Khaidi No. 150 Movie Review - Megastar's Show

Movie Name  :  Khaidi No. 150
Rating            :  3.25 / 5
Banner           :  Konidela Production Company
Starring         :  Chiranjeevi, Kajal Agarwal, Tarun Arora, Ali, Brahmanandam, Posani, Prudhvi and others
Story             :  Murugadass  AR

Music             :  Devisri Prasad

Cinematography : Ratnaelu
Editing            :  Gowtham RAju
Producer         :  Ram Charan
Screen play & Direction :   V.V. Vinayak
Date of Release  :  11th January, 2017

Megastar Chiranjeevi started ruling Tollywood by beginning with Khaidi in 1983 for more than 2 decades until he entered into full time politics in 2008 and quit acting.  Nearly a decade later, he is back to the movies.  

Khaidi No. 150 has been in the news for over a year and has hit the silver screen today.  This movie is a remake of Tamil super hit "Katthi".  VV Vinayak worked with Chiranjeevi  for the first time for "Tagore" which stood as the biggest hit in Chiranjeevi's career.  Let us see whether Khaidi No. 150 will repeat the same feat and whether Chiranjeevi reclaim his glory and position with this movie?

Story  

The farmers of a very remote village in Ananthapur district are fighting a corporate company which is trying to grab their lands believed to contain untapped water.   Shankar ( Chiranjeevi, an idealist supporting these farmers comes to Hyderabad to bring the issue of the struggle to the notice of the media and judiciary.  

On the other hand Kathi Seenu ( Chiranjeevi) is a small-time criminal who serves jail sentence in Kolkata.  He manages the jail-break successful in the process of helping jail staff to nab a criminal and lands in Hyderabad.  There love at first sight happens to him on meeting Lakshmi (Kajal Agarwal).  Twist comes when Kathi seenu is a witness of a shootout and finds the injured person who is Shankar and looks exactly like him.  So Kathi Seenu admits Shankar in hospital and decides to impersonate Shankar to escape from the Police. He lands in the place where Shankar was residing with his villagers.  In a short period of time he realizes who Shankar really is and the noble cause for which he had been fighting.  Kathi Seenu  now takes up the war to bring justice to farmers. 

Does Kathi Seenu achieve Shankar's goal?  What are the tricks he played to realize the objective?  Watch the movie to get the answer? 

Performance of the Artists

Chiranjeevi looks 10 times better than his last movie "Shankar Dada Jindabaad".  He is simply exceptioal be it dances, fights, comedy or dialogues.  He  has worked hard to look young. He has done commendable job in dance and fight sequences.   

The role of Kajal Aggrawal is not an asset to this movie.  Her role and performance looked quite ordinary.  It looked as if she was taken only for songs.  Even in songs the focus is mainly on Chiranjeevi.  The comedy by Brahmanandam, Ali, Raghu babu and Posani is not that effective even though they managed to induce occassional laugh.    Tarun Arora as villain is OK.  Lakshmi Rai as item girl and Ram Charan in a cameo appearance added glitz to the movie.

Technical Aspects of the movie

Producer Ram Charan has provided best technicians to his father's movie.  Cinematographer RAthnavelu has shot the movie in a rich manner and he also made Chiru look younger.  The production quality is top class.   Director shot the film in grand way.  Music by Devi Sri Prasad is foot-tapping.  The songs became quite popular even before release of the movie.  The songs appear more effective on the screen due to picturization, locations and Chiru;'s dances.. Some dialogues are impressive while some are old-style.