Rama Narayana (Nasser), a strong believer in astrology, warns his daughter not to marry her lover as they would be killed within a year of their marriage as per their horoscope. It turns out to be true, they are killed in an accident leaving their one year old son in the lurch.
Rama Narayanas son Venkata Ratnam Naidu (Venkatesh) brings his nephew Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) to their home much against his fathers warning that this child also would bring death to his maternal uncle.
Venkata Ratnam Naidu rubbishes his fathers theory as silly and raises Karthik as his son. Karthik is now in his early 20s, while Venky Mama remains a bachelor.
Before entering the theatres, audiences would be prepared to see that the film would mainly focus on the bonding and chemistry of Venkatesh and Naga Chaitanya, the real life mama alludu. Director Bobby is clear about this and he has written a story keeping them in the mind.
However, he has written a wafer thin formulaic story that has limited strengths. Knowing well that the story would not entice the audiences, he wrote the screenplay in a way that the main strength of Venky and Chaitanyas chemistry gets elevated. It did indeed to some extent.
The first half of the film is wrapped in this fashion highlighting fun banter between mama and alludu, deriving humor out of Venkys old bachelor image, some regular rural comedy.
While the comedy scenes like Vidyullekha trying to capture the villagers doing their morning ablutions is in poor taste, the comedy involving Payal, Chaitanya and Hyper Aadhi are funny.
After establishing the fact that Venkatesh will have a mruthyu gandam from his nephew at the very beginning of the story, the movie doesnt have much content to sustain the interest further.
To bring a new angle to his predictable story, Bobby has added a military terrorist angle and this part has derailed the movie. Not only this part defies the logic, but it also is out of sync with the main story thematically.
Instead of adding military angle, the director should have fixed to the regular pattern of mama alludu chemistry and coat with entertainment. The final portions are even worse.
All in all, Venky Mama begins well and establishes super chemistry between the uncle nephew duo Venkatesh and Naga Chaitanya, and provides some decent entertainment in the beginning but goes haywire later.
