In Ragada, Nagarjuna looks like a million bucks in every shot. However, the Rayalaseema accent just doesn’t suit the hero. There are too many fights in this film, but the actor managed to pull it off. Anushkha and Priyamani don’t have much to do in the movie and are seen dancing more than acting. One gets the feeling if Anushka agreed to do this movie more out of obligation than out of interest as her role doesn’t leave an impact on the audience. Priyamani delivered a better performance than Anushka in the little space she got to do in this movie. Brahmanandam manages to tickle your funny bones with his trademark histrionics. Dev Gill and Raghubabu are clichéd and yawn inducing. Child artiste Bharath was at his best and gave Brahmanandam a tough contest on screen. There are half a dozen villains in this action flick and all of them gave whistle-worthy performances. Charmee, who has lost oodles of weight, looked smashing in the item number.
The story is a predictable cocktail of fights, songs and comedy. Over an hour and half of screentime is reserved for action. Nagarjuna does a Vijayakanth by killing a villain not by shooting him but by making him eat bullets. The dialogues are not good enough to make you feel the emotion in the scene. And to top it all, they don’t seem to original.
Thaman’s music was in tandem with the mass storyline of the movie. And the locations in which the songs were shot --- in Jordan and Greece --- are a visual feast.
Brahmanandam’s comedy in this film is far better than his painfully boring performance in his other releases this season. Comic scenes with Bramhy and Bharath come as a great relief in between innumerable fights. Pradeep Rawat is seen wearing the same black kurta throughout the movie for no apparent reason. The director failed to exploit Pradeep’s acting skills in the script. The story in this film is no different from hundred others that released in the past one decade. The cinematography is not worth a mention. Despite several glitches, the movie doesn’t bore as much as it should because of perfect screenplay. Every fight is followed by a comedy scene or a song which makes the audience bear this otherwise clichéd movie.