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
Publicity Designer:
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