Legend Review

March 30, 2014

Story:

Film starts off with the story of a goon like politician Jitendra (Jagapathi Babu). He kills the village head (Suman) in Vishakapatnam. Years later, village head's younger son Krishna grows up to be a businessman in Dubai. There he falls in love with an Indian beauty Sneha (Sonal Chauhan). To marry her, he comes down to India to her granny's house in Vishakapatnam He accidentally gets involved in a fight with Jitendra's son. Few days later, Jitendra's son is killed and the father thinks that it was Krishna who was behind the killing When Jitendra shoots Krishna, enters his older brother Jayadev (Balakrishna). Now we are pushed into flashback. Jayadev like his father stands for people takes on Jitendra who is now dreaming to become CM. When his wife (Radhika Apte) is killed by Jitendra, he goes all out to kill him.

Performances:

Balakrishna: He has done two roles, he doesn't have much to do in krishna's role . It's the jayadev character which has ample scope and he excels in the role, Getup/Dialogues were perfect and well set for him and he impresses in powerful hero elevation scenes and as well as in emotional scenes.

Jagapathi Babu: He has done the main villain role for the first time, though his characterization is weak and does not match to the powerful hero, he manages to impress with his performance, he portrayed the attitude of character very well.

Others: Radhika apte was good but her characterization irritates , Sonal chauhan is okay . Brahmi fails to entertain this time. suman, rao ramesh, suhasini and others were present.

Technical Departments:

Story-Screenplay-Direction: Story is very routine and tried and tested one by many directors. Boyapati sreenu took care of the elder character of balakrishna and elevated him wit his powerful dialogues. But in this process he neglected the remaining characters/narration of the movie . That's why screenplay became inconsistent. First half doesn't have much story and dedicated to setup the entire backdrop for the flashback, some passable comedy scenes and not so good songs take us to the interval episode where the elder balakrishan enters. Second half starts on a high note with the flashback episode, elevation scenes worked out really well, but as said above director concentrated only on the hero character, there is no strong opponent for the hero. Villain does the same trick to harm the hero i.e. attack his family members. Even at the end of flasback episode, hero surrenders to his family members and gives the violence but not because of the villain. And the graph of the movie goes even down with an unconvincing climax which is in no sync the Movie.

Other Departments:

Dialogues were good and one of the plus points , Camera work was too good with rich visuals. Songs are just okay, only title song is noticeable , but background Score was exceptional. Editing is alright. Action sequences went overboard.

My Rating: 5/10

Analysis: Balakrishna's performance in title role, Elevation scenes in Flashback episode and jagapathi babu are plus points for the movie. But Not so gripping screenplay , weak direction and unconvincing climax make it an ordinary fare.