Date:09/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/09/stories/2007120958610200.htm

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Andhra Pradesh

Clichéd plot, tasteless comedy

Love triangle: A dance sequence from ‘State Rowdy’

Film: State Rowdy

Cast: Sivaji,

Madhushalini

Director: Vikram Gandhi

State Rowdy aspires to be hilarious but fails miserably. It is devoid of jokes and a sensible plot. The film is flawed, pathetic and vain.

But the movie proceeds almost wantonly, loyal to nothing but some vague sophomoric idea about hunting for an ideal tenant because the father (Chandramohan) wants to protect his beautiful daughter (Madhushalini) from lusty men but the daughter ends up falling in love hopelessly with the tenant.

The tenant (Sivaji) has a past too. He is thrown out of his brother-in-law’s house because he refuses to marry his daughter and is given a freelance job of a State Rowdy to evict the ruffian-like tenants from Chandramohan’s house. There is another damsel (Malikka Kapoor) who is about to wed, but falls for Sivaji. They are too many turns to make sense of and the movie just drudges on.

State Rowdy will hardly be everyone’s cup of tea: but for sheer silliness, the highest pun count (if any) of recent memory and a couple of gloriously clichéd scenes .

The film fills you with inexplicable ambivalence from start to finish.

Y.SUNITA CHOWDHARY