Trisha with NTR in Brindavanam..

After an extensive search for new faces, Dil Raju finally signs up Trisha in his next film ‘Brindavanam’ starring NTR. The film had its formal launch on August 15 and the regular shoot will begin from November. ‘Munna’ fame Vamsi Paidipalli is the director.

On other hand, Trisha is busy in completing her present films down South as we aware of her debut in Bollywood with Akshay Kumar. National award winner Priyadarshan is going to introduce her to Bollywood industry and the film would go on floors in February. It is learnt that Trisha agreed to adjust her dates for Dil Raju’s film as she is keen to work with NTR.

Ek Niranjan Movie Review

Movie: Ek Niranjan
My Rating: 2.75/5
Banner: Adithya Ram Movies
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu
Editing: M R Varma
Producer: Adithya Ram
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Mallemala unit
Cast: Prabhas, Kangana Ranaut, Sonu Sood, Tanikella, Makrand Deshpande, Mukul Dev, Posani, Ali, Brahmanandam, Brahmaji, Abhinayasri, Sunil, Venu Madhav etc
Release Date: 29th Oct 2009

Review

Story
Chotu (Prabhas) is an orphan who makes an earning by catching hold of criminals and taking commission from the police. He is also in search of his parents and keeps pampering Chidambaram (makrand) his guardian to reveal the truth since he kidnaps Chotu when he is a baby. Things change when Sameera (kangana), a music teacher enters into his life and along with her also come Johnny Bhai (sonu), Kailash (mukul) and others. What is the link between all? Does Chotu get to meet his family in the end? All this forms the rest of the story.

Artists Performance:

Prabhas: Yet another energetic performance from him but he needs to change his dialogue delivery which has become repetitive and sometime rolling. The idea of getting closer to the masses is a good thought but this doesn’t work always. He can recollect his diction for ‘Chatrapathi’ which had more punch and impact.

Kangana Though not very pretty, she has got an innocent sex appeal making her attractive. She looks just average and did justice to her character given her debut in Telugu.

Sonu Sood Interesting and entertaining performance, his sequences with Brahmaji are a highlight. He seems to be filling the gap of Raghuvaran in a large way with his body language and voice.

Brahmanandam, Ali, Abhinayasri The trio has come up with a comedy track but that has not been able to impress. Both Brahmi and Ali look stereotype. Abhinayasri looks shapely and looks seductive in few scenes.

Mukul Dev, Makrand Deshpande These Bollywood imports were not required as their characters didn’t have much to offer. Not really sure why they had to be roped in. Makrand is a highly talented actor but his caliber was not used properly.

Others like Posani, Venu Madhav, Sunil did their bit as required but not very appealing.

Tanikella Bharani and Sangeetha are ok.

Technically, the highlight in the movie is music. All departments functioned well and the production values are also impressive. The director seems to have not kept full energies in some areas of script. Hence the drop down in entertainment graph here are there.

Final Analysis:

The movie promises good entertainment in the take off but the graph suffers in the flow. The problem in the movie is with the lack of comedy carried by comedy artistes. The actual comedy was worked well with Prabhas and Sonu Sood. And it is obvious that the choice of heroine has reduced the scope of attracting family audience to theatres. It’s bluntly limited to mass audiences and as there is no potential for the movie to allure repeat-viewers, the purpose wouldn’t work completely.

First half of the movie is entertaining but the second half is disturbing to some extent. The graph has fallen down when the narration goes to Bangkok. Puri seems to be so obsessed with Bangkok in his films and hardly understands the need to roll cameras there every time. The climax gets mixed response- some feel that it’s subtle to end the movie that way but others may feel it’s incomplete.

On a whole, it’s a movie that hasn’t reached expectations although entertained to some extent.

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Jayeebhava Movie Review

Movie: Jayeebhava

My Rating: 3.5/5
Banner: Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Arts
Music: SS Thaman
Cinematography: SS Thaman
Story and Dialogue: BVS Ravi
Editing: Gowtamraju
Producer: Kalyan Ram Nandamuri
Direction: Naren Kondepati
Cast: Kalyan Ram Nandamuri, Hansika Motwani, Mukesh Rushi, Asish Vidyardhi, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Chalapati Rao, Ali, Brahmanandam, Rahubabu, Raghu Karumanchi etc
Release Date: 23rd Oct 2009

Review

Story

Bhavani Shankar (Mukesh Rushi) and Narasimha (Jaya Prakash Reddy) are two warring leaders in that town. Ram (Kalyanram Nandamuri) is the son of Bhavani Shankar. He falls in love with Anjali (Hansika Motwani) when he is in abroad. After coming back to the town, they realise that they belong to two warring groups. The rest of the story is all about how Ram and Anjali play a game to unite their fathers.

Artists Performance:

Kalyan Ram Nandamuri is pretty good as Ram. His dialogue delivery improved a lot and he is looking good in casual and comedy scenes compared to his earlier movies. He underplayed his character well. Hansika Motwani offers loads of glamor in the movie without being sexy. Asish Vidyardhi is alright in a limited role. Jaya Prakash Reddy is good in certain scenes. Mukesh Rushi and Chalapati Rao are adequate. Raghubabu's comedy in this movie is good. Ali is also good. Brahmanandam has a cameo towards the end.

Technical Side:

Story of the movie is adequate. Screenplay should have been better. Direction is decent in the second half. But the director couldn't articulate story in a clear manner in the first half. The movie gets better in the latter part of the second half where there is family orientation and comedy. The characterization of hero is good. But the characterizations of Jaya Prakash Narayan and Mukesh Rushi should have been more logical and consistent to convince the audiences to believe in the proceedings of the second half. Music by SS Thaman is alright. The picturization of songs is good. The second song with graphics backdrop is nicely done. All songs are picturized with lot of care. Dialogues by BVS Ravi are adequate. Art direction is good. Cinematography by Dasaradhi Sivendra is neat. Editing should have been crisp as there is lag in the movie (runtime is more). Production values by NTR Arts are good.

Final Analysis:

First half of the move is inarticulate and uninteresting. However the movie gets better in the second half where the hero and heroine swap their houses. The comedy and entertainment is good in the last half an hour of the movie. The plus points in this movie are Kalyan Ram, Hansika and last half-an hour. On the flip side, a better screenplay and an articulated first half would have helped the film immensely. We have to wait and see how Jayeebhava works at the box office.

Shruti Hasan & Siddarth in a Fantasy movie

Siddarth Shruti Hasan movie Muhartham held in Ramoji film city yesterday. Popular director K.Ragavendra Roa is producing this film while his son Prakash is the director. This will be a Fantasy movie with more than 30 mins of graphics. Child artist Shriya sharma is playing a vital role in the film. Mickey J mayor is providing tunes.

Speaking to the media, shruthi said "I liked the story and script narrated by Prakash. I am happy for debuting in telugu with a fantasy movie."

Though Prakash got National award for his film Morning Raaga, this is the first time he is doing a commercial film. Hope he follows his father and Tollywood will find another talented young director.

NTR's Adhurs Audio release on Nov 20th..

NTR Vinayak third film Adhurs audio will be releasing on Nov 20. The movie is slated for December 18th release. The film will be definitely a feast for NTR fans. The movie will be releasing in 1000 theaters to surpass the Magadheera. It is a comedy based action entertainer with all commercial elements. Nayanatara and sheela are providing the required glamour quotient.

After almost 1 and half year NTR is coming with this film and Vinayak last film krishna released almost 2 years back. Hope their long hard work will give them bumper collections at box office.

Allu Arjun to Kerala

The unit of Allu Arjun-Gunasekhar film will now go to Kerala on October 29 for its next schedule lasting for around a week. Produced by DVV Danayya under Universal Media banner the film has musical scores by Mani Sharma, lyrics by Veturi, stunts by Peter Heyns and editing by Srikar Prasad. The special attraction of the film would be the art by Ashok. This apart, another speciality of this film is that 50 families have been chosen and trained to give their performances. The title ‘Varadu’ has been chosen by the makers as they felt that it is the perfect title for the script.