Kedi has been the least hyped movie in recent times, which is surprising considering it is a Nagarjuna starrer. The film is entertaining for those who just buy a ticket and come back home forgetting about it. But if you are one who wants to extract every rupee from your movie, it may seem like a bargain you should have got a discount for. With so many movies hitting the theatres every week, unless there is nothing new to offer, it almost seems that the fate of the movie is sealed. Kedi is a regular gangster movie and little more.

The screenplay of the first half is good as director Kiran moves the pawns strategically to and fro to keep the movie moving and at the same time go back in time. But then the movie settles on an even keel when Rummy meets Chandu (Ankur Vikal of Slumdog Millionaire), takes up a big assignment for him and goes on to tie a few loose ends in the bargain. He meets his childhood sweetheart, manages to save an innocent foreigner, narrates his racy story to the cop and so on.

Kedi has no romance whatsoever - at least not the heart-touching love scenes that Nagarjuna enacts in Santosham, Manmadhudu etc and sticks to playing to the gallery with action and gangster-ised scenes. As Kedi is a story of a gangster and his life, naturally, there is action - fight scenes, chase scenes, guns going ballistic, smoky bars, dorky dudes, trancy music and the works. Nagarjuna must have enjoyed working for Super (2005) and he goes back to those usual suspects of speed boats, drug mafia, bikes, marooned islands, strategic chases etc.

Nagarjuna has turned 50, but the fact that he does not try to act like a college boy is refreshing. The love story dates back to his teenage days and that's a good ploy to avoid silly scenes where the 50 plusses looks like youngsters. He looks good, better than most young heroes at least three decades younger than him, and yes, so much better than the new guys from his own clan and does his bit with the confidence that a man with almost a three decade career can boast. However, too many techno songs, smoky bars, montage shots, strobe lights, cleavage and skin show by the women make it a distinctly guys movie. His regular fans - young girls may not bother to give it a look.

Even though Mamta Mohandas does not have much to do in the role of the mother (of a young boy), she looks nice and fresh. Her scrimped hair impart her a different look in the duets. The rest of the cast do their role like they have done a million times now. Kelly Dorjee's presence in the movie reminds you of Nag's and his Don and compelling one to draw parallels. But Don had some cool dialogues - those over-the-top attitude-ridden dialogues.

Goa has been captured nicely in the camera, even better than those done in foreign locales by cinematographer Sarvesh Murari. Sandeep Chowta's music is good in the techo song featuring Mehek Chahal and the title song Kedigadu performed by Anushka is okay. The remixed Muddante Cheda (featuring Nag's father A Nageshwara Rao in the original version) is easy on the ear though the punch of the original is missing.

All in all, Kedi depends on the male audience to patronize it. Else, it's up for a rough ride.