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Average flick all the way film Review

Nagarjuna in the film ‘King’

Film: King

Cast: Nagarjuna, Trisha

Direction: Sreenu Vytla

‘King’ is supposedly a laugh riot, it promises to entertain with the right combination of comedy, romance and action. Does it work? King (Nagarjuna) is a son of a rich scion, he is not the only heir to the property as he has a younger brother Ajay (Deepak). There are other relatives who live in his palace and plot to usurp his property by eliminating him. He is shot and the scene quickly moves to the city where Srihari plays the dada whose only competitor is Bottu Seenu (Nagarjuna).

Bottu Seenu falls in love with Shravani who is Srihari’s sister. Shravani reciprocates thinking that he is not a goon like her brother, but an educated person. So Bottu Seenu calls himself Sharat and has no hassles in fooling the brother-sister duo.

While a comedy of errors follow, the confusion thickens with King’s killers spotting Bottu Seenu in the city.

The scene shifts back to the palace with the entire cast in tow. Brahmanandam gets a meaty role of a music director who lifts tunes from other composers and harasses singers with lewd proposals.

The way he dresses up and passes judgment for music shows on television is hilarious. Srihari steals the entire show despite a clichéd role and Trisha is no longer the pencil slim girl, she looks apt as Nagarjuna’s leading lady and performs her part well. Nagarjuna eased into the role with smoothness.

However, neither the wig nor the Telangana dialect suit him.

Not much entertaining

‘King’, though is not a montage of many films seen before, appears similar to ‘Dee’ and ‘Ready’ since it comes as a third successive release and the writer’s fetish for sub plots and mind play. Except for Srihari and Brahmanandam’s episodes, there is nothing really entertaining about the movie, and the much-hyped song with heroines like the one in ‘Om Shanti Om’ fails to make any impact.

The film has nice music and pleasant visuals, but what could have been a compelling comedy is reduced to an average fare.

Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY

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