Allari Naresh’s latest laugh riot Betting Bangarraju is out with lot of expectations and we can say that he might win this bet, but only with a very narrow margin.
Delving into the story, we see Naresh appearing as Bangarraju a ‘fit-for-nothing’ youngster, who passes his day by indulging in petty stuff. As he has nothing worthy to do always looks out for hapless people and convinces them for a bet and eventually wins the bet with his extra ordinary intellect.
He is happily placed in a Konaseema village and he maintains good distance with girls as he believes that one should not talk to a girl before marriage. But his character suddenly takes a turn and wishes to go to a city and to love and marry a girl living in the city, due to an unexpected experience.
Soon the idea of a city girl strikes, he lands up in Hyderabad looking out for his better half. He sees the girl he wants in Nidhi. But to his dismay if has to win her over, he has to prove that he is better than other three guys who have proposed to Nidhi. What happens after that, how he proves to Nidhi and her family that he is a better guy than other guys is the crux of the story.
Like any other Allari Naresh film, Betting Bangarraju also comes with a wafer thin storyline. But the USP of his films lies in generating comedy through dialogues and in making each and every scene as hilarious as possible.
Here is where we find the comical magic waning a bit. While dialogue writer Gandham Nagaraju has done his best to emanate comedy from dialogues, scenes have not been perfectly constructed to produce comedy. Because, title being Betting Bangarraju one expects that the hero wins over by playing extremely funny bets and in the process hilarious incidents occur. But we don’t find any such things in BB and except for some surprises the film passes off on expected lines.
Coming to performances, Allari Naresh has already been thoroughly experienced in performing roles like this and it’s a cakewalk for him. Though he appears his usual self with perfect ease, the role offers nothing new for him to explore. New girl Nidhi is apt for her role and makes a passable debut. This movie stars a huge star cast like Kota, Krishna Bhagawan, Raghu Babu, Vijay Sai, Chalapati Rao, Giri Babu, comedian Venu, Samrat, Sana, Amit, among others. Though all of them did their best, no one has got a role which stands out.
There is one very lean guy who appears in ‘dead body comedy track’ who brings up some what different dimension to the regular comedy.
Young music director Shekar Chandra who gave soulful music to ‘Nachavule’ provides music. Title song is racy and impressive. There is also one nice feel oriented love song in the second half which is impressive.
This movie is made by Usha Kiron movies and as such though sports better production values cinematography and editing are just adequate.
You can enjoy this movie just like any other Allari Naresh movie, but only if you enter the theatre without any expectations.
Rating: 3/5
Released on: 9th April, 2010