Julayi

My review : Julayi

Allu Arjun after his not-so-successful "Badrinath" has joint hands with Trivikram Srinivan who himself is recuperating from his dismal last venture "Khaleja". These two have come out with "Julayi" which does nothing much to lessen their misery. Infact it piles up the misery for the viewers with its inane action sequences, logic-less screenplay & routine scenes. Only solace is the comedy track of the movie with Brahmanandam at the helm. 

There is no premise for hatred between the protagonist & antagonist as a result of which whatever that follows looks banal & contrived. It is a unwritten rule that in commercial mass masala movies one can't look for logic but this movie goes too far. Things happen with ridiculous ease for the protagonist who appears to have eye for each & every things , appears in every important places & does all the right things. The characterizations of all the characters are sketchy & hence doesn't create much of an impact overall.

Allu Arjun dances well & agile is action sequences. Acting seem to a far cry for him as does his co-star Ileana. She not only acts pathetically but looks too. She is getting more & more anorexic with each passing movie. Sonu Sood is wasted in a very cardboard like character while Rajendra Prasad uses his experience to come out unscathed in a poorly etched role. Brahmanandam evokes lots of laughs. 

Music by Devi Sri Prasad has one good melody in "Oh madhu". Rest of the songs are aural torture as does the background score.

Technically movie is good except for couple of tacky visual effects. Chota K Naidu & Shyam K Naidu are the cinematographers.

On the whole, "Julayi" has good comedy scenes interspersed with loads of unintended comedy.

Bottomline : Headache

2/5