Review: Action 3D - a laughter gas
It is not so much about logic. A ticket to an Allari Naresh film has always meant bidding adieu to reason. So be it with action with an added dimension!
Why would you, in the first place, want to strain yourself with logic and reason when you have sufficient and more to laugh and the likes of Brahmanandam and MS Narayana working overtime; may be with nothing new but the time tested take off on popular actors (Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu), another take on 'carry bags' and the like?
To begin with, Anil Sunkara (director) is unpretentious and offers what the huge crowds lined up at the theatre are expecting.
The cat calls and the laughs clearly in dicate that he has got the audience' pulse. May be his crew lets him down in a few places, but that notwithstanding, he keeps the energy levels going with the humour.
You have a rough idea of what is in store when you have Posani Krishna Murali and Sunil doing the job of the sutradhars. The tale is about four guys (there you go with yet another case of male bonding!!).
Bava (Allari Naresh), Shiva (Vaibhav Reddy), Purshottam (Raju Sundaram) and Shaam ('Kick' Shaam) head to Goa just a few days before the wedding of Shaam. Sporting pa-in-law to be, offers a swanky car and advices the prospective sonin-law to have all the fun and the works.
You know by now that Goa is not just fun and frolic. There is looming challenges hidden in the pubs and parks, sea shore and hotels. Their adventure begins at a restaurant run by Rayalaseema arch types who only speak after hurling an axe on a guy. On the run from the guys they meet up with Neelam Upadhyay (Geeta) on the way.
They land up in the middle of nowhere and their car is literally ruined, but soon they reach Goa. There are a plenty of people walking into the script with cameos and with characters that are relevant as long as they last.
In Goa, they reach the terrace of their hotel for a drinking binge and run into Bokka Venkat Rao (MS Narayana). The next morning with a huge hangover in their rooms littered to the hilt and a fowl running around and a tiger in the wash room! Also they realise that Shaam is missing.
Bava also receives a phone call from Magnet Mama (Brahmanandam) who lands in Goa to add to their woes. Problems pile up and they get entangled in a maze that is not easy to unravel. For the viewer each is a great opportunity to have a laugh.
What makes the movie watchable is the brilliance of the likes of Brahmanandam, MS Narayana and Raju Sundaram. The romantic angle is actually a distraction and fortunately, the filmmaker does not spend too much time on that track though he dedicates the customary romantic songs for the hero and heroine. Allari Naresh is his usual self with deft one-liners and perfect timing.
The film is not wanting in will to entertain. It is a tad too long for a comedy and there are times when it turns a tad too crass, with jokes on a child's used diaper landing on ones face. This not withstanding it is just the kind of comedy on which we have grown and would often pay to entertain ourselves.
News Posted: 23 June, 2013
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