Review: Money banks on Brahmi - TeluguPeople.com News

Hyderabad: There has always been a problem with sequels. The 'brand' which the first or even the second film creates raises the bar so high for the subsequent films that it takes a lot of hard work and courage to outdo the earlier work. But then, sequels were never a forte of Telugu film industry.

Filmmakers tend to forget that what worked in the original were the characters and more importantly a good story. If Money and its sequel Money Money banked a lot on an interesting story for its time, almost 15years later, the sequel Money Money More Money banks on one man alone and his brand ' Brahmanandam who plays the role of Khan Dada. That is precisely where the film goes wrong.

Khan Dada (Brahmanandam) turns rich thanks to real estate boom; however he ends up loosing all this assets after a crash in real estate. No one in his own family respects him.

One day, a group of kidnappers hold him and his family hostage; however, they don't plan to harm anyone. All they want is Rs 1 crore in cash which they plan to extort from Maggie's (Tara Alisha) father.

However, the hostage drama goes wrong as several people come looking for Khan Dada and the kidnappers (JD Chakravarthy, Mukul Dev, Brahmaji and Kevin Dev) decide to keep all them inside the house as there is a danger of them being arrested if any of the inmates are released. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

The film has absolutely no relation to the original film Money or even Money Money. It's a remake of JD Chakravarthy's Darwaza Bandh Rakho, released in 2006, which itself was loosely inspired from a Korean film named 'Attack the gas Station'. The only co-relation between this remake and the Money series is Khan Dhada and a subplot that Khan Dada and Chakri know each other.

J D Chakravarthy who also directed the film, gives a license to Brahmanandam to go berserk with his antics. The veteran comedian is funny till a certain point of time; however the situation turns out to be so grim that he tries too hard to be funny.

Some footage of Brahmanandam dancing and fighting goons is taken from 'Money' and that's the best part of the film.

The conversation between Khan Dada's wife and her mother (Rama Prabha) about Khan Dada is genuinely hilarious and there are few such funny moments in this never ending story.

Most part of the film is shot inside a bungalow and despite the wafer thin storyline J D Chakravarthy adds as many as three love stories! Brahmaji is the best of the lot and his conversation with Gajala makes for an interesting watch.

The rest of the film is extremely chaotic and at times it even reminds us of RGV's Dongala Mutha in terms of its content and the way it has been shot. Perhaps the film should never have been touted as a sequel to Money Money, but even then it's unlikely that the film could have been better.

There are so many better things you can do rather spending money for Money Money More Money. However, if you are someone who can't stop laughing the moment you see Brahmanandam onscreen, go ahead and watch it.