Akhil Movie Review

Akhil Akkineni, third generation hero from Akkineni family has made his entry on a massive scale with VV Vinayak directorial Akhil - The Power of Jua film. Actor Nithiin has turned producer for Akhil film and spent a huge investment on a debutante production. Will Akhil Akkineni impress Telugu audiences? Do Akhil team efforts pay off at the Box-office? Read Akhil Movie Review on Firstshowz.com
Akhil has teamed up with director VV Vinayak for his debut movie titled Akhil, a commercial mass entertainer with the right mix of action, romance and comedy. His dances and fights are going to be the major highlight of Akhil film.
Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu's grand niece Sayesha Saigal is roped in as the female lead in the movie, and Akhil marks her Tollywood entry. Brahmanandam plays full-fledged comedy role while Mahesh Manjrekar, Rajendra Prasad, Vennela Kishore and Jaya Prakash Reddy will be seen in pivotal roles
Kona Venkat and Veligonda Srinivas provided the script for Akhil which has cinematography by Amol Rathod and music by Anup Rubens and SS Thaman.
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Storyline

Akhil (Akhil Akkineni), a gutsy orphan falls in love with Medical Student Divya (Sayessha Saigal), daughter of businessman Mukesh (Mahesh Manjrekar). Mukesh is close ally of Mambo (African goon) and German Scientist Katrochi who tries to get hold of Jua (Surya Kavacham which can save the planet from the destruction.) to rile the world with their supernatural powers.

Akhil who is after Divya eventually falls in chasing Jua. What is Akhil and Jua connection? What happens to their love story, how does he save planet from destruction is rest.

Artists Performances

Akhil Akkineni makes a decent debut. He impresses with his looks, dances and action sequences. However, he needs to work more on his expressions, comic timing and dialogue delivery. Besides he needs to select the right scripts.

Sayesha Saigal looks pretty and she does her role well without going overboard. She has a good screen presence and is expressive too. This pretty young debutant has a long way to go.

Mahesh Manjrekar bags yet another lengthy yet routine role in VV Vinayak directorial, and he does the role in his usual style. Brahmanandam as Johnson & Johnson, Sapthagiri as Pothe Babu Rao fails to evoke laughs and so were Jayaprakash Reddy and Vennela Kishore. The African actors did a decent job while Rajendra Prasad didn’t have much scope to perform. Nagarjuna’s cameo entertains all the fans. Others were adequate.

Technician’s Role

Veligonda Srinivas’s story is flimsy, and the screenplay is horrible. Kona Venkat’s dialogues didn’t help any proceedings. The narration is flat and the direction is pretty ordinary.

Cinematography however is on top-notch and the visuals are brilliantly captured. Music by Thaman S and Anup Rubens is good and so was the BGM by Mani Sharma.

Editing lacked consistency while the VFX works look unrealistic. Production Values of Shresht Movies Banner are grand

Analysis

The expectations are huge on Akhil Akkineni’s debut ever since the announcement of his Tollywood entry and with a commercial mass director VV Vinayak on board, the expectations reached sky high. But the director has chosen a sci-fi storyline, rather than his strong forte a safe commercial storyline, and he fumbled with Akhil.

The writing is poor, while the execution is flat in addition to the uninteresting screenplay and dialogues. The film lacks emotional connectivity with such boring narration. Despite the technically good fights, we don’t connect with proceedings as they look unexciting, unrealistic and bleak. The climax is all more pathetic with the logics being completely ignored.

All in all, Akhil is a wasted opportunity despite the top technicians and interesting casting on board.  Except for Akhil, Sayyesha and Cinematography, BGM and few action episodes the film is a failed attempt.

Finally

Akhil- an opportunity missed!

RATING: 2/5