Review: Ramayya brings nothing new - TeluguPeople.com News

Ramayya Vastavayya' is akin to a ride on a fancy, new hot bike fully loaded with petrol, a great road ahead, an interesting friend for company... but somewhere after the first dhaba break, you lose your bike keys, your purse gets stolen, your mobile network fails, your friend ditches you, the police cop hauls you up with a fine... You get the drift right?

The NTR-starrer starts on a promising note with a song, a dance, a comedy scene, a romantic interlude and then moves on to another plane with chilling killings, deadly blows, vengeful flashbacks, emotional atyachars and everything else to end on a grinding and grating halt.

Part A is where Nandu (NTR) plays the below average college guy with above average intelligence and 100 per cent sense of humour. He falls in love with Akarsha (Samantha), impresses her family so much so that they invite him to the secret, high security family wedding without as much as finding out his whereabouts.

Just while you think Nandu is supposed to rescue the family from enemies who are waiting to finish them, comes the kahani mein twist. The protector turns the killer.

The interval scenes ends on a picture abhi baaki hai meri dost note asking questions like why does Nandu want to kill her dad? What is the black & white negative film flashback about etc.

Part B takes you to a village where Ramu's (original name of NTR in the flick) girlfriend Ammulu (Shruthi Haasan) is killed as she fights for the village's rights.

A heartbroken Ramayya now vows to kill the killers, who turn out to be Akarsha's dad (played by Mukesh Rishi). Oh yes, all those scenes like she taking on the big baddies (played by Ravi Shanker and Kota) with gun men, bouncers, Tata Sumos and sten guns with placards, talking about anyayam, akramam, mosam dhaga etc.

Surprising how our heroines will never learn how to deal smartly with such folks. Won't it be great to see them making a call to 100 or filing a public interest litigation, or getting them caught red handed on secret cameras?

Harish Shankar does a marvelous job in the first half as though some magic possessed him. The scenes are crafted well, the dialogues have the necessary juice and things seem perfectly in place. His lucky mascot of hit music medley is also there.

After that, the obvious scenes are dealt in detail, but the novel ones how he manages to circumvent the tight security at the family wedding or how the CBI cops (Rao Ramesh as cop) corner him etc are given skipped conveniently leading the movie to a point of no return. Even the grandma episode with Rohini Hattangadi looks promising but ends abruptly on a jarring note.

NTR's introduction scene with him donning Karna's role complete with the mace and crown mouthing the memorable `Emantivemantivi' followed by the scenes of happy-go-lucky episodes are good. Choreography is novel and neat. NTR dances like magic in the `Sarisagamapa'.

Samantha seems to have got the exact role she had in `Attarintiki Daaredhi' 'clueless. Shruthi walks off with an activist role and that is laudable.

Thaman shows brilliance in `Jabilli' song...the other song that is great is `manase veenalu mroge' from `Aatmeeyulu `(which plays in the back drop).