Tadakha

Right the from the time 'Thadaka' movie was started, one question was doing rounds within the Telugu cinema lovers. “Who Will be given more importance, Naga Chaitanya or Sunil ?”. The answer is, director gave more importance to the story and screenplay. Both the actors have delivered their best performances , which is a big asset for the film. Director took lot of care to make sure that entertainment, action and drama are equally mixed according to the Telugu nativity. On the flip side, the scene where Naga Chaitanya runs faster than a train looked too much. One of the major highlights in the original movie was the chemistry between Madhavan and Sameera Reddy and the director has completely ignored that part in 'Thadaka'.

Technicalities

Cinematography by Arthur Wilson is nice and editing by Gautham Raju is perfect as usual. Though SS Thaman disappointed with the audio, visually songs were good and the BGM as well. Art by AS Prakash is good. Dolly has scored good marks as a director with this film. Production values of Sai Ganesh Productions are grand.

Performances

Naga Chaitanya has improved a lot in every department. His dialogue delivery sounded much better in this film. Chaitanya succeeded to fit into the shoes of a mass hero. Sunil has delivered his best performance and entertained as a coward cop in the first half and he steals the show in the second half as a powerful police officer. Tamanna is one of the major asset for the film and she sizzled in the song 'Maara o Maara'. Andrea looked beautiful but she has got not much to do in the film. Ashutosh Rana was good and Brahmanandam, Raghu Babu, Vennela Kishore, DMK (Murali) Jp etc have done their job.

Positives

Story
Action Episodes
Emotional Episodes Between Sunil & Naga Chaitanya
Tamanna Glamor

Negatives

Cinematic Liberty

Final Word : Thadaka is a perfect mass entertainer.

Reviewed by Vamsi Kaka