

Second half takes off adequately but turns sentimental halfway through with KS Ravikumar’s trademark sacrifice scenes. ‘Amma Kutti‘song, Balakrishna’s dance in it and couple of confrontation scenes steal the show.

Jai Simha movie’s first half caters to the exact needs of fans and masses. Production values by C.Kalyan is adequate. Since these are emotional scenes, it is difficult to expect him to make them slick. Praveen Antony’s editing is fine except for the pre-climax scenes. Chirantan Bhatt’s background score is surprise of the day as his BGM elevated the action blocks. His senority is visible in dealing with the sentiment scenes. Tamil director K S Ravikumar ensured mass elements are stuffed adequately. “Dharmam nalugu paadhala meeda kaadhu, Nee lanti vaalla tyaagala meeda nadusthundi”- the way he summarized the story is commendable. Ratnam is a decent pitch for masses and his dialogues worked well. Muralimohan got a small role, nothing good or bad about it. Prakash Raj as usual did good role, Brahmanandam failed in generating comedy as his track is not supportive. Natasha danced good in Amma Kutti song though. Two other heroines Natasha Doshi, Hariprriya are wrong choice. Nayanatara is still good looking and acted decent. His diction elevated the scene in which he explains the importance of Brahmins (Purohitulu). At the same time, to cater his fans director made sure NBK’s trademark dialogues are delivered in two scenes.

As the story revolves around sacrifice, his characterization is not over the top. Nandamuri Balakrishna did a controlled performance in this film. Narasimha, a car garage owner, likes Gowri initially but why and how alienated from her? What led to his sacrifice twice in his life? etc elements are the crux of the story In the Second half of the movie, flashback narrates incidents between Narasimha (Balakrishna) and Gowri (Nayantara). Gowri is the woman whom Narasimha wanted to marry when he was in Vizag. Narasimha’s fight with ASP and Don gets serious until the day he figures out that ASP is the person who married to Gowri (Nayanatara). He gets into trouble by involving in issues of Police office versus Local don Kanniyappan’s (Baahubali Prabhakar). Narasimha takes shelter at Muralimohan’s bungalow. Narasimha (Balakrishna) a resident of Vizag moves to Kumbhakonam in Tamilnadu along with his one-year old kid.
