Mallanna – Review

Versatile actor Vikram has become very popular among the Telugu audiences with his film Aparichitudu. After a long gap, Vikram is playing hero, in a Tamil film Kandhasamy which has been simultaneously made in Telugu under the title Mallanna, with Shreya in the female lead.

Mallanna (Vikram) is a CBI officer working in the economic offences wing. Heworks under a joint director called Krishna Rao (Krishna). Because of his official position, he can find out those who are amassing wealth and Mallanna uses his intelligence to find such money and donate it to the people. For this, he chooses the devotional path as the Hindus are very religious and believe that God would come to their rescue whenever they face problems. He manages to propagate a gossip that whoever faces problems, can write their problem on a chit and tie the same to a tree. Sooner, the person’s problem would be solved. For this, Mallanna takes the help of eight of his friends who are experts in different fields and at the same time, work in one or the other of the economic offences-related departments.

In the process, he manages to conduct raid on a millionaire (Ashish Vidyarthi) and finds black money. But, the millionaire’s daughter Subbalakshmi (Shriya) vows to take revenge against Mallanna and teases him in the name of love. Mallanna too plays the drama. Due to certain lapses in the plans, Mallanna gets caught by the police and he is forced to accept that he as been playing the drama. But, the police official who arrests him is a puppet in the hands of the millionaire, whom Mallanna raided. So that millionaire puts a proposal that he will not reveal the secret to any one on a condition that Mallanna would share 50 per cent of what all he robs from anyone.

Mallanna accepts the proposal and wants the millionaire to send him to Mexico on a fake passport so that he could collect the money of on another millionaire there and ask him to give his bank account number in Mexico so that he could deposit the entire money there. As per the plan Mallanna collects money and deposits the money in the millionaire’s account there. Later, he asks Subbalakshmi to check the deposit in their account and inform her dad. After Subbalakshmi opens the online account and reveals to her father that the money has been deposited, Mallanna cracks that password and transfers the entire money back into his account.

Finally, that millionaire tries to take a revenge against Mallanna by giving the tape where he had recorded Mallanna's confession. However, Krishna Rao, who knew Mallanna's activities destroys the evidence. Finally, Mallanna, raids another big shot called AP Pedda Manishi and brings out the black money he stored in his bus. However, the police again arrests Mallanna for robbing the economic offenders. There is no evidence that Mallanna helped the people in the form of money. At the same time, the people who lost the money do not lodge any complaint about the theft. So, the court relieves him as there is no proof of his misdeeds, though it is clear that he admitted the fact on his own.