Beautiful heroine Nayana Tara proved that she is the sexiest in the south. In a survey on beautiful bikini heroines, Nayan pushed hot heroine Anushka and Bollywood beauty Dipika Padukone behind and stood in the first place.

In the poll conducted by a popular multi-lingual website, most voted for Nayana Tara. Heroines including Anushka Shetty, Iliana, Lakshmi Rai, Priya Mani, Sruti Haasan, Nitu Chandra, Sada, Ankita, Sona, Disha Seth, Mumaith Khan, Shraddha Dasand  others were in the race between 17 heroines. While Nayana Tara stood first, Anushka and Dipika occupied the second and third places.

Nayana Tara wore bikini in Ajit’s ‘Bhilla’. She got 23% votes. Anushka who became a star heroine after ‘Arundhati’ wore bikini in Bhilla and some other Telugu films. She got 21 percent votes and second place. Dipika Padukone who is acting in Rajini Kant’s Kochadayan wore bikini in several Bollywood films. She got 18% votes and third place. Priya Mani despite her hot sexy displays got only 6%. Sruthi Haasan got 5% and a place in the top 5. Heroine Diksha Seth got 7th place. Nitu Chandra got 8th, Iliana 9th and Lakshmi Rai 10th places.

With ‘Baadshah’ being a hit, Jr. NTR is in a very happy mood. Coming after several flops and at a time when he chose to fight with Bala Krishna and Chandra Babu Naidu, the film gave relief to the young Nandamuri hero. If the film were to be a flop, his fate would have become a big question mark as he had angered Balayya.

In a TV interview, Boyapati said he always maintained some values as director. He sarcastically said he doesn’t want a comedian to be the hero of a Rs. 50 crore film. He said he takes a film with heroism as the theme.

Now Jr. NTR gave a reverse punch

One dialogue of NTR’s forthcoming movie ‘Ramayya Vastavayya’ in Harish Sankar’s direction, leaked out. It says, “Vastada Vastada Ani Question Cheyyaku. Vachina Tharuvata Edure Vundadu”. This is being seen as an indication that NTR was stating that he would enter politics and once he did, there would be no match for him. There is discussion in Film Nagar, if this dialogue was against Chandra Babu Naidu or Bala Krishna.

Banner: United Movies

Producer: Paruchuri Kireeti

Director: Meher Ramesh

Music: S S Thaman

Casting: Venkatesh, Srikanth,Tapsee, Madhurima, M.S.Narayana, Naga Babu, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Mukesh Rishi, Aditya Pancholi, Rao Ramesh, Rahul Dev, Supreeth, Sayaji Shindey and others

Story
Raghu Ram (Naga Babu) is an investigative journalist killed by mafia don Nana Bhai (Aditya Pancholi) in front of his son Raja Ram (Venkatesh).  Raja Ram escapes the scene and becomes Shadow to take revenge for his father’s death. How Shadow succeeded in his mission forms the crux of the story.

Performance
Venkatesh who tried to be different in looks failed to create any impact. The role is outdated and lacks energy.

Tapsee is just for glamour and there is nothing much to showcase her acting talent. Acting of Srikanth who played the police officer role is stereo type. Madhurima is limited to couple of scenes.

Nagababu  did justice to his five minutes role. Geetha is adequate in mother role.

All the villains Aditya Pancholi , Rahul Dev, Supreeth, Sayaji Shindey and Negineedu etc are routine. Rajesh, Srinivas Reddy, Kishore, Subba Raju, Uttej and many others fill the screen with no real purpose. No one has got a role with substance including protagonist and antagonist. M S Narayana is real relief in the film.

Plus Points : Nothing

Minus Points : Every thing

Analysis

Meher Ramesh should be appreciated for convincing Venkatesh with this rotten script. Director simply wasted real after real without much substance wise.  Director ran out of ideas even borrowed antakshari scene from Gabbar Singh, Chanti character from Chanti to progress the movie. Venkatesh looked odd in as Chanti who suffers memory loss because of the accident. Unfortunately, all his attempts failed to yield any good results for the film. The movie runs on predictable note from opening scene to climax. Director didn’t etch any of the character in the movie well. There are one too many characters with no real purpose to the movie progress.

Finally, Shadow will become one of the worst flops in Venkatesh career. After this movie Mehar Ramesh needs to re access his directional skills.  No one could save this ‘Shadow’ from disaster even the likes of Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, NTR and Ram Charan. Strictly avoid ‘Shadow’ even if you need to sit idle and bite your nails!

Final Talk

Madhu Babu novel hero Shadow is way better than Mehar Ramesh Shadow

Mana TeluguMovies Verdict of the Movie Shadow: Meher Ramesh kept venky under flop shadow.

Mana TeluguMovies Rating: 2/5