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