Review: Brahmi regales as Jaffa - TeluguPeople.com News

Built around Brahmanandam, this comedy without any pretension, exploits the skills of the central actor and builds two hours of cinema around him.

For props, he has other colleagues who have repute in similar space, if not as high. Just when we have Sunil graduate from the status of a comedian to that of a hero, we have the top of the rack comedian deciding to take an entire script rather than steal the show with miserly screen space.

Jasmine Phalguna alias Jaffa, the central character, is a software engineer who is in jail accused of assisting the suicide of his colleague Sujit (Chakravarthy) though the actual cause is the boss at work Melkote.

Don't take any of this seriously, as this too is full of laughs and guffaws. In jail, we have a complete assembly of guys who are there just to make life simple for the viewer.

We have father Suyodhana (Raghu Babu) who bores the life out of the guys with his version of the Bible and we have the in-charge inspector/warden (Vennela Kishore).

What speeds up Jaffa's entry into the jail is when his friend Alladin (Venu Madhav) assures him of assistance from this well connected guy Quli Qutub Shah Chasmee Badoor Noori. However, at the police station, he forgets the name and gets remanded to prison.

In prison, he soon becomes very popular and adorns the role of the local counsellor. Anyone with a problem runs to him for cover or solutions. This includes the jail warden. They both plan an escape.

However, there is a huge mix up and the two land up in a grave with the warden dead and Jaffa with a cell phone. The rest of the film is about the abortive attempts to rise from the grave and reach out to people through the cell phone.

Also we have Tapasvi Katragada (Ali) who is the investigator on the prowl to get hold of Jaffa who has escaped from jail.

This laugh riot entertains, but bites more than it can chew. If only the editor had been strict with his scissor, we would have had a winner on hand.

Even otherwise, the film is worth a look. If nothing it showcases the brilliance of Brahmanandam and reiterates that a film need not have the usual hero and heroine singing songs and dancing to the tunes of a hundred piece orchestra tucked off in the backdrop.

This is laugh riot and could have been better. Far better. The technical support fails the film. The stars lift it. The post interval unfortunately meanders and robs the comedy of spirit. The film is recommended, if nothing for the brilliance of Brahmanandam, if that was ever in doubt.