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RAMA RAMA KRISHNA KRISHNA

STARRING : : Ram, Arjun, Priya Anand, Bindu Madhavi, Nassir, Brahmanandam, Benerjee, Sayaji Shinde MUSIC :  MM Keeravani DIRECTOR : Srivaas RELEASE DATE : May 12 2010 � Listen Songs    � Movie Schedule/Wallpapers

Average Story: Film story begins with Ashok Deva (Arjun) who is a Don in Mumbai. He has rivalry with another Don Pawar (Vineeth) and because of that Ashok's wife dies. The Gangster decides keep full stop to his Factionism and shifts to Gandhipuram on the banks of the river Godavari. The village head (Nasser) is a respectable man but his younger son Ramakrishna (ram) is known to be a rough and tough guy but very kind at heart and helpful. Ashok's sister falls in love with Ramakrishna's brother and they elope to Mumbai for getting married. Ramakrishna goes to Mumbai and he is accompanied by Priya (Priya), Ashok's other sister since she knows the matter. What happens from there forms the rest of the story. Analysis:   Director Sri Vaas after making an action film like ‘Lakshyam’, comes up with a romantic family drama.  The films begins amidst a Mumbai mafia backdrop – showing vintage Arjun, but later his character is not go gripping.First half of the film is interesting which underlies in family relations. But, the second half of the film has lost the Interest in film. Second half of the film is too predictable which makes bored off the film. The romantic track between Ram and Bindu Madhavi was boring and not natural, but the chemistry between Priya Anand and Ram is good. There are couple of unnecessary songs which ruins the film’s temp. The pre-climax scene before interval is gripping with Brahmanandam taking the centrestage. Artiste's Performance: Ram has came well with an energetic performance in acting and Dance. His role is pretty interesting in the sense that he leaves most of the decisions to the Gods trust by leaving a Locket as decision Maker. Priya Anand plays the love interest of Hero and looked good onscreen. Ram and Priya Anand shares good onscreen Chemistry. Bindu Madhavi role is wasted in the film. Brahmanandam as LSR is hilarious. Others were good in their roles. Arjun is ok with his performance. Gracy Singh as Arjun’s wife in a brief role is okay Shiyaji Shinde, Nazar, Banerjee have all done decent job Technical departments: 'Rama Rama Krishna Krishna' is the 200th film for Music Director M.M.Keeravani and done an excellent job by giving good tunes for film. Gowtham Raju editing is good. Srivass handled the story, screenplay and Direction. Director was ok in first half but when coming into second half he failed to make it good. Visual effects in the fights scenes are good. Bottomline: Film stands just average as it runs on a very predictable line and there is not much to actually connect to the story about. While the first half has few technical glitches and presentation hiccups, the second half is all about the sentiment, melodrama and the action sequences. Ram performance, Comedy and Music of the film may save to sustain good collection at Box Office.

SIMHA-PUCCA COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINER

STARRING : Balakrishna, Nayantara, Sneha Ullal, Namitha, K R Vijaya MUSIC :  Chakri DIRECTOR : Boyapati RELEASE DATE : April 30th 2010 � Listen Songs    � Movie Schedule/Wallpapers

Good In what could be the last throw of dice, Balakrishna holds all his aces for his latest film ‘Simha’. Time and again, director Boyapati Sreenu was pressing hard every time saying Balayya was shown in a new avatar and facet.  Let’s check-in for the verdict. The film starts with the story of the younger Bala Krishna (Srimannarayana) working as a college professor. As usual, the best looking girl of the college (Janaki played by Sneha Ullal) falls in love with  Srimannarayana (the monkish protector of justice). Reasons for that are comprehendible only by someone who had seen enough Telugu films (Bala Krishna films in particular). As the first half progresses the screenplay tells us that Janaki’s and Srimmanarayna’s pasts are related and the flashback starts occupying the screen. The daddy Bala Krishna with Nayanatara next to him and Kota Srinivas Rao playing the bad guy in a war between good and evil about the welfare of the region is the film’s flashback (absolutely nothing new, but might as well accept the fact that it is Bala Krishna film and get over with it) Director Boyapati Sreenu deserves kudos for making such a massy commercial entertainer – once again showing Balayya on the lines of ‘Samarasimha Reddy’ and ‘Lakshmi Narasimha’.  The plot of the film is pretty good where the original theme is set amidst a village backdrop and intense family drama. Balayya plays both father and son and has done both the characters elegantly and commendably. Boyapati Sreenu has rightly balanced both the father and son characters without diluting the power of the either characters. The theme was pretty fresh and Balakrishna could hardly put his foot wrong. Balayya’s dialogues are a trademark as usual, especially the ones where he’ll be challenging the rivals. The first half moves on in an intense way and the second half was pretty sustaining as well. There were too many fights – mind you, powerful fights and you could see a vintage Balayya or Balayya at his very best. The second half is touch exaggerating because of an unnecessary song, but Sreenu managed to bring back the audience’s attention Performance: Balakrishna was really shown in a new outlook. His characterization, body language was very completely different. He was energetic and seems brimming with confidence. . As Srimannarayana, he romanced with Namitha (College lecturer), In total, you see a new and rejuvenated Balakrishna who impressed in every department.here was not even single instance where in Balayya looked to be a tired man. Audience experienced a new feel with the change in style of costumes and oozing of confidence levels in Balakrishna. It was a feast to watch him in the mind blowing get up of Narasimha with fiery and firing looks in second half. His powerful dialogue delivery, unique body language and energetic stunts made the audience to go into whistles once in every five minutes with Narasimha. Sneha Ullal dancing to the peppy numbers in full swing and got good role to perform and she was neat and traditional, shelooks like a kid in front of Balakrishna. Nayanathara as Bhavani showed the difference away from regular glamorous roles. Nayanathara’s performance during conversation with Police Officer was praiseworthy. Namithawas just for the name sake showing her thunder thighs and wonder body. Brahmanandam’s comedy track was not impressive,Comedians like Venumadhav,Dharmavarapu and Krishna Baghavan are ok. Music by Chakri is ok.The background score was great Boyapati Srinu has once again proved that he is best among contemporary directors and script writers.He projected Bala Krishna in the right way and extracted powerful mass performance.Direction is Awesome. Cinematography was very good. Songs were not exciting, barring a couple of them. All in all, ‘Simha’ is for the masses.100% sure that ‘Simha’ is a new life for Balakrishna, It has all the required commercial elements to make the film a commercially viable project.

DARLING

STARRING : ajal, Shradhdha Das, Mukesh Rishi, Prabhu, Chandra Mhan, Ahuti Prasad, MUSIC :  GV Prakash DIRECTOR : karunakar RELEASE DATE : April 23rd 2010 � Listen Songs    � Movie Schedule/Wallpapers

Above Average Prabhu, Ahuti Prasad, Chandra Mohan, MS Narayana are college friends and they keep meeting along with their families once in a while. Prabhu's son Prabhas (Prabhas) starts liking Ahuti Prasad's daughter Nandhini (Kajal) in one such get together when they are kids. Ahuti Prasad's family shifts to Switzerland and he settles there. After a long gap, all the friends decide to spend time together again with their families. Prabhas is all excited about it as he can meet Nandhini and express his love for her. But Ahuti Prasad decides to get Nandhini married to MS Narayana's son Rishi. How Nandhini starts liking Prabhas and convinces her dad about marrying Prabhas has to be watched on big screen Karunakaran is known for his youthful love stories and this time he came up with a love story and a family entertainer in the form of Darling. The first half of the movie was shot superbly with good songs and good comedy. The locations in Switzerland brought freshness to the movie. The interval twist came out well which also set the tone of the movie. The second half is totally fun filled with couple of good dialogues and racy numbers. However there is nothing new to offer in the movie. The climax is cliched but has a feel good factor. Performances: Prabhas is at his best. His gait, his glow, his performance and confidence carried the movie happily. Kajal enticed audiences with her magnetism. Shradhdha Das, although had small role, she made her presence felt. Comedy bits between Srinivas Reddy and Prabhas provide some relief Mukesh Rishi is ok as goon but he has lighter vein characterization. Chandramohan, Ahuti Prasad, Prabhu, Tulasi, MS Narayana are all ok. comedian Srinivas Reddy, Raja Sridhar, Kota, Mukesh Rishi, Santosh were just okay. Kota has no dialogue at all in the film. Music by GV Prakash is biggest draw back. Neither were there any catchy numbers nor was there any depth in back ground score. If those were good, the movie would have scored well among audience. It is single line story but narrated in three layers. Its all screenplay technique that which may be liked by many. Bottom-line: First half is entertaining but declares to be a fiction by interval Second half is on beaten track with predictable screenplay.the film is just time pass flick.

VARUDU

STARRING : Allu Arjun, Bhanusree Mehra, Arya, Ashish Vidyarthi, Suhasini, Naresh MUSIC :  Mani Sharma DIRECTOR : Gunashekar RELEASE DATE : March 31st � Listen Songs    � Movie Schedule/Wallpapers

Average It’s About Gunasekhar’s new so-called imaginative after his previous visionary disaster with Mahesh Babu. Plot Sandeep (Allu Arjun) is a Gen X Hyderabadi. Sandeep’s parents had a love marriage.After an horrendous entrance by the stylish star and a few scenes which I believe were written on the sets on the day of the shoot, the film goes on to the partwherein Sandeep’s parents ask him about whom he wants to marry. To their shock he tells them that he wants his marriage to be an arranged one and wants the age old 16 day marriage with all his relatives by his side. Sandeep also decides to respect the aged tradition of not looking at the bride till the very moment of marriage. However,on the day of the marriage the bride gets kidnapped by Dileep (played by Arya). Who’s Dileep, why the kidnap and how does the film end in happiness are the other boringsegments which consume the second half. What’s good The major attraction was Arya playing a drama crazy unstable artist. The guy hadchewed away every other aspect of the film with his giant like appearance and was the only reason which will not let you leave the movie half way through.The much hyped 5 day marriage scenes were not as good as anticipated, but, were a pretty decent watch. What’s badThe visuals which the film clearly couldn’t afford (just like the past two Gunasekhar films), long by at least 20 minutes and the loose, unpacked, terribly scripted first half of the feature.There is no comedy in the movie and music wise very poor. If Allu Arjun, Arya’s presence, magnanimous camera work, mind boggling climax fight were to save the movie; the low pitched narration, lack of depth, missing comedy and poor script have done the needless damage Performances Allu Arjun has brought lot of energy to the character. But it lacks the typical Allu Arjun flavor which the audience felt missing. I think his he needs to further improve on his dialogue delivery in action sequences and emotional scenes. Debutant Bhanu Mehra plays the female lead. Her identity has not been revealed all these days, but she does a decent job. There’s no great scope for performance in her character. Perhaps, Gunasekhar should have given her more importance. Arya has done very well. His power packed body is gelling well that of Allu Arjun during action sequences. He does a very good job playing against the main lead and does it effortlessly. Brahmanandam’s character is of no use. I wonder why he’s doing such roles. Ahuti Prasad did not fit the character of a strong villain. Ashish Vidyarthi, Suhasini, Naresh, Sayaji Shinde, Nasser were all ok, as their characters does not have much to offer.  Yesteryear director Singeetam Sreenivasa Rao was adequate. Mani Sharma’s music is alright. The background music is good in parts. Stunt Siva’s action choreography is first-class, but the editor Anthony should have done a better job, especially in the second half.  The film is visually appealing and the DI and CG work is good in songs.  Verdict: It’s a sincere attempt to reinforce the concept of a traditional 5 day marriage, but unfortunately, the film does not go well with the modern love marriage formula.

YE MAAYA CHESAVE

STARRING : Naga Chaitanya, Samantha, Krishnudu, Devan MUSIC :  A.R.Rahaman DIRECTOR : Gautham Vasudev Menon RELEASE DATE : Febraury 25th, 2010 � Listen Songs    � Movie Schedule/Wallpapers

Awesome Story Naga Chaitanya is called as Karthik in the movie has completed his Engineering at the age of 22 years having just finished his education dreams of becoming a movie director, in this efforts he falls in love with Jessy - Samantha who is 24 years old daughter of owner of the house. Jessy happens to be a Malayali Christian and works with a software company. First she refuses Karthik's proposal of love as he is younger than her and she�s Christian and he�s Hindu. But when he comes down to Aleppy when she moves there on a Holiday to impress her and she falls for his charms. Next comes how they go through family problems, their emotional conflicts, etc. Analysis This movie is a good romantic story directed by Goutham Menon made some magic waves on screen with some heart touching scenes in beautiful frames with realistic performances. Rarely we do see a love story told in realistic way with casual dialogues on Telugu screen. Story of the movie is not new to Telugu audiences but the way in which Goutham touched the screens is impressive. This movie would be more relished by people who fell in love or have tasted love. Gautham�s eye for visual beauty, extracting honest performances from the young lead cast, sense for simplicity and realistic approach strikes the chord with us. Director captured the longings of young couple, their confusions and emotional chasm. In most of our Telugu film love stories, young couple's desires are shown in cheap manner, here he presents them so delightfully and naturally. Naga Chaitanya wooing the girl, convincing her and kissing in Train, Samantha expressing her anger before leaving the hero, New York episode show what a fine director Gautham is. Body language and chemistry between Chaitu and Samantha is awesome. Rehaman's tunes further elevate the mood of the movie. Pace of movie is slow and slacks it before interval, often usage English dialogues might not go well with a section of audiences. Entire episode of New York and Climax sequences really stand out. It is completely the director's film. Performances Chaitanya had ease in romantic scenes as father and grandfather, Naga Chaitanya�s asset is his voice and his casual acting style. Chaitanya has improved much better in performance from his first film but he needs to look after his face. He looks to be more comfortable for romantic movies. Samantha is beautiful, got scope to raise up in career in Telugu movies. Chemistry between both the lead actors rocks. Bottom-line Gautham Menon weaves magic with some beautiful romantic moments on screen with Ye Maaya Chesave. Great chemistry between the young star couple, great visuals, nice songs, and heart touching scenes really grab you. It is simple but sensitively, realistically made with lot of conviction. The movie haunts you and stays in you even after leaving the movie hall. Go for it and enjoy.