Karthi has arrived as Bad Boy for this summer. This movie was already release in Tamil as Alex Pandian for pongal and the film was declared a flop at the Tamil Box-Office. Film was edited upto 20 minutes and is being released in more than 300 theaters. Let us checkout Bad Boy Movie Review to know more.

Cast: Karthi, Anushka Shetty, Santhanam, Suman, Milind Soman, Nikhita etc
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Suraj
Music & BGM: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography: Sarvanan
Editing: Praveen-Srikanth
Dialogues: Shasank Vennelakanti
Producer: K.E Gnanavelraja
Banner: Studio Green
Release Date: March 22, 2013
 

Story

Anushka Shetty is the daughter of health minister and the villains kidnap her in order to get a favor from her father. This Kidnap assignment is given to Alex Pandu (Karthi) and he successfully abducts Anushka from a party. Things take a turn and Karthi tries to save Anushka from the goons. What made Karthi change his heart? Can he save Anushka from the clutches of villains? All these form the rest of the Bad Boy movie story.

Analysis

Movie begins with a chase scene shot on a running train. In order to escape from Alvin Martin (Milind Soman), both Karthi and Anushka jumps into a river. Then enters Santhanam into the movie and he brings relief with his slapstick comedy. Most of the first half is concentrated on Karthi and Santhanam, and there comedy is good. After a predictable interval bang, second half begins with flash back episode of Karthi and he explains Santhanam about the entire story. Movie goes further with unnecessary fight sequences and 70’s kind of love story between Karthi and Anushka and it finally ends with a very routine climax.

Teluguone Perspective

There are many movies as references for the directors if they want to make a mass entertainer, but if someone wants to know how a mass film shouldn’t be made? Bad Boy is the answer. Except the performances of Karthi, Santhanam and Anushka’s lovely legs, there is nothing much to talk about this movie. Once the film begins, audience can come to a conclusion within no time that this is a pure Tamil movie of 60’s or 70’s. Bad Boy makers can be appreciated for their courage to dub a Tamil movie into Telugu even after the film was rejected by the people in Tamil Nadu. First half seems to be just ok because of Santhanam but second half is a test for the audience patience.

Performances

Karthi is good is some episodes and tried hard to fit into mass role. Anushka Shetty is good and she looked awesome especially in the white shirt. Santhanam is the main asset for the movie and his comedy is good. Suman and Milind Soman were just ok and their presence has been wasted by poor characterizations. Nikitha, Akanksha and Sanusha were nice to watch and did their job.

Technicalities

Cinematography by Sarvanan is good. Music by Devi Sri Prasad is just ok and the BGM is fine. Dialogues in Telugu are not upto the mark and the editing is very poor. Nothing to mention about the directorial skills of Suraj.


Positives

Santhanam Comedy
Anushka’s presence and Karthi in some episodes

Negatives

Weak Screenplay
Old Story
Unnecessary fights
Dialogues

Final Word: A noted Tamil website said in their review “Is this supposed to be a spoof of a 70′s Telugu movie?” Well the 70’s Telugu movies are much better compared to this flick and this movie can be watched at your own risk.

Bad Boy Movie Rating : 2.25/5

Reviewed by Vamsi Kaka