Adi Lakshmi Telugu Movie

Dec 9, 2006 By Kishore

Adilakshmi has shades of Ghazni and Aparichitudu and yet is a different kind of movie. Here the main character feigns amnesia and having split personality disorder unlike Ghazni and Adilakshmi where the main characters are supposed to have the disorders. The highlight of the movie is the strong performance of Srikanth. The negative role that Srikanth dons in this movie is powerful and at times the violence involved in the movie is scary. People who would like to avoid movies with violence should not watch this movie.

The violence depicted in Adilakshmi is not the typical hero bashing up hundreds of baddies sometimes in a rainy scene with blunt weapons and resulting in ketchup oozing out. That type of violence makes you laugh because you know that's impossible. But here the violence is the burst of anger in a person with a criminal streak acted almost to realistic perfection by Srikanth. He acts superbly as a possessive film director.

Another strong point of the movie is the songs. Chakri has set the songs to good music. All the numbers are good. Yet another strong point of the movie is Sridevi. She acts as a glamorous film star in the movie. And she is dripping with glamour, no doubt about that.

The story revolves around three characters, a film actress (Sridevi), a film director (Srikanth), and a criminal lawyer. Srikant loves Sridevi since he was a kid and a playmate of her and dreams of marrying her. But Sridevi is not aware of his love for her and treats him as a close friend. A producer tries to rape Sridevi. Srikant happens to be there. He kills the producer. Vadde Naveen who is a criminal lawyer is hired by Sridevi to save Srikanth. Srikanth has a criminal tendency but acts as a very submissive person with a split personality disorder. So he is not punished and medical treatment is advised to him. But soon Vadde Naveen discovers that Srikanth indeed is normal and he committed the crime in full sense.

The plot is good. But possessiveness of Srikanth could have been shown more vividly. There are a few loose ends like Vadde Naveen getting away from an accident scratch free. He climax could have been made more interesting. But then we are not talking of a hit movie here, just an above average movie.