Director Shankar should be lauded for touching upon issues like inferior food in trains, duplicate break wires and under-value registrations but awarding ‘death penalty’ for all these petty crimes is just ‘barbaric’(civilized viewers would agree with me). In a civil society `punishment’ should always be proportionate to the `offence’ committed but our director advocates death even for somebody who avoids giving lift to an injured person. Unfortunately he relied on primitive ‘garudapurana’ and executed killings accordingly but if we start killing people even for small mistakes then this world will be left with no human beings. Regrettably director has double standards for men and women. To escape from “Aparachitudu”, doctor advises Sada to remit full registration fee but men folk have no such mercies. They are instantly killed without giving them a chance to repent. Even `cosmic law’ gives a long rope to human beings by giving them a opportunity to rectify their mistakes, if any, but our director believes in just one mantra ‘elimination’. Unlike “Bharatiyudu”, even the investigating process lacks sting but only USP remains Vikram’s scintillating performance.

Director Shankar’s unique point of making his protagonist a ‘multiple personality’ is film’s boon as well as its bane. An orthodox and idealistic lawyer is unable to drive sense into insensitive public and his ‘alter-ego’ is other personality (blood-thirsting killer). My making him ‘mentally challenged’, director saves him from severe punishment in the hands of law. (Is not a `psychic’ vigilante more dangerous than persons who he has butchered). He triggers umpteen raging bulls on a ‘person’ who shows reluctance to give lift in his ‘new car’ (shouldn’t we blame our superstitious scriptures) and probably the killing would have been justified if he had actually run over that person. He uses deadly `leeches’ to kill a shop-owner for selling ‘inferior break wires”. Its not case of leaving the ‘head’ and holding the ‘tail’. We do condemn the circulation of duplicates but the main culprit is the ‘manufacturer’, govt regulating authority and to some extent public also. (haven’t we seen bikers preferring duplicates to original spare parts since its costs them less). Railway food contractor deserves strong ‘punishment’ (not repulsive frying as shown in the film) among all the ‘victims’ for serving inferior food. With travelers rejecting railway food, railway authorities were forced to hire private contractors to supply good food but their ‘food’ far worse than anticipated ( inept checking).

Coming to the personality, it has been amply proved that ‘mentally-challenged’ person possess brute strength when he is ‘disturbed’ but our protagonist surprisingly acquires martial arts skills and even spares with numerous karate exponents at a ‘dojo’. But the orthodox Brahmin does show any sign of body aches after the ‘innumerable fights’ he indulges in (unbelievable). Director should have focused on these ‘aspects’ of a person who is suffering from psychic disorder to make it more authentic.

Investigating lacks sting as Prakash Raj takes his own sweet time to nab the culprit. (suspects orthodox lawyer who explains the meaning of ‘sankrit’ words but doesn’t even post a policeman to follow him). Probably the film would have ended much earlier if he had been more professional in his job.

At first place director shouldn’t have trapped Sada in this ‘mess’ but allowing her scot-free by just making her to pay full registration fee lacks credence to his idea of eliminating even small offenders. It definitely diluted his `idealistic’ mission.

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