Director Boyapati Sreenu comes up with a mixed bag. The film is loaded heavily with sentiment as well as hard-core faction politics with lots of violence.

The opening scene is quite dramatic. A fashion show with real models leads to the introduction of the heroine and the hero. Tulasi (Venkatesh) is a engineer. He meets Vasu (Nayanatara) at the airport. Venkatesh is going abroad for a conference and Nayantara, a fashion designer is going abroad with her friends to attend a marriage.

Both of them falls in love while on their journey and get married as soon as they come back to India. The marriage goes on smoothly and they even have a child.

The story takes a turn at this juncture. Nayanatara leaves husband Tulasi and goes away with her young son.The rest of the story is about the reason behind Nayanatara leaving Tulasi and going away. The film has a lot of sentiment and drama. There is also a suspense element, which is revealed only in the climax.

Venkatesh as an engineer comes up with another winning performance. He plays the role of a doting father with conviction. The young boy who plays the son of the hero has also given a good performance.

Nayanatara is good both as an angry young girl and also as a housewife and a mother.

Sivaji does a neat job as the brother of Nayanatara. Ashish Vidyarthi gives another powerful performance. Jayaprakash Reddy as a faction leader does justice to his role. Raghu Babu as the sidekick of Jayaprakash plays his routine role.

Ramyakrishna does a guest role as a doctor.

Jhansi plays the role of rags to riches woman, thanks to the real estate boom. Her butler English coupled with Telangana accent and her encounter with Venkatesh raise some laughs.

The comedy track between Ali and Narsing Yadav is average.

Shreya gets the maximum applause and catcalls for her sizzling performance in the item song.

Music by Devi Sree Prasad is good. The first and the last songs are set to some fine fast beats. The music for Shreya’s item song resembles the beats of the music for the Yana Gupta’s item song ‘Akaleshte Annam Pedatha…’ in Shankar Dada Zindabad.

The dialogues – “Bharya kaavalani koorukunna, andhuke violence ni vidichipetta” by Venkatesh.

”Pulini Champocchu, Kukkani Kaadu” by Ashsih Vidyarthi and “Maamooluga Chaavutho Kaskshalu antam aipothayi, kaani faction politics lo Chhavuthone Kakshalu modalavuthayi” by Jayaprakash Reddy evoke applause. Sivaji’s dialogue “ Light unte naaku niddarapattadu Baava” in the end is very moving.

Finally one is left wondering if one is watching a faction movie interspersed with some family drama or is it a family drama with a little bit excess of faction violence. The director should have cut down a bit on the violence to make the film a bit more appealing to the family audience.

The film may not be as good as Venkatesh’s earlier films but is still definitely worth watching.