Naa Peru Surya.. Naa Illu India.. Review

Summer heat is picking.. So is the heat at the Box office..We already have seen two movies "Rangasthalam" and "Bharath Ane Nenu" kept cash registers busy at the BoxOffice.. Now it is Allu Arjun's turn to make the score 3/3..

Naa Peru Surya marks the introduction of the writer Vakkantam Vamsi as director.. Definitely he has come up with interesting script for his debut.. And Allu Arjun lend his honest support to the director.. He just slayed in his role of angry soldier.. And he is Stylish star for a  reason.. He has got the coolest hairstyle in the flick..

Introduction sequence is terrific and sets up the right tone.. Looking at trailers and this few min.. audience might  hope for movie with the Military background.. But he showcased Military very under current and switched to social drama from then.. First half is entertaining..lighter vein and good enough .. Father and Son Bonding between Two Arjuns is real bonus here.. and this conflict gives us great Pre-interval and the Interval blocks.. Action sequences are too different and great..liked the action sequence where his training is put to use in real time scenario.. Anu Emaunel is cute enough.. Rao Ramesh and Boman Irani gets decent space in this half..

Second half too wont have many hiccups.. Audience too will be equally anxious whether Surya could win the challenge .. Under currently Patriotic message drives us towards the Pre climax and to the Climax.. Sai Kumar shines in this half.. Sarath Kumar, Thakur Anoop Sing gets meatier roles in this half

Seeing Promos and posters one would expect a pure patriotic movie.. But director showed us regular commercial movie with right ingredients.. This might make us feel cheated if expect other way around.. In one of the scenes there is double intended dialogue about Border.. Thought that should not have been there in first place when you are making a movie on Patriotism..

On the whole .. it is well packaged movie.. just when you feel it is getting routine.. director makes sure he blends in good dialogues.. a fight or a song.. Liked the songs and how they are pictured.. 

60/100

Bharath Ane Nenu Review

I see the real summer movie mania in Tollywood, watching such a well made movies from current Megastars and Superstars.. It's just couple of weeks back Ramcharan has delivered his careers landmark in performance and Collections.. Now it is Superstar Maheshbabu's turn to clean bowl us with his brilliance ... Just loved this movie.. So sharing my thoughts what made me like this movie so much..

Bharath Ane Nenu takes a leaf each from Sekhar Kammula's Leader and Shankers Oke Okkadu.. But Siva Koratala brings his own natural style to it.. I see more reality and ground nature in Bharath Ane Nenu..  Of Course an ideal political  leader is fantasy.. So are the movies.. What if a CM be like Bharath . He lives up to promises he made in his Oath and he even expects the same from the people.. Koratala balances the good and bad in simple way rather than showing more vulgarity and bloodshed .. Tells a message what if this kind of Good things happen.. What if a CM is so sincere.. 

Things in society wont change by watching a movie.. But if Good things are shown on screen continuously .. it slowly gets into our mind and Siva does that so effectively..

Mahesh gets younger by each movie.. See the first song. "I Don't know" He slams the handsomeness. Give him a honestly written role.. he portrays it to perfection.. Be it the Press meet scene when he shouts "I am not done yet".. Be it Assembly scenes and cabinet scenes.. where he mixes perfectly he is NRI slang and local slang reminding the roots of the role.. He touches the hearts when he visits the villages and the audiences truly sing in their mind "Vachadayya Saami" .. 

Casting is superb .. Prakashraj does the role he did 234 times yet in unquestionable way.. Ministers Posani, Ravi Kumar, Jeeva and of course Jayalalitha as speaker all were good . Rao Ramesh, Brahmaji are excellent.. Kiara Advani is simple and beautiful.. Devi has given brilliant BGM and excellent situational songs.. he lost his midas touch in duets .. Visuals are very rich...

Not so many weaknesses I see .. But Koratala does things in simple way and he cannot put in that Rajamouli style Goosebumps.. But thats fine..

Finally loved the movie very much.. I think it wold be unstoppable mania again at box office..

"Chakri Ane Nenu" raasina review chadivinanduku thanks.. 
నాయకుడి  అవసరం  లేని  సమాజం  నిర్మించడమే  అసలైన  నాయకుడి  లక్షణం.. రివ్యూలు అవసరం లెని సినిమాలు తీయ్యడమే అసలైన దర్శకుడి లక్షణం .. :)

80/100

JaiSimha Movie review

Usually Sankranthi season works out very well for Balakrishna.. Somehow this time expectations are very less on #JaiSimha ..due to trailers and competition.. and the director KS Ravi ravi kumar who delivered movies like Narasimha is not in that form now..

But I was pleasantly surprised.. JaiSimha begins with a hospital scene in rain affect hinting there would be serious story ahead.. Balakrishna's entrance in Train station is so well done with slight elevation..In the first half Kumbakonam brahmins scene came out very well with exceptional dialogues.. Flow in this half is very smooth as things are connected very well for the conflict between the ASP, #baahubali prabhaker and the Balayya.. Good to see in Brahmanandam after long time, even though it is very regular role for him.. Murali mohan , LB Sreeram excel in this half.. #Ammakutti song is getting whistles from the masses..Interval fight is done well and the twist at the interval leaves a puzzle in the story..

Second half begins with bang in Vizag with young politician's insult on RK Beach road.. But there is drag here in scenes between Nayanathara and Balayya and Haripriya.. A tough triangle love story for hero of that age.. But in order to execute the sentiment, director KS Ravikumar has firmly showed what he has to for the later scenes.. Songs are also not very well here..

Again it picks up well by final scene in the flashback and Climax fight is shot well.. I liked that shot where two villains killed in one act. Then Again Director plans for that final sentimental twist at the end to justify the sacrifice at next level.. Well done.. Prakashraj, nayanathara, Haripriya, sivaji raja , Asutosh Rana all did well here.. Chirantan Bhatt's BGM is good..

I liked the way the content is driven and equally make the masses happy.. Overall good watch for Balayya fans and families ..

65/100

SPYDER MOVIE REVIEW

When the super talented Murugudoss gets to direct our Superstar MaheshBabu.. definitely it brings in lot of curiosity factor as what genre they would choose.. Even though the initial teasers were not that  great.. expectations slowly mounted up by the release time naturally 

Plot : It is a thriller genre where our hero hunts down the Psycho Killer  (SJ Surya).. 

Maheshbabu should be appreciated for sincerely trying out new genre in a different combination.. Speaking about his charm makes no special news as it is default in all his movies ..His costumes in song "Haali Haali " are funny by the way.. 

SJ Suryah is menacing as villian and has done fantastic job .. RakulPreetSingh has no importance and comes as spead breaker as she is given remuneration for songs.. Bharat has a limited role as compared to advertised.

Background score by Harris Jayaraj is excellent while songs are just ok as they dont fit in properly..

Theme and execution..
Firstly the movie has an excellent theme and message.. It has the Hero on one side who tries to help the people he does not know at all and gets satisfaction out of it.. on other side the Villian gets the sadistic pleasure listening to peoples tears and goes to any extent to hear the people suffer .. It is true that villian in the movie has 15% of sadistic behaviour and every human has 4%.. and we should work to minimize it ..It is that message conveyed in commercial way..

Director jumps into the plot pretty much from the start and it picks up speed when the first cruel murder happens .. Flashback of the villian is shown very raw.. The way the Hero approaches the villian is great and convincing.. Interval block is nice and I liked the sequence where the villian is shot post interval.. Overall First half is quite engaging and sets up great premise..

Involving TV soap watching women in a sequence is decent and fun .. But from that point movie becomes more ambitious than needed.. Audience are in no mood to forgive the slighest jerk in graphics after watching "Baahubali' on telugu screen..So the graphic work towards climax disappoints us for sure.. Hero trying to solve the big problem single handed and he could not stop the disasters to happen seems to go wrong !! 

A thriller movie should be as gripping like "Vettayadu veliyaadu (Raghavan)" if attempted as this movie has similar theme.. Overall SPYDER is convincing till two thirds.. It remains as good theme. SPYDER is true tamil debut for Mahesh thats being dubbed into Telugu..!!

Watch it for different genre and message and Mahesh.. 

59/100

JaiLavaKusa Movie Review

NTR has multiplied his image by many folds hosting the Biggboss in so endearing style.. And he just had Hat trick hits . So JaiLavaKusa where he played triple role naturally had curiosity and now his fans and households were equally and eagerly waiting..

Plot : Jai, Lava , Kusa .. though the three brothers look similar.. Jai is given a flaw his stammering.. So his brothers get fame while doing stage plays whereas Jai is sidelined and insulted.. This leads to the separation of the brothers ... How they meet again is the crux of the movie..

NTR has given fantabulous performance as Jai without any doubt.. I think no other Telugu star can even be imagined in his shoes.. And best is he doing 3 characters in same scene.. and that is brilliant to the power of 3. Jai is menacing.. Kusa is entertaining .. Lava is sweet and honest.. 

Heroines had very less scope .. Rashi khanna is good in her song Tring Tring.. Nivetha is just ok. Tamanna's item is not appealing.. Liked Posani's role and Saikumar is good. 

Bobby's direction should have been better.. is what I felt throughout.. As the story focuses on Jai alone.. First half where no Jai appears just passes blandly with no novelty.. There is no big bang at all for the interval as it is known that 3rd character then enters the scene.. Villians are like retro 90's and pull back the proceedings..

DSP has given powerful track for "Raavana" and NTR lifts the scenes with his high voltage acting.. the drama scenes in the pre-climax  and of course every scene where three NTR's were together are an eye feast.. it shows the sheer brilliance of such a great actor  of his time.. Partial entertainment is given by Kusa role.. don't worry his funky hair cut only lasts for the first song and few scenes.

I felt like if director has not dealt the entire movie with equal conviction and did not concentrate on a strong emotion.. he could not bring in anti-climax.. And he should have brought in some new style in depicting love tracks and villains.. 

JaiLavaKusa can be watched for NTR.. if loose ends are tightened and a happy climax like Arjun Reddy's might have given a better impact here .. 

65/100

Paisa Vasool Review

#PaisaVasool is a surprise combination of Puri Jagannath and Balayya babu..

Puri Jaganath has certain template for his mafia movies.. and Pokiri is the first and best among that ..There are lot of similarities with Pokiri and Paisavasool for lot of scenes in the first half and second half..like the scenes at those den and one guy shouting just like subbaraju etc etc  

Despite the similarities and the template story .. Balakrishna delivered honestly his 100% and just transformed himself into Puri's hero...A totally different characterization .. lot of punches .. countless .Personally I liked the Karva chowth dialogue, freedom fighter dialogue .. etc.. Theda sing will showcase new balayya

First half is racy enough .. and the dialogues and fights make sure it passes swiftly.. Flash back in second half has Shriya and Portugese ..both were colorful on screen..Mukesh G's work as cinematographer is appreciable ..A melody with Shriya and the title song were good ..New heroines appear very odd as pair to Balakrishna. Ali and Prithvi are in short comic roles

Vikramjit is good as main villian .. the scenes between him and hero are in different style ..

Puri should come out of his template than just adding a different hero to it and concentrating on that heroes body language .. As a result PaisaVasool turned out as just different treat for Balayya fans .. but not as solid fresh film ..

Nevertheless it is good one time watch for regular audience and superb watch for the fans..

60/100

ARJUNREDDY REVIEW

#ARJUNREDDY came in like 'Boom' when no one is expecting stuff like this... And Vijay Devarakonda proved his words of confidence were indeed perfectly true...

 #ARJUNREDDY is like a fun boys outing with no restrictions whatsoever ... It speaks out all that's suppressed inside .. So came as stress reliever for many..

Vijay DEVARAKONDA is splendid talent.. best of new comers and beats out many recent hiers too ... He speaks his mind and has lot of trouble with his anger management.. But he still he never fails in his duty and academics and his focus on his one girl .."adi naa pilla" .. his acting in the in-house court scene.. his attitude at the football match.. his intensity when he is suffering .. he expresses them so naturally.. That scene when he speaks out so frankly when his friend hands over the wedding card.. And the way he handles so softly and maturely the heroines brother.. there are bunch of fresh scenes all through the film..

 Director Sandeep gives that culture shock to the Telugu Cinema Pattern .. like how once #shiva did.. brings in sort of reality to polished movie language and proceedings .. But at the same time honestly potrays a pure love story in complete circle.. how the love grows up so strong and it's implications when broken.. Ending is so sweet to happen in real life when you actually potrayed much reality in between..So that ending is like odd man out..


Good to see Kanchana garu so fresh in this movie ..Heroes friend Shiva(Rahul Ramakrishna) stands out and fills in all gaps admist intense happenings with all the boys fun stuff..everyone feels one should have such a friend in life.. Priyadarshi's role is like killing himself( not suitable).. the Climax scene justifies the selection of the heroine Shalini/Preethi..Kamal is great as big brother... The fight between brothers at one point is so natural and it feels like "Seethamma vaakitlo" was made in 70's ..Overall theres rarely a boring moment.. the length is justified and is no hinderance as the content is strong.. it is kind of roller coaster .. Even locations and the music are fresh..

Its nice to see a lot of change in film making these days with a dozen of great films in last couple of years.. But #ARJUNREDDY is just like an outing once in a while and hope movies dont take the raw content from it and churn out many movies which mightly wrongly impact society... 

Watch it with no Kids .. 
70/100