Producer: E. Rangarao
Director: V. Samudra
Cast: Kalyan Ram, Vedika, Sai kumar, Bramhanandam, Ahuthi Prasad, A.V.S, Suman shetty
Music: Srikanth Deva
 
Director V Samudra is known for his love for remakes and his new film ‘Vijayadasami’ follows the same trend and is modeled after Tamil hit ‘Sivakasi’. Starring Nandamuri Kalyanram and Vedika in the mains, it is produced by Edara Ranga Rao under the banner of Sri Sai Sarvajit Movies.

Actor Nandamuri Kalyanram has hardly any big hit to his credit but was hopeful of striking gold with this project. But sadly this film too doesn’t bring him any riches or rewards. Although loaded with all massy elements, it manages to satiate only the frontbenchers. Apart from a couple of sequences, the rest of it is plain stuff devoid of any originality and ingenuity.

Sivakasi (Kalyanram) is a very helpful guy who runs a welding shop in Hyderabad. His valor and righteousness is enough to make Devi (Vedika), a well-off girl, fall in love with him. Even Sivakasi takes a liking for the girl and they decide to tie the knot. But the girl’s family vehemently objects this choice since they cannot hand over their girl to an orphan.

However Sivakasi is no orphan and hails from a very prosperous family. Certain situations compelled him to leave his village while still young. His father debarred him from the village and daunted to kill himself if the boy ever returned.

The girl’s father agrees to their marriage provided Sivakasi brings his parents to do the talking. The young guy decides to get his parents for his love’s sake and instigates to fetch his parents. But in doing so he faces a great-unexpected challenge. Will Sivakasi ever be successful to win the heart of his parents and overcome all obstacles and win his love forms the rest of the tale.

Talking about the performances, Kalyanram inspite of a makeover looks appalling. His new look is unimpressive. The actor mainly shines in action and dance sequences. As regards comedy, he is simply insipid. Kalyanram needs to work hard on his dialogue delivery. Devi (Vedika), as a vivacious effervescent girl is good enough. The actress perfectly compliments her glamour bill and is good in dance tracks as well as romantic scenes.

Rest of the performers too put up great efforts. Suman erects incredible show, while Jayasudha is at her usual best. Kalyani and Mounika too pull off their roles pretty well. The item track by Simran is good but not steamy. It is Saikumar who walks away with all laurels in the end of the day for his stupendous performance in a negative shade.

Technically, the film is mediocre. Paruchuri brothers script the dialogues in accordance to Perarasu’s story. But the outcome isn’t anything out of the world.

Musical compositions by Srikanth Deva are routinely done and hence are devoid of any charm and novelty. Moreover, a Tamil influence is more obvious in the tracks than Telugu flavor. Sans a couple of tracks, the rest are run of the mill affairs.
Stun Siva’s action sequences are fabulous. But he stretches things a bit too far in the climax violence. Rams Prasad’s cinematography too is good but fails to create any big impression following the scanty progress of the story.

Screenplay and direction by V Samudra is plain bad. This routinely done film lacks enough verve and ingenuity to click with the audiences. Today’s audiences are smart enough and the directors cannot fool them with such stale stuffs. Even the comic scenes fall flat. This film stands out as a book-to-book copy of the original hit and the absence of anything new on the director’s part makes it a bad watch.