Sudigadu Movie Review

Synopsis : He bites the bullet and walks into the villain’s lair. And then literally, bites the bullet fired at him, chews it and fires back the pieces to kill all the thugs. He’s got to be the hero. Meet Shiva. He pokes fun at all the big heroes of the Telugu screen and all the unthinkable things they do on screen for the sake of heroism. You’ve got to be Allari Naresh to do that and get away with it.

Movie Review: It’s not about what the story of the film is. You couldn’t care less if there was none. From poking fun at Mahesh Babu, Pawan Kalyan and Balakrishna to Nagarjuna, Venkatesh and who have you... the film provides entertainment of the Bhimaneni kind. Well, all the top heroes need not however, be worried. The movie only makes light of the characters they played. It is intentional, yet unintentional because every scene fits right into the script of the movie...if there really was one.

The movie opens with a voice-over, the kind you got to see in Eega of a child wanting to hear a story. The child does not want to hear the superman tale because, it is all known. The story has to be different. And only a Telugu film hero’s antics can provide the fuel to fire one’s imagination. And there goes...

Shiva (Allari Naresh) is a hero right from the time he is born – when he kills a villain’s son. You’ve got to see the movie to know how he raises a stink. If that’s the beginning, there is literally no end to what he can do as the baby gets separated from his parents. Somewhere along, he falls in love with Priya (Monal Gajjar), but he has to find his parents to tie the knot with her. It is not an easy task, but it is more of a task for the villains to catch up with his abilities – all superhuman. Not that Priya is far behind. By slapping her thighs (a la Balakrishna in his movies), she makes a newly-built compound wall come crashing down. If you’ve watched `Maryada Ramanna’, you’ll understand why the wall had to be built.

And guess where Priya would have picked up the art of thigh-slapping? In a school run by Kishore Das which teaches exactly that.

If you are a movie buff and you’ve watched most of the big films released in the recent past, you will understand the context of this spoof thoroughly and enjoy it. No, Shiva’s weapons do not include those murderous weapons that most heroes use in their films but simple stuff – a banana peel, his stinking socks, and the likes.

You’ll laugh your way all through the film, thanks to the clean humour it offers. But what is more hilarious is the fact that the censors gave the movie a U/A certificate, when it could have been a clean `U’.