Madatha Kaja

Prabhaskoka nyaayam naakoka nyaayama? Ye? Chinna cinemalani bathakanivvara?, demands Madatha Kaja's hero in what is one of the few truly comic scenes in the movie. It is a line that is seemingly innocuous but that is loaded with significance. A line that we'd wholly endorse, despite Madatha Kaja's severe failings.

Indeed, few actors can concoct, without indecent amounts of money, the kind of festive cheer that only big-budget products otherwise boast of. The audience walking into an Allari Naresh film is usually armed with the kind of easy anticipation that says, "I know ....