"VISAKHA EXPRESS" Movie Review
Vara Mullapudi has come up with a good suspense thriller. The film is quite racy and the gripping screenplay adds further interest in the film and makes it a good watch.
The story is about the conflict between two protagonists, Allari Naresh and Rajiv Kanakala. Kanakala is a young doctor who lives with his father Kota Sreenivasa Rao. Kota is an alcoholic and he creates nuisance every day and this puts Rajiv in an embarrassing position. But he loves his father a lot.
One day, his father is admitted in a hospital following an accident and he dies shortly thereafter. Rajiv learns that his father has not died of injuries but due to wrong medication.
Who did it and why. Enter Allari Naresh, a young married guy, who is also a cold-blooded murderer. The psychopathic Naresh tells Rajiv that it is he who has killed his father as per the agreement made in the train. Naresh now wants Rajiv to keep his side of promise and kill Naresh’s wife Preethi Jingiani.
What is the agreement and why Naresh forces Rajiv to kill his wife? What is it that forces Rajiv Kanakala to agree to kill Preethi Jingiani? These are the suspense elements and must be watched on the screen.
Performance:
Rajiv Kanakala and Allari Naresh literally compete with each other fiercely to come up with a better performance than the other. Rajiv Kanakala comes into his won with his film and does a neat job. He dominates the screen for a major part of the first half.
Allari Naresh has done an excellent job as a young and calculating cold-blooded psychopath who can go to any extent to achieve his objective. Kota excels in his brief role particularly in the scene where he is on a hospital bed after the accident.
Preethi Jingiani is okay. Ali as a sub-inspector promises to do something big. But his role is suddenly chopped when the CI sends him away on one-year leave. The rest of the star cast also does a neat job.
Music is fine and Chandrashekar Yeleti’s gripping screenplay is a big asset. Vara Mullapudi has done a deft job with his direction. The film is sure to establish Vara Mullapudi as a promising director.
The film runs in a very interesting fashion and the fast half is very racy. It is as if we are hardly half an hour into the film but it is already intermission. Such is the effect of good screenplay.
The film drags just a bit in the second half and a song obstructs the pace of the film. But the film never bores you at any point of time, even for a second.
End Credits:
Starring:Rajiv Kanakala, Allari Naresh, Kota, Preeti Jingiani, Ali and othersDirector: Vara Mullapudi
Music: Rajiv Kurakula
Release date: 08/02/2008
Labels: Kota Srinivasa Rao, naresh, review, tollywood
