A lorry cleaner (Teja's erstwhile profession), Balram challenges his friends that he will direct a movie with his favorite star Santhosh Babu by the next Diwali and release it, and takes a death oath. How he manages to go about it is what the movie is all about, in which he lands up in Hyderabad in a typical film nagar outskirts set up where every individual has come from a village to do something in the movies but due to lack of opportunities is doing something else. Santhosh refuses but Balram manages the herculean task of making a movie with him, believe it or not, without the knowledge of the Santhosh himself.

Analysis :

Pradeep Pinisetty steals the show with intense eyes and shows a spark. Vamsee fits the role perfectly as the dumb and arrogant actor (may or may not need acting, who knows?) but he comes across as wooden and awkward sometimes. Krishna Bhagwan as the cameraman and Srinivasa Reddy as Santhosh's manager are very good. MS Narayana in a cameo as a doctor is at his best yet-and the scene which stars him is one of the funniest in the movie. Duvvasi Mohan as the police constable is very funny too, as are many of the other side characters. Teja has placed an autobiographical element in the movie so the actors look natural. Performance wise the movie has loads of scope and the actors lived up to it. But the girls are all plastic and look like they don't have a clue about what's going on, except Shakuntala, who does her usual tough-cookie act with a heavy Telangana accent.

TeluguOne Perspective :

A film to sit back and watch, have fun, and forget about. It is targetted at the youth, and may pick up slowly. But the average music and the lack of known faces undoes the film. Audiences these days need heroism and loads of violence, and all that 'Oka V Chitram' doesn't offer. Even for a light entertainer where the hero has a high end goal, it lacks substance and doesn't grip the viewer, which is where it fails. There is some comedy and fun, but the idea of a man making a movie without the knowledge of the actor may not be digested by the audience. All one can do is wait and watch-either it stays for a little time, or sinks completely. Definitely not a grosser, unfortunately for all the new comers and also for the director who needs a hit badly.