STYLISH FLICK WITH A STALE PEG

prabhas spells style and director puri jagannadh adds that "ish". Stylish though, Ek Niranjan's peg is a stale "lost and found" but the plot is thick and smells fresh. Whisked away by a cradle snatcher chidambaram {Makarand Deshpande}, Niranjan {prabhas}is made to beg on the strees as chhotu. When he grows up to be a child,he helps the police catch chidambaram and is rewarded with a rupee. Overwhelmed, he taks to catching rogues and handing them over to the police for a prince, in the process becomes a bounty hunter, loathed by crimilas and grudgingly loved by the police. The job requires guts, so gore follows. In every rel.
The romintic part comes with th sameera {kangana Ranaut}, a guitar teacher with a bunch of kids in tow. She is wooed by by chhotu who befrinds her when he is hunting down her brother, a criminal who works for johnny bhai {sonu sood}, mafia don. Of all the misdeeds of the world, johnny bhai is a sadist who kills girls for fun. Jai jagannadh. Style and presentation apart, Ek Niranjan, which could have been a taut thriller, turns out to be a never-ending film with a fight a second and one song a minute interspersed with comedy starring brahmanamdam, venu madhav and ali {in india} and switzerland of course. One wonders why jagannadh cast kangana ranaut. Prabhas too appeared reluctant to act with her . Her debut in T' wood falls flat. The director also wasted makarand Deshpande as the cradle snatcher. Sonu sood as johnny Bhai lives up to the expectations with his unique style of villainy. But brahmaji as the villain's sidekick comes a cropper. Tanikella Bharani as chhotu's father is convincing. Fight by shiva are stunning, while cinematographer shyam k. Naidu, cruises you effortlessly along the long haul for which you can blame only varma. Either he must have packed him off on a holiday during editing. All the songs are a hit, with Mani Sharma providing pulsating beast. You can forgive jaganndh for one of many song-and-dance sequences in which he pays tribute to the king of pop Michael jackson. Prabhas steals the show all the way. It is because of him audience either hung on or yawend away. If it is not politically incoreect, he shouldn't be calling himself a "bounty hunter", it is a "bounty hunter". The film is jagannadh's puri with spicy masala but full of gravy. Alakh Niranjan.