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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Jai Chiranjeeva Lackluster drama Also read New G.O. Creates Controversy Rating: *** (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Chiranjeevi, Bhoomika Chawla, Sameera Reddy, Arbaaz Khan, Sunil, Venu Madhav, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, Sudha and Others. Action: Allan Amin Ghani & Vijay. Art: Anand Sai. Cinematography: Venugopal. Dialogue: Trivikram. Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao. Music: Mani Sharma. Producer: C Aswani Dutt. Screenplay & Direction: K Vijaya Bhaskar. Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies. Release Date: 21st December, 2005.  Not necessary that a writer - director combination would click always, just because they did, in one or two films. This reference is made in the case of Vijayabhaskar as director and Trivikram as story and dialogue writer. This pair made a combination in that super duper hit 'Nuvve Kavali', quite some time back. Trivikram tried his hand at a couple of films as director recording with partial success. The talk that Trivikram is specially known for one liner (that is one line dialogue), is otherwise nothing but repartees. There is a difference between small budget love theme and big budget action drama. Writers like Paruchuri brothers wrote for many Chiranjeevi's films and were known for longish dialogue. Here, what ever one liners we come across are all artificial repartees, except in some scenes of child sentiment.This film, in one way, inaugurates the G.O. of YSR giving freedom to the producers to enhance the rates of first two classes, upto 75 percent more. Therefore it is all the more punishment for the audience who purchased the tickets at higher rates. Some must have purchased in black market paying some more extra. Crowds thronged the theatres. But all this is not the worth their money. The film is routine drama with escapist fare and usual fun and farce and ofcourse action and dance associated with Chiranjeevi films.  The very theme has all impossible situations, like the hero setting out to avenge a wrong done to his family, coming across two heroines and then playing hide and seek game of romance for some time, black mailing game by villains and then resorting to 'tit-for-tat', finally tracing the main villain and putting an end to him. But the character structure and the way some scenes are etched featuring Chiranjeevi make us feel that the essential element is humor. But it does not go well because humorous sequences definitely kill the spirit of serious drama. The very purpose of the hero, here, is to avenge the killing of his niece. And the villain shoots a little girl down just for fun, as if testing the most advanced pistol he smuggled from America. The architect of this villain is one Pasupathi, played by Bollywood star Arbaaz Khan. His stooge is Dhanushkoti (Jayaprakash Reddy). Pasupathi lives in America and smuggles arms to India. Dhanushkoti markets them. In this scheme how does a little girl fits in to be killed by Pasupathi - just like that. This itself is the basic mistake in etching the drama. This child killing being the very first scene it disturbs the psyche of the audience. And it goes against the very approach of artiste Chiranjeevi, who wants to cater to the entertainment of children. You can imagine the reaction of any child in the auditorium. True. The hero Satti (Chiranjeevi) settles the score finally. But what does he do in between. He whiles away his time with two girls who come into his life at different stages and then drinks with his friend Venu (Venumadhav) and then displays some erratic behavior. We feel at one stage that the character forgot his mission and is trying to entertain the audience for box office sake.The story in short is the hunt by the hero, the villain who killed his niece, while she was moving on a swing in a park. The child's name is Lavanya. In tracing the villain Satti comes across different characters like Neelu (Sameera Reddy), with whom he falls in love, a doctor who first examined the girl brought dead to his hospital and Dhanushkoti (Jayaprakash Reddi) operating a branch office to the main villain Pasupathi. The latter lives in USA. Therefore Satti too goes there using the services of green card holder Sailu (Bhoomika), whom he marries in a church to acquire entry into USA. The much-publicized statue of Anjaneya and the associated song are found in the last scenes. There is also a Vinayaka Statue.  The film ends leaving us in doubt as to the very purpose of the drama. Chiranjeevi has put on weight and is looking fluffy in some scenes. The dances have slowed down and the fights and display of martial skills are artificial. Well, his presence is enough to pull the audience to the theatre initially. Therefore the rest of the artistes have less to carry. Venumadhav is brought in to play sidekick of the hero and Sunil who used to play that role is pushed into a relatively smaller role of an imbecile. Sameera Reddy and Bhoomika fit well in the secondary position they are given. The artistes who play small and big villains look the same as they do in other films. There is nothing to boast of music. All are familiar tunes that run against accentuated drumbeat. The title only glorifies the hero, not the God (Anjaneya).
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