Neelakanta Naidu (Prakash Raj) is a big factionist. He has a loyal confidant called Narasimha (Suman), who is willing to give his life for the sake of his master. After gap of many years, Neelakanta Naidu's wife gives a birth to a baby daughter. But all the earlier babies born to Neelakanta Naidu expired due to some unknown reason. The priests advise Neelakanta to name his daughter as 'Gangotri' (Aditi Agarwal). They also warn Neelakanta that the kid is having 'jalagandam', hence they ask Neelakanta to take Gangotri to the holy place of Gangotri in Himalayas and do the 'abhyangana snanam' (bath with turmeric, milk etc.) for the next 15 years. After 15 years, Gangotri would be free of any dangers.When nobody could entertain the kid Gangotri; Simhadri (Allu Arjun) - the son of Narasimha - makes her smile by entertaining her with a song. Simhadri becomes a servant cum friend to Gangotri. They grow together. In the mean time mother of Simhadri (Seeta) sacrifices her life to save Neelakantam.When Gangotri attains puberty, Gangotri's aunt (Sakuntala) restricts Simhadri from meeting Gangotri. Gangotri and Simhadri realize that they fell in love. When Simhadri comes to Gangotri's place clandestinely to meet her, they are caught red-handed by Neelakantam. Neelakantam beats Simhadri. Meantime, Narasimha comes to the spot and interferes. This causes a rift between Neelakantam and his trusted lieutenant Narasimha. Neelakantam is misinformed about Narasimha's intentions; hence he bombs the house of Narasimha. Simhadri is away at that time. When Simhadri comes to know that Neelakantam is responsible for the bombing, he comes to Neelakantam's house and challenges that he would marry Gangotri in 365 days.Then Simhadri reaches Gangotri and waits for his ladylove to come to that place for the final 'abhyangana snanam' (sacred bath). The rest of the film is about how Simhadri and Gangotri unite together
Analysis :
Allu Arjun - the son of ace producer Allu Arvind and nephew of Megastar Chiranjeevi - is launched with a dream project directed by K Raghavendra Rao. On the looks front, Arjun is pretty average. He has shown the sparks of brilliancy with his histrionics in a few vital scenes (scene challenging Prakash Raj and the climax scene). He did well in sentiment scenes as well. His voice needs some toning and modulation. He looked odd wearing those knickers in the first half (pre-puberty days). In the second half (post-puberty days) he looked good. Every actor has weaknesses and strengths. Allu Arjun should choose roles that amplify his strength and nullify his weaknesses. But unfortunately, his main asset of dancing talent has gone unnoticed because of not having many mass tunes in this film. Vijayan composed good fights for Arjun in the climax.Aditi Agarwal looks pretty tender in the role of Gangotri. Since she has to be shown as a small girl in the first half, the glamour aspect was not touched. In the second half, she is glamorous in the song of 'Nuvvu Nenu Kalisunte'.Prakash Raj gets the lion share of footage in this film. By now, Prakash Raj has done so many roles that he nothing new to offer when he attempt these kind of roles. However, there are a couple of scenes where he was fresh. Suman is very smart in this film, but has a limited role to play. Seeta too has a short role, but she is at her best. Sunil made a special appearance as a master in this film. His dance (wearing a red shirt, red pants and white shoes) with Arjun for Mavayyadi Mogalturu song is hilarious. Tanikella Bharani played a positive role.
TeluguOne Perspective :
First half of the film is decent as it establishes basic characters. But the tempo has not picked up in the second half. Hence the second half has become very slow. The climax of lead pair going into unconsciousness (or death?) and coming back to life again is not appealing. Over all its an average film. The plus points of the film are the good songs followed by photography. The minus point of the film is lack of comedy (except for Sunil's episode and AVS episode). We have to wait and see how this summer release is going to quench the thirst of Box Office.