Take plots or sub-plots from Bharateeyudu, Aparichitudu and Shivaji (all three Shankar movies in fact) and mix-and-match with inferior production values and bad makeup. Then sprinkle a heavy dose of vulgar and double-meaning dialogues courtesy the two ladies, Nisha Kothari and Anushka. What's the result? One and Only.

Plot: Satyam (Veeravenkata Satyanarayana Swamy) a.k.a. Tsunami is a beloved person for several villagers, having touched and changed many a life. His grandmother is 'Baby' whose husband dedicated his life to gain independence, taken later as a prisoner of war and missing henceforth. Meanwhile, corrupt doctors, lawyers and journalists are allegedly killed, but their bodies are missing. The suspicions are on Swamy who is arrested, but an old man calling himself Okka Magadu claims to have committed those acts. The point is, OM looks like the older version of Swamy whose sworn enemy is Namboodriyar, a politician whose son elopes with a middle-class girl under Swamy's protection. The search for OM intensifies and the confusion thickens.

Performances: Balakrishna looks fresher and the stiffness of his earlier two movies is completely absent. In a few scenes, he is engaging while some scenes are so badly scripted, that it all looks plain silly. It's a weak script, and there ends the matter. As an old man, his performance is just okay, but definitely better than Simran's over-the-top cantankerous old woman act.

Simran, who is actually a good artiste, is wasted in what seems to be a challenging role on paper, but ends up being utterly ridiculous. Nisha Kothari, the less said the better. Same goes for Anushka, because both are used only to wear skimpy outfits and mouth (and worse, act out) third class stuff. Ashutosh Rana acts and the dubbing is like that of Raghuvaran, while surprisingly even the old NBK's laugh is similar to that of Rajnikant in Shivaji.

Last Word:Shankar's movies are huge hits, or at least well-known and mimicked all the time. You just can't go take ideas from his movies that are relatively recent and think you can get away with it. YVS made watchable movies before, but he disappoints thoroughly in handling the star. Why do directors forget the script and bank entirely on the star now-a-days? The star, some purposeful and well-meaning dialogues in trademark style, a little skin show plus two fights and three songs that stand out does not make a good movie. YVS disappoints terribly in this seen before inferior quality yarn and a star has been totally wasted in an incompetent script.