The flick's origin is from the Kannada movie "Aapadrakshaka" starred by Vishnuvardhan and directed by the same P. Vasu, who directed Rajanikanth starred its Tamil remake "Chandramukhi" also. This movie "Nagavalli" happens to be a sequel to "Chandramukhi". Going in to the story - a painter while traveling in a tonga finds an old painting lying on the road and brings it along to his home. He doesn't know that it's the portrait of Chandramukhi. He tells his wife that the painting he found is 100 years old and it would fetch him crores of rupees in foreign market, instead of 20-30 lakhs in India. Wife suggests that he should tell others that he is the one who painted it, but artist says that "it would be like committing suicide to say someone else's painting as our own". Surprisingly, the artist is found dead next morning in front of Chandramukhi's portrait. Artist's wife tells the people in the house to give away that portrait to someone. Somehow the painting reaches Sharath Babu's household and strange things start happening. Marriage of Sharath Babu's daughter gets stuck as the bridegroom refuses to marry the bride. One of bride's friends tells that she has spotted a 30 ft. long serpent and have fainted with fear. A snake-charmer is called and he dies on the spot. Then Ramachandra Siddhanthi, known to Sharath Babu, is approached. On coming to the house, Siddhanthi recognizes Chandramukhi's portrait and says that "Chandramukhi's 'aathma', that got released through Ganga (in "Chandramukhi" movie) has entered this household and is the reason for all these happenings. He asks " where did you get this portrait from". Sharath babu tells that his eldest daughter (Kamilini Mukherji) and son-in-law got it as a prize in some dance competition and died in a road accident while coming back home. Sharath Babu had four daughters, first one Kamilini Mukherji is dead, the remaining are second daughter (Shraddha Das), third one (Richa Gangopadhyay) and the fourth is (Poonam Kaur). Siddhanthi tells that there are only two people in the world who can stop this peril. One is Dr. Ishwar (Rajanikanth), the other one is his assistant Vijay (Venkatesh). Since Ishwar is in America at that time, Vijay is called there to set right the situation. How Vijay manages to set the things right... what happens to Chandramukhi's 'aathma'... is the rest of the story.

Analysis :

Since P. Vasu has directed the Kannada original "Aapadrakshaka" and this year happens to be the silver jubilee year in Venkatesh's career, the director has tried his best in making it still better than the previous ones. But the audience who have seen Rajanikanth in this role previously, will certainly compare Venkatesh with him and that's quite natural. Foreseeing this, Venkatesh also tried his best and gave a bettered performance. While he excelled in his natural way as Vijay, he also performed brilliantly as Nagabhairava Rajasekhara, a character having a bit of negative touch. He looks new and different in this role. Though it's a brief role, Venkatesh also excelled in 'Aghora' getup, which will certainly liked by the mass. To be more clear, if we see the flick without comparing performances of Rajanikanth and Venkatesh, then we can appreciate how hard he worked to show the three different 'variations' in his acting. Though Anushka performed well as "Nagavalli", she lacked the grace while dancing. Anyone can make it out that Anushka doesn't know classical dancing. Kamilni's acting as an insane girl seems artificial. Avinash as Siddhanthi performed in the same way as he did in "Chandramukhi". Richa failed to keep her 'balance' in acting as a girl possessed by Chandramukhi's 'aathma'. She looked excellent at some places, then suddenly her performance gets dropped-down and this is a minus point for her. Shraddha Das though performed well, looks like a tomboy. Poonam had nothing much to do. Sharath Babu and Prabha have performed hundreds of this kind of roles in the past. Bramhanandam's comedy sparks at some places, but over all when compared with Dharmavaram's, the latter one is better.

TeluguOne Perspective :

Music: All the songs in the movie are good. Re-recording is an asset to the movie. Nowhere we find western shades in this film's music, a pure traditional music can be heard. Its music director should be appreciated for this. Particularly, rendering of 'ghirana..ghiri..ghirana..' song by Balu and Venkatesh's acting as Nagabhairava Rajasekhara in it are brilliant, while Anushka disappointed with her dance. The songs "Onkaram", "Abhimani lenide" and "Khel Khel" are good.Cinematography: Shyam K. Naidu's camera work is superb. Computer graphics too are good. Fight scene involving Aghora Venkatesh and Dr, Venkatesh have been shot very well. Photography also excelled in the songs.Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers should have kept the dialogues short. Anyway, after penning dialogues for over 300 movies, they still seem to have the stamina to compete with the young writers.Lyrics: Good. As a lyrics writer, Chandrabose has done his best. We can't expect him to be another late Pingali Nagendra Rao and Veturi Sundararammurthy.Editing: Good. Editor Marthand K Venkatesh took care in not leaving 'lags' anywhere.Art: Appreciable work by Chinna. He made the sets Chandramukhi's house and Aghora's den look very natural.Choreography: Good in 'abhimani lenide' song. Average in remaining songs. Action: Good."If you compare "Chandramukhi" movie and Rajani's performance in it with this movie and Venkatesh, then definitely you will not enjoy this flick. If you want to see Venkatesh's unique acting in various getups, you can happily watch it once."