Oosaravelli Movie Review

Story:
Tony (NTR) is a typical character who changes moods and colors as per the situation. He meets Niharika (Tamanna) in an awkward situation which leads to love. He falls in love with her and chases her day and night. He gets to know that she is already in love with someone, but chases her down till she falls in love with him. At this point the other side of him is revealed which gives us the answers for the unanswered. Actually he is on a mission to kill an entire mafia empire. Why does he do that? For whom does he work for? Watch the movie for answers.

Analysis:
Oosaravelli starts off on a high note with excellent intro scene of hero. The hero character is introduced in such a way that audience expects him to play mind games and wise tricks all the time. But the film turns out to be a love story after that hyped introduction. This part is dealt in an entertaining with NTR, Raghubabu, MS Narayana and Jayaprakash Reddy doing the honors of filling in fun moments. The real story will only start before interval and the interval scene has really come out well. The graph picks up suddenly and sets high expectations on the second half.

Second half will reveal about the hero’s mission and why he has been under disguise. This part mostly deals with the heroine and it may not be liked by hardcore NTR fans. He goes missing for more than ten minutes and the film considerably slows down. Movie takes a serious turn and comedy takes the backseat. Director tried to force comedy in bits and pieces in the second hour but it didn’t gel well.

Script wise, Oosaravelli is good barring few plot holes. But where it fails is with balancing NTR’s mass image with the hero’s characterization. Director had to sacrifice mind games and intelligent play for the sake of satisfying NTR fans, which didn’t help the film much. On a whole Oosaravelli can be watched once for its entertaining first half, interesting plot and performances of the lead star cast.

Commercially it may suffer because of going against NTR image. NTR city based fans and youth may be satisfied to see him in a new avatar, but his core audience from the B and C centers will have too many complaints with the film.

Performances:
It is good to see NTR switching genres. He did a completely different role in this movie which is more of a lover boy and less of an action hero. He also tried comedy and underplayed the emotions. It is refreshing to see him in this movie. He has to keep a check on the weight as he is gaining few kilos. His dances in Dandia India are good.

Tamanna got a very good role and she excelled in it. Generally heroines don’t get much scope in star heroes films. But this film is an exception and Tamanna lapped it up. She is gorgeous in few scenes.

Prakash Raj is routine. Jayaprakash and Raghubabu are funny. MS Narayana shared few laughs. Kick Shyam is brief and Rehaman is Okay. Sayaji Shinde’s role is half baked. Harika (Payal Ghosh) gives a neat performance.  

Technicalities:
Koratala Siva dialogues worked in places. On a whole lacked the necessary punch. Devi Sri Prasad’s background score is fabulous. Two songs are very good. Rasool camera is one of the highlights of the movie. Action part is dealt well. There are few action scenes but are shot in an exciting fashion. Production values are rich.

Surender Reddy did well as a director to handle the script well. However, he is off balance at times as he is ‘confused’ to stick with the content or to go with NTR’s mass image. He should have opted for a small hero instead of choosing a star for this script, which would have done wonders for him.

Final Word:
        Don’t expect a brand NTR film!

Oosaravelli Movie Rating: 3/5

Banner: Sri Venkateswara Cini Chitra
Casting: Jr NTR, Tamanna, Prakash Raj, Shyam, Jayaprakash, Raghubabu, MS Narayana
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Producer: BVSN Prasad
Direction: Surender Reddy

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Dookudu movie review

Film: Dookudu
Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: 14 ReelsEntertainment
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Samantha, Prakash Raj,Sonu Sood, M S Narayana, Brahmanandam
Music: S S Thaman
Dialogues: Kona Venkat
Cinematographer: K V Guhan
Editing: M R Varma
Story, screenplay, direction: Srinu Vaitla
Producers: Anil Sunkara, Achanta Ram, AchantaGopichand
Release date: 23/09/2011

The much delayed and most awaited movie has finally arrived. It has broughtMahesh Babu along with Samantha under the direction of Srinu Vaitla. Let ustake a plunge into the details.

Story: 
Shankar Narayana (Prakash Raj) an honest man with ideals whodoes a lot for the poor. His good deeds find enemies (Kota, Supreeth, Sayaji). Shankar’s son Ajay(Mahesh Babu) grows up to be an honest and tough cop.

While the whole world thinks Shankar Narayanais dead, he is actually recovering in a hospital. Meanwhile, unaware of allthis flashback Ajay sets on a mission to hunt Nayak (Sonu Sood), a dreadedmafia don. In this process, he comes across Prashanti (Samantha) and falls inlove with her. Meanwhile, Shankar Narayana recovers but he is not supposed togo through any sort of stress.

For this, Ajay starts doing all sorts of thingsto keep him happy. The story takes a turn when Ajay discovers about the attackon his father and decides to take revenge. How does he do that? Whether he issuccessful or not forms the rest of the story. 

Performances:
Mahesh Babu gives a powerhouse performance. His versatility in acting andemoting of various expressions is impressive. As usual, he rocks with his styleand handsome looks. 

Samantha looks sweet. She manages to do justicein songs and the light romance track. However, she must reduce her dose ofmakeup and start focusing on adding few extra pounds, that will make her doublesexy.

Prakash Raj was matured as usual. Though hedoesn’t have intense scenes in it, he maintains a contained act and does hisbit as required.

Sonu Sood looks stylish as a villain but hischaracterization is not that powerful. This time, he was not able to create therequired impact. 

Nasser was natural, Brahmanandam was hilarious,M S Narayana was fantastic, Vennela Kishore brought few extra smiles and madehis presence felt, Sonia was alright, Subbaraju made his presence felt, Kota was effective,Sayaji Shinde was standard, Aditya Menon was apt, Tanikella Bharani waselegant, Supreeth was okay. Special mention must be made of Parvathi Melton.Her item song and her oozing sex appeal is a visual delight. The others didtheir bit as required and added value. Highlights:

• Mahesh Babu’s performance
• Brahmi, M S Narayana comedy
• Second half
• Parvathi Melton’s item song

Drawbacks:

• First half
• Length
• Routine Vaitla formula
• Weak romance track
• MLA get up Mahesh Babu got wasted

Analysis:
The two names, Mahesh Babu and Srinu Vaitla, are enough toset high expectations for the film. But the best way to enjoy this film is togo with an open mind. As such, this is a typical Srinu Vaitla film and hisformula and pattern is the same from start to finish.

Subba Raju’s character resembles Jaya PrakashReddy in ‘Dhee’. Brahmanandam’s character resembles what he portrayed in‘Ready’.

Only difference is, the commercial elements arehigh and for a change he has shown villains as villains and not converted themto good beings.

As usual, Vaitla relied on his strengths iecomedy and dialogues. During the first half, things are quite erratic and it ishard to connect. Many were looking at their watches for the interval bang.During the interval many gave thumbs down reactions and somewhat negativevibes.

The much hyped Mahesh Babu’s MLA get up iswasted in the film. The purpose of raising curtain for a reality show by MaheshBabu is not at all convincing but boring. Taking the bigger risk of realityshow to keep father happy is like a cock and bull story. The entertainmentgraph falls down suddenly due to that. Audience gets disconnected to the filmat that moment for about 20 minutes. Although the purpose of that reality showis not convincing, the pattern in which it goes with other artistes brought thehumor.

But second half covered up the entire thing andno one looks at the watch anymore. There are few points which are worthmentioning here:

• When Dharmavarapu faxes a celebrity photo to the villains. All are shocked. You must watch the film to enjoy that.
• The scene between Sonu Sood and Prakash Raj. It is a straight lift from ‘Sarkar’ scene between Amitabh Bachchan and Zakir Hussain, but a weak imitation.
• Last twenty minutes comedy and the dialogues of Brahmi and M S Narayana

Overall, the film has the right ingredients toappeal the family audience and though most of it is expected, it is the paceand ability with which the audience is engaged and the entertainment value theyget.

At the box office, with no other film in sight and the hype created, the filmwill be invincible. 

Bottom-line: Routine Vaitla'sflick

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Akasame Haddu Movie Review

Story:

Narayana (Rajeev) is the son of a middle class man Radha Krishna (Bhanuchander). He is a merit student and comes first in class. He achieves good ranks in competitive exams. He joins Engineering and studies with the help of donation given by his college principal. He reaches final year and then comes Keerthi into his life. He falls madly in love with her but she rejects. Dejected Rajeev tries to commit suicide and he gets saved by Karthik (Navadeep). With the help of Karthik’s tips Narayana becomes close friend of Keerthi. But she can’t accept his love due to a strong reason. What is it is the key to this story.

Analysis:

This film gives a strong message to the youth who commits suicides for some reason. It educates them to see beyond the problem and get along with the life. Although the film is about a social message it doesn’t get preachy and stick to the basics. That is why it works most of the times.

However it is too predictable and we can guess what comes next. This film based on a sensitive issue and it has few sensible scenes to keep the audience engaged. But it lack commercial elements like comedy to keep them entertained. If you like to watch a film with good storyline, then this will certainly impress you.

Performances:

Navadeep is cool. His performance will be liked by one and all. Rajeev gives a decent performance. He has shown his skills as a dancer in this film. Heroine Panchi is just Okay. Bhanuchander, Tanikella Bharani and others did well in their respective roles.

Technicalities:

Mantra Anand scores music to this film and it is passable. A better track list might have come good for this one. Dialogues are simple without any nonsense. Vishwa cinematography and Varma editing are neat. Director Ravi Kiran has clarity in what he is doing. He presented the film like an experienced director.

Final Word: Akasame Haddu is a decent attempt and you could give it a try.

Akasame Haddu Movie Rating: 2.75/5

Banner: Ravi Corporation
Cast: Navadeep, Panchi Bora, Rajeev
Music: Anand
Producer: Nimmagadda Venugopal
Directior: Ravi Charan Meripo

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Vachadu Gelichadu Movie Review

Story:

Jeeva (Jeeva) and Ramana (Nanda) are step brothers from different fathers. Ramana doesn’t like his brother and hates his family. He tries to kill his little brother and flees away from home to become a big don. Jeeva comes to Mumbai and falls in love with Anjana (Taapsee). At an instant, Ramana kills Anajana’s father accidentally. Anjana seeks revenge and asks Jeeva to get Ramana behind bars. As there is no evidence for the killing, Ramana has to voluntarily surrender to police.

Ramana disagrees to do that and Anjana leaves Jeeva and move away to some unknown place until she get to know that Ramana is arrested or killed. Later Ramana comes to know that Jeeva is his step brother and he completely ignores him. But Jeeva hunts him down and there comes an unexpected twist in the tale.

Analysis:

This is a romantic family drama laced with some action. Most part of the film goes at a snail pace and bores you to death. The scenes look stupid and out of place at times. But that is deliberately done by the director and that will be known once the twist is revealed. The final twist answers many logical errors too.

The final twist really good but our audience may compare it to the twist in Darling movie. So, the only plus point of the film doesn’t really ‘shock’ our audience. May be Tamil audience might respond to it in a better way.

The film is technically sound and the performances are alright. Script is very weak that it would be a big test to sit through the film till climax. Music and cinematography are good though.

Performances:

Jeeva is good as the protagonist. His character needs to be underplayed and he does well in doing so. Taapsee looks sweet as Anjana but has to improve her acting skills. Nandha is good in a serious role. Santhanam’s comedy lacked the kick and Rehman is good in a small role.

Technicalities:

Thaman’s music is cool. Background score is very good. Anjana Anjana and Andala Bala songs will stay with you. Muttaiah’s cinematography is an asset to the film. Cinematography arrests you right away from the start. Editing by Vijayan is fine.

Kannan is a good technician but needs to sharpen his skills as a script writer. Although he has made deliberate errors as per the script requirement, he could have made this a breezy entertainer. All the comedy scenes are gone wasted. Romantic scenes lacked the soul (deliberate, may be).

Final Word: Vachadu Odaadu is an apt title for this film from audience point of view.

Vachadu Gelichadu Movie Rating: 2/5
Banner: KV Filims
Casting: Jeeva, Taapsee
Music: Thaman S
Producer: KV Venu Gopal
Direction: R Kannan

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Gambler Telugu Movie Review

Story:

Vinayak Mahadev (Ajith Kumar) is a bad cop, who gets suspended from the duties for six months. He is in love with Sanjana (Trisha), daughter of a big betting mafia leader. Vinayak plans to steal her father’s and other mafia leaders money which is Rs. 500 crore worth. Meanwhile, a group of youngsters too plan to steal that money.

Vinayak comes to know about their plan and he joins them and sketches out a master plan. They execute the plan and steal all the money, but unexpected series of things follows which will change their lives forever.

Analysis:

First of all we have to appreciate Venkat Prabhu for breaking the jinx that a superstar’s milestone movie should be formulaic. This film is different from many run of the mill movies we see week after week. The characters are extremely different. There is no ‘good men’ business in this.

Every character has an agenda and is crooked including the hero. Basic plot is good and the characters are etched well, but the film lacked a racy screenplay. Heist films should be made at a breathtaking pace and shouldn’t give time for the audience to think.

Gambler doesn’t follow that key rule and opens and runs at a very leisurely pace that we could fall asleep at some or the other point. It gets interesting only towards the interval point and the second half runs better with few twists and turns. Director tried to make up for the flaws in the first hour in this hour and succeeds to some extent.

Climax twist is good (even though it is a straight lift from Bollywood hit Race) and works well. Gambler has its moments but it doesn’t have the power to hold on at the Telugu box office. In Tamil, Ajith’s star power is helping it to rake in huge collections.

Performances:

Ajith is simply superb as the bad man. His character is ultra grey that we could call it as the main villain in this film. No wonder, Ajith fans are going berserk in our neighboring state for this film. He rocked.

Arjun is good within his limitations. Vaibhav did well and Premji infused some humor into this rather serious plot. All the female characters didn’t have much to do. Trisha is alright. Lakshmi Rai is hot. Andrea and Anjali hardly have any screen time. Rest of the star cast did their bit.

Technicalities:

Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja is just Okay. None of the songs will be remembered. Third song on Trisha and Ajith was picturized well. Background score is good though. Cinematography is fine and the editing is Okay. The film looked stylish in most of the scenes. Apart from stylish presentation, director Venkat Prabhu will not score any points for his direction. Especially his lethargic script is a downer. It’s high time for this talented filmmaker to make slick action movies rather prolonging them unnecessarily for hours together.

Final Word: This Gambler is just for Ajith fans.

Gambler Movie Rating: 2.5/5

Banner: Multidimension Entertainments PVT. LTD, Sri Sai Ganesh Productions
Cast: Ajith Kumar, Trisha
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Producer: Bellamkonda Ganesh Babu, Bellamkonda Suresh
Directior: Venkat Prabhu

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