Worth a few laughs

Parents (Kasi Vishwanath and Surekha Vani) give birth to twins. Even in the womb the female child is stronger and grabs what is rightfully to be shared by her. The twins grow up to being typical cinematic twins as different as cheese and chalk in their attitude. The siblings: Ramki (Allari Naresh) and Lucky (Karthika Nair) are thus poles apart. While the former is timid and scared, the latter is dangerously attacking. Ramki falls in love with Shruti (Monal Gajjar) but members of the family rule out marriage of the guy till his gal sister is married. Now it is known that the gal too is hit by cupid’s arrow.

She is in love with an IAS officer (Harshvardhan Rane) who is, however, engaged to Uma Devi (Bhanushree Mehra). Uma Devi has a broken engagement with her childhood fiancé (Abhimanyu Singh). The romance and engagement is broken due to the ego clash between their respective fathers (Nagineedu and Vineet Kumar). Initially Shruti rejects the romantic advances made by Ramki until her boss Sundeep (Vennela Kishore) and his dad (Jai Prakash Reddy), with their dubious plans, unwittingly get them together.

Three love stories get interconnected and the feuding families constitute the backdrop of the substantial happenings. You may well be at Blandings Castle in Tollywood. Services of the likes of Ali, Brahmanandam, Srinivas Reddy are pressed into comedy of errors.

Starting with a tale that deals with twins different from one another, the story has ever so many twists and turns and enough characters that walk in at will to add flavour to the confusion. The director is in command of things. He ensures that the script does not go overboard. You do get the feel that he may bit a tad more than he could chew but that notwithstanding he ensures that the goings on are brisk and interesting.

The twists and turns and the one liners are appropriately used and ensure that the interest of the audience is not lost. The support comedy track is not heavily dependent upon Brahmanandam though on his arrival he gives the script just that extra something that the audience expects of him. Truly speaking lesser actors would have that part going unnoticed, but such is his repute and skill that he can carry even the week part to credible levels. Most members in the cast, including Srinivas Reddy, Ali, Abhimanyu Singh and Harshvardhan perform with gusto .

Allari Naresh ensures that his niche is not disturbed. His recent box office rejections notwithstanding he comes up with a spirited performance and sticks to the kind of role he is familiar with. Interestingly he shares more screen space (and time) with sister Karthika than with the heroine who does what little is given to her. At one level the script is biased towards Karthika and unfortunately he takes one too many liberties with her character. It is, however, interesting that the main lady protagonist is fierce and full of fire and yet restricted to a quasi comic state and not one of those over the board characters.

Karthika responds well to the challenge. The film, all the comedy stars notwithstanding, has Allari Naresh survive competition. Within the defined genre of Telugu comic capers this is worth a few laughs and not one that hurts your sensitivity. Something that is good as long as it is going.