Monday Apr 14 2008, Hyderabad

Sushanth's Kalidasu-a feast for mass audiences

Directed by - G. Ravicharan Reddy

Produced by - C. Srinivasa Rao, Naga Susheela

Music by - Chakri

Casts - Sushanth, Tamanna, Surekha Vani, Vinod Kumar, Jayasudha etc.

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Debut of the kith and kin of big stars is always a fascinating thing.This time, it is Sushanth, the grand son of Akkineni Nageswara Rao, doyen of Telugu Cinema.Though the movie was shot without much publicity, it stepped up at the eleventh hour and got released silently.Kalidasu (Sushant) loses his father (Nagababu) in the hands of some gangsters.He kills the gangster instantly after his father's death and becomes a fighter by nature since childhood.

He runs away to Guntur and takes shelter at a lady Kanaka Durga (Jayasudha) who loses her husband and lives with her son Dev.Kalidasu likes Dev and protects him since childhood.As he grows old he becomes the protector of entire Chor-bazaar colony.He lifts away cars and sells them in the bazaar.Once when he lifts a car and brings to his place, he finds a girl, Archana (Tamanna) sitting inside the car.

She escapes from a few hooligans those abduct her to get her married to riffraff Ajay (Ajay) against to her wish.Why she comes to Kalidasu's place? How he protects her, form the rest of the story.Sushanth displayed excellent histrionics with fine dialogue delivery, stunts and emotions.His diction is fine and has clear resemblance of his cousin, hero Sumanth.Dances are good.

Tamanna looked a bit plump when compared to her recent look in Happy Days.She exposed considerably, providing the oomph to the audiences.Vinod Kumar appeared as a villain, while Ajay played his sidekick.Jayasudha has no big role to play and appeared to be in run of the mill.There are many loopholes in the story line and screenplay.

The narration part is very weak and audiences find them in unrest.There are many directorial errors in the film.Music by Chakri is also not so great.Kanal Kannan's fights are with punch but he used more flying sequences which are overdosed and cause boredom.It seems this flick is a wrong choice of Sushanth.

He would rather have chosen a clean college entertainer in the lines of Shiva or with a perfect subject to establish himself as mass hero.The plight of this film depends on the acceptance of mass audiences as it has clearly targeted them.