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Cast: Krishna, Naveen, Rati, Sijju, Prema, Harsha,
Ravi, Jhansi, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, Pavala
Shyamala, Mandadi Krishna Reddi and Others.
Music: Vandemataram.
Story, Screenplay and Direction: Kodi
Ramakrishna.
Banner: Maruthi combines.
 The major attraction of this star cast is Krishna;
while the main draw for the film is veteran director
Kodi Ramakrishna. Krishna plays judge of a district
court who does all sorts of things unbecoming of a
judge. The director has given ‘mass’ touch to this
character only to please Krishna’s fans. One feels
sorry for the type of story he writes for the judge
and other roles played by Naveen, Sijju and Prema and
then fixing them in an insipid screenplay. Naveen
never rises above his past image, nor his role has any
substance for him to make an attempt to give better
performance. A quartet of new faces led by Mandadi
Krishna Reddi are introduced to play villains, whose
only aim is to attack the judge.
Judge Ramprasad (Krishna) looks after his elder
brother’s two sons after his death. He is also in
search of, a grown up girl Jyothi (Prema), born to his
elder brother and a woman he had love affair with,
before he got married to another woman. Thus it is the
story of bringing this illegitimate girl into the fold
of two legitimate sons by their paternal uncle
Ramprasad. He remains a bachelor, to fulfill the
responsibility of bringing up these children. But
these legitimate sons are not aware of the existence
of their half sister. On knowing her roots, Jyothi
too plans her way to get into the fold of her father’s
family, enjoying equal rights with Jagan (Sijju) and
Rajesh (Naveen). How judge Ramprasad plays a catalyst
in this reunion of Jyothi with her brothers forms
the rest of the story. The villainy is restricted to
the conflict between Don of the area (Mandadi Krishna
Reddi) and Judge Ramprasad.
 The other character we find in this run of the mill theme is Harsha with a revolutionary bent of mind.
This role appears to be designed to preach against
youth taking to extremism. But it does not get proper
finish. Kodi also wants to describe factionalism of
Rayalaseema as senseless mayhem. Even that is not
projected well. For Naveen, his role of Rajesh is not
well defined. For some time he is busy with his girlfriend (Rati) in song and dance and at other time he
plays a game of wits with Jyothi only to force her to
reveal who she really is. Sijju and Prema are
bracketed for some time with employer and employee
relationship in a firm Sijju runs. Brahmanandam and
Dharmavarapu are featured in a separate comedy track
that fails to evoke good humor. Vademataram’s music
score is average.
- ASLESHA
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