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Cast: Ali, Venumadhav, Jyothi, Abhinayasri, Kota
Srinivasa Rao, Tanikella Bharani, Dharmavarapu,
Rajendrababu, M.S.Narayana, Ramaraju, Sunil,
Brahmanandam and Others.
Dialogue: Janardana Maharshi.
Photography: Srinivasa Reddy.
Fights: Vijay.
Story, Music, Screenplay and Direction: S.V.Krishna Reddy.
Banner: RR Moviemakers.
 This is comical 'Hungama', designed by maker of
family comedies too, SV Krishna Reddy. He creates
many characters to feature most of the comedians of
Telugu cinema. Kota Srinivasa Rao and Tanikella
Bharani, playing step brothers Pedababu and Chinababu
respectively, kick start the drama. They are jealous
of each other and each wants to find a better match to
his daughter than the other. Another man
(M.S.Narayana) has unmarried son Sithapati (Sunil).
They seek the match of Chinababu's daughter Madhu
(Abhinaya Sri). But Chinababu rejects, doubting the
moorings of the family of Sithapati, as he looks
different from his parents and a bit aged too. Hurt
at this observation, the father and son want to take
revenge on Chinababu by seeing to it that a rogue
becomes son-in-law of Chinababu. They succeed in
choosing a rag picker Balu (Venumadhav) to wed the
girl. Chinanbabu falls for this because he believes
the news spread by Sitapathi that the boy is the son
of Bobbili Raja, on the run to avoid marriage with a
girl thrust on him by his father.
It is now the turn of Pedababu (Kota) to fix his
daughter Divya’s (Jyothi) marriage with another young
man Badri (Ali), not knowing he too is a rag picker
and cheat, but pretending as a great film maker and
son of a Zamindar. The third pair of true lovers is
also created in the drama bringing Thyagaraju
(Rajendrababu), real son of Bobbili Raja and Sita
(Amuktamalyada), the girl he loves and wants to marry,
against the will of his father. Thus the director
provides base for his Hungama, creating all these
pairs. Brahmanandam is brought in at this stage as
personal attendant of Bobbili Raja (Ramaraju), to
comment and react on the happenings in Raja’s house
with mistaken identities.
 It is more a comedy of errors, with Krishna Reddy
depending more on creating situations, to entertain
his audience. The dialogue never comes to his aid. It
is Brahmanandam's reactions that kick up good humor in
the crucial part of the climactic drama, set in the
house of the Bobbili Zamindar (Ramaraju). There is a
fight scene set between Venumadhav and a professional
fighter in the opening parts of the drama, associating
it with Balu’s game of cheating. This is interestingly
shot. And the only other scene that entertains us is
this comedy set in Zamindar’s house. Basically a
mimicry artiste, Venumadhav imitates some popular
heroes in his diction and style. Jyothi and
Abhinayasri play opposite Ali and Venumadhav and
Amuktamalyada paired with Rajendrababu too has no role
to play but for walking like Sita behind Rama.
Tanikella, Kota and Dharmavarapu (as modern marriage
consultant) add their own skills to kick up humor.
M.S.Narayana plays a sick man and is silent throughout
except making gestures being interpreted by a nurse.
Brahamanandam becomes sheet anchor of the latter part
of drama, behaving crazy, watching wrong girls with
wrong men in this game of identity crisis. Krishna
Reddy’s music score has some pleasant tunes to relish.
- ASLESHA
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