Daaku Maharaaj

Short Take -

The God of Masses gets to play a civil engineer Seetharam who is forced to become Daaku Maharaaj for the sake of people from Bajrangpur in Chambal. In 1996, Krishnamurthy and his family, especially his granddaughter Vaishnavi are targeted by local MLA / goon and Maharaaj has to be broken out of prison to safeguard them. He has vowed to protect Vaishnavi forever. This brings him face to face with the Thakurs. What is the main conflict between him and the Thakurs? Why did he turn into a vigilante Daaku Maharaaj, leaving his civil engineer life? The answers to these lies in the second half and how does he resolve the issues, forms remaining part of the story.

Bobby Kolli knows the strengths of NBK and plays it to the gallery. There is nothing new in terms of his story and screenplay but that doesn't deter him from fully committing to the script in hand. It is meant to entertain and please the fans, that is exactly what the film does. Visually the film looks grand and kudos to the production team for pulling it off. The clean shaven look of NBK is the real highlight. There are half a dozen baddies in the film to keep raising their voice, only to be silenced by NBK. Logic has no place in a commercial entertainer, the screenplay does lose it's steam before the final act and there are no twists in the tale. With the antagonists being no match to the hero, Daaku Maharaaj had to do 105cr in the weekend itself, showering expensive gifts to Urvashi by her parents...