Badrinath Movie Review

Ufff….Finally we reached the end of summer spree of movies with Badrinath that released this weekend. Badrinath which has stylish star Allu Arjun and Tamanna in the leads, and being produced by successful banner of Geeta Arts (Allu Arvind) and equally successful director VVVinayak carried enough expectations. But sometimes expectations turn out to be bigger spoilsports. Let’s see how?

Plot: Badrinath is chosen as a guardian to protect Badrinath temple by an old saint warrior Bheeshma Narayan (Prakash Raj).  Alakananda (Tamanna) who comes to the holy town Badrinath due to the threat from her maternal aunt falls in love with the hero. Now Badrinath has to choose between Alakananda’s love and his master’s faith on him?

Weakness List goes on!!

Let me list out the weaknesses of the cast and crew to explain what all went wrong…in a different style.

Ok....start with central character Badrinath. His weakness is his 10 Kilo sword he carries. When he holds that sword, he could easily pierce the bullets, cut off the limbs and arms of innumerous terrorists and factionists and even Chinese warriors.  But don’t dare to make him devoid of it, for he jumps on mountains and into rivers now, flexing his muscles.

Then comes Alakananda…beware don’t ever pronounce “Badrinath” in front of her, for there is high chance she could go into an irrelevant dream sequence. So her duty is to either scream at her enemies or get into dancing, the moment someone reminds her of Badrinath or if she feels the touch of her love.

And we have PrakashRaj if I figured him out correctly as he is fully covered by very odd white beard. His weakness is Kungfu and he does nothing except calling Badrinath now and then asking him to do some samurai stunts with his sword

The villain Kelli Dorji has a weakness of Helicopters…as he is rarely seen coming out of it and his wife has weakness of madly shouting at him.

Similar weak are comedy gang, Brahmanandam, MS and Krishna Baghwan who play tasteless sequel track to the comedy they did in Indra. Raghubabu had some handful of witty dialogues.

Now coming to crew!!

Biggest culprit among the crew is Story-writer Chinni Krishna who gets inspired by his own films Narasimhanaidu and Gangotri and ofcourse recent Shakti and even Indra. May be one can figure it out the reason easily as he has now become “Genius” with his weakness for TV anchor Omkar.

Then we have Vinayak bitten by Kungfu bug and thus cook this no-where plot with Gunasekhar’s style of costly background and Meher’s style of heartless making. 

Peter Heins had flying sickness I guess…as he never allowed our hero to be on the ground for the action sequences.

Allu Aravind’s weakness is his own success; he tasted with magnum-opus Magadheera. And he thus forcefully hands over the sword to his son and asks him to repeat the magic in an irrelevant plot set up in this contemporary period. 

Film has its Strengths by the way…

Allu Arjun really rocked with his stunning dance moments almost in every song. And one should appreciate his hard work put into toning his body to suit the warrior role. And Gorgeous Tamanna entertains us to the core and seriously she is one damn reason for her admirers to look at the movie.

Music by Keeravani is good for couple of songs…And I really liked the picturaization of all the songs. “Omkareswara” is beautifully choreographed giving justice to its lyrics.  “Nachuvaaraaa” is mouth watering rain song and “chiranjeeva chiranjeeva” pictured at lavish foreign locales. While “Ambadhari”,”Nath Nath” and “In the night” are shot indoor have rocking dance moments from Arjun.

I am sad and happy at the same time as my favorite number “Vasudhaara” is not used in the movie.

Art direction by Anand Sai and Cinematography of Ravi Varma offer grandeur and pleasantness. The sets are natural. Movie has some good Production values.

Finally I Conclude...

With nothing to offer with the story, Badrinath still can be watched at leisure for Allu Arjun and of course white beauty Tamanna. And for nice songs but alas they come hand in hand with annoying fights.

 Rating

I give it 2.5/5. So Half century for good things I mentioned.