Brahmanandam is okay in the first half and hilarious in Pawan Kalyan cutout scene in the second half. Ali is hilarious (or the way Pawan tells him 'samba raasuko'). Others: Shruti Hassan is adequate as lady love of Gabbar Singh. Pawan Kalyan has shown it again how an actor can own and carry it on when the right character is offered. Pawan Kalyan's attitude, body language and josh (some may call it over-acting) is perfectly extracted by the director. Pawan Kalyan scorches the screen with his performance.
Artists Performance Pawan Kalyan: It took almost 12 years and a director called Harish Shankar to bring out the character in Pawan Kalyan onto the screen the way people want to see it. The rest of the story is about how Gabbar Singh executes everything in his style. Gabbar Singh cuts Siddhappa to his size and Siddhappa wants to take revenge. Siddhappa Naidu (Abhimanyu Singh) is the big rowdy of the village who has aspirations to become a politician. He likes his mother (Suhasini) and dislikes his foster father (Nagineedu). Story Gabbar Singh (Pawan Kalyan) runs away from home at an early age and become a police officer and gets transferred to his village. Don't except anything ever please and you will be happy at the end. If not for Pawan Kalyan, I dare say this film would have been a dud, but he brought something called "Pawan style" and that's what sold the film is what I believe. Except few dialogues, I did not like anything in this, acting is stereotypical and the setup is age-old. I can't say much of this mediocre film in which we get to see same thing over and over and over again, and more worse is we never to have better films, we loved the bad films before, now we are addicted to them. At least "Mandubaabulam" is one song and "Pilla" is another that will stick with for long time to come.
Having said that, there are few plus points and that is Music, Devisri Prasad has given some tunes and lyrics that are worth listening for many number of times, till we again delete them from collection. Gabbar Singh belongs to that very league again, just that here Pawan Kalyan who tried experiments but failed like "Johnny" gets back a slice to have his meal and now I suppose, he is satisfied with this dish. So this is where we stand, we embrace this and more bad things we are offered, more is what we love to eat. Last year too we had a similar case, where "Dookudu" was a Telugu inspiration of the German Film "Goodbye Lenin". So now, I was wondering what is original, yet this turns out to be super duper hit and indeed a blockbuster.
Now, what is original, the movie is something that we know, the title itself is a name of villain in "Sholay" and that Antakshari scene was done very well in a good original film "Aithe". I was disappointed and started arguing with all those so called Pawan Kalyan fans. So I watched it one day in Sandhya Theatre, nearby my home. I was also told that there are few scenes that are brazenly original and highly comical like Antakshari scene etc. I was said that this the best film of Pawan Kalyan after "Khushi", that came nearly 10 years ago. Now, I have not seen "Dabanng" and I did not want to see this film either coz this does not work for my sensibilities. Yet, except the plot line, I am not sure if there are any similarities.
Now, it is considered to be remake of the Salman Khan starrer "Dabanng" and now we have similar recipe for the Telugu food loving people. The blockbuster of 2012 has to be remake of another blockbuster "Dabanng" just with Telugu Nativity.