Pantham

In Gopichand's 25th film he does what he has always been doing, except that he does them with a stubble in the first half and a goatee in the second. And there is little of what worked in his previous films and more of the same old action sequences and ill-timed songs. One can only wish the landmark film might trigger introspection, for the man looks like he could do with some.

The movie begins with a series of robberies committed by Vikranth (Gopichand) along with his sidekick (Srinivas Reddy). These are basically vignettes of tomfoolery and the usual gravity-defying stunts end....