LEGEND Movie Review

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Cast: Balakrishna, Jagapathi Babu, Sonal Chauhan, Radhika Apte, Jayaprakash Reddy, Rao Ramesh & others
Music: Devi Srirasad
Director: Boyapati Sreenu 
Dilagouges: M Rathnam
Producer: Anil Sunkara, Ram Achanta, Gopi Achanta
Release date: 28^th March 2014

Rating:  2. 50

After a long slump, Balakrishna is all set to roar again with LEGEND directed by Boyapati Sreenu. The directed who delivered a hat-trick BO hit has tasted a dud in the form of DAMMU. The director and hero earlier delivered SIMHA and duo are set to repeat the magic again and one more interesting factor is veteran family hero turning as a full-time villain with this film. The movie is getting released with big hype; let’s see how the movie fares at BO.

Story:

Krishna (Balakrishna) stays in Dubai, he loves Sneha (Sonal Chauhan), he with the help of Manikyam (Brahmanandam) comes to Vizag to attend a marriage. But, the village is ruled by a ruthless guy Jitendra (Jagapathi Babu), the hero decides to turn himself as a dictator to save his family and the villagers. Jitendra (Jagapathi Babu) plans to kill Krishna (Balakrishna) and his family, but Simhachalam saves his family. Who is Simhachalam and why does he save their family, what happens Jitendra (Jagapathi Babu), to know all these, it should be best watched on big screen.

Performances:

Balakrishna is as at his usual best and such types of roles are cake walk for him. Sonal Chuhan doesn’t have much scope to perform; Radhika Apte has done justice to her role.

Jagapathi Babu’s looks needs appreciation, his dialogues are good and his confrontation scenes with Balakrishna are also good, but the way his role has been designed is not impressive.

Comedy track by Brahmanandam doesn’t evoke any laughter.

Background Score by Devi Sriprasad is good.

Analysis:

Though Balakrishna’s fans will be impressed by the movie, rest of the spectators feels bored, the director failed create the SIMHA magic this time, there’s no soul in the movie.

Highlights: Train chasing scene

Balakrishna and Jagapathi Babu’s performance

Drawbacks: Stale comedy

No grip in the story

Final Say: Go and watch the movie without any expectations keeping SIMHA in mind.

By  Rajasekhar boddupalli