Siddardha (Vikram) takes birth in a crematorium and her mother dies immediately after his birth. Siddardha is raised by the crematorium's undertaker. After the death of the undertaker, Siddardha becomes orphan. He does not know anybody in the village and he was never been out of crematorium earlier. He visits village in search of food. The village people detest his presence and try to stone him away from the village. Kamala (Sangeeta) - a ganja seller by trade - rescues him and requests a mafia leader Rayudu (Ramaraju) to recruit Siddardha. Siddardha works for Rayudu in his ganja farms. One fine day, police nab Siddardha on the charges of peddling ganja from jungles to village. Rayudu asks Siddardha to cremate a dead body and Siddardha does it. The interrogation by police leads the suspicion towards Siddardha. Satya then reveals the details of ganja trade of Rayudu. Rayudu kills Satya in an act of retaliation. The rest of the film is all about how Siddardha takes revenge on Rayudu.

Analysis :

The best part of Bala is the terrific characterization and appropriate casting. They way he introduced characters and established them is excellent. Direction of the film is compact. Screenplay is good most of the times. Pace of narration is slow. Director Bala has an artistic orientation in visualizing shots. Background score and re-recording by maestro Ilaya Raja is terrific. The opening song 'Okate Jananam Okate Maranam' is excellent. The second song (sung by RP Patnaik) is very melodious and acts as a breather in between heavy sequences.Sangeeta did a deglamorized role in this film. She is quite a bit of revelation. She did the role of a drug peddler with a soft corner towards Siddardha. Ramaraju is appropriate for the role of villain. Simran did a special appearance by acting as her real self, which is not impressive enough.

TeluguOne Perspective :

Vikram acted in a couple of insignificant direct Telugu films before establishing himself as superstar in Tamil. One he became a superstar, our Telugu film producers never gave us a chance to watch Vikram in a blockbuster film, as they remade all his blockbusters like Sethu (Seshu - Raja Sekhar), Dhil (Sreeram - Uday Kiran), Gemeni (Gemini - Venkatesh), Dhool (Veedu - Ravi Teja), Saami (Lakshmi Narasimha - Bala Krishna). Here is a chance for Telugu film lovers to watch the Telugu dubbed version of Vikram's Tamil blockbuster. Laila is another performer in this film who really rekindled the entertainment aspect of the film. First half of the film is compact. Second half is very slow and boring at times. The climax of the film is very effective. The Simran's special song would have been avoided in Telugu version as it's very ineffective. This film is a must watch for the art movie lovers. The commercial film lovers might have little uneasiness watching this film. I would not mind watching 'Siv Putrudu' for histrionics of Vikram and Laila and realistic direction of Bala.