It looks like writer-director Ratna Babu is bored of dual roles played by a hero in films. So he brings in this new concept of one man and two brains. When Abhiram (Aadi) is born, the problem doesn’t seem too big but it magnifies as he grows up.
Abhi is the badass and Ram is the good guy and to make things simpler, he behaves differently in different situations and has two girlfriends. While Abhi and Ram’s skills and goals are different, an entire story runs on them for more than two hours and confuses the audience. Their family and friends have clarity and know whom they are dealing with and have their loyalties intact.
Five minutes into the story, it becomes obvious that we’re headed for an endless, agonising experience. Abhiram’s family is upset that they have to deal with dual personalities; one minute, he wants pappu and when that is brought he feigns ignorance and demands chicken. This is just one example. The father (Rajendra Prasad) approaches the doctor and easily asks “oka brain teeseyocchuga?” (Can’t we take out one brain?) and the doctor replies it is not a tooth to be pulled out, it will cost ₹30 lakhs. We still don’t understand if the procedure is difficult or if he says it is possible only if money is arranged.
- Cast: Aadi, Mishti Chakraborthy
- Director: Diamond Ratna Babu
- Music: Sai Karthik
Abhi and Ram have their respective girlfriends and there is a conflict in the love story. To make matters worse there is a villain Gagan Vihari played by Abhimanyu Singh whose sub-plot has been created just to fill the gaps in the story. Posani Murali Krishna as a neuro surgeon gets on our nerves and the heroines ‘Happy’ and ‘Aascharya’ behave like women whose sole purpose is to squabble to be the hero’s love interest.
In the midst of all this circus, we have characters speaking in Telangana dialect and a mass song on Maisamma. As you tear your hair identifying who is Ram and who is Abhi, the hero wallows in self pity and states, “I am my enemy, I want to die”.
The director, who is known for his punch dialogues. fills the film with pointless and unnecessary lines against popular actors, women and seers hoping to cash on their popularity. The film is so loud that by the end of the film, you would really question the cerebral capacity of the people involved in its making.
It’s a disastrous film both in intent and execution, with distasteful jokes, bad production and technical values.