Despite all the fanfare that Varudu gives pretty much everything except its villain, the movie derives every ounce of its strength from its villain. Though designed to make the good look good, Varudu's evil overtakes the good and ends up looking far better than it.
The movie begins by glorifying the honorable qualities of Sandeep (Allu Arjun), a modern party-going son of rich parents with the extravagance of moral values of generations ago. When his parents (Ashish Vidyarthi & Suhasini) tell him they'd like to see him get married, he agrees, and much to their bewilderment, asks the....