Chintakayala Ravi (Venkatesh) is a mother’s pet. In order to please his mother Seshumamba (Lakshmi), he doesn’t mind to do anything. He manages marks in education, and goes to the US to undertake a course in software there. Though he did not work in any software company, he pretends to be working as software engineer and his mother continues to believe it and tells everyone in the village that her son is a software engineer in the US. However, Ravi struggles hard to survive in the US by working as the head bartender in Cyber Wave, a bar and restaurant, where software engineers generally frequent. Seshu finds an alliance to Ravi in Mamidikayala Lavanya @ Love (Mamata Mohandas). The girl, who has a fascination of moving in luxurious cars in the lavish streets of the US agrees to the alliance. Love contacts her friend Sunita in the US to enquire about Ravi. The accidental introduction between Ravi and Sunita make the latter believe that Ravi is a womaniser. Later, Sunita finds that Ravi is working as a bartender and informs the same to Love. This spoils the entire alliance process. Ravi’s father (Chandramohan) gets a slap by Love’s father Bhupati (Sayaji Shinde) for allegedly cheating them. Ravi learns that it all happened due to Sunita and decides to take revenge against her. He spoils her alliance in the US too, which results in the hospitalisation of Sunita’s father (Chalapati Rao). However, Ravi’s friend also admits in the same hospital after an accident and Sunita learns how big gentleman Ravi is. A doctor working in the hospital reveals that Ravi sacrificed his career to save the life of a person, whom he met immediately after his landing in the US. This makes Sunita realise her folly and get her closer to Ravi. Their friendship turns love. At this juncture, Ravi’s friends contact the person (Venu Thottempudi) whose life was saved by Ravi and make him explain everything to Love’s father in India. As the clouds fade away, the sky turns clear and Bhupati sends his brother and Ravi’s father to the US to bring Ravi for marriage. What happened to the love between Sunita and Ravi? Did Seshu come to know that her son is not working as software engineer? What was her reaction? What about Lavanya? Did she agree to sacrifice her prospective groom to her friend? Answers to all these questions form part of the climax.
It was Venkatesh all the way in the entire film. The film could not be thought without Venkatesh. He not only gave a tremendous performance in the flick with excellent and perfect comedy timing, but also impressed the family audiences with his superb performance in the second half, especially in sentimental scenes. Though most of the songs are not very impressive, a couple of tunes were catchy and foot tapping. It is worth mentioning here that Venkatesh would always in the forefront to shed his image and ready to live in a particular character. The audiences could find the same in this film too by presenting himself as a bartender. Another speciality is that Anushka was so far used by the directors as a glamour doll, who used to move around the heroes as a romantic and chivalrous girl. This time, she got a lot of scope for performance and she proved herself that she too could perform given a chance. Mamata Mohandas’ role was restricted to dance with the hero in a couple of duets in the first half. Other senior artistes including Chandramohan, Sayaji Shinde did justice to their roles, while Lakshmi reproduced the same old senimental mother’s role of ‘Murari’ in this film again. Though the number of comedians is heavy, which include, Brahmanandam, Venumadhav, Srinivasa Reddy, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam and others, none of them could bring smile on the face of audiences. Ali also played the same old ‘Nachimi’ character of Chiruta fame in this film too. Sunil tried to play a novel role as a comedy villain but failed to live to the expectations. There are three surprises in the film. Venu who appears like a flash in a couple of scenes left a nice impact on the audiences with his role. Ajay, who is emerging as a good villain in Telugu films played a very soft and innocent role in the flick. The last but not the least, NTR joins the party hosted by Ajay in the film and shakes his legs with Venkatesh in a song which goes like ‘Tavva Tavva…’.
Kona Venkat scripted the story and dialogues for the flick and it is really a tailor-made subject for Venkatesh. It appears Venkatesh, in order to keep his identity alive and to prevent the damage by giving a flop to his career, is trying to choose safe subjects, instead of going for novel subjects. Besides story and dialogues Kona Venkat also scripted additional screenplay and assisted in running the movie with a good tempo. Chandrabose failed to impress the audiences with his songs and they remained average. Only two or three songs are good to listen and their choreography is also fine to some extent. Vishal-Sekhar duo could not attract the audiences with their tunes. Moreover, the bit song before the climax was almost a lift from their popular film ‘Om Shanti Om’. Background score by Manisharma is okay. Camera work by Ravindrababu is impressive and he was able to capture the lifestyle and beauty of the US well. Editing by Srikara Prasad is adequate. Director Yogesh showed good improvement in performance from his earlier films.
However, with has no mass masala scenes or action scenes in the film to attract the mass audiences the movie may not attract mass audiences. The production values of Nallamalupu Bujji are good and the film remind the audiences of Venkatesh’s entertainers like ‘Nuvvu Naaku Nachav’ and ‘Aadavari Maatalaku Ardhale Verule.’ Though the storyline is a routine, the director gave it a novel treatment. Had the director overcome the poor run of screenplay, the film would have been further better.
Cast & Crew:
Cast: Venkatesh, Anushka, Mamata Mohandas, NT Rama Rao (special appearance), Venu Thottempudi (guest appearance), Chandramohan, Sayaji Shinde, Pradeep Shakti, Sunil, Brahmanandam, Ali, Ajay, MS Narayana, Ganesh, Venumadhav, Raghubabu, Srinivasa Reddy, Lakshmi, Arthi Chabria and others
Music: Vishal-Sekhar
Lyrics: Chandrabose
Camera: K. Ravindrababu
Editing: Srikar Prasad
Presents: Bhavya
Producer: Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji)
Story, Dialogues, additional screenplay: Kona Venkat
Screenplay & Direction: Yogesh.
Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
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