Bendu Apparao RMP Movie Rating

Movie: Bendu Apparao RMP
My Rating: 3/5
Banner: Suresh Productions
Music: Koti
Story: PV Giri
Producer: Dr D Rama Naidu
Direction: EVV Satyanarayana
Cast: Allari Naresh, Kamna Jetmalani, Meghana, Suman Shetty, Ahuti Prasad, Ali, LB Sri Ram, Srinivas Reddy, Uttej etc
Release Date: 16th Oct 2009

Review

Story

Bendu Appa Rao (Allari Naresh) is an RMP doctor in a village. He has a sister who gets troubled by her greedy husband (Krishna Bhagawan). Appa Rao earns money from the villagers by doing various mischief activities, making them his patients for every small reason. He earns money only to quench the greed of his brother in law. On the other hand, Padmapriya (Kamna), the daughter of the rich man in the village Raju (Ahuti Prasad) falls in love with Appa Rao.

The story runs on this track but all of a sudden Appa Rao becomes responsible for a secret sum of Rs 15 lakh. Story takes turn there. A school teacher comes into his life.

What is that Rs 15 lakh? How Appa Rao become responsible? Who is that teacher? All that has to be watched on screen.

Artists Performance:

Allari Naresh: He is at his best as usual. The entire story runs on his shoulders and he carried that efficiently. Once again he proved that he is the best fit as comedy hero in Tollywood after Rajendra Prasad and Naresh.

Kamna: She is ok and suited well for the character.

Meghana: She has a small role as school teacher but oozed the required glamour in a song.

Ahuti Prasad: He deserves right mention in the film as he spilled several laughs with his typical East Godavari slang

Other artistes Jith Mohan Mitra, LB Sri Ram, Suman Shetty, Uttej, Srinivas Reddy, Kondavalasa, Chalapathi Rao, Telangana Shakuntala, Sreepada Hanuma Sastry etc have justified to their characters.

The backbone of the movie is its dialogue part. Veligonda Sreenivas has penned subtle and humorous dialogues through out the movie. Every 5 minutes in the movie spills a laugh. Although the story is a routine one, the dialogue part made it appealing for contemporary audience.

Final Analysis:

It’s a nonstop humor treat after a long time. Audiences of all the centers may patronize this film and there will be more edge in B, C centers. The entire movie is filled with East Godavari flavor where almost all top comedians except Brahmanandam, MS Narayana and Sunil are present on screen.

First half of the movie goes with non stop humor while second half has enough sentiment. But in both halves, the comedy part is rightly gelled.

Mahatma Movie Rating

Movie: Mahatma
My Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: Golden Lion Films
Music: Vijay Anthony
Cinematography: Sarath
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Producer: C R Manohar
Direction: Krishna Vamsi
Cast: Srikanth, Bhavana, Jayaparakash Reddy, Jyothy, Uttej, Jagan, Brahmanandam etc
Release Date: 9th Oct 2009

Review

Story

Dasanna (Srikanth) is a rugged youngster who lives in a ‘basthi area’ and his life style includes only fights, daily intake of alcohol and non-veg. His livelihood depends on rowdism. In the process he happens to encounter an advocate Krishnaveni (Bhavana) who keeps on bailing him out whenever he gets into police case.

On the other hand a political rivalry runs between ruling party leaders Dattanna (Jayaprakash Reddy) and Kalarani (Jyothy). In the flow of events, Dasanna happens to become a tool between Datthanna and Kalarani.

But Gandhism attracts Dasanna all of a sudden. He stops alcohol, non vegetarianism and also fights. He starts the process of accepting mistake. How that affected him? How that helped his area? That forms rest of the story.

Artists Performance:

Srikanth: He did his best with utmost care. His expressions worked really well for every scene. He also tried to show some expertise in dances as well although choreography is pretty poor. The shades of his portrayal in Shankaradada Zindabad are seen on some scenes.

Bhavana: She is the biggest minus for the movie and there is nothing more speak about.

Jagan: Although a trivial role, he deserves a paragraph here. He appears in various get ups- NTR, Tanguturi Prakasam. Pingala Vekayya, Alluri Seeta Rama Raju, Potti Sree Ramulu and Gandhiji. The song ‘Kontha mandi inti peru…’ was shot on him.

Brahmanandam appears in guest comedy and that is just ok. Jayaprakash Reddy aptly grooved in the role of Datthanna. Jyothy is ok as Kalarani. Uttej and Paruchuri Venkateshwara Rao have played as side kicks to protagonist.

Charmee spilled glamour in an item song and Navneeth Kaur also made her hot presence on screen although appeared for a few seconds.

Editing has suffered some problems (Gandhi’s statue looks shabby for some time and clean and neat for other time in the same scene). Cinematography is good. Story is fine and screenplay could have been better. On a whole it’s a laudable attempt by director but could have carried the subject with more intensity.

Final Analysis:

The take-off of the movie is pretty hysterical with the title song ‘Talayetti jeevinchu Tammudaa..’ But the actual story wouldn’t start till the interval bang. The beginning of second half promises bigger things but that goes with various ups and downs. First 45 minutes of the movie goes in run of the mill style and that could have been confined to 20 minutes jumped into actual story.

The song ‘Indiramma inti peru kaadura Gandhi’ that raised controversy was changed to ‘Konthamandi inti peru kaadura Gandhi’. But Censor didn’t bother to cut down the word ‘f...k off’ used by artiste Jyothy for Kalarani character in first half.

Director seems to have ignored masses and that is evident through his selection of heroine and the get up given to her. Any other heroine would have aptly fitted in the requirement.

On a whole, the spirit of non violence, truth, accepting the mistake and perseverance are conveyed in this attempt through some scenes. But more homework should have done to make it a better product since the title is ‘Mahatma’!


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Quick Gun Murugan Movie Rating

Movie: Quick Gun Murugan
My Rating: 3/5
Banner: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Music: Daniel B. George
Cinematography: R. A. Krishna
Story & Screenplay: Rajesh Devraj
Editing: Rabi Ranjan Moitra
Producer: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Direction: Shashanka Ghosh
Cast: Anushka, Rajendra Prasad, Nasser, Rambha, Raju Sundaram, Anu Menon etc
Telugu Release Date: 25th Sep 2009

Review

Story

The story starts in 1970's. Quick Gun Murugan (Rajendra Prasad) is a vegetarian cowboy who is against killing cows and other animals. He takes it as his duty to protect the world against non-vegetarians. Rice Place Reddy (Nasser) is on a mission to convert all vegetarian hotels into non-vegetarian hotels so that he could expand his chain of non-veg hotels. In the process, he confronts Quick Gun Murugan and succeeds in killing him. Quick Gun Murugan is taken to heaven and there he appeals to Chitra Gupta (Vinay Pathak) about how the fate has terminated his mission to save the world from non-vegetarianism. A convinced Chitra Gupta sends him back to the earth. And it is 2007 by the time he returns. By now, Rice Plate Reddy became all-powerful food baron who is on the verge of coming up with 'Mc Dosa' brand of hotels that serve only non-vegetarian dosas. The rest of the story is all about how Quick Gun Murugan saves the world.

Artists Performance:

Rajendra Prasad comes up with another entertaining performance. Language might be different, but the comedy timing is same for Rajendra Prasad even in English version. He is just perfect. He has to look serious and at the same time he need to make us laugh. His dialogue delivery is too good. Rambha is charming and sensuous as 'Mango Dolly'. Nassar entertains as a Rice Place Reddy who gets tensed whenever he listens to Murugan name. Raju Sundaram did the role of Rowdy MBA and he is nice. Ashwin Mushran's foreign accent is good. Vinay Pathak is apt as Chitra Gupta. Sandhya Mridul and Ranvir Sheroy did the roles of TV reporters. Anu Menon (Lola Kutti of Channel V) did the role of QGM's locket love.

Technical Departments:

Quick Gun Murugan is based on a character developed by Rajesh Devraj for a 2-minute spoof on Channel V. Rajesh developed a full legth story on this character by making it a spoof on all routine Indian potboilers of 1970's and spaghetti westerns. It is an outrageously funny script handled neatly by the director Shashank Ghosh. There are funny and wacky moments in the movie. The director has stuck to quirky way narration and succeeded in tickling your funny bone. They made spoofs on cow-boy movies, maa sentiment, vamp character, dialogues of typical indian heroes, old Tamil films etc. However, there is gore and bloodshed in this movie. I have liked the following things in this movie -

1. The flashback episode where spaghetti western is mixed with sambar and masala dasa.
2. Naming of various departments: Yamalokam as ministry of deaths and another place as institute of coconut climbing. The entire Yamaloka administration is replicated with typical government officer's set-up.
3. Tears of Quickgun falling into the whiskey glass.
3. The gun fights of Murugan (generally we get description of these fights with Rajnikant as caricature in forwarded e-mails. Rajni himself has done it in the last song of his blockbuster Sivaji)
4. Murugan's girlfriend locked up in a locket.
5. Mango Dolly stealing the blue print from the underwear of Rice Place Reddy.
6. The music of the movie (happy birthday tune for death scene) and the way cowboy music is played with Indian instruments.

Camera work of the movie is alright. Dialogues are very funny. Especially 'mind it' and 'i say' which are made popular on Quickgun Murugan series of Channel V. Music is funny and entertaining. Art direction deserves appreciation for coming up with creative work with a limited budget. This movie is made on shoe-string budget.

Final Analysis:

If you are a guy who likes the spoofs on Channel V, Quick Gun Murugan is for you. The plus points are ever-green Rajendra Prasad as the green cowboy and the comedy. The negative points are blood shed and boring moments towards climax. There is a bit of Tamil language in the movie. Telugu guys are advised to watch the English version of the movie to get an authentic feel of the movie.

Rechipo Movie Rating

Movie:Rechipo
My Rating: 1.25/5
Banner: Sree Spectra Media
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Surender Reddy
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Producer: GV Ramana
Direction, Story & Screenplay: Paruchuri Murali
Cast: Nithin, Ileana, Ahuti Prasad, MS Narayana, Sunil, Raghu Babu, Rama Prabha, Hema etc
Release Date: 25th Sep 2009

Review

Story

Shiva (Nithin) is a young thief who robs from stinking rich and distributes that among poor and needy. He learns that there is Rs 500 Cr in Home Minister’s house. He chalks out a plan and robs that. But that amount is the one seized by police from mafia gang those earn through Cricket Betting.

Knowing that his men were arrested and Rs 500 Cr was seized, the mafia head in Dubai kidnaps Home Minister’s daughter Krishna Veni (Ileana) and demands to release his men and pay back Rs 500 Cr immediately.

Then Shiva, who also happens to be the love interest of Krishna Veni flies to Dubai, fights with mafia dons and rescues her. But what happens to Rs 500 Cr? Did he give that back? That forms the climax.

Artists Performance:

Nithin: He is ok with respect to dances and projecting his physical fitness. But he needs to upgrade a lot in dialogue delivery.

Ileana: Ileana’s screen presence is good but could be better with quality cinematography.

Ahuti Prasad is ok as Home Minister and Bhanuchander is needless as Police Commissioner.

MS Narayana scored well as comedian but Sunil is below average. Raghu Babu’s comedy is disgusting. There is problem with timing in dialogue in some scenes.

Director failed to bring in conviction to his narration. He failed by projecting heroine’s father as Home Minister. He would have shown him as a big businessman for normal believability. How can Home Minister dare to depend on a thief to bring back his kidnapped daughter from mafia dons? What happens to his system and influence in Government level? And Police Commissioner too standing dumb and depending on young thief…..hero killing the villain by battering on his head and hero standing strong even though a bullet hits on left side of his chest…blah blah blah. The story cannot deserve a place even in any children’s stories book of this present juncture.


Final Analysis:

It’s a full dose masala movie but spice less. The line, narration and histrionics are obsolete and not gripping. It’s the film made with routine formula of songs, fights and comedy scenes. But the conviction is missing on a whole although ok when looked at bits and pieces.

The story line chosen is much below the conviction level. Home Minister and Commissioner taking the help of a thief to get back the minister’s kidnapped daughter from Dubai from the clutches of international mafia dons……..!!! That’s not an exciting theme for contemporary mass audience.

On a whole, it’s a movie made with rich production values but the patronage of targeted audience is doubtful. It may not be a safe project with respect to budget incurred and output delivered.

Ganesh Movie Rating

Movie:Ganesh
My Rating: 3/5
Banner: Sri Sravanthi Movies
Music: Micky J Meyer
Cinematography: Hari Anumolu
Editing: Sreekar Prasad
Producer: Sravanthi Ravi Kishore
Story, Screenplay & Direction: M Saravanan
Cast: Ram, Kajal Agarwal, Asish Vidyardhi, Brahmanandam, Sameer, Kasi Viswanath, Poonam Kaur, Pingpong, Fish Venkat, Sudha etc
Release Date: 24th Sep 2009

Review

Story

Ganesh (Ram) is an orphan who always pitches in to help needy people. In one such strange situation, he is forced to act with Divya (Kajal Agarwal) that he loves her. But later on, she comes to know that he is loving her to fulfill some other ambition and his love is an act of fabrication. By then, Ganesh genuinely falls in love with her. The rest of the story is all about how he convinces her about his true love.

Artists Performance:

The 26 kids who acted in this movie are wonderful. They performed naturally and added fun and purity to the scenes they are involved with. Ram is pretty good as Ganesh in this movie. He has shown lots of maturity in performance and dialogue modulation towards the end of the movie. His dances in Ganesa song are interesting. Kajal Agarwal is nice. Brahmanandam's comedy, though routine gives relief. Poonam Kaur is adequate as the friend of heroine. Asish Vidyardhi alright as a comedy villain. Rohini Hattangadi did a brief role..

Technical Departments:

Story of the movie is wafer thin. A story like these should be narrated with tight screenplay and gripping emotions. The debutant director couldn't come up with a gripping screenplay to narrate the story in an interesting manner. However, the kids backdrop has helped in keeping the movie going. The episodes involving kids are a sheer delight to watch. The direction should have been better. Films like these will be interesting only if director projects the love between lead couple in a tender yet interesting way. Though it may look different on paper, the director couldn't translate those sweet nothings onto the screen in a convincing way. I didn't expect a couple of insensible scenes (hero cutting his wrist to prove his love and kids being ill-treated in climax) from a production house of Sravanthi.

Micky J Meyer's songs definitely sound good on stereo. However, they are not captured efficiently onto the screen. The chalo song featuring kids is picturized well. The 'rajkumrai' song which sounds fabulous is misplaced in the movie. Background score is not good. The dialogues written by Abburi Ravi in key scenes leading to climax are good. Cinematography should have been better. Fights by Peter Heins are adequate. Editing should have been crisper as there is lots of lag in the second half of the movie.

Final Analysis:

First half of the movie is adequate. The second half lacks pace. The climax should have been shot interestingly. Plus points of the movie are Ram and kids. Negative points are screenplay and slow second half. Stories of this type needs tremendous creativity and presentation ability from director. The runtime of the movie is around 3 hours and it seriously needs some trimming in the second half. The lifeline of the movie is the kids episode. Ganesh is not the movie for morning show crowds. It is a clean movie aimed at family crowds. The fate of the movie will solely depend on how family crowds receive it.

Banam Movie Rating

Movie : Baanam
My Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: Three Angels Studio
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Anil Bandari
Producer: Seshu Priyanka
Direction: Chaitanya Dantuluri
Cast: Nara Rohit, Vedhika, Sayaji Shinde, Ranadheer, Rajeev Kanakala, Bhanuchander, AVS, Sivanarayana, Ragini etc
Release Date: 16th Sep 2009

Review

Story

Bhagat Panigrahi (Nara Rohi) is an IPS aspirant who happens to the son of an ex-naxalite Sekhar Panigrahi (Sayaji Shinde). Subba Lakshmi (Vedika) is a Brahmin girl who gets betrayed by husband and in laws and also loses her father. Bhagat rescues her from a Railway Station and takes her to his house.

On the other hand Shakti Patnaik (Ranadheera), an anti social element holds entire system in his control and rules as per his whims and fancies in a place called Ranasthali. An incident drives Bhagat on Shakti and thus he develops turbulence with him.

Finally who wins on whom is not a question! But how one wins on other? That forms the subject.

Artists Performance:

Nara Rohit: His character goes in underplaying mode. He looked good on screen with sharp features but limited his performance with just 2-3 expressions on a whole. He seems to have got fixed up in rigidity in some scenes. He needs to develop ease in face and body to rock ahead as commercial hero. His voice is sounding good with huge base tone.

Vedika: She has perfectly grooved in the role of a Brahmin girl and acted as per the requirement without over acting or under playing.

Sayaji Shinde is ok as naxalite while Bhanu Chander and Rajeev Kanakala are perfect as police cops. Ranadheer of ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Yuvatha’ fame has played well as antagonist. He looked like JD Chakravarthy in some angles.

Technically the movie is sound and especially music, songs, cinematography and editing worked well.

Director has shown enough flair in showing symbolisms. Some mentionable scenes those depict the caliber of director:

* Showing the photos of Bhagat Singh and Che Guevara parallel to father and son respectively, to denote their ideologies
* Jasmines in the plait of heroine losing color to denote that she sat at the same place whole day in Railway Station
* Showing Sri Sri’s ‘Mahaprasthanam’ in hero’s hands when he revolts on anti social elements for the first time
* Showing Rs 2/- currency note in the hand of Sayaji Shinde to demonstrate the atmosphere of 1989
* Geetanjali movie running in a theatre, again to depict that was 1989
* Showing the ship named ‘Shikari’ when the villain shoots a character and kills
* Hero holding ‘sutthi and kodavali’ in climax fight to portray his ideology (as the villain holds ‘trisoolam’ in his hand, it can be understood as fight between theism and atheism)!

All the above scenes say that director has some mettle in him. At the same time the director has missed the opportunity to portray 1989 atmosphere on screen in better way with Art Department. Budget might have become a hindrance to it; otherwise it would have become something bigger than Tamil movie ‘Subramaniapuram’, brought into Telugu as Anantapuram. Other than showing Ambassador Cars, wall posters and red capped police constables, nothing else was shown that pumps in nostalgic feel.

Final Analysis:

The movie is serious but sensible. The debut venture of Chaitanya Dantuluri as director is commendable. Nara Rohit also has shown good screen presence although he needs to shine himself with respect to performance and demonstrating histrionics. The limitation in the movie is lack of comedy. The plus point in this is subtle dialogue by Gandham Nagaraju of ‘Gamyam’ fame. Other added glitters are background score by Mani Sharma, beautiful songs and cinematography.

First half of the movie runs serious but promises something interesting in second half. But the second half also runs in similar tempo without any twists or turns. The narration is very well within the limits of audience’s thought periphery but not out of the box.

On a whole, the movie definitely appeals for class audiences but it should go with aggressive publicity to reach masses.

Eenadu Movie Rating

Movie: Eenadu
My Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Raajkamal International, UTV
Music: Shruti Haasan
Cinematography: Manoj Soni
Producer: Kamal Haasan
Direction: Chakri Toleti
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Venkatesh, Lakshmi, Ganesh Venkatraman, Anuja Iyer, Poonam Kaur, Santhanam etc
Release Date: 18th Sep 2009

Review

Story

Police Commissioner Eeshwar Prasad (Venkatesh) gets a threatening call from an anonymous caller (Kamal Hasan) who states that he planted 5 RDX explosives in city which would explode by 6PM. Terror starts from then. Eeshwar Prasad handles the issue by reporting to Chief Secretary (Lakshmi) and Chief Minister. His missions are two.

1. Safeguarding that city from blasts and
2. Smoking out the anonymous caller.

And why that caller threatens? His demands are to release 4 terrorists those are linked up to Gokul Chat and Lumbini blasts.

Eeshwar Prasad releases them and sends to the place suggested by that anonymous caller. What happens after that? Has Eshwar Prasad succeeded in his missions?

That has to be watched on screen.

Artists Performance:

Venkatesh- He is the only saving grace in the movie. Audience found relaxed and pleasant watching him. He suited perfect to the role of Police Commissioner. He looked more convincing than Anupam Kher, who played same role in original ‘A Wednesday’. He never smiles through out the narration and his serious portrayal is laudable. He kept all sorts of star-hero image and airs aside and performed very subtly. That is highly commendable.

Kamal Hasan- He hasn’t shown the conviction that was shown by Naseeruddin Shah in original. There is no scope for performance in this role, but still Naseeruddin could show some glitters drawing the attention of audiences completely. But here the director spoiled the character by not suggesting anything about the timing in dialogue delivery and expressions to Kamal. Kamal is the biggest disappointment as audience expect more than what they have actually watched from him.

Ganesh Venkataraman: He is perfect in cop’s role. He is the one who stole the attention of audiences with his macho look as Cop Arif. He is far better than Jimmy Shergill who played same role in original.

Bharat Reddy: He played subtly as Cop Goutham Reddy with bits of humor in a couple of scenes.

Lakshmi is a waste. Technically, this is the first full length film in Telugu that’s made with Red-One digital camera. The output is good. Sruthi Hasan’s music could have been better. Dialogues are good. Editing is ok.

Final Analysis:

A few said that Kamal wouldn’t have chosen to work in this movie as his performance is not up to the mark. Some from back seats murmured, Prakash Raj would be a better choice than Kamal Hasan for this role.

Audiences find a kind of terror watching Naseeruddin Shah’s performance in ‘A Wednesday’. But Kamal couldn’t bring that. And Chakry Toleti is successful in copying the film from original but failed with some senseless additions.