Review: Sevakudu - Interesting but...

Sevakudu' was completed quite a while back, but could not get a release due to financial difficulties.

Naturally, one's expectations for such a film would be quite low. But the film turns out to be surprisingly interesting, even if it's not completely amazing.

Lakshmi Krishna Prasad (Super Star Krishna) is a wealthy NRI living in the US. Now that he has achieved much in life, his goal in life is to return back to his home turf and contribute to the improvement of it.

Meanwhile, back home, Ramachandrayya (Nazar) is a head constable. He is frustrated with the corruption in the system.

He has tried to change it, but due to his low rank, has not been able to so. His only aim now in life is to turn his son Suryam (Srikanth) into a revolutionary police officer.

He raises his son in a atmosphere conducive to become a great police officer. Krishna Prasad and his daughter Manjula (Manjula) have come back to India with specific plans about how to improve society.

But their paths cross with a local don BalaramYadav (Pradeep Rawat). In the course of conflict, Krishna Prasad gets killed, along with Ramachandrayya who gets accidentally involved.

To know who killed his father, Suryam hatches a plan. He acts like he has turned a bad guy by kidnapping Manjula. This gets him in touch with Yadav. But he is not able to take revenge because of support to Yadav from the police system.

Manjula comes up with the idea that if they take official control of the Vijayawada for three months, they can clean up the city and the system. How Suryam goes about it, how Yadav tries to outwit him and whether Suryam succeeds in his quest forms rest of the film.

Even though Charmee is in the film, she does not contribute to the story at all. Her love track with Suryam only serves as an irritant to film. No wonder why she is not a part of the tiniest promotions.

Krishna puts in an entertaining performance, mouthing off his superstar son Mahesh Babu's popular dialogues from various films. Brahmanandam and Srinivas Reddy make you laugh, but, again, they are not pertinent to the story.

Pradeep Rawat goes through his usual motions of playing a baddie. Srikanth does a great job, showing why he is considered one of the better actors in the industry.

The writer/director has managed to infuse some interesting events and twists, though in terms of plot and emotions the film is not very different from other films of this kind.

He has also managed to give some sense of logic to the most outrageous situations. But overall the film loses fizz when Suryam lectures about society and how it should be changed. One wishes the director could have done that more subtly.

Music is lackluster, and songs come in where you least expect them, hampering the story. Cinematography is better than the industry average. Editing could have been tighter.

The film works well as a commercial pot boiler. So, if you want some Tollywood fun and don't have any other movie on hand, the film is a good option