Of poor jokes and formula-ridden situations

God gives us relatives while we choose our friends. This relative is no blessing. He is a joke of a curse. In an unbelievable 150 minute ordeal dealing with poor jokes and formula- ridden situations, the film is filled with pjs aplenty.

In the name of entertainment this tedious time consuming take at humour is nerve cracking and makes you wonder if we are not only going the boring predictable way but also headed to the near abouts of the abyss. It is so obvious that the joke is on the audience.

The stay away script is addressed to the extremely moronic and is punctuated with double meaning one-liners that go wrong consistently and with a flavour that make you feel bad for the choice you made for the evening. Recovery Babji (Aadi) too big for his boots, is at large making recovery of loans from creditors who do not pay up in time.

Before long (though to the viewer it would seem ages!), he runs into Kavya (Namitha Pramod). Kavya has a trigger happy brother in ACP Gautam Krishna (Abhimanyu Singh) who is an encounter specialist and his victims are usually lovers on the roads.

She is against the idea of marriage but attempts to run away from home every time a suitor is on the prowl and she does not want the shower coat to be wasted. Soon the two meet up and are on the run. Chasing the couple on the run are the team of policemen, and another set of goons.

For ‘humour’, we have Mr Ego – Govardhan Reddy (Prudhvi) who also maintains a set of goons who are let loose on the society like the director is on the gullible viewer. He falls in love with Kavya. We then have Vardaraj (Posani Krishna Murali) an uncle of sorts for Babji who literally throws his daughter at the eligible bachelor who is beating up people or running away from the baddies. As the two parallel gangs try to catch up with the duo on the run, we have Dora Babu (Sai Kumar) who enters the picture.

This is clearly a film that is not meant to entertain unless the definition of entertainment is perverse and matches the ideas of Veerabhadram who is responsible for the story, screenplay and direction. Some of the bad films have good music to recommend. This is no example to such theory.

With an army of comedy guys making the rounds, you expect the film to be a good laugh. Instead it is a steady yawn, unless you can laugh at crass one-liners. The only redeeming feature (discovered on a discerning and focused search) is the screen presence of Aadi.

Two more career moves like this and the hero will have to choose another profession for a living. Painfully made with the hope that it would help the career of the hero this is a huge miscalculation – just as bad as the choice of going to take a ticket for the film.

Chuttalabbayi

Cast : Aadi, Namitha Pramod and Sai Kumar
Direction : Veerabhadram
Genre : Comedy-action
Likes: Aadi
Dislikes: Everything else