After essaying an idealistic role in Leader, RaNa returns as a professional killer and tries to salvage a poorly-etched role.
Although director Puri Jagannath has chosen a novel and bold theme — suicide — and tries to make a statement against sacrificing precious lives for trivial problems, his attempt goes awry since the film is high on rhetoric and low on action.
RaNa plays a renowned shooter in the sports field who is forced to use his skill to bump off social deviants for money. Ileana plays the role of a waitress in a coffee shop who ignores the advances of a customer (RaNa).
Meanwhile, police is desperately searching for a person who is posting videos of suicides on a website. RaNa decides to commit suicide and invites the unknown person to cover his death. He gets a shock when he sees who it is.
The shabby and insensitive screenplay actually makes it a regressive film. Ileana, who shoots suicide videos and posts them on YouTube is a dark character, who feels not the slightest remorse about what she is doing. Even the love story between two dark personalities doesn’t really take off and is hampered by frequent mood swings between the two protagonists.
Flashbacks of RaNa’s and Ileana’s past turn out to be just clichés and throw no light on their motives.
There is no talk of counselling vulnerable people and even the psychiatrist comes across as quite helpless. The song Padithinammo is a chartbuster but the comedy track of Ali and Mumaith Khan is pedestrian.
RaNa gets into action mode and mows down thugs with ease, and Ileana looks pretty, but her dark role may not go down well with audiences. Baddy Abhimanyu Singh just repeats his Raktha Charitra act and Subbaraju is adequate as a cop.
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