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 A sheer waste of money
It is not known why some producers invest their valuable money in films which neither give entertainment nor have any commercial values. When a film is being made for the debut of a film personality, minimum precautions needed to be taken. In the absence of a gripping story, a director who could elevate the hero to gain an image of his own, making of a film is nothing but further throwing the debutant hero into depression. In a nutshell, the film 'Chedugudu' has all these above qualities. Even there is no justification for the title.
Jayant (Jayant) is the son of a mason, while Swetha (Swetha) is the daughter of a rich man (Sayaji Shinde). Both of them are in love and decide to elope. Swetha's stepmother encourages her to elope with Jayant. Learning this, Swetha's father sends his goons to catch Jayant and bring back his daughter but they could not. While they elope, they reach a village called Venkatarajapuram, which is a secluded village. Surprisingly, none of the house will have doors. Even if there are doors, they don't have any bolts to lock. The villagers don't depend on others and don't allow new faces in their village. There is a police station in the village, but the sub-inspector Madhav (Brahmanandam) and Radha (Kovai Sarala) has no work there and stay in the village not to do duty but to serve the people there in whatever way they can. Radha and Madhav give shelter to Jayant and Swetha. The village head and panchayat president (Jayaprakash Reddy) try to drive them out but accepts the plea of Radha and Madhav as they were bound to give protection to the lovers. Learning Swathi is in Venkatrajapuram, Swathi's father sends his goons to the village and in a bid to save Swathi, the president's mother (Vadivukkarasi) gets injured. Then they learn that Swathi is none other than the granddaughter of president's mother and the niece of the president. Here the flashback reveals that the president gets Swathi's mother married to her lover (Sayaji Shinde) but the latter ditches them by robbing the temple jewellery. In the process he also kills Swathi's mother. That was the reason why the villagers are not allowing new faces into their village. They also refuse to have a police station to save the village prestige as the police may try to investigate the theft of temple jewellery and the subsequent murder. In order to unite Jayant and Swathi, the president's mother calls up her son-in-law to come and stop their marriage. In the climax, all the villagers teach a lesson and perform the marriage of Swathi with Jayant. PLUS: There are absolutely no plus points in the film. Though the debutant hero Jayant is said to have taken training in action, dances and martial arts, his screen presence is very unimpressive. The heroine with chubby face and cylindrical shape is no match to the hero. But for the performance of Vadivukkarasi and Jayaprakash Reddy, the film has nothing much to talk about. The film has music from a big music director like Chakri. None of the tunes are impressive and foot tapping. Camera work by Sarat, editing by Shankar are so so… MINUS: The director of the film was said to have been worked for many films like Holi, 'Andaru Dongale, Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw, Michael Madana Kamaraju and Mee Sreyobhilashi'. Moreover, he had a work experience with a director like 'Nidhi' Prasad. Like his mentor, Nagaraju too had no proper knowledge in film-making. Joining some scenes that were shot at his choice and trying to make film made the entire unit a laughing stock. Neither the screenplay nor the direction had any kind of maturity. At least he could not prove that he had basic knowledge about film making, though many novices who had no experience too could bring out excellent films on the screen. Dialogues by Veligonda Srinivas are good in parts. The director could not make use of several senior artistes like Nagababu, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sayaji Shinde, Vadivukkarasi, Ali and MS Narayana, though they individually did justice to their respective roles. One could not find the reason why the director kept certain characters like Ali, Brahmaji, Satyam Rajesh, Nagababu and others.  REMARKS:
Though Bhanuchander is a senior artiste, he ignored to choose a better director while attempting to push his son Jayant as hero. Like a Telugu saying 'Ayyavaarini Cheyabote Kothi Tayarayindi' (while trying to mould the sculpture of a teacher it finally turned out to be a monkey), the director in a bid to provide entertainment made the villain gang a team of buffoons. There is no seriousness in the gang. Moreover, the director thought that he had maintained a huge suspense by showing a village without any activity for no big reason. At least the selection of heroine too is improper as she resembled a big cylinder and in no way matched the hero's lean personality. Cast: Jayant, Swetha, Brahmanandam, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sayaji Shinde, Giri, Suman Setty, Ali, MS Narayana, Gundu Sudarshan, Nagababu, Bharat, Nalla Venu, Kovai Sarala, Pragati, Devisri, Vadivukkarasi, Mayuri (Asha Saini), Bhavana, Hema and others Credits: Story – Gopubabu, Dialogues – Veligonda Srinivas, Camera – Sarat, Music – Chakri, Editing – Shankar, Presenter – Kovai Sarala, Producers – Bhimaneni Tirupataiah (Rayudu) and K Nagireddy, Screenplay and direction – PR Nagaraju. Banner: Smile Movies Released on: December 19, 2008
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