Meera Jasmine as Aishwarya in Yamagola Malli Modalyindi

In Tollywood most of the films that came with Yama backdrop tasted success. But this is the first time ever that two films with Yama Dharmaraju concepts released in a span of week viz. Yamadonga and Yamagola Malli Modalyindi. Yamagola has Srikanth, Venu, Reema Sen, Meera Jasmine in the lead and veteran actor Kaikala Satyanarayana playing Yama Dharmaraju. Novel point that no Yama based films touched is that in Yamagola, the director touches the grandsons of Yama Dharmaraju and Chitraguptudu played by Srikanth and Venu.

The story in short is - Aishwarya (Meera Jasmine) is born into a wealthy family. Her birth brings all happiness, riches, name and fame to the family. But, the tragedy in her horoscope is that she would die at the age of 28. At the Yamaloka, old Yama and old Chitragupta want to retire from their duties. They send their grandsons Jr. Yama (Srikanth) and Jr. Chitragupta (Venu) to Earth on an assignment. The duo has to take out the life of Aishwarya. While Jr. Yama falls in love with Aishwarya, his friend goes flat for a lady cop Vyjayanthi (Reema Sen). It is against the sanctity of love to kill the girl. At the same time, it is against Yamadharma to save the girl. What do they do? Which wins at the climax? Love or Yamadharma? It forms the crux of the movie.

Tata Birla Madhyalo Laila fame Srinivasa Reddy attempted a comedy film. In parts the film feels good and few episodes are entertaining. However, the overall feel is missing.

Srikanth brought full justice to his role as Jr. Yama. He impresses with good comedy timing. Same is the case with Venu who did Jr. Chitragupta. Although, at times, he overacted. Meera Jasmine and Reema Sen did not have much scope except that Reema Sen entertains in one song that has NTR songs.

Satyanarayana's role as Yamadharmaraju is highly commendable. Despite aging, he performed naturally. Interestingly, the screen Yama also gets old as per the story. For Chitragupta, graphics of late Allu Ramalingaiah were used. Krishna Bhagawan is impressive as narada. However, major share of the vulgar dialogs are uttered by Narada in the film. Barring those dialogs, Brahmam penned decent comedy dialogs for the film.

The computer graphics are good. The scene in which Kamal Hassan as Bharateeyudu entering the Hell and later sent to Heaven is a good watch.

If you have already seen Yamadonga, you will be disappointed with the Yamaloka sets in Yamagola. Mass audience might like the movie. Second half sufferes with narration. It can be considered a timepass film, as parts of it are entertaining.