Nachavule Movie Review

Nachavule Movie Crew

Cast: Tanish, Madhavi Latha, Kasi Vishwanath, Raksha, Narasimha, Naveen, Kamesh, Narayana Reddy, Prasad, SarathCinematography: Sudhakar Reddy Art: Narayana ReddyFights: Kanal Kannan Choreography: Nixon Music: Sekhar Chandra
Lyrics: BhaskarabhatlaEditing: Marthand k VenkateshScreenplay: SatyanandStory - dialogues - direction: Ravi Babu Producer: Ramjo Rao Release date: 19 December 2008

Plot

Lav (Tanish) is a kind of guy whose aim in life is to ‘patao’ a girl. Like innumerable teenage boys, he just wants to experience the feeling of having a girl friend. Anu (Madhavi Latha) is a responsible teenage girl who works part-time in a coffee shop. Lav wants to love her, but she is not of that type. In an occasion, he saves Anu’s father. Impressed with him, she asks him to ask for any favor. Lav asks Anu to be his girl friend for 15 days. Anu agrees to it on certain conditions (no physical touch). In the process, the detached Anu falls in love with Lav. And Lav is more excited to flaunt his girl friend to his friends than actually caring for her. The rest of the story is all about how Lav realizes what’s true love is. 

Artists Performance

Tanish is extremely talented. His dialogue delivery and ease in acting make him standout. His debut is one of the most promising debuts in this year. The guy who did the role of hero’s friend is also very natural. The actor who donned the villain role is good. Heroine Madhavi Latha is promising. This film also sports many technicians as actors. Director Kasi Viswanath (Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu director) did the role of hero’s father and he is cool. There is lot of comedy timing in him. Art director Narayana Reddy acted as the tonsured boy who is an assistant to villain. Writer Prasad did the role of heroine’s sadistic neighbor who keeps asking heroine’s father to look at positive side in disastrous situations. Director Sarath did another prominent role. Item girl Raksha did a nice role of hero’s mother.

Story - Screenplay - Direction

This film deals with the social problem of many teenage boys who just want to have a girl friend for the kick of it. It also touches the burning issue of ‘cell phone videos leakage’. Ravi Babu narrated the entire film from the hero’s point of view by making his narrate from the moment he is born. Ravi Babu has the experience of ad-film making. And he used that ad-film touch to his Allari and Soggadu (only first half). With the freedom given by Ramoji, Ravi Babu gave that touch to the entire film. There is a color pattern (green and bluish) and sophisticated humor angle. He dealt first half of the film very well. However, he could have done the last half an hour of the film (screenplay glitch) in a better way. The following comedy/creative scenes are excellent

1. The entire humor involving the kids. 
2. The van episode: The Annapurna mobile van is used excellently to create a series of riotous moments in the film. 
3. Hero realizes the focusing aspect by looking at a boy’s focusing on a single fruit.
4. The pick-up lines hero uses to ‘patao’ girls. 
5. The use of paint dabbas by family members.
6. The hero’s plight of giving a love note in the song. 

The following aspects should have been dealt well

1. Crude comedy used for heroine’s father heart-attack. 
2. The final episode hero-heroine-villain tussle. 

Other departments: The music by Sekhar Chandra (son of cinematographer Hari Anumolu) stands out. Pavu Takkuva Tommidi sung by Jassie Gift is extremely peppy and is excellently shot. The ‘black n white’ theme song with black articles fading away is very creative. Other songs also reflect the theme and mood of the film (neither forced duets nor routine songs). Cinematography by Sudhakar Reddy is very good. The art work by Narayana Reddy deserves mention. Dialogues are neat. The entire film is shot at Ramoji Film City (hence you see Margadasi advertisements in backdrop during most part of the film). Ramoji Rao should be commended for allowing Ravi Babu to shoot the entire film the way he wanted to. They stuck to a theme and followed it throughout.

Analysis

The initial half an hour of the film is excellent. First half of the film is good. Second half is adequate. The last half an hour should have been dealt better. The plus points of the film are humor and romance. On the flip side, the last half an hour should have been dealt better. On a whole, Nachavule is worth a watch for being a different flick and a theme film.

Review Source:idlebrain.com

Sun network takes over Rajnikant’s Robot

Sun Pictures (a subsidiary of Sun TV Network) took over the production reigns of Shankar’s latest magnum opus Robot featuring Rajnikant and Aishwarya Rai in the main leads. Aingaran Films International is supposed to be producing this film. Top technicians from Hollywood are working for this film which involves humongous computer graphics. This film will be released in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi at the end of year 2009.

King Movei Release on 25 December

Nagarjuna’s latest film King got censored today and obtained clean U certificate. King is slated to release on 25 December on the eve of Christmas. This film sports Trisha and Mamata Mohandas in the female leads. A special song was canned recently on Nagarjuna and eight Telugu film heroines. Seenu Vytla who delivered three consecutive hits (Dhee, Dubai Seenu & Ready) directs this film.

Indumathi Movie Release on 1 January

Harsha P Reddy’s directorial debut film Indumathi is going to release on 1st January. This film sports Swetha Bharadwaj in the female lead. Sivaji, Vennela Kishore, Harsha Vardhan and Vijay play other important roles. Indumathi is a psychological thriller. Anand (Mantra fame) composed music for Indumathi. Harsha Reddy produced ‘Andaru Dongale’ film in the past.

Ram Maska audio on 21 December

Music of Ram’s latest film Maska will be launched by Aditya music on 21 December. The album will be available in the mark on 24 December. Chakri composed music. Kandikonda penned lyrics for all the six songs. Hansika Motwani and Sheila are doing female leads. B Gopal directs this mass masala film. Shoot of talkie part of the film is complete. Maska will be released on 14 January 2009.

Actor Vishnu becomes a fighter

Actor Vishnu Manchu has taken membership in AP Fighters Association. Tammareddy Bharadwaja gave the membership to Vishnu on behalf of the union. Speaking on this eve Vishnu said that he has tremendous respect to the profession of fights and he personally like stunts a lot. He promised that he would chip in some help in organizing seminars and workshops about action choreography by flying in Hollywood technicians.

Three Telugu Movie releases this week

This week is witnessing releases of big film Neninthe and small films Nachavule and Chedugudu. Neninthe is expected to be a hard hitting film about film industry. Puri Jagan – Ravi Teja’s Neninthe is releasing on 18th December. Ravi Babu’s Nachavule is made with new faces on Ramoji Rao’s Usha Kiron Movies banner. Nachavule is releasing on 19th December. Actor Bhanu Chandar’s son Jayanth’s debut film Chedugudu is also releasing on 19 December.

Ashta Chemma Actress Bhargavi murdered

Actress Bhargavi (Ashta Chemma fame) died at her residence (behind cancer hospital in Banjara Hills) today. Her dead body is found along with that of Bujji (supposed to be her husband/lover). There are injuries (eight knife marks) on the body of Bhargavi. But there is no sign of any injury on Bujji’s body. A poison bottle was found at the crime scene. A suicide notes was found. Cops are suspecting that Bujji has murdered Bhargavi before consuming poison.

Andamaina Abaddam Review

Andamaina Abaddam Crew
Starring: Raja, Kamna Jethmalani, Nizhalgal Ravi, Nagababu, Sivaji Raja, Posani Krishnamurali, Ali, M S Narayana, Sudha, Rekha, Hema, Surekhavani and others
Release Date: December 05, 2008
Producer: PP Reddy and M Keshava Raju
Director: Raviraja Pinisetty
Music Director: M M Srilekha
Life itself has a lie in it. People do lie for a lot of reasons in life – to maintain secrecy, one’s own reputation, to shield others feelings and so on. The elder’s saying goes as, “Lie is good when it’s meant for a pious purpose. One can lie if it doesn’t carry a bad intention.” These words form the storyline of 'Andamaina Abaddam'.

Director RaviRaja Pinisetty was on a break for awhile and now he is back with 'Andamaina Abaddam' starring Raja, Kamna Jhathmalani in the lead. PP Reddy, M.KesavaRaju and Jonnada Ramana have produced the movie jointly on Murthy Mega Hindustan banner. The film was released today on 5th December.

Story

Pradeep (Raja) and Vaishnavi (Kamna) are in Bangkok for their higher studies. In a romantic interlude, they get acquainted with each other. Eventually the pair falls in love and decides to get married.

The heroine’s father Akula Raghu Ram (Nagababu) is completely against love and he doesn’t believe in such a concept. At the same time Narendra (Nilalgal Ravi) is always in favor of love and lovers. Vaishnavi who is aware of her dad’s nature, knows that he will never consent for their marriage. So, she proposes Pradeep to marry her by registering in Bangkok.

But, Pradeep doesn’t agree to her idea. He assures her that he will convince her parents and marry with their approval. One of the friends of Akula Raghu Ram, Ravudu (Naresh) brings the news of his daughter’s love to him. The father gets completely enraged yet their marriage takes place in a happy ending. All this events takes place based on a lie uttered by Pradeep.

What was the lie that Pradeep told to marry Vaishnavi? What consequences do they face later on? How did it all end? Is the movie’s plot that is being narrated in the two and half hours.

Performance of Artists

Raja as Pradeep has enacted the character well, but he doesn’t have any specific points to be appreciated about. Kamna as Vaishnavi is just ok, and mentioning her appearance cannot be referred as a special attraction. Nagababu as Akula Raghubabu justified the character exhibiting dignity that is much needed. Similarly, Nilalgal Ravi as Narendra and Sudha as his wife portrayed their characters well.

In other roles, Shivaji Raja, Surekha Vani, Hema, Sudeep, Rekha, Radhakumari, have presented an average performance. Specially, the entertainment aspect has been presented well by MS Narayana, Posani Krishna Murali, Ali and Naresh.

Technical aspects

The technical aspects of the movie are not so praiseworthy. MM Sreelekha's composition of songs and re-recording, editing by Gautham Raju, lyrics by Bhaskar Bhatla and dialogues by Ramesh Gopi are all average. Ram Pinisetty's photography gets just a tick.

On a whole, the movie lacks in technicality and has nothing to boast about. It is all on an average scale.

Last Word

Director RaviRaja Pinisetty was a successful maker with various box office hits. Both his action and family entertainers were received equally earlier. But this time he failed to garner attention. Although the story selection is good, the screenplay is not in accordance with the current trend. In a nutshell, the director has said a not so beautiful lie.

source:indiaglitz.com

Nagarjuna Acting in Durga Arts Films

The production house Durga Arts’ first movie was ‘Kshana Kshanam’ starring Venkatesh and Sridevi, by director Ram Gopal Varma. The saga of their first success was carried out in the movies like ‘Hello Brother’ with Nagarjuna and NTR’s ‘Rakhi’. Producer KL Narayana of Durga Arts was out for awhile after these hit films.

Srinivas Reddy and Shivaji planning for hat-trick

Director Srinivas Reddy’ first was 'Ashadam Pellikoduku' starring Ali and a suspense action entertainer 'February 14 Neckless Road' became his next hit. Movies that came after these two turned out as duds and made a halt pushing his career into a question mark.

His major break came along with the success of 'Adirindayya Chandram' with Shivaji. The rejuvenated maker made a series of hits 'Tata Birla Madhyalo Laila', 'Yamagola Malli Modalaindi', 'Bommana Brothers Chandana Sisters' after the break.

Rajasekhar Satyameva Jayathe audio on 25 Dec

The music of Raja Sekhar’s latest film Satyameva Jayathe will be launched on 25 December on the eve of Christmas. Jeevitha Rajasekhar directs this film. Sanjana and Neetu Chandra play female leads. This film is likely to release either on 9 January or 14 January.

Vinayakudu Review

Crew

Cast: Krishnudu, Sonia, Suryatej, Poonam Kaur, Samrat, Prem Kumar Patra, Adarsh, Ankitha, Sathya Krishnan, Tulasi, Rakesh Mahankali, Mahesh, Aparna, Murali, Master Mittu and others
Cinematography: P.G. Vinda
Music: Sam Prasan
Lyrics: Vanamali, Avinash
Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh
Executive Producers: Rakesh Mahankali, Jyothi Kiran
Co-producer: Praveen Kumar Patra
Producer: Smt. Saritha Patra
Direction: Sai Kiran Adivi (debut)
Release date: November 22, 2008

Plot

Karthik (Krishnudu) lives in Rajolu. He meets Madhavi (Vahida), a resident of Hyderabad, through an internet chat room. They become friends with out meeting each other in person. Karthik comes to Hyderabad to meet Madhavi. He stays at his sister Aparna’s home (Satya Krishnan) who lives with her family in a colony in Hyderabad. One fine day, he goes to meet Madhavi. But in a twist of fate, the crush didn’t last long. Madhavi gets shocked by seeing his appearance and makes her move pretending that she is not Madhavhi but a friend of hers.

Later, by his friend Altaf’s help (Surya Teja) Karthik gets a job in the creative department of Reliance Mobile Company. There he comes across Kalpana (Sonia) with whom he falls at love in first sight itself. She is a girl with specific ideas on life. She starts liking Karthik, but never reveals her love to him. Did Karthik who loved Kalpana at first sight, expressed his love to her? What were the consequences? How it all ended? Watch this big time entertainer on the big screen.

Artists' performance

Sonia who was appreciated for her role as Shravs in 'Happy Days' exhibited good performance as a solo heroine in this film. She could be applauded for presenting sensitive emotions very well in some sequences.

Krishnudu who was popular with 'Happy Days' has bought the character Karthik to life. As the subject is suitable to his physique, never he seems to be acting in the role. In every scene, he exhibited apt expressions and justifies the role of 'Vinayakudu' cent-per-cent. He has literally lived out the character.

Action of Poonam Kaur as Sandy, Surya Teja as Altaf is good. To be specific, Surya Teja has exhibited much ease in performing his character. Satya Krishnan as Karthik's sister does good. Similarly, Ankith, Adarsh and Murali Krishna have emoted within the limits of their characters. After a long gap, actress Tulasi does a role in this film. Presenter Premkumar Patra, director Sai Kiran Adivi and cameraman PG Vinda appears on screen in short sequences.

Last Word

For Pure love, physical beauty is not important, only the purity in love is needed, with this beautiful message as the theme the film 'Vinayakudu' has made. What could have been a feel good entertainer for the entire crowd lags behind for it has been made pointedly for the corporate audiences. It would have been even better if it was made for everyone. But still on a whole, the debutant director Sai Kiran has hit the bull’s eye almost with his very first venture.

Nandi Awrds 2005

Recipients of 2005 Nandi Awards

Firtst Best Feature Film: 'Pothe Poni'
Director: Thammareddi Bharadwaja
Producer: VY Praveenkumar
Hero: Siva Balaji
Heroine: Sindhu Tholani

Second Best Feature Film: 'Anukokunda Oka Roju'
Director: Chandrasekhar Eleti
Producer: Gunnam Gangaraju
Hero: Shashank
Heroine: Charmme

Third Best Feature Film: 'Gautham SSC'
Director: PA Arun Prasad
Producer: Dr.Y Sonia Reddy
Hero: Navadeep
Heroine: Sindhu Tholani

Best Family Story Film: 'Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana'
Producer: MS Raju
Best Popular Feature Film: 'Pellam Pitchodu' a complete entertainer
Producer: Rampalli Rambhadra Sastry

Best Childrens' Film (Golden Nandi): 'Ashala Pallaki'
Producer: V Sagar
Director: Perala Subrahmanyam
Second Best Childrens' Film (Silver Nandi): 'Chinuku'
Producer: A Lakshma Rao
Director: Nirdesh N

Best Documentary Film: 'Chance'
Producer & Director: P.Suneel Kumar Reddy
Second Best Documentary Film: 'Kamadhenuvu'
Producer & Director: N Gopalakrishna

Best Educational Film: 'Blue'
Producer: T.Sultan
Director: Sai Mohan

Best Director: Krishna Vamsi
Film: Chakram

Best Actor: Mahesh Babu
Film: Athadu

Best Actress: Trisha
Film: Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana

Best Supporting Actor: Srihari
Film: Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana

Best Supporting Actress: Bhanupriya
Film: Chatrapathi

Best Character Artist: Chandra Mohan
Film: Athanokkade

Best Male Comedian Alluramalingaiah Award:
Suneel
Film: Andhrudu

Best Female Comedian: Santhoshini
Film: Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana

Best Villain: Dr. N SivaPrasad
Film: Danger

Best Child Actor: Patcha Sunny
Film: Ashala Pallaki

Best Child Actress: Baby Varshini
Film: Gulabilu

Best Child Actress: Baby Trisha
Film: Gulabilu

Best Debut Director: Surendar Reddy
Film: Athanokkade

Best Screen Play writer: Chandrashekhar Eleti
Film: Anukokunda Oka Roju

Best Story Writer: T Prabhakar
Film: Meenakshi

Best Dialogue Writer: Trivikram Srinivas
Film: Athadu

Best Lyric Writer: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry
Film: Chakram

Best Cinematographer: PRK Raju
Film: Radha Gopalam

Best Music Director: MM Keeravani
Film: Chatrapathi

Best Male Playback Singer Ghantasala Award: SP Balasubrahmanyam
Film: Pellam Pichodu

Best Female Playback Singer: Nithya Santhosini
Film: Moguds Pellaams

Best Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Film: Subhash Chandra Bose

Best Art Director: Vivek
Film: Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana

Best Choreographer: Srinivas
Film: Radha Gopalam

Best Audiographer: Madhusudhan Reddy
Film: Jai Chiranjeeva

Best Costume Designer: Bhasha
Film: Subhash Chandra Bose

Best Makeup Artist: Raghava RV
Film: Subhash Chandra Bose

Best Fight Master: Ram-Lakshman
Film: Andhrudu

Best Male Dubbing Artist: Jaibhaskar
Film: Uri

Best Female Dubbing Artist: Sunitha
Film: Pothe Poni

Best Special Effects: CH Srinivas
Film: Athadu

Best Childrens' Film Director: Akkeneni Kutumba Rao
Film: Gulabilu

Special Jury Award: Vadde Naveen
Film: Naa Vupiri

Special Jury Award: Priyadarshini Ram
Film: Manodu

Special Jury Award: Sneha
Film: Radha Gopalam

Best Book on Telugu Cinema: Kasi Viswanath

Best Film Critic on Telugu Cinema:Mohan Goteti

Nandi Awards 2006

Best Feature Film (Golden Nandi): 'Bommarillu'
Producer: 'Dil' Raju
Director: Bhaskar

Second Best Feature Film (Silver Nandi): 'Godavari'
Producer: GVG Raju
Director: Shekhar Kammula

Third Best Feature Film (Bronze Nandi): 'Ganga'
Producer: Sekhar Yelamanchi
Director: Vemuganti

Best Home-viewing Feature Film: 'Sri RamaDasu'
Producer: Konda KrishnamRaju
Director: K.Raghavendra Rao

Best Popular Feature Film: 'Pokiri'
Director: Puri Jagannath

Smt SarojiniNaidu National Integration & Communal Hamony Nandi Award: 'Hanumanthu'
Producer: Srihari
Director: ChandraMahesh

Best Childrens' Film: 'Bharathi'
Producer & Director: RS Raju

Second Best Childrens' Film: 'Kittu'

Kasi Viswanath acting in Ravi Babu's Nachavule

Ushakiran Movies Producing a new film in the Dirertion of actor cum director Ravi Babu. who made films like "Allari", "Ammailu Abbailu" and "Anasuya", introducing a new cast. The film has been titled as "Nachchavule". Kasi Viswanth is playing a key role in this film.

Actress Swetha Prasad next Film

Kotha Bangaru Lokam Actress Swetha Basu Prasad, who won the hearts of heroine character. Recently She Sign for Next movie with debutanat director N V Prasad. Two popular Tollywood Heros will do male Leads. This Project Produced by Ratna Celluloid banner. This Film Shooting will Start in the first month of December.

Avakai Biryani Review

Avakai Biryani Review
Movie Crew
Cast: Kamal Kamaraju, Bindu Madhavi, Rao Ramesh, Varun Jonnada, Praneeth, Kameshwara Rao Others
Cinematography: Shyam Datt
Art: Narayana Reddy
Choreography: Prem Rakshit
Music: Manikanth Kadri
Lyrics: Vanamali
Analog Editing: K. Ravindra Babu
Digital Editing: Praveen Boyina
Producers: Sekhar Kammula, Chandrasekhar Kammula
Direction: Anish Kuruvilla (debut)
Release Date: November 14, 2008

Plot

After movies like Dollar Dreams, Anand, Godavari and the teen hit Happy Days, Sekhar Kammula's brand of cinema has been established, and more importantly, appreciated. Avakai Biryani sounds so interesting, and one would expect entertaining, clean (clean entertainment being the key word here), feel-good cinema coming from the Kammula clan. Directed by Anish Kuruvilla, fiery film maker who expressed himself in his debut Confessions of a Filmmaker, Avakai Biryani starts off on a promising note but ends up being a disappointment.

Mainly, there is nothing novel or refreshing in it-a Hindu-Muslim love story in a rural set-up with relatively new faces and everyday situations and people. Where Kammula gets the audiences' attention is with a tight script that refuses to drag and ends at the right time, humor and scintillating music; all the departments where Kuruvilla's feature debut lacks.

Akbar, an orphan in Devarakonda is a part-time auto driver, paper boy and B.Com fail (3 times). Laxmi is a potential Avakai entrepruener, newly shifted to this village and a B.Com graduate. Their love story intercepted with village politics and dynamics, their dreams and aspirations, heartbreak and survival in their lives is what this combination is all about.

Story, Screenplay and Direction

The lack of consistency is an issue. The first 20 minutes and introduction to the village and Akbar's life is endearing. You expect an Iqbal. There is a lot of detail in some of the scenes and nothing looks out-of-place. Post-break though, the movie slows down tremendously. After the Auto-race...which is actually a really neat idea. The whole movie is full of really neat ideas. All those ideas work on paper and must have seemed like a good idea to put all those neat ideas together. Still would have been, if it wasn't for all the fillers and the last one hour which drags and drags till Laxmi's family set their hotel up.

The problem is, you expect a whole lot from that team. Because if you compare this movie with the last few Telugu releases (with one exception) this is Paradise (Heaven tends to get a little boring after a point, of course). But in general, there is nothing that makes this movie a memorable experience. This is also Formula, if you come down to it. Unfortunately or otherwise, bigger or at least better things are expected out of this team. And they better live up to it.

Crisper editing, more humor and better music could have made a huge difference to the movie. Using Devarakonda as opposed to some nameless village, portrayal of village dynamics, Akbar's journey in general, Auto race and CM's visit are the pros. Dragdragdrag in the second half and lack of stronger line post break are major cons.

Performances

Kamal Kamaraju is believable and has good chemistry with Bindu Madhavi as Laxmi. Bndu Madhavi is raw and new, and it might take a movie or two more to understand her potential. She looks the part of course. Akbar's friends add some flavor to the movie while Rao Ramesh as Masterji is another Villain (we like villains here, don't we?). Laxmi's brother-sister: cute, well-written characters you can identify with and the kids justify thier roles. Laxmi's parents (stereotyped) are okay.
Music and Dance

The music is not bad, but that's about the best you can say about it. The romantic song post-break is sweet. The celebration song is peppy, and the choreography decent but seriously routine. Gives you awful déjà vu. The background score is okay.

Last Word

Some of us have gotten this remark forever on our report card- 'Can Do Better'. Hopefully, Kuruvilla's next won't carry the same remark. There is potential. That much is obvious; we need to wait and watch. Just not Avakai Biryani-it's not totally fullfilling.

Nandi Awards in LB Stadium on 16th November

Mahesh Babu got the best actor award for Pokiri film and Krishna is going to be awarded NTR award. With Mahesh and Krishna being in the side of Congress, the government is going to hold the Nandi awards function as a public function in Lal Bahaddoor Sastri stadium amid lakhs of fans of Krishna and Mahesh Babu. Generally, Nandi awards functions are being carried up in Lalitha Kala Thoranam with limited crowds every year. But for this year, the government wants to get political mileage out of it. The function will be held on 16 of this month. 

Cinematographer VSR Swamy no more

Tollywood Senior Cinematographer V S R Swamy Demised on Yesterday, who has good name in Tollywood and he did photography for many block buster movies llike Devudu Chesina Manushulu, Andharla Ramudu(1973), Krishna Alluri Seetharama Raju, Krishnam Raju Baktha Kannappa, Viswanath Siri Siri Muvva, Khaidi and Indra with Chiranjeevi, Samra Simha Reddy and Narsimha Naidu with Balayya in Telugu Film Industry.

Avakai Biryani Gets Clean U Certificate

Director Sekhar Kammual new Production Avakai Biryani directed by Anish Kuruvilla. Who is Associate Director of 

Sekhar Kammula. Recently Avkai Biryani film  Obtained a Clean U Certificate. Godavari fame Kamal Raju and debutante

Bindhu Madhavi in lead roles. The Film Complete post Production and ready to release on 14th November.

Nagarjuna King Audio Release in GMC Stadium

King of stars Akkineni Nagarjuna is now acting in ‘King’ opposite Trisha in this movie directed by Sreenu Vytla. D. Sivaprasad Reddy produces this movie under his production house Kamakshi Kala Movies. Actress Mamtha Mohan Das plays the second lead in this flick.

Currently the shooting of this film is going on at Benguluru. Preparations are on to release the audio of 'King' in the most grandeur manner. On the same stage, Nag Chaithanya son of Nagarjuna will be introduced to the media in this extravagantly organized event.

Krishnam Vande Jagathgurum starts on Venkatesh B’day

After ‘Chintakayala Ravi’ Venkatesh is now readying for his next movie with director Radha Krishna. Widely known as Krish, he is the director of the sensational hit ‘Gamyam’ which was his very first venture. Now he is going to direct Venky in their next project.

Krish envisaged the whole script even though the time taken by him was abundant. Once, it is ready he narrated it to the makers and it was approved unanimously. Now, his next is confirmed.

'Dil'Raju's 'Aakasamantha'

The man who needs no introduction is ‘Dil’ Raju who often floats in the cloud of success. His precise prediction of the audience’s pulse paved way for his successful productions including his last ‘Kotha Bangaru Lokam’. Now he’s in, casting Nagarjuna’s son, Nag Chaithanya in the direction of Vasu Varma. Meanwhile, ‘Dil’ Raju is also set to make another movie debuting director Radha Mohan. Starring Prakash Raj, Trisha, Suneel and Aishwarya, the director earlier made ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ in Tamil. The movie is yet to be released and before that the preparations for remaking the movie in Telugu has begun.

Director Karunakaran will direct Prabhas

Known as a successful director with ‘Toli Prema’, Karunakaran bagged one more success with his ‘Ullasamga Utsamga’. Presently, he is revising ideas to make a big-budget movie casting Prabhas. It is being told that the movie will be produced by a maker who usually undertakes costly extravaganzas.

Currently, Karunakaran is busy in readying the script and is working hard to bring out another hit. And, Prabhas is busy shooting for ‘Billa’ in which Anushka and Namitha shares screen space. Once the dates fall into place, this planned movie will go to the floors.

Yuvatha Review

Yuvatha Credits

Banner: Worth Watching Entertainments
Starring: Nikhil, Aksha, Ranadhir, Subhash, M S Narayana, Pruthvi, Jeeva and others
Producer: Hari and Uma
Director: Parasuram
Story: Parasuram
Screenplay: Dantaluri Chaitanya
Dialogues: Parasuram
Music Director: Mani Sharma
Cinematographer: Jaswant
Choreographer: Ganesh, Ajay Sai, Dantuluri
Art Director: Narayana Reddy
Stunts: Ram Laxman
Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh
Singers: Ranjith, Rahul Nambiyar, Naveen, Murali, Malathi, Rita
Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya
Audio: Aditya
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Release date: November 07, 2008

A US-aspiring software engineer Ajay (Ranadheer), a wanna-be police turned security man Kiran (Narasimha Uthkam), and an assistant film director Subbu (Subhash) are friends in Hyderabad trying to live their dreams. Veerababu a.k.a. Babu (Nikhil) , outcast from his uncle's family, joins them from Kesavaram village, where they were all childhood friends. Babu meets Vishalakshi a.k.a Baby (Aksha) in a strange situation, and very soon they fall in love. Subbu finally seems to have made it big, and while everyone is celebrating, an old feud fires up, leaving the would-be director with serious skull injuries. The friends, including Ajay's girl Madhavi (Monali Choudhry) and Baby, decide to pool up all sources for money for his surgery. They finally loan the amount from a merciless goon (Narsing). When he pressurizes them to repay him, they plan to rob from the security company where Kiran works, and they plan everything right, but Kiran decides to wait behind since it might hand them up all! Ajay and Babu get arrested by the police at the company, but that's after they realize someone else had already robbed all the money! Was Kiran true in his reason? What's his role in the robbery? How much does Subbu's accident really turn the story?

Performances

Cast Nikhil is at ease as a careless and fearless youth, but he needs to take care of his diction some more. Aksha is okay but has a short, insignificant role in the film that goes around friends. Ranaadheer, who also acted as senior student in Happy Days, has a considerably lengthy role in this film and he performs okay. His body language is stiff at times, though. Monali Choudhry is attractive but has a limited role as his love interest and the daughter of their house owner (played by Sivanarayana of Amrutham fame). Narasimha and Subhash fit in their roles well and have done good job. Sayaji Shinde as hardcore criminal Nananna who has a weak point of being a fan of Simran plays more a comedy role than that of a criminal.

Narsing and Jeeva appear as comedy-oriented baddies, offering some good comedy through a part of the film. Jayaprakash Reddy as the jailer, Sreenivasa Reddy as a sentry, and Prithvi as "Krishna Manohar IPS" do a good job within the scope of their roles. Sivanarayana as the house owner is intended for comedic relief, but falls short of expectations of people who may want to compare his similar role from his much-celebrated TV show Amrutham. Hero Siddharth and Krishnudu (of Happy Days and Vinayakudu fame) appear in the end of the film, rather unnecessarily.

Technical Departments

Debut director Parashuram comes up with an appreciable story line for the film. He also ensured a gripping screenplay and unveils the story carefully, maintaining elements of comedy and suspense in right proportions. In fact, it's notable that he has given more importance to the story than to the threads of romance between the two lead pairs. The taking goes in a good pace for most part; more care should have been taken in establishing the romance between the hero and heroine. Camerawork is okay, but the digital intermediatary (DI) work brings in inconsistencies pertaining to focus in a couple of scenes. Picturization of songs is okay, but it's more the lyrics that catch the attention of the audiences, and some tunes are catchy; choreography is okay too. Re-recording could have been better. Fights are choreographed in a natural style. Dialogues are very good and natural through most of the film, particularly depicting the hero's characterization. Editing is just okay. Production values are appreciable.

Last Word

While the title Yuvata is not really justified for a film on friends, the film is a decent entertainer in its own stride. Good story, okay performances, catchy tunes and lyrics, and no-nonsense screenplay, garnished with light comedy through dialogues and scenes may enhance the life of the film that opened in a rather low key. The film has a good interval bang and the second half has twists that enhance the tempo. The director should be appreciated for delivering his goods well. The hero who lost on his first solo hero film may gain better response to this film.

Source:telugucinema.com

Blade Babji Review

Blade Babji Credits

Starring: Allari Naresh, Sayali Bhagat, Ruthika, Kausha, Brahmanandam, Venumadhav, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Krishna Bhagawan, M S Narayana, L B Sriram and others
Producer: Mutyala Satyakumar
Director: Devi Prasad
Story: Vegnesa Satish, Devi Prasad
Screenplay: Devi Prasad
Dialogues: Vegnesa Satish
Music Director: Koti
Cinematographer: A Raja
Editor: Nandamuri Hari
Singers: Karunya, Sai Sivani, Deepu, Pranavi, Geetha Madhuri, Krishna Chaitanya, Sri Krishna, Teena Kamal
Lyrics: Bhaskara Batla
Release date: October 24, 2008

Plot

Blade Babji (Allari Naresh) is a pickpocket who takes up the mission of earning 4 crores to rescue the slum dwellers in his area from a builder. He and his gang go to Vizag and rob a bank. And they hide the loot in a building under construction. They were forced to go away for a month and when they return they find a police control room at the spot where they hidden their loot. In order to retrieve the loot, Blade Babji takes the position of newly joined Krishna Manohar (spoof of Pokiri) by kidnapping him. The rest of the story is all about the comedy of errors that followed.

Artists Performance

It is a typical character for Allari Naresh and he entertains. Actress Sayali Bhagat is adequate. Dharmavarapu Subramanyam is good. This film has all comedians like Brahmananda, Krishna Bhagawan, Melkote, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Srinivas Reddy and Venu Madhav. They all have interesting roles in the film.

Story - Screenplay - Direction

Basic storyline of the film is inspired by a Hollywood film called Blue Streak (1999). A few scenes from this film are also borrowed. This film runs on comedy of errors and the director could come up with a decent screenplay. Direction is adequate. The director could able to generate continuous laughs. The spoofs of Pokiri and Tammudu are good.
Other departments

Music is mediocre. This film does not need songs. Cinematography is just average. Dialogues are good. Production values should have been better.

Analysis

Inspired by Blue Streak (1999), the director Devi Prasad could able to generate entertainment with decent screenplay and good comedy timing. Blade Babji sports entertainment value and mass orientation. This film would do really well in B and C centers and may fare decently in A centers. You may watch ‘Blade Babji’ for some comic relief.

Hero Telugu Film Review

Radha Krishna (Nitin) is the son of the Commissioner of Police Nagendra Naidu (Nagababu), who has the support of his mother Sarala (Kovai Sarala) for his careless attitude. The Home Minister of the State (Babumohan) passes a G.O. that allows every honest individual to join the police force so as to bring in more people into maintaining the law and order of the land. A whole mob of people (Sravana Sandhya, Brahmanandam, Satyam Rajesh, Tirupathi Prakash, Tarzan, Priyanka, etc.) including a homely Krishnaveni (Bhavana) queue up at the Police Academy headed by (Ramyakrishna). Eventually, it's learnt that one of those who joined the Academy thus is a naxalite on the run! Was it wrong to allow everyone into the police force?

Performances

Cast:

Nitin does an okay job, but his character is much limited and doesn't give much scope to emote. He has a differently styled attire, which fits him okay. Bhavana looks the girl next door and performs okay, but her character is shallow too. Nagababu as the Commissioner of Police has a lengthy role to play and he's his usual. Ramyakrishna has a short role as the Director of the A.P. Police Academy. Kapil Khanna as the professional killer from Dubai is fitting. Kota Srinivasa Rao as the main villain Prem Kumar has a rolethat seriously lacks depth or definition. Brahmanandam, Satyam Rajesh, Tirupathi Prakash, Ali and all others are all wasted, like the rest of the lead cast. Tanu Royappears in an item song that's totally unnecessary for the film.

Technical Departments

The plot point that anyone can join the police force is innovative. However, the screenplay is totally flat. The first half lacks any story movement, yet has an interesting interval bang. However, the debutant director G.V. fails in keeping the interest through the second half. The taking is seriously affected by various inconsistencies. While his story narration and screenplay seem to be good, he somehow fails in the overall job of running the direction department well. Camerawork is particularly good, but DI work brings in inconsistencies pertaining to focus and lighting. Picturization of songs is okay, but the song placement is totally nonsensical. Choreography offers good moments to the hero to portray his skill but is not a wow. The sets used for songs indicate commendable work bythe Art department. Fights are executed in style, without any slow-motion highlighting, which makes them worth watching. Dialogues are just okay, but they could have more punch given the theme of the film. Music score is good, but some of the tunes are directly lifted - sye kurraaDE... from Shake it ( Naksha), naa vayasE puvvula poTlam... from prEm jaal mein... ( Jis Des Mein Ganga Rahta Hai), and parts of Yahoo Yahoo... from Hutch phone ammaayi... ( Godava); Don and Crazy Frog tracks can be heard all over the film. as a part of the BGM. Lyrics by Anantha Sriram leave much to expect, while Bhaskarabhatla's mass-oriented song delivers with the goods. Lyrics could have been affected by the improper song placement too. Editing could have been much crisper. Costumes for the lead roles are eye-catching. However, giving branded wear and formal attires to the imprisoned villain and to Brahmanandam doesn't make much sense; makeup and hairstyling for the lead artistes complements the costumes and brings in a stylish look to the hero and a homely looks to the heroine, as appropriate to their characters. Production values are rich, and the debut producer Ramesh should be appreciated for spending lavishly for the film; how much of it was useful is a different question.

Last Word

Hero doesn't seem like a run of the mill story, but the novelty is lost soon. The taking and shallow characterizations mar the film. Not even one character is rightly established in the film! Add to this the quite improper song placement, and ill logic, and all these aspects together influence the film's run.

Keka Movie Review

Keka Movie Credits

Cinematography: P.C.Sreeram,
Music director: Chakri,
Editing: Shankar,
Choreography: Shankar, Suchitra,
Lyrics: Veturi, Seetarama Shastry, Chandrabose,
Executive producer:
K Jagadeesh Reddy,
Story, screenplay, dialogues, produced and directed by: Teja

Review

Teja started his journey in filmdom with 'Chitram' made on the line of immature teenage love. Later, he made the love stories 'Nuvvu Nenu' & 'Jayam', with which he raised the craze for his film amongst youth and carved a niche for himself as a director in the industry.

'Lakshmi Kalyanam', 'Oka Vichitram' the films which followed 'Jayam' failed badly. With this blow he took a gap of 2years. He returned back now with his latest 'Keka' introducing Raja (son or lyricist Sirivennella Seetharama Sasty) and Ishana as lead pair. Produced on Chitram Movies banner, the film is released on 23rd backed by lot of expectations cause of extensive publicity. Here we present a review on the film.

The protagonist Arjun (Raja) goes for fishing with his friends. He meets Sujatha (Ishana) there, and their introduction blossoms into love. Sujatha’s parents are against their love and arrange her marriage with Kiran (Anup) who happens to be a close friend of Arjun. Learning about the marriage fixing, Arjun leaves for Kolkata just to keep away from Sujatha. There in Kolkatha a group tries to attack and kill Arjun. What is the reason for it? Did Kiran marry Sujatha? Was it a happy ending for their love story? To find answers to all these questions one has to go and watch Keka.

Performance of Artists

Raja son of popular lyrics writer Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, is debuted as a hero with Keka. His acting is a mere ok and not filled with flaws. But his body language, costumes and hairstyle does not impress the viewers, in fact it’s very bad.

Ishana from Ajmer is introduced as a heroine. She is the main attraction to the film. Her portrayal of Sujatha is not so plausible. If she improves her acting skill, there are chances for her to get better offers. Dharmavarapu Subrahmaniyam & Rallapalli who appear regularly in Teja's films, are seen in a cameo and tried their best to deliver whatever they got within the allotted roles.

Anup as Kiran, Basha, Talaivaasal Vijay, Duvvasi Mohan, Moil Swamy, Vaiyyapuri, Bengali actor Nimmu Bhoumik have presented an average performance.

Technical Values

The photography of PC Sriram is the special attraction to the film. His work in featuring the songs is excellent.

For the first time Chakri has composed music for Teja's film. Although they are not very catchy, the songs are not cacophonous either.

Director’s Portrayal

For those who watched 'Chitram' and 'Nuvvu Nenu' the earlier films of Teja, will wonder if 'Keka' is made by the same director himself. He took 2 years gap to reconsider the points which failed the films he made before Keka. This time also he missed to focus on the script part of the film and concentrated only on music and photography in Keka.

While watching ‘Keka’ it makes the audience wonder whether the director has the stamina in him to deliver quality movies as he did earlier. He was incognito for almost two years and now his comeback doesn’t reflect much of an improvement in his directional skills.

Cons

Every time film goers expect an innovative story line but Keka has the same old story with a not so new screenplay. A bad flaw is that not even a single scene could reap applause from the audience. Comical attempts by the new comers doesn’t evoke laughter but is simply disgusting

The serious dialogues delivered by the heroine sound funny. Kiran's character looks childish and immature. Although the technicalities are good, they are wasted cause of the void in script, the film appears as a soulless body.

Criticism

One was expecting director Teja to comeback refreshingly different after his long penance but alas! The maker didn’t understand the core concept of film making even after this break and did Keka in the same dud formula. The scenes that are projected on screen are senseless and boring one after the other. In short, Teja’s Keka is one more dud that desperately fails to impress. It just reaps an ultimatum for the creative director.
Source:indiaglitz.com

Three Telugu Film Review

Movie Crew:
Banner: Raj (India) Entertainments
Music: Vijay Kurakula
Editing: Tirupati Reddy
Lyrics: Vanamali
Story, Screenplay And Directed by: Shekkar Suri
Release Date: Oct 17, 2008
Cast: Rishi, Urvashi Sharma, Rajeev Kanakala, Harshavardhan, Shanti Chandra, Giri etc

Plot

Nisha (Urvashi Sharma) is haunted by bizarre sounds and a voice that keeps warning that would kill her. Terrified Nisha seeks help from her neighbor SriRam (Rishi) who is a photojournalist with National Geographic Channel. He takes her to a psychiatrist (Harshavardhan) and diagnosis reveals that Nisha’s condition is normal. However, docs come to conclusion that she might be suffering from schizophrenia. On other hand, Nisha reveals that the voice she keeps listening is similar to that of Shankar whom she met on a trip to an island. Now, Nisha, Sriram and the psychiatrist set for finding Shankar in an island forest. After settling in a hotel in the jungle, they meet an eccentric person named Rajeev (Rajeev Kanakala). The rest of the drama is unraveling the suspense of how Nisha is connected with Rajeev, Shankar and others.

Performances

Bollywood actress Urvashi Sharma makes the debut but she is okay. Rishi is perfectly suited for his role and he does his best. Rajeev Kanakala brings energy to the movie. In fact, his entry brings the momentum into the story. Shanti Chandra who is also producer of the movie looks like a cardboard without any expressions. Harsha Vardhan as psychiatrist tries to provide comic relief. His dialogues are not that effective though. Cinematography movie is brilliant. Cinematography by Senthil Kumar and newcomer Bhaskar Shyamala is top rate and excellent. Balloon lights (for even lighting in the night effect) are used for some scenes and even in the normal lights the camerawork is in high standards. The interesting point is that both of the cameramen have similar style of lighting and work. Vijaya Kurakala’s recording is good but at times it is loud and gimmickry. Director Shekkar Suri fails big time.

Technical Departments 

Sekhar Suri (now changed spell to Shekkar Suri) comes with super natural/ para normal thriller ‘Three’. His last film, A Film By Aravind, was a hit. After a gap of three years, he directs this thriller. Let’s get to the straight. Three is farce with pretentious technical standards. It is uninteresting, illogical, and superficial. Well, the film’s theme of ‘past life regression’ (a therapy that allows persons to go into past life and know their identity in gata janma) might be novel but the outcome is silly and illogical. Especially the climax is more like a comedy than a thriller. Other than excellent cinematography and rerecording (at times it is loud and gimmickry), Three is a wasted attempt.

The director heavily indulges in gimmickry and creates unnecessary tension for normal scenes like hero drinking water, taking a nap, etc.

The entire story is set in night but we don’t know whether it happens in one night or series of nights. Except the main characters, you don’t find any other people in the movie as if the forest is completely deserted. There are so-many loopholes in the script and the theme defies the logic. The entire first half was an futile exercise with no story.

Last Word

Thrillers either should scare you or should have ‘solid script’ with logic. But Three lacks both of them. All the while, Sekhar Suri tries to mislead the audiences with his weird camera angles making us to believe something extraordinary would happen in the end but actually it ends up with silly and illogical. A very superficial film with high technical standards. If you believe ‘past life theories’ and para natural forces, you might find it is okay but those who have rational thinking would surely despise it.
source:telugupedia.com

Nenu Meeku Telusa Movie Review

Aditya (Manoj Manchu) has a strange disorder. His memory keeps refreshing every night he sleeps, but he wakes up with a blank mind every day. Only two people (his uncle and his personal doctor) know about his problem. He falls in a situation where he is accused of a murder. The rest of the story is all about how he rescues himself.

Artists Performance

Manoj Manchu: To do a film like 'Nenu Meeku Telusa?' is a brave and risky decision for a guy like Manoj Manchu who has a supporting father and his own banner. Manoj Manchu comes up with a neat performance as a guy suffering from recurring amnesia. His comedy timing is superb and his dialogues gel well with the concept of the film. The risky jumps he has done during the 8 and half minute chase sequence are excellent. His imitation of Mohan Babu and Ravi Teja got tremendous applause.

Other actors: Riya Sen did the role of current love interest of hero. She is pretty good. Sneha Ullal is nice as the college love of the hero. Nassar plays the role of hero's uncle. Brahmanandam entertains as a fashion designer with the punch line 'what the frock!' Sunil is adequate. Surekha Vani's 'Sri Lakshmi Ganapati Films' commentary is entertaining.

Story - Screenplay - Direction

The basic plot of the film is slightly inspired by a Hollywood film called 'Clean Slate (1994)'. It is very thin story line and films of this type of story lines should have been told in duration of one and half hour. Since this movie is aimed for two and half hours of duration, the director had to insert some subplots and prolonged flashback which has very little relevance to the main story line. Screenplay of the film is adequate in the first half, but needs improvement in the second half. Direction of the film is good in parts. The director could able to narrate a serious plot in the first half by injecting humor through hero's characterization. The following things are good in the film –
The way hero's character is introduced and established.
8 and half minutes exciting yet hilarious chase sequence in the first half.
Manoj imitating Mohan Babu.
The picturization of enno enno song
The Brahmanandam's title rolling scene

The following things should have been taken care of:
Hero records his voice in an audio cassette and plays in a tape recorder. And if the tape is gspoiled, the entire exercise is futile. In this modern age, we have the facility of digital recording and computer. The audio tapes of hero are also stored in cassette format in doctor's office. (Probably the director used it for the screenplay convenience.)
The chase sequence is superb. But it has nothing to do with the main story of the film.
The friend's characters are introduced elaborately in the flashback format. But what do the friends have to do with story of the film? A song followed by a couple of scenes and confrontation would have been fine for the flashback episode.

Other departments

Music of the film is good. The songs that standout in the film are title song and enno enno. Cinematography of the film is nice. But the colors used are very unnatural. The entire flashback episode has bleaching effect which does not look good. The editing cuts are too sharp and they disturb your eyes. The chase sequence composed by Manoj and Tim Robbins is superb. CG work is nice. Production values are good.

Last Word

First half of the film is decent. The tempo in the second half goes down. The climax of the film is alright. The plus points of the film are Manoj's performance and story idea. The negative points are length of the film and unnatural colors. This kind of story should be narrated in 1 and half hours. In order to make this film a two and half hour runtime film, the director had to add more sub plots and extend the flashback. On whole, Nenu Meeku Telusa? is strictly a multiplex film and is meant for elite audiences who look out for the 'out of the box' films. The general crowd might not like it. But the team of NMT must be appreciated for breaking the shackles of doing routine and formulaic films in order to do a different film.

Kotha Bangaru Lokam Film Review

Balu (Varun Sandesh) is son of lovable middleclass couple (Prakash Raj & Jayasudha). Swapna (Sweta Basu Prasad) is the daughter of a strict and rich father. Both of them study in a residential college located at a small town of Godavari district. Balu and Swapna fall in love. Swapna is withdrawn from the residential school because her father comes to know about her love. The rest of the story is all about how Balu and Swapna try to get back to each other.

Artists Performance

Varun Sandesh shows improvement in this film compared to his debut in Happy Days. He suited the character of the film very well and he needs to work strongly on getting diction right. His boyish charm wins you over. Sweta Basu Prasad (award winning child actress from Iqbal film) is very good and she perfects her role with her childlike innocent look. However, there is a bit of inconsistency in the dubbing in the initial part of the film.

Other actors: Jayasudha and Prakash Raj play a perfect couple like they did in Bommarillu film. However, Jayasudha's role is more meaningful and vital in this film. Ahuti Prasad is good as the father of heroine. Rao Ramesh who impressed everybody in his radical portrayal in Gamyam did the key character of a lecturer in the film. He is very good though he appears to have gone little over board in the class room scenes. This film has lots of fresh faces as friends of hero and heroine. And all of them are natural and add some value to the film. Brahmanandam character offers variety.

Technical departments
Story, Screenplay & Direction

Story of the film is about parenting. This film has got an arresting narration and intelligent screenplay in the second half. The debutant director Srikanth Addala comes up with a script that offers lot of freshness. There are many scenes and situations in the film which would have gone the clichéd way, but the director makes sure that he avoids clichéd and melodramatic scenes. He could able to conceive the emotional scenes in the second half excellently. Dil Raju offers another gem of a director in the form of Srikanth Addala through Kotha Bangaram Lokam after giving us Sukumar (Arya) and Bhaskar (Bommarillu).

Cinematography

I stopped writing separate paragraphs for individual technical departments in my reviews long back. But I think Chota K Naidu's work in this film deserve a separate para. I see Tamil cinematographers ruling the Telugu film industry and wondered why Telugu cinematographers can't come up with such stuff. Today I felt really happy that Chota K Naidu gave a fitting reply to everybody that a Telugu cinematographer can come up with a fabulous stuff. The entire film is like picture postcard photography. You can take any frame in the film and send it as a postcard. The colors and lighting used for the film are highly pleasing to your eyes. The way he has shown the Godavari bridge is entirely different from what we have seen in the earlier films.

Other Departments

Music of the film is exceptionally great. Mickey J Meyer repeats his magic after Happy Days with this film. The background music and re-recording of the film is equally good. Dialogues by the director Srikanth Addala are very good. Marthand K Venkatesh's editing is smooth. Artwork by Prakash is nice. The CG work by Pixelloid and the DI work also deserve a special mention. Producer Dil Raju made sure that he spends lot of money and quality time on this film. He continues his marathon of classic hits after Arya and Bommarillu with this film.

Analysis

First of the film is decent and the second half is excellent. Like Bommarillu, this film too deals with the problem of parents and kids. In that film, they tried to balance between parents and kids, this film takes some bias towards parents as the kids in this film are doing intermediate unlike the graduates in Bommarillu. If Happy Days makes you feel nostalgic about your engineering college days, KBL will make you feel nostalgic about your intermediate days in a residential college. This film sends good message out to the society. The only thing I did not like in the entire film is that the filmmaker has shown Ahuti Prasad (father of the girl) as a bakra. Coming to my rating statistics, my last 4 rated film was Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (January 2005), my last 4.5 rated film was Bommarillu (August 2006) and my last 3.5 rated film was Happy Days (September 2007). Kotha Bangaru Lokam film deserves a rating of 4. Go, watch the film and pamper yourself..
Review Source:idlebrain.com

Kausalya Supraja Rama Review

If you're thinking that the three words of the Telugu film titled Kousalya Supraja Rama has anything to do with the first three words from the sloka in Venkateswara Suprabhatam, then you're mistaken.

Kousalya Supraja Rama begins with a man wheeling a woman into a hospital and taking care of the treatment leaving the audience wondering on the relationship between the man and the woman. Well, that is answered later. For now, the man is the quintessential Good Samaritan Sriram and the story revolves around him.

In a nutshell, the film directed by Surya Prasad for Suresh Productions (Dr D Rama Naidu's production house) entertains while it delves into the virtue of being good and doing the same.

Sriram, a software professional, runs into girl as she is being chased by a few men. He is misinformed by the men that she is their sister and Sriram lets them know where she's hiding. But when he sees the way they are treating her, he sees things are amiss and bashes up the goondas.

Meanwhile, one of them throws a heavy object at the girl and she is hit on the back of the head. Before she loses consciousness, she tells Sriram she is married to Ravi against her father and his parents' wishes.

Sriram takes care of her (calls her Lakshmi) treatment and is told she has to be operated for a clot in the brain and that surgery would cost him Rs 10 lakh. In order to raise that amount (over six months) he applies for a loan and asks his boss (Kota) to stand in as guarantor. Kota sets off to the USA leaving his house and his pet dog Rosy in Sriram's care.

Soon after Sriram becomes a Good Samaritan, making a difference to all the lives of all the people he meets, but not before the plot meanders. The film is reminiscent of earlier movies where one saw these good characters doing good deeds.

It's rather brave on director Surya Prasad's part to take such a story in today's times. Of course he fits in quite a few songs and dances along with his old-wine-in-new-bottle story.

There is nothing path-breaking or trend-setting in the storyline/screenplay. The second half tends to be longer than the first considering it is filled with all the melodrama, emotion et al. Humour at times is pretty crass and repetitive.

Performance

The performances, particularly Srikkanth's make the film work. Srikkanth is sincere in this film and one can certainly watch it for him. He is able to effortlessly switch between portraying the Good Samaritan and happily sing and dance too.

Charmee too shifts gears from being a glam doll to an actor to some extent. Gauri Munjal is passable. Kota and Tanikella Bharani as the respective fathers carry their roles well. Brahmanandam, Ali, Krishna Bhagwan, Venu Madhav, L B Sriram are okay.

Kousalya Supraja Rama offers middling entertainment in the holiday season.
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Chintakayala Ravi Telugu Film Review

Chintakayala Ravi (Venkatesh) works in a bar in USA and pretends to his sentimental mother (Lakshmi) back in India as if he is working as a software engineer leading a fancy lifestyle in USA. His mother sets up a girl called Lavanya (Mamata Mohandas) as Ravi's match. Lavanya asks her New York buddy Sunita (Anushka) to find out the conduct of Chintakayala Ravi. The rest of the story is all about what happened between Ravi, Lavanya and Sunita.

Artists Performance

Venkatesh did his trademark comedy and sentiment in the film. He is excellent. Anushka is nice in the role of the main heroine. Mamata Mohandas is good in this film compared to her earlier outings in Telugu film industry. Lakshmi impresses in this film like she did for Murari film. Comedy by Sunil as Pendurti Babu is satisfactory. Child artist Bharat did well in the climax of the film though his character is underdeveloped. Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav and Srinivasa Reddy are adequate as the friends of hero. Arti Chabia did an item song. Ajay did a completely different role convincingly. Ali's character is like an extension of her Nachmi character in Chiruta film. Nikita is very cute with her own dubbing. Venu did a vital yet small role. NTR sizzles in 'Shava Shava' song and entertains the crowds. Prakash Raj gave voiceover to this film in the initial scenes and in the climax and his narration is an asset.

Technical Departments

Story of the film is simple and predictable. But the backdrop of USA offers some variety. Direction by Yogesh is partly OK. He could able to introduce and establish all primary characters well. But he could not run the story with interesting narration in the middle of the film. But he manages the climax decently. He handles some of the humor scenes well. However there are a few inspired comedy scenes like exam scene (Mr. Bean series), kitikilu 2008 (windows 2008 Telugu version forward mail) etc. There is some toilet humor too. Narration of the film is slow.

Other departments

Music by Vishal Sekhar is an asset to the film. Bagunde Bagunde followed by Enduko is the best on the screen. Mani Sharma scored background music. Dialogues by Kona Venkat are good. A couple of dialogues like 'akkada (USA) sanduko vanda software engineers vuntaru' and 'aavida data whorehousing (data warehousing) lo work chestundi' are entertaining in the first half. Cinematography by Ravindra Babu is good. He shot the USA part very well. The visuals are rich. Nallamapulu Bujji should be appreciated for spending good money on budget to make a film with rich visuals and sound by hiring the best of technicians and cast for the job.

Final Word

The first half an hour of the film is pretty good. It slows down after that and the film picks up again from the last song (bagunde bagunde). The plus points of the film are Venkatesh and mother sentiment. On the flip side, the latter part of the first half and the former part of the second half should have been made in an interesting way. The mother sentiment and the marriage ambiance towards the climax could attract the Venky's strong base of family crowds. On a whole, Chintakayala Ravi is an ok film if you can excuse bit of screenplay glitches in the middle of the film.

Source:idlebrain.com