Going by the audience response in the theatres, Aado Rakam Eedo Rakam seems to cater and satisfy a big segment who love adult comedy. The film appears to be great fun but the dialogues laced with double entendre will make one squirm in the seats. It is a bit shocking that Nageswar Reddy, who made the hilarious and clean Seema Shastri, has chosen a wife swapping sub-plot to bring in the laughs in the guise of an innocent and a simple story. More shocking is an actor like Rajendra Prasad indulging in such dialogues, but all said and done, one must agree that the generation is fast changing and very soon we might have a Grand Masti in Telugu.
Directors like Nageswar Reddy and production houses such as this are making us habituated in doses to this kind of cinema. The real tragedy would be if this film spins money at the marquee, because that won’t just set off a trend of identical films but, more importantly, it will show something rather dark about our own minds.
This is a remake of a Punjabi film and begins in a harmless manner, with two goons fighting over a piece of land and a cop claiming that it belongs to the Police Department. Very soon, there is a wedding scene, both friends Arjun (Vishnu) and Ashwin (Raj Tarun) find their respective love interests, Neelaveni (Sonarika) and Supriya (Hebah Patel). Neelaveni has an absurd fixation and wants to marry an orphan only (remember Seema Tapakai where Poorna wants to wed a poor man) and Arjun lies that he is one, marries her without informing his family and circumstances compel him to move into his own home.
Neelaveni takes a portion of Arjun’s home on rent and Arjun pleads Ashwin to take his place as Neelaveni’s husband. And the confusion comedy begins. It is a riot when Supriya weds Ashwin and also steps into the same house, and the finale has both the goons we saw in the prelude and who are siblings to these heroines picking up a fight with Arjun.
The story is so predictable that there is nothing that would make you hang on to see what happens at the end. There are sporadic laughs and both the heroes put up good performances, there is a crackling bromance on show but the girls are meant only for skin show. While Sonarika moves around showing a good amount of skin, the other actor Hebah is painfully thin and there is no improvement in terms of acting even after carrying the entire Kumari 21F.
The main drawback is that there is nothing new to reveal after a point, the same confusion drags. It revolves around concealing who is whose wife and why they are sleeping in someone else’s bedrooms. The technical execution is not great, and music is just about okay.
- Y. Sunita Chowdhary
Aado Rakam Eedo Rakam
Cast: Vishnu, Raj Tarun
Direction: Nageswar Reddy
Genre: Adult Comedy
