March 06, 2009 Tapaswi
Cast: Sivaji, Kaveri Jha, Brahmanandam, Ahuti Prasad, Ramaprabha, Babloo, Gundu Hanumantha Rao and Others.
Music: Mantra Anand.
Executive Producer: A. Pandu.
Presenter: Datti Nirmala Sivaramakrishna.
Producer(s): Kumar Brothers.
Direction: M. Nagendra Kumar.
Banner: KB Cinema.
This plot is straight out of an American film "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag" made in 1997. All director Nagendra Kumar does is make the heroine look sensuous and rope in Brahmanandam to elicit some laughs but the end result is not worth a chuckle. Sivaji is a golf player infact a champion whose only ambition in life is to wed a rich woman. Luckily for him he bumps into Kaveri Jha who meets his expectations and it is instantaneous love between them.
She flies to USA where her parents live to seek permission to marry him and sends him a ticket to Bangkok and arranges a meeting between Sivaji and her parents. The hero is introduced to Brahmanandam who is a killer and their bags get exchanged in Bangkok. Sivaji doesn't open his bag till the interval but Brahmanandam does once he reaches Hyderabad.
It's tension time for Brahmanandam as he has to retrieve his bag as it contains heads of eight dead men and Sivaji wants to get rid off it as his would be in-laws are baffled and shocked after discovering the contents in the bag. Post interval the film entirely concentrates on the heads of the dead men and after a while the movie becomes painful and irreverent. There is hardly any relation between the title and the story and it's pointless to even decipher certain happenings in the film.
Padmasri Brahmanandam's visuals have been liberally and prominently used in the promos but the hype doesn't work at all as his gags fall flat. Kaveri Jha who did an exposing act in Nagaram goes a few steps ahead here and becomes a voyeur's delight. Sivaji's work is largely forgettable and the saving grace of the film is only the music. Not worth a watch.
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