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Cast: Nagarjuna, Ayesha Takia, Anushka, Sonu Sood, Sayaji Shinde, Venu Madhav, Ali, Sunil, Piyush Mishra and Others.
Camera: Shyam K Naidu.
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh.
Music: Sandeep Chowta.
Story, Screenplay, Dialogue, & Direction: Puri Jagannath.
Producer: Nagarjuna.
Banner: Annapurna Studios.
 The film is as much meaningless as its title is. The
story line itself is the basic weakness. Imagine a man
named Sonu (Sonu Sood) fighting with his close friend
Akhil (Nagarjuna), just because he refused to marry
his sister Asha (Anushka), saying he just treated her
as a good friend, but not as a lover, despite her
aggressive approach to pull him into love game. At
one stage we are shocked to watch the girl Asha
getting on to his body and coercing him to go for the
next. When she tries to plant a kiss on his lips he
pushes her down again repeating the same line "I
never loved you but I treated you as best friend."
This particular scene is set in a flashback drama
narrated in the second half of the film. In the first
half we watch Akhil becoming busy with love affair
with another girl Srivalli (Ayesha Takia), a medical
doctor and daughter of a middle class man (Paruchuri
Venkateswara Rao). In the next shot we are made to
understand that Sonu is treating Srivalli as his
sister. But Akhil and Sonu behave like bitter
enemies, fighting at every given opportunity. As the
film opens showing the two in a motorbike race, which
the hero wins, we think that they are enemies because,
Sonu has lost the race and they are 'race' rivals.
But as the second half opens we are shocked to watch
Akhil saying that he and Sonu are very close friends.
Akhil, Sonu and Asha make a team of 'robber-
trio'. Asha is the real sister of Sonu in this
flashback drama. Why then the hero and his friends are
bank robbers? Akhil puts forth a logic that they
turned into bank robbers, as they felt nothing wrong in
doing robberies, as many people are looting the
country with 'scams'. When Asha was seriously ill,
Akhil says he had no other go but to loot a bank,
which eventually became their profession. This means
what all pomp and luxury the hero exhibits in the
first half of the drama is because of the looted money
shown in second half. How can such a 'lootera' can be
called as a hero. Sonu turns foe to Akhil, because his
sister died, after Akhil refused to treat her as
lover. Thus the director uses this sequence to remove
one of the two women from hero's life.
 Sayaji Shinde plays a police inspector and opens
his part with the chase of Akhil. But that role is
suddenly diluted and dropped to the level of a
comedian, by clubbing him with Ali and Venu Madhav. The
inspector wants Ali, a portrait painter, to draw the
picture of Akhil the criminal. And it takes the entire
second half for Ali to draw the sketch. Then
Venu Madhav, a tatoo marker, who writes the name Akhil
on Asha’s forearm, has nothing to do in the film. Thus
none of the characters have a sensible plot line to
entertain audience with a convincing drama. The climax
is routinely drawn with a batch of smugglers demanding
Akhil to loot a vault packed with diamonds, being
carried in a van escorted by great security, lest they
may kill Akhil's lover Srivalli. Better watch
routine scenes of this nature that bring the drama to
a happy end.
The much-talked about motorbike race ends as a
farce, depicting the hero riding the bike on its back
wheel, with the front wheel is lifted up, as his enemy
drove a pipe into the spokes of the wheel. Yet the
hero wins. But for a couple of songs, rest are either
copy tunes or lifted from the western pop. After
watching the movie, one fails to understand why
Nagarjuna's Akhil should look so ruggedly, while his
friend Sonu is left well-kempt. This contrast renders
the film look like a plot written for two heroes. The
dialogue written for him and for all the characters is
elementary in its standard. Seriousness is missing
totally. The development love story between Akhil and
his two girls in two different scenes looks very
casual. You find more lust than love in the behavior
of Anushka. Ayesha gets a better role as a doctor, but
the scenes between Nagarjuna and that girl are poorly
etched. The action part of the drama looks a copy of
Hollywood stuff, with all advanced technology put in
use. The texture has no mass appeal at all except in
the get up of Nagarjuna. Even the motorbike race is an
eyewash. It is a disappointment for those who went to
the theatre with great hopes, obviously misled by its
prerelease publicity. - ASLESHA
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