Telugu Reviews
Successfully brewing a copy
Donga Dongadi is expected to be a hit (at least it is not expected to leave its makers poorer). If it indeed happens, in a strange irony, it can show you what is wrong with Tollywood these days.It is well known that this film…
Slice of life, but no spice of life
It is always fun to look back on the inexorable passage that you and time walked holding hands together like unknown accomplices. And in the soft-focus reversible telescope of time yesterday€™s mammoth mountains are today€™s mirthful molehills.And so, Naa Autograph, at one level, is…
Comical errors
Comedy of errors is a favorite theme of Indian film-makers. Every fourth film is on that essential theme. Some work. And some doesn't. Intlo Srimati Veedhilo Kumari falls somewhere in between. The film has its moments. But somehow that is not adequate.A remake of…
Old wine in old bottle
Love as a theme never seems to bore our directors. It is the base of almost all our films. In such a scenario, it takes extremely creative and skilful director to showcase love and its attendant emotions in a novel light.Alas, Jonnalagadda Srinivasa Rao,…
Sorry, wrong number
Just a scary thought: Suppose there is a law that no film in India should be made with love theme, what will happen? Quite simply, almost all the filmmakers would go out of business.Puri Jagan would certainly be one among them.Romance is his…
Neither one, nor the other
Tamil actor Vijay has a fetish for remaking Telugu films. Somehow, Telugu film producers and directors also have an equal fetish for remaking his films in Tollywood.But going by the mixed luck that both Vijay and Telugu producers have had with remakes, it is…
Pawan, Pawan and more Pawan
There are director€™s actors who just surrender themselves to what the former say. Then there are actor€™s actors who are an envy of their own peers. Then there are those like Pawan Kalyan who are difficult to slot. And after watching Gudumba Shankar, dare one…
Rising to the challenge
Sporting games are just that in most Indian films ---they are hardly given any importance. There are occasional exceptions --- Hip, Hip Hurray, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikkander and Lagaan. Even in Okkadu, Kabbadi looked just an insignificant prop.So in that sense that director SS…
Mundane and mediocre
Life€™s eternal truisms can be baffling. How can one€™s strength end up as one€™s weakness? It can. You get an insight into this when you see Vikraman-directed Cheppave Chirugali. Human emotions and sentiments are his typical stock in trade. But the very same let's him…
Hot action, but little else
Arjun, as even a child would say, is a robust action hero. Fights are his forte. Similarly, director Sundar C, as the same child would say, is known for his earthy stories with dollops of humor and comedy.So when the duo pair up for…
