Telugu Reviews
An ordinary missile that backfires
The film on €˜Brahmastram€™, starring Jagapathi Babu and Neha Oberoi in the lead roles is based and inspired from the Jet Li starrer €˜Unleashed€™. The director of the film is Sooriyakiran (of €˜Satyam€™ and €˜Dhana 51€™ fame).Jagapathi Babu works as a human attack bomb…
Hero does villainy in this poor flick
When a trend starts, it continues for some period. Telugu film industry is no exception to it. Especially, after the release of blockbuster like 'Gajini' the directors and story writers are trying to prepare subjects on some disease or the other.The hero of the…
Sivaji proved himself an action hero
Sivaji, an upcoming hero, shot into fame with the success of 'Missamma'. However, his other films 'Mr and Mrs Sailaja Krishnamurthy' and others did not do well to make a mark. So far, he portrayed soft characters and for a change, he too wanted to…
A melodrama with eccentric music called fusion
Music is divine and it is universal. Though there are different styles like Carnatic, Hindustani, Western and many more, the music will be the same but the presentation that makes the difference. Mahesh Dattani, a stage playwright, tried to blend different elements in his film…
Technically brilliant, but lacks nativity
Santosh Sivan learned a lot while working as cinematographer with popular director Maniratnam. Later he turned a director and his latest Malayalam flick 'Anantabhadram' was dubbed into Telugu by Subrahmanyam B and Rupesh Y on the banner of Lakshmi Ganapathi Films as 'Sivapuram'. The film…
An unimpressive love story
SP Entertainments produced several films with Venu Tottempudi as hero. The production unit had deviated its path and produced '10th Class' with Bharat as hero recently. After that, the unit made another film 'Maa Iddari Madhyalo' with the same hero introducing a new heroine called…
Yet another routine revolutionary film
'Sneha Chitra' is a banner which is known for revolutionary films. Its founder R Narayana Murthy had produced several films on the banner, highlighting the problems faced by the laborers and the working class who are being cheated by the influential persons and politicians. His…
A film that could misguide youth
The film reflects the mentality of the present day youth. Two friends live in neighboring plots. One is Anil Gavaskar (Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam) and his wife is Hema (Hema). They have a son called Sachin (Master Vijay). The other is Govindu (Brahmanandam) and his wife is…
RGV's taking is quite impressive
Though 'Siva 2006' is said to be a sequel or for that matter a novel version of Ramgopal Varma's debut flick 'Siva' (released some 17 years ago) will in no way could be compared with the old film. Especially the latest flick has no script…
Old commercial formula film
It is time for the senior directors to give way to the young directors and take retirement. The latest flick directed by Kodi Ramakrishna indirectly hinted at this idea. The Telugu audience can't just watch the age-old direction, slow pace of narration, commercial formula scenes…
