Kaai Raja Kaai Review

There is this MLA daughter who has to hide her face from onlookers because she is on a run and is with three youngsters, one of whom is her lover boy.  The three youngsters have accidentally got their hands on a big fortune only the previous night.  In order to hide the girl’s face, one of them comes up with a burqa.  This outdated scene only reflects the outdated creativity of the makers.  In a day and age when every second girl is seen wearing the camouflage, who would make a girl wear burqa in order to hide her from the world?

Anand (Manas) and two of his friends (Ram and Josh Ravi) live together and have those typical bachelorhood problems.  They have money for nothing except booze.  The mechanic loves a girl (Shamili)  with a B.Tech degree.  Anand works as a maintenance supervisor at the MLA’s house.  The third believes in striking gold overnight and is a clairvoyant ‘kai raja kai’ expert.  Anand is forced into love and dangerous romance behind the MLA’s father’s back by the seductive daughter, played by Shravya.  Meanwhile, the mechanic wins over the B.Tech beauty’s love, but that proves to be short-lived.  He is spurned because he is ‘after all’.

The same day, Anand escapes the wrath of the MLA when the daughter does a volte face to save her face.

Somewhere in the city, Bittu, the dreaded land grabber with expertise in ‘kai raja kai’ is in search of a heist that he thinks legitimately belongs to him.  The same is placed inside a properly working car in the mechanic’s shed.

Right from the premise, the film reeks of oldishness.  The first half is full of half-baked scenes and the comedy falls flat.  The characters are seen boozing and boozing.  ‘Kai raja kai’ is a theme that comes in between.  The villain is seen indulging in the game a bit here and there, but his main activity is shouting at his henchman and losing his cool over the fact that the heist is still not his.

Shiva Ganesh, who admittedly idolizes RGV, loses the plot when he reduces the film to a comedy.  You show your villain as being ruthless and someone who deals in crores of rupees.  And when it is his big day, he is seen being taken away by the police as if he is a street rowdy, with him till then indulging in buffoonery.

You have three youngsters with whom an MLA daughter is travelling.  Why is it that even once does she not give them ideas about how to handle the situation?  For how long will rich girls be shown as “excited” at being kidnapped by funny guys and over the road-side ice cream?

It is now a ritual in B-grade films to invoke Pawan Kalyan and/or Mahesh Babu and this or that.  One is a PK fan.  Another derives “kick” out of parodying PK.  Another spoofs Big B the Sarkar.

The film is as original as that aggressive friend’s character who is seen stereotyped as a childish laddoo-eater.  The characters are as intelligent as that Bittu man who can’t make out what Josh Ravi is doing in the climax, despite he having lost a game with him previously.  The film is as refreshing as that element where the girl’s brother is mistaken to be her boy friend.  The main characters are as serious as those plotting the kidnap of a political biggie’s daughter would seem – in an inebriated condition!

The BG score is appalling when it is not inspired.  In a scene where life is mathematically explained by the calculated friend of Shamili, the BG score indicates that she has just talked about the greatness of love!

Verdict: Technically sub par, the film packs insipid ideas.  Except for a few funny moments in the second half, there is nothing home to write about.

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