Oh boy! where do I even begin. With so much hype around this movie, we were determined to see this as fast as we can. So were two other families who were also swept away by this tidal wave. Forgoing the fact that it happened to be a weekday, 9:30P.M show was booked and we were all set to see, with belly full of food in our tummies. For some reason, the theater decided trailers/ads were to be dispensed with. So, as soon as we sat in the movie, the movie began without further ado.
As with so many of Trivikram films, it opens with a hospital scene where two ladies are in labour, one belonging to a rich family and one to a poor family. A mishap of circumstances lead to the babies being swapped. Allu Arjun gets sent to poor family and Sushanth is taken in by the rich folks.
*** Major spoilers ahead ***
1. After Bantu gets the job and when he goes to the work next day he sees a girl in the elevator wearing a short skirt. He continually stares at her legs and the camera too lingers on the girl's thigh and below for the entire duration of the scene and he does that even while talking. They do show that girl is looking bit uncomfortable but the fellow thinks it's alright. She then leaves the lift and she comes to understand it's his first day in the office and he would be meeting his boss today. To noone's surprise, as he enters into the boss cabin, it's the same lady in the lift. He quickly goes out of the room and the he is prodded to go in and apologize. As he enters again, his gaze again lingers on her skirt.
2. In the first fight sequence where Bantu goes to the guys who have snatched his sister's scarf, there are some action scenes that are just plain ridiculous. He holds the other guy's shoulders with both his arms and vertically slams his down to the ground and he going down along with him in the same rhythm and in a split second both of them are back up. Only this time around, the goon is out for toss. There are two takes like that. Is that supposed to be machismo or some kind of extreme super strength? It just looks ridiculous.
3. Coming to the fights themselves, what the hell is the matter with the slo-mo thing? Have filmmakers forgotten how to make a fast action fights without pausing for every kick or punch.There are three major fights in the movie and every single one of them features this. It becomes so grating, you just want to take the remote and press the forward button. The climax fight especially.
4. Bantu finds out the real truth about how his father doing the swapping of the babies and who his actual father is, after hearing it from the nurse who witnessed everything. She then passes away and is taken away in stretcher and on it's way we see Bantu's father passing by shooting a glance at her with Bantu present not far off. When asked if his father knows the nurse, he replies in negative and further goes on to bad mouth the nurse. and gets slapped really hard by Bantu who asks him not to say another word. Nothing gets said as they both ride in the scooter back home but in the middle of the highway they both have a confrontation after he stops his vehicle to talk more.
It is then Bantu reveals about what he knows. This terrifies his father but he assures him he would not reveal the truth to anybody and he sighs a relief saying he found his freedom in not needing to impress his father. It is at this point interval comes in. The movie at this point felt it found it's focal point and I was really curious to see how they take this forward.
