerawork has captured the scenes correctly.
Analysis
The film takes a leaf from the Hollywood hit 'Blue Streak' and later on the director was careful to use his creativity and get it to a native taste. The film would have been more hilarious if the second half had some crisp editing but overall, the pace of the movie kept the energy on. The good thing about the film was though there were several artistes, each of them had their space that really looked clean and there was no haphazard conclusion to anyone in the film. Commercially, the film will get its money at the B and C centers and there is enough content for the family audience to enjoy. This is a light hearted film and can be enjoyed without any hassles, the trick is to keep common sense or logic aside and just sit back and enjoy.
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