Telugu Movie Review : Mallanna

Film: Mallanna
Cast: Vikram, Superstar Krishna, Shriya, Prabhu, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mukesh Tiwari, Mumait Khan, Brahmanandam and others
Dialogues: Sahiti
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography: N K Ekambaram
Art: Thota Tharani
Produced by: Kalaipuli S Thanu
Story, screenplay and directed by: Susi Ganeshan
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Vebtoday Review : 2.25/5

Story

The film begins with a huge crowd of people to a temple to submit their problems as petition to Lord Kandasamy (Mallanna). As a ritual, they write their problem in a piece of paper and tie them in a sacred tree in the temple. Soon, their problems seem getting solved and the God’s name becomes popular.

The joint director in CBI (Krishna/Prabhu) starts investigating on these unnatural happenings whereas Mallanna/Kandasamy (Vikram) is a strict CBI officer as well as a cool and straight forward guy who works under the commands of the joint director. Kandasamy (Mallanna) involves himself in a mission to uncover the black money earned by the currupted officers & politicians which are kept in foriegn banks. He soon catch the criminals who involved in these.

Subbulakshmi (Shriya Saran) is a cute & naughty girl studying in Italyl who is meticuolous about small things and takes everything seriously. She follows Kandasamy (Mallanna) everytime wherever he goes and she tries to flirt with him. Soon, the story makes a twist when Kandasamy (Mallanna) realizes that she is trying to trap him in some trouble by pretending love at him and comes to know that she is the only daughter of Ashish Vidyatri whom he finds 1000 crore worth illegal property who swears to take revenge of her father’s loss with him. The rest of the story is about to know the relation between the Kandasamy (Mallanna) as a CBI officer and as a Super-Hero/Lord Kandasamy (Mallanna) and the reason why he is doing these all, in detail.

Peformance

Vikram has done a brilliant and stunning performance in both the roles as a CBI officer as well as a Super-Hero. He also done a veriety of unique getups that mesmerize the viewers. He once again proves himself as a great actor as he really deservers for it. He is definitely going to bag many awards for his role in the film. Shriya Saran, playing a role with grey shades, has done here part well in this film. On her new looks, she achieved her ’size-zero’ figure in the film which were an added point to her glamour and smile.

Producer Kalaipuli S. Dhanu spent lavishly to make this film with a huge budget of Rs. 32 Crores just keeping faith on the Director Susi Ganesan and the actor Vikram. Both the director and the actor are really deserved for it and has proved it too. The film is shaped out in extraordinary style and it will set a new definition for family entertainment. The film is picturised with a massive CGI works and to stun the audience, the reason why the film got delayed to hit the screen.
Indeed, the film is amazingly visualised to watch added with the color shades filled in different scenes. Movinstilz did a good job in VFX works. Art work by Thotta Tharani was fabulous.

Musical score by Devi Sri Prasad are good as the songs are already tops the chart. Some of the songs were picturized really well.Mallanna is definitely a delight to watch. Watch it in theatre with great visual effects, especially in multiplexes.

Minus Points in Mallanna Movie
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1. As a movie Mallanna lost its tempo in the first half looks OK.
2. Sushi Ganeshan failed in presenting the content.
3. shriya is a bad asset for the movie.
4. The film came up with a good hype but it was a poor and weak presentation
5. no comedy for audience
6. second half to actually engage the audience
7. Run time of the movie is heavy 3 hours 10 minutes
8. heavy editing effects have put strain on eyes.
9. Shriya’s designer outfits expose more of her chiseled body than they hide.
10. But the background score is just a cacophony of drums and an aural ordeal.