The title seems to be the message!

The film has all the shortcomings of a routine Telugu film. It is “systematic” in thought and execution and yet another weekly reminder of how unimaginative and repetitive we can get. To have a yawnful feel to a comedy is an obvious contradiction of terms in the larger context. Even in the context of crass commerce, it is a tragedy that a comedy is so laboured! Great filmmakers of the genre would suggest that human capacity to viewing comedy is more critical than other genres. Conservative wisdom would also suggest that length of a narrative is critical to audience acceptance. Our filmmakers (and this time E Satti Babu) dares conventional wisdom and at the peril of the viewers. Given an assembly of actors with comic skill sets: MS Narayana, Posani Krishna Murali, Jayaprakash Reddy, Venu Madhav, Thagubothu Ramesh, etc., and the lead actor Allari Naresh, the viewer exchanges currency for comedy – to rue for a good part the decision.

One – Allari Naresh is entertainment. Two – Sometimes you watch a good batsman grope for form in two innings of a test match! This could happen with stars in the hands of directors who are unimaginative.

Satti Babu (Allari Naresh) runs a hotel in a town. His challenge is to keep the ancestral business going. He presses into service the contribution of look-alike brother Ram Babu. While the siblings may look alike, they are filmi twins with profiles as different as chalk and cheese. Satti Babu lures the local Health Inspector Madhavi (Isha Chawla). Though Madhavi responds to the romantic advances, we have her grandpa (MS Narayana) who decides to have her married to local faction leader Ugra Narasimha Reddy (Posani Krishna Murali).

In the pre-interval meander, we have Satti Babu falling in love with Madhavi and Ram Babu falling for in-house seducer Ganga (Swathi Deekshit). Creeping into the story is the villain (Rao Ramesh) whose cell phone contains hidden jewels changes hands through a sex worker to the police constable (Venu Madhav) to Ram Babu to Hari Babu who is on the way to Pulivendala to fight the faction leaders Narasimha Reddy and Veera Puli Reddy (Jaya Prakash Reddy).
The post interval tale is a familiar one of stealing the heroine from the protective den of the villain by the act of one-upmanship of the hero – a story as old as the ancestral hotel the twin brothers are now required to save, when not fending off the money lender Dharma Raju (Raghu Babu). In a very contrived attempt to do a Priyadarshan, all the villains, heroes, heroines, comedians etc. meet in a long drawn climax which include crude jokes on anatomical parts and a few one liners that you may respond with laughter, more because it would be rude not to laugh after the huge effort.

Some day hopefully our filmmakers would move out of their inertia and template-ridden scripts. Some day they would use the talented comedy actors and give you a feast worth a laugh. Every time you buy a ticket in this hope, it is belied. We return not just with hope but betting on the law of averages. Next time is a dice cast heavily in favour of the viewer – statistically speaking. Through the movie of nearly three hours, the title seems to be the message.