The movie starts out similar to all of Mahesh Babu's other movies: He is shown to be an all-rounder, perfect at everything. He literally made everyone drink some tea instead of disabling a serious bomb, which he did so simply.
The trailer promised two things that weren't very prominent throughout the movie: Rashmika and comedy. Rashmika was forcefully put in the movie, and similar to Mahesh's other movies, she was there to show how great Mahesh is, how "cute" he is, and how "handsome" he is. With all this praise for Mahesh Babu, Rashmika was forgotten. Rashmika added nothing to the movie except some force-fitted comedy. Even without Rashmika, the plot, storyline, and basically everything would have been the same. She seemed to be more of a side character than the heroine, in my opinion. Being a fan of Rashmika more than Mahesh, I felt that she needed more of a prominent role in the movie.
Besides Rashmika, the comedy was also lacking in the movie. Nearly half of the trailer promised more of Rashmika and the train comedy, and although we did get the train comedy, it felt forcefully pushed into the movie.
It was almost as if the director forgot it until the very end of shooting, and had the editor fit it in somewhere. Personally, the train comedy was the only part of the movie I enjoyed, even though it was forcefully put in.
Moving on, Vijayashanthi was shown to have a powerful role, and this movie, if the comedy had the right timing, would have been the perfect comeback to the film industry for her. Her role, however, could have shown more women independence, rather than her relying fully on Mahesh once he shows up. Also, her character could have praised Mahesh a little less. Every single character in the movie was already praising him, and it could have been toned down a LOT. Only the villain, which was, of course, Prakash Raj, didn't praise him. He only seemed to fall at certain places, where Mahesh would rise up even more. This movie was not, by any means, Prakash Raj's best. His role was too stereotypical. His acting was as if he was following his set-in-stone formula.
Rajendra Prasad was completely wasted in this movie. He had his comedic timing, but the scenes he shined in didn't fit well. We could have seen him more in the movie, but with Mahesh stealing the limelight, there was no space for anyone else.
Besides that, the director tried to mix in every genre into the movie. The list includes comedy, sentiment, political, action, drama, and even some elements of masala. With this mix being randomly displayed here and there, the movie got messed up.
Even the music was standard. There was not much freshness to it. DSP's music is usually really fresh and upbeat, but this time, we just got a remix of the old beats with different lyrics. They didn't fit in with the movie very much, either. Some of the songs were there to praise Mahesh. The songs were predictable. The songs in this movie come at around the same times as the songs in his other movies. (By time, I don't mean minutes, I mean based on the plot.)
If the movie had sequels that portrayed each character's backstories, then maybe this movie would have been viewed better. This movie would have been seen as Mahesh's backstory, the next movie in the series could have been Rashmika's backstory, and so on.
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