Silly Fellows Review: Silly Comedy Caper

Hyderabad: Tollywood Comedy Heroes Allari Naresh and Sunil coming together after a long time has perked up interest in all. 'Silly Fellows' which also brought Bhimaneni and Allari Naresh back after 'Sudigaadu' has raised expectations.

Cast: Allari Naresh, Sunil, Chitra Sukla, Jayaprakash Reddy, Posani, Nandini Rai, Brahmanandam and others
Music Director: Sri Vasanth
Cinematography: Anish Tarun Kumar
Editor: Gowtham Raju
Producer: Bharat Chowdhary, Kiran Reddy, Vishwaprasad
Screenplay, dialogues and direction: Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Release date: Sep 07, 2018

Story: An MLA named Jacket Janakiram plans to hold mass weddings. He gives the job of bringing couples to the mandapam to Veerababu (Allari Naresh).

When Veerababu is short of a guy, he asks his friend Soori (Sunil) to act as a groom to Pushpa (Nandini Rai) for few minutes. Soori's wedding to Pushpa, a recording dancer puts both of them in many funny situations.How Veera Babu and Soori escape from this mess and marry their respective girlfriends (Chitra Shukla and Poorna) forms the rest of the story.

Technical Excellence:
The film is made with cheap production values and low technical standards. Music, artwork, and other technical departments are of low standard.

Highlights:
Sunil's comedy

Drawback:
Frame to frame remake
Loud and old style
Inane prasa dialogues

Analysis: "Silly Fellows" is remake of a Tamil movie starring Vishnu Vishal and Soori. Allari Naresh has reprised Vishnu Vishal’s role while Sunil has stepped into Soori’s shoes. The film was also dubbed into Telugu but it didn’t run at the box-office.

Director Bhimaneni who is known for remakes has made frame to frame to remake of the original Tamil movie with loud comedy, garish setup and old-style prasa dialogues.

The entire first half is half-baked and bad though some comic moments here and there bring laughs. Post-interval it treads in a similar manner, but luckily there comes nearly 20-minutes comedy episode involving Jaya Prakash Reddy who regains memory after losing it for a while.