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		Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Desamuduru Puri's Desamuduru Lacks Punch APK | January 12, 2007 Rating: **.5 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Allu Arjun, Hansika Motwani, Pradeep Rawant, Jeeva, Shankuntala, Raja Ravindra, Ajay, Subbaraju, Srinivasa Reddy, Satyam Rajesh, Ali, Ramaprabha, Kovai Sarala, Raghubabu, Venumadhav and Others. Action: Vijayan. Art: Chinna. Cinematography: Shyam K. Naidu. Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh. Music: Chakri. Story, Screenplay, Dialogues & Direction: Puri Jagannath. Producer: Danayya DVV. Presenter: Bhagavan J. Banner: Universal Media. Release Date: 12th January, 2007. After the super success of Pokiri, Puri Jaganath is back. Allu Arjun, whose only claim to fame was being Chiranjeevi's nephew and Allu Aravind's son. He hit bulls-eye with a makeover and Aarya, and is back with a bang plus six pack abs to go with his flexi dancing skills. Sadly, their much-awaited combi does nothing but disappoint. Puri gave Idiot, Badri and Pokiri, but he also gave 143 and Super. Bunny and Happy's debacle still haunts Arjun with Desamuduru. In one line, the script lacks clarity. Plot: Bala Govind (Arjun) is a reporter from MAA TV (does that remind you of Bangaram?). Anyways he is an investigative journalist, and has an undercover job with a spy cam and all in an illegal liquor set-up. He gets into trouble and beats up the son of Dhoolpeta kingpin Pradeep Rawat. The goons are searching for him, so he flees to Kulu Manali to cover a travel program. Now these villains with all their elaborate set-up, fail to trace him. He falls in love with a Sanyasin, Vaishali, who is a regular damsel in distress. Bala comes back, and a Vaishali's past is revealed-obviously she is not an orphaned Sanyasin. Back in Hyderabad, for Vaishali, the goons and Bala start fresh fights that lead to the climax. Story, Screenplay and Direction: Old: The story, treatment and the characters are all stock-been there and seen that. New: The love track between Bala and Vaishali is slightly novel, with Vaishali being a Sanyasin. The treatment is clichéd and boringly predictable. We know what's going to happen, and there are no twists we did not foresee. Puri's direction skills take a long walk somewhere near the climax, and neither does it have the romance of the first half or any grip required for the second half. The action sequences are not at all precise, and the movie is general lacks a punch. The first killing is reminiscient of Shiva 2006. While Bala leaves Manali, Vaishali running on the rocky terrain is straight out of Krrish. Allu Arjun's newly acquired abs and biceps hog a lot of screen time and he drops his shirt at any given excuse. Vaishali and the Sanyasin gang's whole philosophy are extremely hazy and is silly. Ali's track has nothing to do with the movie, but is there for the laughs. There are umpteen coincidences and nothing is new. Arya is back with his one-sided love (will Allu never leave that?). The editing and cinematography are just fine, but the action, the dialogues and the characters leave little scope for novelty. Even the picturesque locales of Kulu don't capture the passion of Bala-Vaishali or the frenzied youth of Bala or his bravado. Everything just falls flat...on its face. Performances: Allu Arjun carries on with his now regular histrionics. He looks way better than he looked in his debut in Gangotri. That way he is improving and growing-but there is no scope for acting here. Just behave like an obnoxious brat and one can get away with it. Hansika is okay for a debut, and has potential but has miles to go before she can call herself an actor. Her experience as a child actor has made her confident in front of the camera, and she looks young and lovely, but has only two expressions right now. Ali, Srinivasa Reddy, Pradeep Rawat, Shakuntala, Chandramohan get the same characters to play over and over again, yet they deliver. Music and Dance: The picturization is good, and the locales of Kulu serve their purpose well. The songs shot in studious have both the lead pair in hideous costumes, but otherwise they all pass. The item number with Ramba...depends on one's taste entirely. Last Word: The first half with its romantic angle is passable. The track with the goons is done to death. The second half is too loud and lacks any sort of clearness. Idiot's idiotic side was clear, Pokiri's title made sense-why Allu's a Desamuduru, no one is sure after watching this flick. Well, not one of Puri's good movies.