'VICTORY' Telugu Movie Review

'VICTORY' Telugu Movie Review

Cast: Nitin, Mamta Mohan Das, Sindhu Tolani, Sashank, Tanikella, Sana, Ranganath, Nutan Prasad, Kondal Rao

Director: Ravi C Kumar

Music: Chakri

VICTORY of Nitin comes with a bang on the present land mafia prevailing in Hyderabad as well as other parts of the country. Nitin is depicted as an action hero and with his well toned muscular body, he aptly suits the character. The director has carved the story very well, but the dragging second half of the film will make the audience a bit annoyed.


Story

Vijji (Nitin) is an educated guy with a middle class family tag in his background. He is young and much talented. He immensely loves his younger sister and his mom. Tanikella Bharani plays the father’s character of Vijji (Nitin) in this film. Tanikella has a desire to build a small house with all basic luxuries. He has a dream to cultivate a garden in his house and has the plans to play with his grandchildren in it. In order to fulfill his dream Tanikella purchase a small plot in a housing board society.

Sindhu tolani incidentally meets with Vijii and befriends him. She works as a reporter in the news channel TV5 and fights against injustice.

Meanwhile Tanikella wishes to see his son as a married man and so in search of a suitable bride surfs the matrimonial websites. A girl named Jannu (Mamta Mohan Das) matches all the likings of Vijji and his family. Soon the boy and girl start to like each other and as a result fall in love with each other. Sashank, Duvvasi, Mohan, srinu are the friends of Vijji and share a well bonded friendship with each other.

However the entry of the villain takes place in the film. Devraj (Ashutosh Rana) is a land grabber in the disguise of a MLA. He makes his riches by land grabbing and selling the occupied lands to NRI’s. He eyes on the lands of the housing board society in which Vijji’s father Tanikella owns a small plot. Devraj creates some fake documents in the eyes of law and becomes the owner of the total property. But in the meantime the original owner emerges as the grandfather of Mamta Mohan Das. His name is Kondal Rao. When he challenges the villainous MLA in court, Devraj hatches a plan and kills him.




Then the hero enters into the filed and starts his heroic activities. Vijji exposes Devraj and his activities and brings to an end all his evil deeds in the society. He then wins the total property and also his beloved Jannu (Mamta).
Performance

Nitin as usual looks well suited for the action sequences with his toned body. He flexes his muscles and his so called eight pack body and ends the Villains’ activities. His dialogue delivery and the expressions have to be polished more. His dancing and acting capabilities are above average.

Mamta Mohan Das looks cool in this film with not much skin show, only a little bit she acts well. Her role is minced and only restricts to some scenes and songs.

Sindhu Tolani looks gorgeous as a reported. She is turning into a hot bomb day by day. Her Chennai contacts are surely giving some results. She also manages to pull up the focus on to her through her dialogues as a TV reporter.

Ashutosh Rana of bollywood steals the show with his impeccable acting skills. His eyes speak a lot and his villain character is well elaborated in some scenes as a land grabber and also as a criminal in the disguise of a MLA.

Tanikella, Sana, Ranganath, Nutan Prasad (After a long time) Kondalk Rao have done their jobs very well.

The comedy bunch is made up of Duvassi, Brahmanandham, Ali, MS Narayana and Krishna Bhagvan. Their try to churn some laughs from the audience. Abhinaya sri plays the role of a wife to Brahmanandham. She plays the role of an unsatisfied wife with an aged husband. Finally she elopes with Ali. The scenes which involve Brahmanandham, Abhinaya sri, and Ali are double meaning weaved but are interesting with some elder content.

The songs and the fights are picturised well, but the sentiment element gets the audience a feeling that “Endhuku Vachammu Ra Ee Cinemaki”.

There is nothing much to be said about the film and on the whole this film of Nitin may live for 30 days the most. Or else if Nitin’s father Sudhakar reddy aims, then it can limp towards a 50 day mark.

Telugu Movie READY Review

Film: READY

Rating: 3.25/5

Banner: Sri Sravanthi Movies

Cast:
Ram
Genelia
Brahmanandam
Jaya Prakash Reddy
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Nasser
Sudha
Shafi
Tanikella Bharani
Tamanna and Navadeep (guest appearances)

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Cinematography: Prasad Moorella

Producer: Sravanthi Ravi Kishore

Screenplay & Direction: Srinu Vaitla

Released Date: June 19, 2008

Story:

A light hearted movie, the story is about Chandrashekar who is more dearly known as Chandu (Ram) who is a clever guy with the right looks and has enough courage in him to take up any challenge. Chandu also has a kind heart and is the first one to come up with solutions for the problems of his friends and dear ones. In this process, he helps his cousin Lakshmi (Tamannah) elope with her NRI lover (Navdeep) right on her wedding day. This causes Chandu to face the wrath of his family which comprises of the head Raghupathi (Nasser), father Raghava (Tanikella), uncle Rajaram (Chandramohan) along with their wives and kids. He comes out of the house and his various attempts to get back goes in vain. Meanwhile, in an effort to help his friend's love matter, Chandu goes along with his group of friends (Srinivas Reddy, Suman Shetty and others) and kidnaps Pooja (Genelia) right from the wedding venue. The group put their tongues in cheek when they realize that they went to the wrong venue and got the wrong bride. However, Pooja from her end is really happy since she is not interested in the wedding. Chandu falls for Pooja at the first sight and decides to win her heart at any cost. He takes her to wherever she wants to go and in this process chases happen, scenes happen and slowly romance also blossoms between the two but they don't express it to each other. In this escape situation, Chandu hatches a plan and makes Pooja land at his home and eventually he also gets inside with some story. The romance gets stronger between both and this is realized even by the family members. Just when everything looks smooth, Pooja's uncle Peddi Naidu (Kota) locates her and takes her along with him. Meanwhile, his rival brother Chitti Naidu (Jayaprakash Reddy) is also looking for Pooja since both brothers want to get her married to their sons respectively. Chandu arrives in the scene using his intelligence again and through the channel of McDonald Murthy (Brahmanandam) who happens to be the auditor for both brothers he gains entry. With a cleverly staged plot, he manages to reunite both brothers and now he has to ensure he gets married to Pooja. How does he do that? Will the Naidu brothers discover his real identity? All this forms the rest of the story.

Presentation:

The director has come out with a clean message and has given no confusion in putting his message across to the audience. The script was tight and he has come up with an equally good screenplay, the music was just above average and two numbers can be taken home, editing could have been better. The real soul of the movie is some stunning camerawork and some really witty dialogues which have kept the momentum on. Action sequences were not many but those that were there were neat and clean. Ram has come with a decent performance and though he does not come across a dynamic go getter, he sure displays enough intelligence to reach his goals. He needs to work more on his expressions and dialogue delivery which will help him in the future. Genelia looks pretty as ever and though her role was limited, she has performed her role with ease. Nasser did his role with the required grace while Kota sure portrayed the cold and icy look wherever required. Jayaprakash Reddy was theatrical but then his energy and distinct dialogue delivery always wins some real good points for his performance. Sunil did his bit with a novel approach while Dharmavarapu creates humor with his dialogue delivery more than the dialogues. Brahmanandam yet again came up with a stunner and has a lengthy role to play. The others like Sudha, MS, Chandramohan, Tanikella have added their bit and Srinivas Reddy is one actor to watch out for...

Conclusion:

The film has been deftly handled and the subject was put in a very entertaining manner. The first half gets off to a good start and has enough elements of romance, action, comedy with some songs. It is the second half which got a bit dull at few points but then the witty script and the clever handling of the script makes up for these setbacks. The film is more like a bigger and much enhanced version of the maker's previous hit 'Dhee' and will appeal to the family audience a great deal since there is no bloodshed, no vulgarity or double meaning dialogues. Barring few hitches such as the forced inclusion of songs, dragging scenes in the second half, the film overall has come out as a hearty entertainer with the essential commercial values and it will find its way to success smoothly.

source:bharatstudent.com

Telugu Movie SOMBERI Movie Review , Story

Telugu Movie SOMBERI Movie Review , Story


SOMBERI - A message-oriented film Story with love in backdrop
Banner: RAO SAN FILMS
Cast: Ali, Ruksha, Tanikella Bharani, Dharmavarapu, M.S.Narayana, AVS, Jayaprakash Reddy, Jeeva, Bhenarji
Direction: Jonnavithula Ramalingeshwara Rao
Production: Yerramalli Venkatrao
Music: Mano

Ali, who entered the film industry as a child artiste, turned a comedian and made the audiences laugh heartily with his performance in various films. Noticing the spark in him, director SV Krishna Reddy gave him a chance and made him hero. He also had some hits like 'Yama Leela' to his credit as hero. However, he continued his career as comedian by playing hero at every opportune time. In the backdrop of many comedians turning heroes these days, Ali also got a chance to play hero again and the story is like a tailor-made for him. Writer Jonnavittula tested his hand as director through this movie with a good subject which aimed at giving a good message to the society that hard work will always pay and tells everyone that nobody should be sombre and lazy.

Sombabu (Ali) is a nonchalant boy who whiles away his time with friends. He does never bother to do some useful work though he is very intelligent and had the ability to do anything. Being a lazy boy, two village elders (Jayaprakash Reddy and Jeeva) grab his property like land and a mangrove and also eyes the land which remained with him. Once Rohini (Ruksha), the daughter of a builder (Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam) goes to Srikakulam and Movva in Konaseema region for a project report on historical temples and sites. Sombabu falls in love with Rohini. In order to grab the remaining property from Sombabu's parents, the village elders hatch a plan to drive away Sombabu from the village and implicate him in a temple theft case. At this juncture, Sombabu proposes to Rohini and the latter refuse him saying that he is a fit-for-nothing fellow and also a thief. Somehow, Sombabu gets acquitted and gets out of jail. When he was in the jail, he realises that he should work hard by shedding his laziness and prove himself. Incidentally, he gets a job in Rohini's father's office. How Sombabu proved that he is not just a useless fellow and how kind at heart he was? What kind of concern he had with his friends and well-wishers? How he was able to win the heart and love of Rohini farm part of the climax.



Ali performed excellently in his role. His character was etched well. The director was able to maintain good shades in his character, as a wayward boy and as a hard worker who realised his mistakes. He mixed good comedy in the character and elevated the real heroism in him during climax. Ruksha was a minus as a heroine. Being a novice, she failed to deliver any kind of performance. Though looked glamorous, she could not perform even in a couple of scenes which she was supposed to. Srinivasa Reddy and Duvvasi Mohan, played the sidekicks of the hero. Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam did justice to his role by maintaining good dignity. Comedy by MS Narayana was good and hilarious. Tanikella Bharani, Jayaprakash Reddy, Jeeva, Benarjee and others are okay in their roles. Once again, Paruchuri Gopalakrishna appeared as a politician. His dialogues on political system were heart touching.


Behind the screen, Mano, who had a good experience as a singer, turned music director. However, he gave traditional and routine music but did not go for any experiments and fast beat songs. However, two songs in the film penned on social cause were good both in terms of lyrical value and their tuning was also good.

Camera work by MV Raghu is okay. He captured the skyscrapers and beauties in Dubai well. However, the picturisation of songs was routine with not much camera work.

Editing by GG Krishna Rao should have been a little crispier further. As far as the movement of the story, the writer turned director, being a novice failed to maintain good tempo and the movement of the story was not at a steady pace. Once the scenes move faster and at times turn dead slow.

The director failed to establish certain scenes like how a boss takes an attender to Dubai along with his daughter.

source:indiaglitz.com

Some Of The highlights of ‘Dasavatharam’ - Story

The much awaited magnum opus, ‘Dasavatharam’ is finally appearing before audience with 1000 prints worldwide. This magnanimous film, made with an enormous budget of about Rs 1.5 billion, is the costliest film in Indian Cinema. Venu Ravichandran’s, Oscar Films Pvt Ltd., is releasing this prestigious film in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi simultaneously. It’s also learnt from reliable sources that Ravichandran is planning to dub the film in some of the foreign languages as well.

‘‘Dasavatharam’, features Padmasree Dr Kamal Hassan in 10 avatars for the first time which is unseen in Indian history. The 10 roles played by Kamal are said to be inspired by Lord Vishnu’s 10 avatars. Thus the story of ‘Dasavatharam’ has a thin taint of Hindu Mythology. The 10 avatars portrayed by Kamal are 1) A Brahmin, 2) A Dwarf, 3) A Scientist, 4) A Soldier, 5) An African Tribe, 6) An Emperor, 7) A Thief, 8) An Old Woman, 9) A Young Lady and 10) A Tourist Guide.


Some of the highlights of ‘Dasavatharam’ are

1) One of the characters by name Rangaraja Nambi, played by Kamal, will portray him as a great devotee of Lord Govindaraja Swamy in Chidambaram who lives in 12th century. Huge sets depicting the 12th century Cholamandalam Kingdom were put up and thousands of people dressed in colourful costumes of that era with hundreds of elephants and horses could be seen on screen. Actor Napolean in the role of King Kulothunga Chola of Cholamandalam Kingdom, shares the screen with Kamal for this part of the film.

2) Another character is a scientist working in the USA. An identical research center was built by the art director Prabhakaran inside the original one that is also located in USA, for shooting the scene of destruction of the research center in an accident. One can visualize the impact of this scene. Also to be noted that Kamal will be seen as George Bush in one of the ten get-ups.

3) The tsunami scene shot in Muttukadu is said to be one of the biggest highlights of the film. Gigantic artificial waves were created with the help of giant machines brought from sources overseas. Another scene involving all 10 characters of ‘Dasavatharam’ meeting at one place is also shot in Muttukadu where a massive set was put in place by Sameer Chanda, the art director.

4) Mallika’s pole dance is sure to attract the crowds. Choreographer Brindha won many acclauds for her work in this song. This dance sequence of Kamal and Mallika Sherawat along with some 20 American dancers that was shot in Malaysia is said to be one of the perfect scenes and show of talent, because none of the Indians who came to have a glimpse of their hero Kamal at the shooting spot of ‘Dasavatharam’, were able to recognize his presence. Kamal is indeed a perfectionist.




5) The gorgeous Asin too seems to have been inspired by the talent of Kamal. If not ten, she has brought out confidence to play dual role for the first time in her career. In the first half of the film she is seen as a Brahmin girl and in the second half, she plays the quite contrasting role, that of a modern girl. It seems that Asin had put in lot of efforts to give her best for which she is equally sure to enjoy the fruitful results.

Along with Asin and Mallika Sherawat, yester years’ heroine Jaya Pradha too shares the screen with Kamal. Interestingly Jaya Pradha is pairing up with Kamal after almost two decades of the happening of Sagara Sangamam. Also to be noted is popular director P Vasu and bollywood actress Rekha are the surprise packages to the film.

6) The most and foremost aspect of the film to be talked about, is the make-up of Kamal Hassan. Kamal spending more than 500 hrs on make-up will speak volumes. Make-up man Micheal Westmore, who won many Oscars, has once again repeated his gimmicks on this legendary face. On costumes front, so far it was Kamal’s ex-wife Sarika who was incharge, and now, it appears to be the turn of Goutami as seen in Dasavatharam’s preparations.

7) Himesh Reshammiya’s music is one more added essence to the film. Though the audio does not appear to be as impressive as expected by the public, still one can hope to feel the effect of it on the silver screen, as it goes along with the film that changes the moods of audiences accordingly.

8) The extraordinary feat accomplished by the art directors is worth a mention. The incredible sets at Muttukadu for various scenes by Sameer Chanda, the look alike Research Center built in US by Prabhakaran and Thotta Tarani's extravagant sets for the songs are believed to be offering the viewers the thrill and a feel of touch of professionals.



9) Another important feature of all the above which plays an equal role along with artists is the cinematography. Ravi Verman’s remarkable camera work is sure to engage the audience by keeping them glued to the screen. His striking camera can be witnessed in films like Aparichitudu (Anniyan in Tamil) and Raghavan (Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu in Tamil).

10) K S Ravikumar, one of the most promising film directors in South Indian Cinema, has teamed with Kamal for the fourth consecutive time to exhibit his artistic brain in ‘Dasavatharam’, after his brilliant work show-cased in films like Bhama Kalapam (Avvai Shanmugi in Tamil), Tenali, Panchathanthiram etc. How can one forget his stupendous success through films like Sneham Kosam, Muttu, Narasimha (Padayappa in Tamil) and Saravana.

Beyond all the above avatars, one should not forget the main avatar in V.Ravichndran, the producer with lots of guts and courage. Oscar Ravichandran, as he is fondly addressed, bestowed his entire confidence and wealth on the capabilities of Kamal and Ravikumar to come up with yet another record breaking film.

Before winding up I would like to clarify that, Kamal always wanted to try something different on screen, the result, his films normally are “hit or miss”. He is one actor who completely involves himself from the preparation of script to selection of artists, make-up, screenplay, direction etc. in his films. Such is the dedication of this great artist and ‘Dasavatharam’ also has his share. Besides acting, he is in charge of the story, make-up, computer graphics, screenplay and also part of the direction.

After facing all the hurdles with the twists and turns in Chennai High Court, ‘Dasavatharam’ is finally hitting theatres on 13th June, 2008. So let us watch to see the results of the hard work, the whole team of ‘Dasavatharam’ has put in for a period relatively longer than required.

source:ragalahari.com

“Sundarakanda” Telugu Movie (2008) Cast, Story

Movie Name:“Sundarakanda”
Cast: Naresh, Charmme, Suneel Sharma, Prema, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Ranganath, Rallapalli, Vizag Prasad, Duvvasi Mohan, LB Sriram, Goutham Raju, Khadgam Prithvi, Kondavalasa, Lakshmipathi and Others.
Cinematography: PRK Raju.
Story, Screenplay & Dialogues: Mullapudi Venkata Ramana.
Music: Vidya Sagar.
Direction: Bapu.
Producer: K. Aparna.
Co-producer: Thummala Bhanuprakash Reddy.
Presenter: Petrofab International FZC (UAE).
Banner: Chaitra Film Circuit.
Release Date: 8th February, 2008.


Plot

Pinky is a bubbly, mischievous girl who lives with her mother and they both work for a marriage organizing party. Pinky doesn’t know who her father is, and when she discovers the truth, she leaves home to get closer to him and unite her parents. He is a Zamindar’s son, by name Ram Gopal Varma, who marries Sita after he meets and falls in love with her at a picnic. With familial disapproval, Sita leaves his house and lives on her own with her daughter Pinky. Now he is on his way to get a party ticket to become the Chief Minister, and Pinky’s identity may tarnish his image. So Pinky gets into the house and works her magic to kill two birds with one stone.