Yevadu (Who?) is again one of those movies, which must have really looked awesome on paper, and the transition from the paper to the celluloid became something else altogether.
The premise is pretty neat. But the screenplay is do damn confusing that you are left wondering what the hell is happening on the screen.
Satya and Deepthi (Allu Arjun and Kajal Agarwal) are two lovers who are on the run from a local don Dheeru Bhai (Rahul Dev) as Dheeru is lusting after Deepthi and has even murdered her parents for her, and in the process Deepthi gets killed and Satya becomes badly disfigured.
Dr. Sharada (Jayasudha) does a face transplant (nope, I got that right, not plastic surgery but a face transplant) and gives him a different face (Ramcharan).
Satya escapes from the hospital and eliminates all the people responsible for Deepthi's death with the help of a real dumb girl Shruthi (Amy Jackson).
Once the vendetta is over, Satya is shocked when he finds someone else out to kill him. He realizes that they are after the person whose face he now wears ( yes..wears).
He finds out that the face belongs to a charan, Dr. Sharada's son who was brutally murdered by a land grabber Dharma (sai kumar) since he interfered with the latter's plan of grabbing a slum area.
Now Satya decides to take revenge on those people who murdered Charan He kills them all and marries Charan's girlfriend Manju (shruthi hasan) in the end.
The most dumb sequence in the movie is the face off sequence, where both the male lead's beds are placed side by side and measurements are taken for each of their faces and lo and behold you have a medical miracle.
It reminds you of that awful sequence in AMAR AKBAR ANTHONY where a blood transfusion was done simultaneously to Nirupa Roy from Amitabh Bachan, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor, but then that was the 70's and we are in 2014 now and people are better informed, it is pathetic how tollywood filmmakers take the audience's intelligence for granted.
Now for the best points in the movie.
Allu Arjun and Kajal gave the best performances in the entire movie, followed by Shashank, as Charan's friend. Too bad these actors were only given 15 minutes of screen time.
Jayasudha as Dr. Sharada proves yet again that she is a versatile actress. She was excellent both as the caring doctor and the doting mother and equally carried herself in the high voltage confrontation sequences.
Ramcharan is his usual self, has the same constipated expression throughout the movie, we wish he played Satya and Arjun played Charan and not the other way round.
Shruthi Hasan does not have anything to do except wear tight fitting clothes and giggling and has a lost look when she is not giggling.
Amy Jackson does not look that firang, she plays the dumb act well, too bad her character was not so well written Sai Kumar hams his way through out the movie, just like a man who has not eaten for a week is suddenly given an emperor's meal to eat.
The songs are good..especially Chelliyaa...chelliyaa.
The item song by Ayyo Papam picturized on Scarlett Wilson was naughty.
Oye Oye shot on Ramcharan, Amy Jackson and a couple of bikini clad foreigners with clueless expressions was foot tapping.
Devisriprasad did a better job here than he did with One.
Screenplay and Direction by VamsiPaidipalli was confusing to the core, the climax sequences where another twist is revealed is one of the better sequences in the movie. This is the only sequence where you see Ramcharan and Allu Arjun in action in a single frame.
Shyam Naidu's cinematography is excellent and pleasing to the eye...too bad can't say the same to the movie however.
