Kameena movie review

Five years after the release of Ninna Nedu Repu, director Lakshmikanth Chenna has made a comeback with the movie Kameena, which is remake of critically-acclaimed Bollywood film Johnny Gaddaar - a neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan. But he has failed to make it an interesting watch due to his poor directorial work. Taking the basic story from Johnny Gadar, Lakshmikanth has re-rewritten the script in a different way. He has made several changes in the story to suit the taste of Telugu audience, but the result is that he has failed to execute his ideas on screen. A little more homework by him should have made the film an interesting fare. The movie revolves around police officers recounting a story of missing money, which results in lies, deceit, betrayal and death. Unlike the original, Kameena is very boring and predictable in the second half. Barring a few scenes, the movie has a slow and dragging narration, which kills the interest of the viewers. Dharma (Sai Kumar), Teja (Ashish Vidyarthi), Kailash (Brahmaji), Siva (Subbaraju) and Siddhu (Krish) are close friends, who are involved in illegal business. They get a deal from Inspector Kalyan (Ravi Babu), who ask them to collect Rs 5 crores. They managed to get this huge amount and assign Shiva the task of delivering it. But things go horribly wrong in the process, when Siddhu plans to escape with the money. What happens next will form the rest of the story.