Allari Pidugu a story of twins who come to each others rescue and save the family honour has been told a thousand times. What the Parchuri brothers should have done was to give it more unexpected twists and colourful characters but they mess it up and it turns out to be one royal dump charade with long drawn out climax that makes you snooze!

A military officer Chakravarthy (Puneet Issar) has been wrongly framed up by the baddies led by powerful political king maker GK (Mukesh Rishi) and his son (Rahul Dev), who are into gun running and is hand-in-glove with anti-nationals. Chakravarthy twins grow up into Giri (Balakrishna) a naive and irresponsible lovable ruffian a village guy and Ranjit (Balakrsihna) a respected IPS officer who kills the scums of the earth through encounters.

Giri’s girl is his cousin Subbulakshmi (Charmy) a naughty village belle while Ranjit has a sophisticated Swati (Katrina Kaif) for company. Ranjith cracks down the GK gang, which leads to more action and complications with brothers joining hands to save the family honour as Giri emerges as the righteous ‘Allari Pidugu’ and also saves the lives of hundreds of pilgrims by his dare devilry!

There is no basic story or plotline as the whole film depends mainly on the hero’s image laced with lots of glamour in skimpy clad girls, songs in Swiss Alps and hideous looking studio sets and everything including dialogues is predictable and banal. Hello, where was the screenplay? What was the last one-hour of the film leading to? Allari Pidugu is all sound and no fury. The only saving grace are the hummable tunes of Mani Sharma.

As for the performance, of leading ladies and others we will quote the Giri character- “No Comments”! Ultimately your heart goes out to Balayya who despite all odds has a pleasing screen presence. But the actor has to choose his scripts with far more care in future.

Verdct: Avoidable