Even as a kid, Radhakrishna (Sharwanand) dreams of becoming a police officer. After seeing his knack in nabbing criminals, DGP recommends him to be S.I. On his first posting, he is sent to a village where crime rate is zero. Though he is disappointed to work in this village, he gets to meet Radha (Lavanya Tripathi), an engineering student studying in Hyderabad. He loves her and a teasing romance episode happens.
Few days later he is transferred to Dhoolpet in Hyderabad. An attack on minister Sujatha (Ravi Kishan), changes his life. His colleagues die saving Sujatha but Radhakrishna comes to know that the minister is the real villain.
How Radhakrishna sends the powerful minister to jail forms the rest of the story.
Analysis:-
After having played as youthful hero in many movies, Sharwanand has attempted to play to the gallery. Hence, he selected this story of Radha, which is a regular police story that we have seen umpteen times.
If a regular story is wrapped with entertainment with a star who has not done such similar stories earlier, it may seem okay. Radha has many okay moments but it does not go beyond that, which is a major issue.
All our leading Tollywood stars have played the character of a young guy dreaming to become cop and set the society right.
Hero acting innocent in front of the villain and secretly collapsing his entire empire has also been dealt in many movies. So, the hero character as well as main chunk of scenes is not something new.
Yet, Sharwanand shows confidence that he can make it workable. To be fair to him, his playful act of a police officer is neat.
He is shown as a person who loves telling Bhagavad Gita to people, and refers real life persons with the characters from Gita, which is funny.
His romantic thread with Lavanya in the village is also entertaining. But these scattered moments does not make this movie riveting or interesting. When entire drama itself is routine, a heros performance does not salvage it.
The director has taken logic to the backseat and has repeated the same scenes of old cop stories heroine being stopped by his colleagues at a traffic, hero being present at villain's home and making him a bafoon, a comic character introduced to irritate villain, etc.
While the narration goes on predictable mode, the movie also serves some entertainment in the form of Shakalaka Shankar and Sapthagiri in the second half.
Sapthagiri who has done spoof of NTRs role from Nannaku Prematho makes us laugh. If not for this comedy track, the movie would have become more boring.
Regular storyline, weak narration, routine romantic thread outweighs the positives of Sharwanands performance and comedy.
So, all in all, the movie ends up as a regular masala movie with a dose of comedy. Sharwanand is main highlight in this whole fare.
Greatandhra