In Bruce Lee The Fighter, the Ram Charan-Srinu Vaitla duo has come up with a film which has done justice to the tag 'action-potboiler'. The film has a perfect dose of everything that a commercial masala entertainer needs - comedy, romance, action, emotional scenes, et al. But from the moment the film resumes post interval, everything goes haywire.
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Ram Charan is a stuntman, who gives up his studies for his sister, since his father can afford only one of the two a proper Delhi-Public-School education. His only ambition is to ensure his beloved sister becomes an IAS officer, and he fights tooth and nail for that. Meanwhile, the beautiful Rakul Preet, the female lead, mistakes Ram Charan for a police officer after seeing him put up a heroic fight in police uniform on his way to a shoot, and instantly falls in love with him. She drags him into all kinds of mess and every time, Ram Charan ends up busting an illegal business of the villain. Added to that, the villain also becomes a threat to his sister. Thus, Bruce Lee has to fight for both home and nation.
Comedy is the pillar of this action film. Bruce Lee has a battalion of comedians from veteran comedian Brahmanandam to Jayaprakash Reddy, and everyone will tickle your funny bone at least once. Also, scenes with Ram Charan and his disappointed father are all laugh riots. Credit where it's due. None of the comedy scenes involves obscenity or unpleasant dialogues, which is an endangered species these days.
When the script sets a perfect stage for a closure, more villains come into the play and several other comedians also step in, and script can only hold so much. Even the dialogue from Brahmanandam, "If you see logic, you will miss the magic", does not console you to accept the shoddy second half of the film.
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On top of all these, Srinu Vaitla has struggled hard to fit Megastar Chiranjeevi in the script. Though Chiranjeevi has made a 'mass' entry after eight years, the dent it has left in the flow of the movie is apparent. But even that fades away in the whistles from the audience.
There are films which exactly pan out in a way you predict they would, without any disarray, and still they don't disappoint you. Bruce Lee The Fighter fits that bill.
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