He has to use tact and brawns (like any mainstream film hero) to win the game. It could be the one big case that can change the tides in Tenali’s favour. There’s a case involving Varalakshmi (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar), a well known industrialist and an aspiring politician. No prizes for guessing that the leading lady, Rukmini (Hansika Motwani), is this reputed lawyer’s daughter. The turning point comes when he and his father are challenged by an established lawyer (Murali Sharma). Tenali remains on the courtroom fringes, desperately trying to attract cases. Cast: Sundeep Kishan, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Hansika Motwani.Had it been written and narrated well, it could have made for a decently entertaining comic courtroom drama. It’s about an underdog young lawyer Tenali (Sundeep Kishan) who is thrown into a tough situation and has to prove himself and make his father (Raghubabu), a small-time broker in the court precincts, proud. Tenali Ramakrishna BA.BL ’s broad storyline isn’t bad at all. And the hero remarks that whenever he sees her, his stress levels come down! It’s meant to be a compliment, of course, but it’s silly and pointless. All she’s made to do is wear pretty clothes and preen but that’s okay, because when she decides to do what she thinks is smart, she walks straight into trouble and has to be rescued. She is a lawyer, mind you, and dreams of becoming a name to reckon with. Instead, what we get earlier on is the hero referring to the heroine as hybrid tomato, and she, with the onus of breathing life into one of the dumbest characters, laying bare her inefficiency by stating that each section of the Indian Penal Code is, well, important and a different section. Going by the title, you would expect a dose of wit and smart thinking.

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