Srimannarayana

In the wake of Telugu cinema's old order having totally collapsed - with top gun Chiranjeevi having left the scene, Venkatesh choosing to do one movie every two years and Nagarjuna foraying into gentler genres - Balakrishna has only himself to compete with. And while that fact gives us bonanzas like Simha and Sri Ramarajyam once in a while, it also means we have the Okka Magadus and Adhinayakudus to live with more often than not.

Srimannarayana is actually a much better movie than the recent dud Adhinayakudu. However, it remains another of those assembly line Balayya movies that....