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It’s Srihari all the way Film Review

Film: Bhadradri

Cast: Srihari, Raja

Direction: Siva Kumar

Bhadradri is a village and Srihari is shown as making trips to the city a dozen times getting medicines for the villagers suffering from various diseases. He keeps promising the people that his brother Raja, a medical student will soon finish his studies and will come to the village to end their miseries. There is a niece who is pining for Raja but Raja has already fallen in love with Nikita, a fellow student.

The first half of the film has Srihari convincing his family and people that his brother will return and just before the interval, the suspense is out. From then onwards, it’s Srihari all the way with Raja giving him occasional support. The comedy track is silly with Venu Madhav wanting to kill Srihari for which Gazala and a group of comedians are exployed.

Srihari is portrayed as the macho, one-man army of the village who resists romance but on the other side we are treated to some extremely funny dream sequences with Srihari and Gazala.

However, his emotional fare comes across effectively. Raja and Nikita look smart and give an okay performance.

The rest of the characters are more than loud. L B Sriram as Srihari’s uncle connects with the audience.

There is violence aplenty with Srihari piercing necks and at times chopping them like vegetables. The director prolongs the film with village politics and long-drawn, heavy duty dialogues for the lead character.

Bhadradri has been tailored and fashioned strictly for the rural masses and front-benchers.

The script is not dumb but the director is neither involving nor magical.

He could have played diverse emotions with a powerful narrative but this is one key ingredient where Badradri falls short.

Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY

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