Pichekkistha Review

Encounter Shankar told the truth only partially.  We don't know how much of impact movies have on aspiring directors/writers, but the impact of punch dialogues is terribly high.  Writing senseless parodies is their idea of entertainment.  Nine out of 10 filmmakers who can't think originally resort to parodying punch lines or popular episodes to get things going.  It's almost like they write the spoof scenes first and then do the 'marginal' work (i.e., rest of the script).  Srikanth Reddy, however, goes a step further.  He includes parodies whatever is the situation.  Sadder still, it seems for him there is no film industry beyond Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu.

The male lead's role is played by N.K. and his love interest is played by Harini.  NK is broke 365 days in a year and in order to meet the basic needs like going out to IMAX and Durgam Cheruvu with his GF, he steals motor bikes.  Harini as Aliveni stays in a girls' hostel that is dangerously close to a boys' hostel, where everybody is an expert in eve teasing, insulting others and using double meaning words.  Aliveni develops a liking for the "innocent" boy and they meanwhile tour Hyderabad in the backdrop of a song delivered in the T dialect.

There is a serial rapist whom the police have been trying to nab but to no avail.  The serial rapist has to be taught a lesson for being cruel.  However, the rapist, sadly, looks less menacing than how the hero looks while stealing bikes..

The film is a vessel full of parodies rather than a story.  The male lead is stealing a bike, the title song of 'Gabbar Singh' plays out in the background.  The male lead is sad that his girl is cheating on him, 'Kolaveri Di's plays out.  Whenever more than 2 characters are seen, some punch line or the other is deployed without a rhyme or reason.  There is another idea that our filmmakers love to indulge: Toilet humour or fart humour. 

The girl gives a tight slap, a short-lived tragic song plays out, the girl comes and says sorry, a sensual song follows.  The way the last thing is indulged, everything else that preceded it comes across as an excuse in retrospect.

What is matchless is our heroine having fun time avenging the death of a beloved family member.  It's as if she is teaching her senior in college a lesson for crossing the limits while ragging.  It feels that light.

Finally, you have some stuff for voyeurs and that's third armour that our filmmakers rely on after parodies and toilet humour.

Verdict: A revenge story that has irrelevant subplots snatched from here and there.

Rating: 1/5