Rating: 4/5Punchline: Kshetra Palakh (Temple Guard)
Genre: Action/Romance
Type: Straight
Banner: Geeta Arts
Cast: Allu Arjun, Tamanna, Prakahs Raj, Kelly Dorge, Ashwini Kalsekar, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, M S Narayana, Raghu Babu, Krishna Bhagawan, Pragati etc
Music: M M Keeravani
Cinematography: Ravi Varman
Dialogues: Rajendra Kumar
Story: Chinni Krishna
Stunts: Peter Heins
Editing: Gowtam Raju
Art: Anand Sai
Screenplay - Direction: V V Vinayak
Producer: Allu Arvind
Release date: 10 June 2011
Story:
Being born in the family of Sheppard Badri(Allu Arjun) impresses Bhishma Narayan (Prakash Raj), the only known Guru who is eminent with various arts required to train and develop Kshetra-Paalakhs (temple guards) with his memory power and keen interest in being educated in these holy arts. Bhishma takes the boy from his parents, accepts him as his student and develops him into a KshetraPalakh and gives the responsibility of safe guarding Badrinath temple and its Holiness.When atheist Alakananda (Tammanah) accompanies her grandfather, who is suffering from health problems visits Badrinath and falls in love with Badri. She also starts believing in the supreme God. Alakananda keeps her love secret with Badri, however takes a promise form her man that he will help her in fulfilling her holy rituals and prayers to succeed in her love. As the man commits him-selves to both Guru and Alakananda has to face problems in proving his loyalty to the temple authorities and puts all his efforts to keep up his word to the hidden love Alakananda. Rest of the story revolves around whether Alakananda succeeds in her Love or not.
Artists Performance:
Allu Arjun: Allu Arjun has put his heart and sole in traveling all the way to Vietnam and learn south-east-Asian martial arts for "Badrinath". His hard work paid off and is shown explicitly on the silver screen. He looks like a warrior with a leather gear (chest belt and shoes). He is amazing with his movements of fluid in dance. He performed remarkably in fights sequences.Tamanna: Tamanna improved her performance greatly and also steels hearts of the Telugu youth with her glamorous appearance and beautiful expressions. She plays a key role in the movie, her acts in the movie from the start builds and makes the story rum.
Prakash Raj: This time Prakash Raj (originally Prakash Rai) does a different and challenging role. He with huge mack up, turns out to be a Guru of SkhetraPalakhs. He maintained his performance like any other movie.
Kelly Dorge & Ashwini Kalsekar : Kelly Dorge, once again appears as a grand multi millionaire villain with his threatning wife, Ashwini Kalsekar.
Brahmanandam's and Dharmavarapu's comedy frames are the inspiration from their earlier rolls in the Mega Star's Indra film. M S Narayana and Krishna Bhagawan adds more fun. Raghu Babu’s comedy works out good.
Technical values:
Technically the movie is great with direction by VV Vinayak, Story by Chinni Krishna, Music by great Keeravani, Art by Anand Sai and Cinematography by Ravi Verma, You should not have any doubt on the technical departmant. When a movie is made on a big banner Geetha Arts the production values will be high and it meets your expectation. Back Ground music is good and makes you stick to your seat. Ravi Verma has done an excellent job with his cinematography capturing the beautiful locations. He has made sure that a person can not make out which is a set and a which one is a natural location.
The movie takes off with an interesting plot and a simple love story with the backdrop of Badrinath.
Plus points of the movie are Allu Arjun with his dance, fights and acting. Tamanna with her improved performance and atracting glamor, she has a big scope. Music in the movie. All put together Badrinath is a good movie and a must watch. This attracts the family audience to the theatres.
Review by: Ninth Dragon.
