Saturday, November 27, 2010

ORANGE MOVIE REVIEW

Movie                  :ORANGE
Banner                :Anjana productions
Cast                   :Ramcharantej,Genelia,ShazanA.Padamsee,Brahmanandam,Prabhu,Nagababu,Prakashraj,Pavitra,Srinivas Avasarala,Vennela kishore,..............
Art                      :Anandsai
Dialogues          :Thota prasad,varma,Surendra krishna
Fights                 :Peter heins
Editing                :Marthand K.Venkatesh
Cinematography:Kiran Reddy&Rajasekhar
Music                 :Harris jayaraj
Producer            :K.Nagababu
Story,Screenplay,Direction:Baskar D.F.Tech


STORY:
Set on the backdrop of Australia,the film starts with the flashback of ram(ramcharan) .Ram tells his  story to the Australian cop(Prakash raj).Ramcharan is a typical guy lives in Australia  likes graphitti(cinema chusevaruku adokatundani kooda teledu .It is a street art  painting on public places like walls).He is an honest guy who wants to feel huge amount of love and doesn't believe in everlasting love.He believes that love on anyone remains only for sometime and it couldn't remain lifelong.He never likes to sacrifice and yelling lies to his lover for the sake of her happiness.He loves 9 girls from his childhood and doesn't continue a lifelong relationship with them.Genelia is the 10th girl who lives with her family settled in Australia belives in ever lasting love.Ram likes her in first sight and proposes to her for sometime love.So conflict raises between them .There is a reason why ram behaves like this i.e is He had a love affair with Rooba(one of 9 girls) in India that broke-up for some reasons.What happens next who compromises , who changes their attitude and how they got united is the rest of the story
ANALYSIS:
Bhaskar tho cinema cheyyalani Magadheeraki munde fix ayyindi.So magadheera resultnu base cheskuni bhaskar ee kadha rayaledu.Coming to story,Baskar bommarillu  lane oka manchi  concept teeskunnadu.Inthavaruku silverscreen meeda present cheyyani oka different love concept try chesadu.Prema anedi okallameeda konthkalame vuntundi antha matrana ekkuvamandi preminchaku okarine velasarlu preminchu aa konthakalanni extend chey anna point teeskuni danni present cheyyadaniki try chesadu.Kani Bommarillu kind of magic generate cheyyalekapoyadu.Script ni last minute varuku corrections chese alavatunna bhaskar ee cinemalo ekkuvaga corrections chesi tana script meeda tane control kolpoyadu.Cheppalanukunna point ni clarity miss  ayipoyadu.Genelia character kunna confusion laga tanu charcterization ki clarity ivvaledu.Ramcharan 16 yrs scenes ni delete chesasadu(factor of length).Ramcharan characterization ki saraina justice ivvaledu.
plus points:
1)excellent music
1)good plot
3)Rooba episode
4)Ramcharan
5)Australia backdrop
Minus points:
1)Genelia
2)Chemistry between lead pair
3)dragged screenplay
4)Bhaskar confused narration
5)Ramcharan characterization (tana loveni elaborate chese scenes ni establish cheyyaledu)
6)Lack of emotional quotient
    ORANGE IS THE COLOR OCCURS BETWEEN  RED AND YELLOW.RED IS FOR DISTURBEDNESS AND YELLOW IS FOR SERENITY .IN THIS MOVIE RED IS FOR RAM 'S ARGUMENTS AND DISTURBED FEELINGS ON  SOMETIME LOVE AND YELLOW IS FOR TRUE FEELINGS OF EVERLASTING  LOVE .HOW THE RED AND YELLOW COMBINED AND UNITED AS A SINGLE COLOR AS ORANGE IS THE CONCEPT
      Coming to the cast Ramcharan should be appreciated first for chosing a  genre of love story .He didn't want to set into a particular image. He excelled in his character as a lover boy.He lost weight to look like a 16 yr guy and did sky diving.Ramcharan  's styling and costumes are excellent.His dances are ok and not fullpledged.He carried his role efficiently but not upto the mark.His diction  and action should be improved to reach the heights set by his father.
     Genelia is the big minus for the film..Her avatar is not good and her characterization is not properly etched.The charm in her face is totally lost and the innocence in her face is totally fade out.Her performance is not upto her mark except for last half-an-hour of the film.
   Shazan padamsee is simply gorgeous and brought life into the character.Even though her screen presence is very little,she creates an impact with her beauty and performance.
  Brahmanandam as puppy is ok but routine and could n't able to generate enough smiles. .The other worth mentioning characters are friend of ramcharan (not vennela kishore) and the guy who tells lion joke are excellent.They performed very well . Nagababu got a good role .Prabhu and pavitra are ok.Prakash raj is wasted in a small role Manjula,sanjay,srinivas,kishore and heroine friends are ok
      The music by Harris Jayaraj is the soul for the film and without the music orange is nothing and could  turnedout   to be a massive disaster.Audio is already a huge hit before the realese and brought craze for the film.Now the music has become the saving grace for the film..Songs are excellent however backgroundscore is not upto the mark.Cinematography is excellent and the locations of Australia were excellently captured.The songs are well picturized.The dialogues are good at few places.Nagababu desreves an  applause for spending such a huge amount  of moneyfor this simple lovestory without hesitation.
MY RATING:2.75/5
FINAL VERDICT:
Overallga ORANGE  cheduga (bitter)ledu kani pullaga(sour) vundi.Cinemalo rasam(juice) kante pippi(waste) ekkuvaga vundi.Juicelo seeds (ginjalu)ela ithe adduga vasthayo cinemalo kooda 'C'ds vunnayi(lack of 'C'larity  in story telling,'C'haracterization of genelia&Ramcharan,'C'hemistry between lead pair).Kastha Publicity ane sugar add cheste aade chance vundachu. orange is a good  concept oriented movie  but not a feel good movie.It has good content,good production values,good technical values and excellent music.The first  half  is not good&ampon dull note; just ok(thanxs for the songs) and it is the second half that has good points &pulls into the story with flashback but then drags and again picks up momentum towards climax and again drags in climax.The film is good at places but lost continuity in keeping the momentum with ups and downs. On the whole orange is an average fare that appeal to  urban and multiplex crowds.It is too classy and doesn't appeal to mass audience.
TAIL PIECE:
The film is opened to divide talk and mixed reviews.Star image vunna herolaki konchem talk thedaga vasthe maree darunamga vundi paristhiti.First Weekend kooda housefull avvatledu.Average talk vasthe low budget cinemalu nilabadutunnayi.Kani stars paristhiti matram aithe athivrusti ledante anaa vrusti la tayarayindi.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

EMAINDI EE VELA MOVIE REVIEW

Movie                    :Emaindi ee vela
Banner                   :Sri Sathya  sai arts
Cast                       :Varun sandesh,Nisha Agarwal,Vennela kishore,shashank,Nisha shah,M.S.Narayana,.....
Music                     :Chakri
DOP                      :Bujji
Editing                    :Muthyala nani
Producer                 :K.K..Radhamohan
Story,screenplay,dialogues,direction:Sampath Nandi

Story:
Set on the backdrop of ameerpet,the story starts with varunsandesh who is a  software engineer meets his would -be for his second marriage and in the similar way nisha also meets sashank for her second marriage.Both of them starts telling their past to their future life partners.The flashback opens up with varunsandesh who is in search of a job meets nisha who also searches for job after completing their studies at mytrivanam ameerpet.Nisha resides at ladies hostel at ameerpet.she is fascinated to see the lifestyle of the girls in ameerpet ladies hostel.After some clashes both of them become friends and  a kind of passionate attraction develops between them .He kisses  and proposes her  to have premarital sex.After some hesitation she agrees and comes to his room.They combines and varunsadesh  makes a love proposal and she feels very happy and they got married.The clashes  starts in their married life and how they rectified and finally united is the rest of the story
ANALYSIS:
The film is  targetted  mainly on the teenagers and youth audience.In that aspect it succeeds in its mission.This film deals with the  present day situations in ladies hostel and their lifestyle.The film concentrates on the sensitive issues like how the girls behave in hostel,their love life,premarital sex, relations after the lovers married.This film has enough scenes that  may not be acceptable by the family audience,ladies and children.However the youth enjoys them.While the first half is good with some youthful scenes ,The second half drags and climax is the major minus of the film.The audience boringly sits for the completion of the film.
    There are always two ways in presenting a youthful subject to the audience.One way is sekharkammula's style without any vulgarity that could be watched  by family audience(like happydays).The second way is presenting as it is the youth behaves(7/g brundavan colony).The director has chosen the second path and presented it in the vulgar manner with some passionate scenes b/w the lead pair that could not be watched and acceptale by the family audience.The dialogue in the second scene is like this heroine friend to heroine"Abbayilandaru ammayilni akkade chustaru"clearly shows the path taken by the director.
         Coming to the cast,varunsandesh is just ok  and his diction is improved when compared to his earlier films but he needs a lot of effort to get command on dialogue delivery and action .He  just portrayed only one emotioni.e recklessness in youth in this film.Nisha agarwal is beautiful and good.She came up with a neat performance with enough glamour quotient.Vennela kishore is good and got a good role.Nimmishah fits to the role and sunitha gave voice to her  which elevates her action.Shashank is just ok.Pragathi,M.S.Narayana and the hostel girls(i don't know their names) are good.
          Music and background score by chakri is a little  bit disappointment.the songs doesn't elevate the mood.The "JUICE"song may appeal the hardcore mass audience.camera by bujji   is just ok Editing should have been better.The production values are not good ..
MY RATING:3/5
FINAL VERDICT:
on the whole,emaindi ee vela is strictly for teenagers and youth audience that would not appeal to the family audience ,ladies and children.The first half is good with some youthful scenes.The major minus point of the movie is the lack of freshness,screenplay in the second half and climax.Its an average fare.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

KALYANRAM KATHI MOVIE REVIEW

Kalyan ram Kathi is the movie which had got  enough publicity with his title contraversy and succeeded in getting the title with the involvement of some big names of movie industry.The kalyanram who is  trying   to get a success after 'ATHANOKKADE"  now comes with the director who directed his second film '"ABHIMANYU" which turned out to be a flop.He has given chance to the director with the confidence on him.Lets the whether the director proved himself or not..............
Movie                               :Kalyanram KATHI
Banner                            :N.T.R.Arts
Cast                                : Nandamuri KalyanRam,Sanakhan,KICK Syam,Saranya Mohan,Kota Srinivasa Rao,Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam,Brahmanandam....
Story                                :Vakkantam Vamsy
Dialogues                         :M.Ratnam
Music                               :Mani Sharma
Editing                             :Goutham Raju
DOP                                :Sarvesh Murari
Producer                          :Nandamuri KalyanRam
Screenplay -Direction      :Mallikarjun

Story:
.RamaKrishna is a guy who dreams to become a soccer player and his aim is to play for Indian football team.He lives happily with his joint family with Three brothers and a sister named Haritha.Haritha is a naughty girl who always creates problems with her childish  behaviour.But kalyanRam always comes to her rescue and saves her either by fighting or  by managing.He deals with his opponents in a controlled manner (not always fighting) and always wishes to see his family safe.Sanakhan loves kalyanRam.After several scenes they both fell in love.Krishna Mohan(KICK Syam) is the son of a factionist (Kota) in kurnool .The twist in the story comes when haritha(saranyamohan) got kidnapped.A few days later she is spotted by Ramakrishna  with her husband krishnamohan chasing her to kil her with goondas.She saves her and knows the story.Why her husband wants to kil her and how kalyanram settles her marriage life is the rest of the story.
ANALYSIS:
The film basically revolves around Brother and sister sentiment.Story of the film is routine.The story is simple and the screenplay is not gripping.The film like this needs a good screenplay with intersting moments but it lacks that.Kalyan ram who scored a hit with his terrific screenplay subject "ATHANOKKADE" could not able to repeat that magic again.The first is routine with the establishment of characters and family relations.The scenes between kalyanram and  his family makes us to feel that they have seen before.The interval point is good.post interval scene that reveals the real  plot is good but then the remaining story and climax  is routine nothing much  to say.
       Coming to the cast,it is the one man show by kalyanram.He handles the whole film well as a producer.But his action and dialogue delivery should be  improved.H e tried some good dance moments in this film.When you compare him N.T.R and Balayya babu he needs a lot more effort to match with them.Sanakhan is good with her debut performance.But her role has not enough  scope and screen space.She has just taken for two songs and few scenes beside hero or for the heroine namesake.Kick shyam is good but his role is confined.Saranya mohan is good with her naughty and innocent behaviour..Kota excells in his every performance and in this to.His role just resembles his character in Simha.Telangana sakuntala,venumadhav,Dharmavarapu,Brahmanandam are just ok and nothing much to say.
            Music by manisharma is medicore but his re-recording is excellent.The kathi theme is very good.Cinematography by sarvesh murari is good.Story by vakkantam vamshy is routine. Dialogues sans punch and they are normal.Editing by Goutham raju is nice.Fights and songs picturization are ok.The production values are good.
MY RATING:2.75/5
FINAL VERDICT:
ON the whole kalyanram Kathi is just O.K and passable movie with routine story.The film mainly suffers due to interesting screenplay even though it has some twists.The movie taking is routine which is the major minus point of the film..It gives the feel of a normal movie.The plus point of the movie it has no vulgarity with neat family  content.It might appeal to the family audience but the chances of getting success  are less.It may satisfy fans
TAIL PIECE:
Both the KalyanRam and N.T.R. has given a  chance to the flop directors Vamsy paidipally(of munna fame)and Mallikarjun( Abhimanyu fame) to do their second film in this year.But N.T.R succeded and the chances for kalyamram to get hit are  less.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

SHOPPING MALL MOVIE REVIEW

Movie                          :Shopping Mall(Dubbed from "Angadi Theru")
Banner                       :S.K.Pictures
Cast                           :Mahesh,Anjali,.........
Dialogues                   : Sashank Vennelakanti
Editing                        :Trinadh
DOP                          :Richard Nathan
Music                         :G.V.Prakash,Vijay antony
Producer                    :Suresh Kondeti
Story,screenplay.Direction :Vasantha Balan

STORY:
As the title of the movie suggests ,the film is the lovestory  of the two workers of a shopping mallnamed Senthil Murugan in chennai.Siva (Mahesh) is a guy who lives in the village and an intermediate passoutwith 96%.He wants to go for higher studies.He hails from a poor family.At that moment of time,his father dies in an accident.He is supposed to go for job in order to maintain his family.He and his friend(Pandi) applies for a job in a shopping mall in chennai and they got selected.They have a very good opinion on their job but the real story is different.All the workers in the mall are harassed by the supervisor(Venkatesh).Supervisor is cruel blooded fellow beats everyone including girls and touching their body in a room in  the name of punishment.Meanwhile Rani(Anjali) is also worker in the mall with another kind of heart-rendering story.In the mean time, they fall in love with each other after some clashes.Whether they succeeded in their love and what destiny decide their ending is the rest of the story.
ANALYSIS:
The film is not only a  lovestory but it clearly depicts the lifestyle of  so many people who sells items  in a market  street.The Actual meaning of angadi theru(tamil name) is market street but for telugu audience it is named as shopping mall.It is similar to our BESANT ROAD in vijayawda and KOTI in hyderabad.The lives of the people who are working in the mall  shown may be out of box but the director has convincingly  presented it .The director excellently captivated the lives of the road side and  small scale sellers  in the street.It is truly heart touching.The director  clearly represented the lifestyle of those people.The story is excellent and the screenplay is very good.The narration is not fast paced but it doesn't let you bored.It has enough comedy.It is a realistic point told in a cinematic wayThe director should be appreciated not only for selecting this kind of point but also to his neat presentation.The introduction is good .The climax is good and heart touching and shows the essence of true love.Its a film of human emotions and lifestyle

            Coming to the cast,Mahesh is good but not excellent.As a new comer he did his bit required.Anjali is better than mahesh and she is very good.The voice dubbed by herself which is a major drawback.Instead of saying she shouted the  dialogues which makes the audience a little bit of inconvenience.Coming to the performance wise the real show stealer was pandi(siva's friend).He performed very well and his body&body language itself provides laughs.The voice dubbed to him is good.Venkatesh (Supervisor)is excellent and he is perfectly apt to that role.Raghu babu has given voice to him ,it perfectly matches to him and u can't see  raghubabu on the screen.The remaining crew is good and  enacted well.
              Music by G.V.Prakash and vijay antony is good.Editing by Trinadh is very worst and at some places u would n't find lip sink .The connection shots are missing due to this poor editing.Production values  by suresh kondeti is worst when it comes to editing.He gave  the film "Premisthe"with neat quality than this.But his efforts to bring such a nice film like this laudable.Shashank Vennelakanti dialogues are very good  and audible.He cleverly managed the nativity difference.
 MY RATING:3/5(Good)
FINAL VERDICT:
on the whole ,Shopping  mall is a  good&neat movie with a realistic plot told in a cinematic way.The  entire movie  goes  in the same  emotional mood and it is  the presentation  of the director that scores  the points.It is not an excellent movie  that deserves  standing ovation but it definitely creates an  impact after watching the movie. It is not for those who needs fights,slapstickcomedy,songs and entertainment.They might get bored of this.It is for those who needs a realistic concept and hard-hitting presentation..Definitely Its a worth watching movie
TAIL PIECE:
After watching the movie,if u  ever go  through the besant road   observe the roadside sellers and the people over there u could identify  the real life people that were portrayed on the screen.I don't know why it has subjected to negative reviews by so called critics.