 | STARRING : Srikanth, Jagapathi Babu, Kaveri Jha and others MUSIC : Chakry RELEASE DATE : 06/03/2008 |
Below Average
Story:
Nagaram is one more film about gang lords, rowdy sheeters and the underworld. Director Srinivas tries to make it a bit different from other films but has failed completely. The film on the whole is rehash of many previously released films.
The hero(?) Srikanth goes by this strange name ‘Right’. He is the right hand of the most powerful underworld gang leader Kasim (Pradeep Rawat). Right will do any job assigned to him for money.
Right assists Kasim in all ways. One day while on one of his routine missions to bump of a very big government official, Right abandons the idea of killing him as there are two children in the car, which is their target. He informs Kasim but his son asks the other gang member of Right to go ahead. The children are killed, along with the targeted person.
This angers Right and he questions Kasim. The relations between them are strained from this point. Kasim’s son is taught by Right and he is killed. This infuriates Kasim and gets all the gang memebrs of Srikanth killed.
In a parallel rack we have a honest police officer ACP Jagapathi Babu. He does not believe in law in the strict sense He dispenses jussive instantly by cornering crooks and rapists and shoting them down and terms it as encounter.
A minster and Kasim then get this honest cop Jagapathi Bau transferred and bring in a corrupt to the core cop Kalabhavan Mani. They assign the task of killing Right to this cop.
Kaveri Jha is a Phd. student and she wants to do research on the underworld gang. So she enters the house of Srikanth and his gang by stating that she is facing threat from her relatives so she wants protection for some days.
Performance:
The film is a Srikanth show all the way. Srikanth fits the role of a shrewd gangster with a kind heart. He comes out well. Srikanth also gets a chance to some daredevil stunt scenes.
Jagapathi Babu as a honest ACP is stylish and also does a neat job. But his role dos not have much prominence.
Kaveri Jha does not have too much of a role. She appears in a couple of duets songs with Srikanth and in some scenes. She ha s very big eyes that remind us of Talluri Rameshwari. The rest of the cast go about their jobs in a routine fashion.
There are some loose ends in the film. Some characters have also not been properly etched. Kaveri Jha helping Srikanth to set up a ‘second marriage’ bureau is also not very convincing
.
The heroine is packed away before the climax – she leaves for her native place. We do not know if her love has succeeded her not.
The comedy is also weak. The film boasts of comedians like Brahmanandam, Ali, Venu Madhav, Dharmavarapu, Raghubabu etc .but still then there is not much of a comedy.
The music is also average.
The film is slow paced for most of the time and the climax is also lengthy. Even Manisha Koirala fails to set the screen on fire. Her items song is dull and tasteless.
