Saakini Daakini is the Telugu remake of a Korean action-comedy Midnight Runners, about two police academy trainees who witness a crime and embark on an amateur investigation to catch the culprits. Unlike the original, Saakini Daakini has an all-female lead cast. With the right pairing and dialog the movie may have set off fireworks, but instead it is a dull affair, with only occasional jolts of energy - not the electrifying girl-power cinema I was hoping for.
Shalini (Nivetha Thomas) and Damini (Regina Cassandra), two police academy students, meet on the first day of training, a....