All The Best Review

Behind The Movie All The Best: Hero Srikanth is always a bankable star when given an able character. He is joined with JD Chekravarthy and a big cast of all the Telugu comedy artists for this flick. Let us see, how ‘Best’ is this?

In The Movie All The Best: Ravi (Srikanth) is urgently in need of Rs.15 Lakhs to save his father (Kota) from Police in a cheating case. Ravi meets Chandu (JD Chekrvaarthy), a fraudster through Amabji (Rao Ramesh). From here on Ravi and Chandu chalk out a plan to earn money through a real estate deal which will have the involvement of Dubai businessman Razaq (Pradeep Rawat) and his secretary Sharma (Krishna Bhagawan). Razaq stays in a Star Hotel which is managed by Chandu’s beautiful sister Lucky (lucky Sharma). 

After too many hurdles, Chandu and Ravi strike the deal with Razaq for Rs.1.5 Crore with one condition applied. Razaq wants to have Lucky in his room for one night. Exposing the deceiving attitude of Chandu before their family members even Lucky agrees to spend a night with Razaq. Finally when Chandu takes the bearer cheque of Rs.1.5 Crores for encashment, story takes a twist. Who is Razaq and what is his connection with Ravi? How did Chandu learn a lesson of his life forms the rest of interesting climax.

Values & Out of The Movie All The Best: A lengthy story spanning over different characters with too many sub-plots always look unconvincing. However, Chekri has taken enough care not to lose the strength in his script. What made ‘ATB’ a time pass fare is script and addition of cheerful episodes. There is no boring, lengthy or overdosed drama. Scenes are crisp and fun generating. Chekri seems to have concentrated more only on entertainment quotient without diverting on anything else. That is why we find useless characters like Raghu Babu (Police Officer Papa), Brahmi (small time rowdy goon Gochi) only for the sake of humor. Remaining others like Pradeep Rawat, Suththi Velu, Rama Prabha, Vizag Prasad, Rao Ramesh, Brahmaji etc generate sufficient humor. 

On the flip side, we have no richness on screen due to shoe-string budget allocated. Cinematography of Siva Kumar is very bad while Hema Chandra’s music is just an average score. Editing by Venkatesh is okay. Krishan Mohan Challa’s dialogues are a big plus for the movie. There are enough tongue twisters and simple one liners which provide good and of course brainless laughter. Production values of Sudha Cinema and Chekravarthy Productions are very bad.

Performance wise JD and Srikanth have got equal share of screen time. While Srikanth was at his regular best with soft characterization, the West Godavari slang of JD was a little artificial. In key scenes, both of them complimented each other. Heroine Anisha Singh is for name sake and for a song while Lukcy Sharma has got a meaty character. Unluckily Lucky isn’t that charming. Rao Ramesh tried to emulate his dad Rao Gopala Rao’s popular mannerisms and he is always a delight to watch. Pradeep Rawat is sensible. Krishna Bhagawan and Telangana Shakuntala are pretty loud. Brahmi’s mime comedy and Raghu Babu’s police role are good up to an extent. 

Going by the commercial value, ‘ATB’ can be easily a profitable venture given the meager budget in whichthe film is wrapped up. For those audiences who love to enjoy no-sense comedy without searching for logics, this can be a satisfactory product from Chekri. Although, there is nothing great or innovative to mention…at the same time there are no big blunders too. If you are looking for a simple time pass comedy for the weekend, surely you can try this one.

Cinejosh Verdict of The Movie All The Best: Neither the Best nor the Worst…

                                                                                     Reviewed by Srivaas