Apparently Telugu filmmakers can't wrap their heads around the idea that a strong female character can arise from anything other than immense personal turmoil. Apparently, they also cannot imagine any way in which a female hero could be different from a male one, except in the most obvious ways.
And so, we have Chandi (Priyamani), an unbearably tragic hero(ine) whose only way of dealing with everyone from rapists to power-hungry land grabbers is either by threatening to, or actually demolishing, their family goods. You see, V Samudra's apparent open-mindedness couldn't open up e....