

Aspiring singers come together to showcase their singing prowess as they compete against each other to win the prestigious title. The host invites people to showcase their talents and engages them in a variety of fun-filled challenges for exciting prizes. Popular video jockey Pearle Maaney talks to various celebrities and engages in friendly banter in order to entertain the audience. After greedy humans kill her husband for the mysterious 'naagmani', a shape-shifting snake takes the form of a beautiful woman to seek vengeance. Trouble brews for Abhimanyu and Samyukta, who have contrasting personalities, when they team up to help Abhimanyu's brother and end up falling in love. A beautiful young woman, who is also an orphan, tries to bravely tackle the challenges life throws her way and to create her own destiny. Things take an unexpected turn for Ravi Varman, a year-old man, when he falls in love with Sreelakshmi, a year-old girl. She keeps her marriage a secret and works as a maid in their house. Kalyani, a village girl, is forced to marry Anand, the son of a rich, strong-willed woman, whom Kalyani's father serves as a driver. Priya is a young and ambitious woman whose life turns upside down after she falls head over heels in love with Abhi, a self-centred rockstar. She becomes the queen who despises the British rule in India and sets out to combat the British army. A young girl's life changes drastically after she marries the maharaja of Jhansi. However, as he grows up, he uses his divine powers to fight and eradicate evil forces and provide justice to all. Tenali Ramakrishna BA BL is a sloppy courtroom drama that tries too hard to be funny.Lord Krishna is a naughty little child. Sai Sriram’s cinematography too deserves special mention, especially in the fight scenes. Varalaxmi and Hansika are so typecasted in their roles, it hurts to see them on-screen and wasted in a film like this.

They’re the only ones, apart from Sai Karthik’s BGM (even if his ill-placed songs fail to impress), that manage to make this film a bearable experience. Sundeep Kishan and Murali Sharma do a fine job with the hand they’re dealt. And such a shame, seeing as how all the cast, including Sapthagiri, Posani Krishna Murali, Vennela Kishore and more give the film their all, despite such silly charactertisations and getting handed subpar lines. Even when the film tries hard to rise above the banalities and take itself seriously, Nageswar Reddy never manages to pull off the fine balance he thinks he can between mystery and entertainment. What follows is a tale replete with twists you can smell coming from a mile away and dank jokes about Madya Pradesh, complete with saree pulling and cross-dressing. There’s a murder of a journalist near the Kurnool burj that Varalaxmi is held accountable for, that she swears she didn’t do. And last but not the least, there’s the famous industrialist Valalaxmi (Varalaxmi) who’s the sweetheart of the common man. Ambitious but lacking basic common sense, she’s the daughter of famous criminal lawyer Chakravarthy (Murali Sharma), whose favourite pastime is to look down upon Tenali’s family and remind them of the class divide that exists between them. Why she exists in the tale other than to dance in duets and being told she’s dumb 'hybrid tomato' is anybody’s guess. And then there’s Rukmini ( Hansika Motwani). Desperate for cases and offering deep discounts, he begins offering solutions for out-of-court settlements called ‘compromises’ in lieu of a career, making easy money.

There’s the lawyer Tenali Ramakrishna (Sundeep Kishan), son of broker Durga Rao (Ravi Babu ), with the onus of cleaning up the family name on his broad shoulders. Right off the bat, the film takes its own sweet time setting up the characters. Unfortunately, instead of offering an edge-of-the-seat, funny and entertaining experience like it promises, the film just turns out to be a dreary one. And just when you think everything is neatly tied up in a pretty bow, albeit a predictable one, the film tries to throw caution to the wind and switches things up, yet again, almost towards the end. While the film tries very hard to flesh out a paper-thin story into something entertaining, even smart, all it manages to do is become a tale often told about a street-smart man who manages to best a clever yet evil person. Review: G Nageswar Reddy is in need of reinvention, if Tenali Ramakrishna BA BL is anything to go by. What happens when he finally chances upon a big-profile case that changes his life? Story: Tenali Ramakrishna (Sundeep Kishan) is a lawyer who’s desperate for cases, offering everything from upto 50% off to 100% cashback if he loses.
