Review: Baadshah - a sequel to Dookudu

Going for a Sreenu Vytla movie with a big star in the lead is like going to a branded food outlet like Cafe Coffee Day for a treat. You know how it tastes, you know how much it costs and you come back having the exact experience you had the last time you went to the same place to order the same thing.'Baadshah' is almost a 'Dookudu 2'.

The same premise ' a superhero chasing bad boys and mafia dons, hero falling for the heroine and trying to break her wedding with an idiot, lots of shaadi-mandap fun, Brahmanandam as the big bakra, the hero finally donning his real avatar of a good cop, comedy of errors' Delete Mahesh, Samantha and Istanbul to replace it with NTR, Kajal and Milano and you've got 'Baadshah'.

However, no complaints as Sreenu Vytla dishes out an action-cum-comedy-family entertainer in his inimitable style guaranteeing 100 % entertainment and 0 % food for thought.

The film travels as four parts with the first one showcasing the NTR as the dhanadhan don who can shoot anyone with his bullets and his dialogues.

He is in Italy and Hong Kong to demolish the ruling dons and a bunch of baddies with names like Sadhubhai, Crazy Robert, Violent Victor, Ruthless Rajesh etc.

The first half proceeds like an action video game where you have no clue who kills who, who shoots at whom, why the cars go flying up in the air etc. No method to this madness.

The next is on how he meets the innocently funny Janaki (Kajal Aggarwal) and falls for her for personal and professional reasons. It is refreshing to see even the heroine have substantial number of good (sensible) dialogues and a decent role.

The third part deals with why he is after the big bad don Sadhubhai (Kelly Dorjee), a tremendous flashback and the final part is an impending wedding, attempts to make a fool of the groom Aditya (Navadeep), Janaki's police commissioner dad (Nazar) and all that confusion.

'Dhee', 'Ready', 'Dookudu' and more have similar storylines but 'Baadshah' still manages to leave you with a few laughs. As always, Vytla uses simple things to create humour ' some white lies, gap of communication, little misunderstandings, wrong phone calls, spiked drinks etc.

Comedy and satire bits on social networking bits, how average looking Kanishkas and Sangeetas pretend to be beautiful Anushkas and Samantas, filmi folks taking to Twitter for every single thought that comes to their mind are total timepass.

When was the last time you heard a mainstream heroine have 15 dialogues in one stretch? Kajal's 'banthi' concepts, where she likens everything in life to a game of ball, is terrific.

Vaitla goes a bit overboard with his obsession for the fair skin with many foreign dancers in the background for two duets. MS Narayana as a director with horror as his fetish has shades of Ramgopal Varma, in good humour though. 'Arre rhyming adirindi, Twitter lo pettara,' he tells his assistant.

ntr2NTR looks leaner, cleaner and meaner with a brand new haircut with short fringes on his forehead. No DNA test needed to prove he is NTR's grandson after seeing him do the role of Justice Chowdary to perfection imitating the legendary NTR.

Each line he mouths is sharper than the bullets that come hurtling from his pistol. 'Bayapade vadu banisa, bayapetta vadu baadshah; satruvunu kottalante kasi vunte saripodu, content vundali'.

'Baadshah' goes all out to woo Nandamuri fans with medley of NTR songs and bits in various scenes. It is unpretentiously commercial from the word go. Not a bad show for a regular summer evening watch.