In a far off island, Indias most wanted don Javed Ibrahim (Jagapathi Babu) runs a bank and lives with his daughter Alia Khan (Aditi Arya). Sultan (Kalyan Ram), a fighter, teases Alia Khan to love him but she does not accept.
One day he meets Javed Ibrahim and befriends him. He tells Javed that he is loving a rich person daughter but she is not accepting his love and asks him some idea. Javed gives an idea that works.
Only later he realizes that Sultan actually took the idea to propose to his daughter. Not only that he comes to know that Sultan came to this Island to catch him and he is not a fighter but a journalist. Rest of the drama is about unraveling Sultans true identity.
Analysis:-
By now, people have stopped expecting a classic like Pokiri from Puri Jagannadh after watching so many bad movies from him but all agree that he is still capable of presenting a decent movie like Temper. Hence expectations were built on Ism but he disappoints again with this film.
He told Ism in more formulaic way, a way that he has created his own. From the days of Pokiri, he is narrating stories of hero going after heroine and pressurizing her to love him and then from interval episode moving on to the story part. This has become a Puri style. Ism too follows similar way.
But in this film, the romantic track shot on Kalyan Ram and Aditi Arya is not at all appealing. The scenes, the songs, the dialogues and the heroine all are bad in the romantic episode.
Post interval, the story turns into a serious mode and he reveals the main theme of the movie a journalist creating a group of hackers to expose all the crimes purported by politicians. This part he has handled very well.
The court scene where Kalyan Ram pours out his heart and asks all the hackers in India to send out the black money from Paradise bank to the accounts of crores of people in India is the best one.
Puri has shown an international mafia don like Javed Ibrahim more like a bafoon. He is seen interacting with a match maker in a comic way, and meeting Kalyan Ram casually and giving him silly ideas. Not only that in the end Javed Ibrahim turns into a good guy. Puri Jagannadh has made an International Don a noble person!
The concept is actually interesting one but he has failed to tell it interestingly. This kind of concept of hacking the banks and transferring the black money to the accounts of ordinary Indians needs a screenplay that we see in Shankar movies. The concept went awry due to routine screenplay.
This is the first time that Telugu film industry touched upon Wiki Leaks kind of journalism. All in all, despite patriotic scenes, noble cause of journalism, the movie does not hold interest due to bad packaging. Kalyan Ram and court scene in the end are good part of the movie.
Greatandhra