Jayammu Nischayammu Raa

Whenever our comedians are cast as heroes, our directors seem to believe that the only ways to go are to portray them as full-time jokers (some movies with Kota, Brahmanandam or Ali) or turn them into complete mass heroes (all of Sunil's recent duds) without a care for how it would all be received. There is a third kind, too - of turning them into sacrificial heroes (Babai Hotel, Uncle). Srinivas Reddy, thankfully, follows a different path.

His second venture as a hero, Jayammu Nischayammu Raa has him play the role of Sarvamangalam, a young man from Karimnagar, who lands a job a....