It’s awesome. Incredible. Amazing. Jalsa’s first day collections have created a history of sorts with many records keep on crumbling.
Jalsa, the most anticipated film of recent times, has hit the halls today and it has more than lived up to the expectations. The grand opening was simply awesome with a collection of more then seven crore rupees all over the world.
Jalsa, featuring Power Star Pawan Kalyan and Ileana in the lead, was released all over the country and in major centres in foreign countries. The collection has created history by breaking many records. This is the highest collection in 76 years of Telugu film history and also the first for any regional film in south India in a single state.
Jalsa, directed by Trivikram, is released in record number of theatres (23) in Vijaywada and more than 1 lakh people watched the movie on Day 1 in the district.
The grandeur of the achievement could be understood by the fact that it has collected more than seven crores on the first day as opposed to the average collection of 8 crores for the big films during the first week.
Jalsa is heading towards an unprecedented success with the first day’s trend is expected to continue in the coming days.
Here goes the break up of the first day collections
| S.No. | Area | Collection |
| 01 | Nizam | 1,84,50,000 |
| 02 | Ceded | 1,35,75,000 |
| 03 | U.A | 92,00,000 |
| 04 | Guntur | 56,00,000 |
| 05 | Krishna | 55,00,000 |
| 06 | East | 60,00,000 |
| 07 | West | 40,00,000 |
| 08 | Nellore | 48,00,000 |
| 09 | Karanataka | 32,00,000 |
| 10 | Overseas | 36,00,000 |
| 11 | Rest of India | 21,00,000 |
| Total | 7,67,75,000 | |
Sanjay Sahu (Pawan Kalyan) is a happy-go-lucky type youth. Bhagyamati (Ileana) falls in love with him and Sanjay accepts her 
Pawan Kalyan: Pavan Kalyan is extremely energetic as Sanjay Sahu. He did fresh dialogue modulation to create good humor. Everybody had a doubt about Pawan Kalyan performing to the Trivikram's punches and I must say that Pawan Kalyan excelled in getting the Trivikram dialogues right. He did not mind uttering satire on his 'pulla kallu'. He also did fights really well. Pawan Kalyan is looking dashing in Che Guevera get-up during his naxalite days.
Heroines: Ileana did the role of confused and dumb girl. She is alright. It is a passive role for such a vivacious actress like Ileana. Parvati Melton is sexy to the extent that she dominated Ileana in all the scenes where they were together. Kamalinee Mukherjee did a cameo and she is good. Actor Sivaji did a small role.
Story - screenplay - direction: The basic storyline of the film is wafer-thin. It is a love story of a reformed naxalite who is forced to confront a bad man. Trivikram excelled in dialogue department and penned many episodes catering to comedy segment. But as a script 
Other departments: Dialogues are superb. Music by Devi Sri Prasad is very good. Background score is also nice. All the 
Analysis: First half of the film is packed with nice 
Jalsa, which ripped out huge expectations thanks to the heavy promotional strategies, including a Game show. Pawan Kalyan, after a long time, came with Kushi-like mannerisms. Racy stunts, similar songs and music for all numbers, scenes shuttling between the hero and villain, sporadic comedy is all about Jalsa. Levels of entertainment are Good
Sanjay Sahu (Pawan Kalyan) hails from a poor rural family at remote village in Karimnagar district . His brother dies of heart disease as a child. His father commits suicide as crops fail and his mother too is no more soon. While going to burial ground, he repeatedly slips and swoons at a stone pillar. He plucks it out, which enrages the henchmen of a land-grabber Damodar Reddy (Mukesh Rishi). When they attack him, Sahu beats them to near-death, and 
disappears into a forest and joins the naxalites. During a combing operation, Sahu and a police officer (Prakash Raj) meet each other and become good companions under strange circumstances. Sahu comes to Hyderabad and duly rehabilitated as a college student. The police officer's younger daughter Bhagi aka Bhagmati (Ileana) falls in love with Sahu. However, the cop is not willing to sing his daughter's marriage with Sahu, whom he thinks as a carefree 
youth without commitments. Meanwhile, Damodar Reddy is out on a vengeance mission against Sahu, as his lands are distributed among the rural poor by the naxalites. Now, the police officer wants to get his daughter married to a decent young man (Sivaji), but he soon realizes that he is none other than the younger son of Damodar Reddy. How does Sahu accomplish the task of undoing Reddy's attacks and winning the hand of Bhagi? It forms the climax.
Pawan Kalyan steals the show from the start to finish. He shoulders the entire responsibility of doing something now and then to create the mood of Jalsa. However, his characterization suffers from reaching a full dimension. The hero falling in love with the elder daughter of a police officer and later asking the same man to give his younger daughter might sound funny, 
but is a blot coming to hero's characterization. After the interval bang, everybody expects some serious action on the part of the hero. All there are three heroines – Ileana, Kamalinee Mukherjee and Parvati Melton. All of them are strictly limited to oomph-less glamour, with some saving grace from Ileana. Parvati Melton looked too heavy 
besides Pawan Kalyan. Mukesh Rishi played the hardcore villain of the piece. But, his villainy is dramatic. Prakash Raj appears as a police officer (SP). Sivaji as usual did a small role as a bridegroom. You have comedians – Sunil, Brahmanandam and Ali. But, there are lot of scenes to tickle our ribs.
used in a serious tone, the episodes and the happenings later do not match the tone. 
Music by Devi Sri Prasad sounds the good & people enjoyed a lot in all songs. 
hero plucks the stone pillar and attacks the baddies, is a good watch, packed with emotion too. 
