Sometimes, when you watch the film, you soon start wondering if the director and the hero were enemies by birth and if one was taking a huge revenge on the other. You get the same feeling when you watch ‘Bangaram’.

Dharani is a well-known and much-respected director of action films in Tamil. When he worked in Tamil, he used to sometimes run into budgetary constrains. So, everybody was very happy when he got an offer to direct a film in Telugu. It’s a well known fact that people in Telugu film industry don’t mind going way overboard the budgets. So, everybody was eagerly awaiting the release of this film, ‘Bangaram’, which happens to be Dharani’s first direct film in Telugu. But, soon afterwards, a feeling of uneasiness started spreading thanks to rumors of clashes between the producer and director. Both denied the rumors but nobody took those denials seriously.

Finally, the film hit the theatres and within two shows, everybody started feeling sorry for Pawan Kalyan, an actor whose immense talents and dedication to work went wasted here.

Pawan Kalyan is Bangaram, a news reporter who dreams of working for the BBC. But soon his job runs into trouble when a video interview (that he had shot) of a notorious terrorist goes missing. He loses his job. He accompanies the TV channel’s chairman, Peddi Reddy to his factional-war ridden village, to meet the chairman’s daughters, Sandhya and Vindhya (played by Meera Chopra and Sanusha respectively). If you thought that Bangaram was going to fall in love with Sandhya, then you’re wrong. The village is under the control of Bhomi Reddy (played by Ashutosh Rana), who happens to be a local and notorious factional leader. Soon, Bangaram is dragged into the fights. As predictable, there is a village temple and there is huge controversy surrounding its annual temple festival.

Bangaram has another task at hand- Sandhya is in love with Raja and she wants Bangaram’s help to get married to him. The hero agrees to help.

He fights the powerful gang and unites the lover.

You might now wonder what Reema Sen was doing in the film- nothing. She simply yearns for the hero and wears skimpy clothes and is supposed to be a news reporter too! So, what’s Trisha doing? Well, she comes towards the end of the film and makes the audience feel better by hinting at a romantic interest on the hero. Meera Chopra, the main heroine, is not even remotely interested in the hero.

Dharani probably didn’t bother to look at his frames properly because in the village of ‘Kurnool’, we see so many signs of Tamilnadu’s two biggest political parties- DMK and AIADMK!!! Utter carelessness!

It took the director two years to complete this shoddy work. Maybe he is more comfortable with working in Tamil films.

Cast- Pawan Kalyan, Meera Chopra, Reema Sen, Sanusha and others

Director- Dharani

Producer- AM Rathnam

Plus-
Pawan Kalyan, because the audience felt very sorry for him
Sanusha
Meera Chopra looks good

Minus-
Almost all the other elements!