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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Bhale Bhale Mogadivoy Movie Review
Tag line - Nani arrives on big commercial screen.
Disclaimer: Views are strictly personal. Please notify any copy right infringements or if content is offensive. I may be using "he" mostly out of habit. He/She is what I mean.
If you are reading this review you either watched movie or looking for a review to support your views. Since movie released few weeks ago.
Story:
Nani has acute ADHD (Attention deficiency hyperactive disorder) and still manages to get on in life. He likes a girl and finds excuses every time he forgets something. Heroine's dad develops disrespect during one such forgetful episodes of hero. Rest of story revolves around how he manages in each situation and in process does some good. And then how he gets the girl he wanted.
Analysis:
Nani is the best actor in current crop of new heroes. He is at ease with every scene. And his boy next door looks and attitude makes sure no one has expectations on him. While he shined in almost all his films this one got all commercial success he needs. Part of it could be post-bahubali effect. He is good throughout the movie. His comedy timing is very good. Hopefully he gets more releases each year (now-a-days movies wait forever to release)
Gayatri does well and looks beautiful mostly. But in TFI only skin show works. So Director does his bit for this purpose. Maruthi is proving to be another successful director who has the knack of capturing audience pulse. His screenplay is very nice and some comedy episodes are hilarious. Music is OK and quality is good. Vennela Kishore established his own brand of comedy and provides enough laughs.
What I did not like:
Songs slow down the pace of movie and look forced. I felt like they were added for commerical element and have no place in script. Same applies to last scene of fight with a police inspector.
Hero is shown to have the same ADHD problem since young-age but nothing provides justification about how he managed to become a scientist. Also, story reminds you Srinu Vytla's formula in second half for a brief 20 mins before recovering. Hero can beat a cop and leave just like that not sure how.
Bottom_Line: Maruthi and Nani created box-office magic that no one expected.
Disclaimer: Views are strictly personal. Please notify any copy right infringements or if content is offensive. I may be using "he" mostly out of habit. He/She is what I mean.
If you are reading this review you either watched movie or looking for a review to support your views. Since movie released few weeks ago.
Story:
Nani has acute ADHD (Attention deficiency hyperactive disorder) and still manages to get on in life. He likes a girl and finds excuses every time he forgets something. Heroine's dad develops disrespect during one such forgetful episodes of hero. Rest of story revolves around how he manages in each situation and in process does some good. And then how he gets the girl he wanted.
Analysis:
Nani is the best actor in current crop of new heroes. He is at ease with every scene. And his boy next door looks and attitude makes sure no one has expectations on him. While he shined in almost all his films this one got all commercial success he needs. Part of it could be post-bahubali effect. He is good throughout the movie. His comedy timing is very good. Hopefully he gets more releases each year (now-a-days movies wait forever to release)
Gayatri does well and looks beautiful mostly. But in TFI only skin show works. So Director does his bit for this purpose. Maruthi is proving to be another successful director who has the knack of capturing audience pulse. His screenplay is very nice and some comedy episodes are hilarious. Music is OK and quality is good. Vennela Kishore established his own brand of comedy and provides enough laughs.
What I did not like:
Songs slow down the pace of movie and look forced. I felt like they were added for commerical element and have no place in script. Same applies to last scene of fight with a police inspector.
Hero is shown to have the same ADHD problem since young-age but nothing provides justification about how he managed to become a scientist. Also, story reminds you Srinu Vytla's formula in second half for a brief 20 mins before recovering. Hero can beat a cop and leave just like that not sure how.
Bottom_Line: Maruthi and Nani created box-office magic that no one expected.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Srimanthudu Movie review
Srimanthudu - Telugu Movie review
Tag line - Old wine in new bottle with subtle presentation
Disclaimer: Views are strictly personal. Please notify any copy right infringements or if content is offensive. I may be using "he" mostly out of habit. He/She is what I mean.
If you are reading this review you either watched movie or looking for a review to support your views. Since movie released almost 3 weeks ago.
Story:
Harsha is son of a rich father who has a distaste for relatively poor people in money and status. Harsh on the other hand driven by universal well being and good morals. This is shown where he helps one of his company's loyal employees. He meets Charuseela at a birthday party and learns she is doing an agricultural course for developing villages through latest in agricultural technology. Instead of simply insulting her to express love, like in most Telugu movies, he promptly joins her college and becomes a sincere student. She feels ignored and presses him for answer. They start to develop liking towards each other and eventually fall in love. One day Charuseels casually learns who Harsha's father is and decides to keep him away. Harsha doesnt like it and while confronting her learns the reason is a village and finds his purpose in life. Rest on screen.
Analysis:
Koratala Siva must be commended for writing a script for Mahesh specifically. All dialogues are written to suit his style. In my personal opinion, Mahesh matured as an actor (and male with his voice, rugged looks and got rid of girlish manners) since Athadu. And peaked with Dookudu and 1-Nenokkadine (Which I liked a lot). Gladly for him and audience there is more scope to see his acting talent and he is awesome to watch. Be it Action emotion or comedy timing he absolutely nails it. This movie is completely written to suit his strengths and you will fall in love with his performance.
Surprisingly Shruthi Hasan has few dialogues and un-like other telugu films only one song to show navel and thighs. On the flip side she exposed enough in last song to compensate for missing item song (which is a norm these days). In fact, that last song is a bit contrast to the whole film. When you think there is no intentional skin show this songs comes like it is supposed get all money from "C" centers. She did really well and her expressions actually suit the situations - like after Mangrove fight. Rest of the cast is apt. Rajendra Prasad and JB are well suited for roles but don't have a lot of screen time. Mahesh takes most of screen time.
Background Music is good. Songs are apt to situation other wise audio is not extra ordinary. Typical Devi Sri "Percussion" Prasad album. Not sure why they call him Rock Star now. Sometimes I wonder if this is the same guy who did "Nuvvu Nuvvu" in Khadgam.
Photography is excellent. Fights are routine except for Mangrove fight. That will be watched in youtube for few years if not a decade. Lyrics are good especially for Rama Rama.
When you leave the theater you feel like its an incomplete movie. Reason - our brain tuned to "run of the mill" movies. Comedian made stupid or slapped repeatedly in second half or DDLJ style hero lives with Villain and proves his stupidity. Or Hollywood/Korean movie ideas. I felt movie looked very polished in 1st half. They tried to make it as simple as possible. Even minister uses few cars instead of several hundred Sumo SUVs.
What I did not like:
Dance in Rama Rama song - What happened to "abhinayam"? when lyrics go like - "pada pada mani vantenesi penu kadali ni datinadu..." I see same repeated moves but nothing that sits well with lyrics. Mahesh is either lazy or simply can't dance (his dad had the same issue). But he needs to work on it. When he repeatedly talks about "convincing audience" I dont understand why dance would not convince audience.
Dhimmatirige song - This can be removed. Lyrics are OK (we heard worse). Unnecessary skin show spoiling the decent movie till that point. And Mahesh can't dance. Sorry Prince fans. He needs to work on this. He confessed in an interview that he is at his best fitness level now. May be he can join a Dance school now.
VIllage issues - Instead of showing few scenes where Hero made difference hands-on, they simply show it in a song. rest of the time is allocated for "fights".
Too many fights - When there is a message and presentation is simple why so many fights? So if in reality someone wants to adopt a village he must be ready to bash villains? Because I am sure there will be villains. This is why old movies showed Hero bringing revolution among villagers and eventually fighting as a group against baddies.
Mahesh look - He looks slightly bulky in second half compared to first. Like most other Telugu heros he hastily becomes fit when needed. Telugu heros are still a long-way from Bollywood when it comes to fitness.They flaunt six pack or biceps in 1 or 2 movies and back to normal. They don't need to look beyond South India and Kamal hassan for acting,dance or fitness.
Overall it is a good effort. Mahesh lived up to his fathers billing as Daring and Dashing. It is a bold decision after 1-Nenokkadine.
Tag line - Old wine in new bottle with subtle presentation
Disclaimer: Views are strictly personal. Please notify any copy right infringements or if content is offensive. I may be using "he" mostly out of habit. He/She is what I mean.
If you are reading this review you either watched movie or looking for a review to support your views. Since movie released almost 3 weeks ago.
Story:
Harsha is son of a rich father who has a distaste for relatively poor people in money and status. Harsh on the other hand driven by universal well being and good morals. This is shown where he helps one of his company's loyal employees. He meets Charuseela at a birthday party and learns she is doing an agricultural course for developing villages through latest in agricultural technology. Instead of simply insulting her to express love, like in most Telugu movies, he promptly joins her college and becomes a sincere student. She feels ignored and presses him for answer. They start to develop liking towards each other and eventually fall in love. One day Charuseels casually learns who Harsha's father is and decides to keep him away. Harsha doesnt like it and while confronting her learns the reason is a village and finds his purpose in life. Rest on screen.
Analysis:
Koratala Siva must be commended for writing a script for Mahesh specifically. All dialogues are written to suit his style. In my personal opinion, Mahesh matured as an actor (and male with his voice, rugged looks and got rid of girlish manners) since Athadu. And peaked with Dookudu and 1-Nenokkadine (Which I liked a lot). Gladly for him and audience there is more scope to see his acting talent and he is awesome to watch. Be it Action emotion or comedy timing he absolutely nails it. This movie is completely written to suit his strengths and you will fall in love with his performance.
Surprisingly Shruthi Hasan has few dialogues and un-like other telugu films only one song to show navel and thighs. On the flip side she exposed enough in last song to compensate for missing item song (which is a norm these days). In fact, that last song is a bit contrast to the whole film. When you think there is no intentional skin show this songs comes like it is supposed get all money from "C" centers. She did really well and her expressions actually suit the situations - like after Mangrove fight. Rest of the cast is apt. Rajendra Prasad and JB are well suited for roles but don't have a lot of screen time. Mahesh takes most of screen time.
Background Music is good. Songs are apt to situation other wise audio is not extra ordinary. Typical Devi Sri "Percussion" Prasad album. Not sure why they call him Rock Star now. Sometimes I wonder if this is the same guy who did "Nuvvu Nuvvu" in Khadgam.
Photography is excellent. Fights are routine except for Mangrove fight. That will be watched in youtube for few years if not a decade. Lyrics are good especially for Rama Rama.
When you leave the theater you feel like its an incomplete movie. Reason - our brain tuned to "run of the mill" movies. Comedian made stupid or slapped repeatedly in second half or DDLJ style hero lives with Villain and proves his stupidity. Or Hollywood/Korean movie ideas. I felt movie looked very polished in 1st half. They tried to make it as simple as possible. Even minister uses few cars instead of several hundred Sumo SUVs.
What I did not like:
Dance in Rama Rama song - What happened to "abhinayam"? when lyrics go like - "pada pada mani vantenesi penu kadali ni datinadu..." I see same repeated moves but nothing that sits well with lyrics. Mahesh is either lazy or simply can't dance (his dad had the same issue). But he needs to work on it. When he repeatedly talks about "convincing audience" I dont understand why dance would not convince audience.
Dhimmatirige song - This can be removed. Lyrics are OK (we heard worse). Unnecessary skin show spoiling the decent movie till that point. And Mahesh can't dance. Sorry Prince fans. He needs to work on this. He confessed in an interview that he is at his best fitness level now. May be he can join a Dance school now.
VIllage issues - Instead of showing few scenes where Hero made difference hands-on, they simply show it in a song. rest of the time is allocated for "fights".
Too many fights - When there is a message and presentation is simple why so many fights? So if in reality someone wants to adopt a village he must be ready to bash villains? Because I am sure there will be villains. This is why old movies showed Hero bringing revolution among villagers and eventually fighting as a group against baddies.
Mahesh look - He looks slightly bulky in second half compared to first. Like most other Telugu heros he hastily becomes fit when needed. Telugu heros are still a long-way from Bollywood when it comes to fitness.They flaunt six pack or biceps in 1 or 2 movies and back to normal. They don't need to look beyond South India and Kamal hassan for acting,dance or fitness.
Overall it is a good effort. Mahesh lived up to his fathers billing as Daring and Dashing. It is a bold decision after 1-Nenokkadine.
Ousted once again!!!
India exits early from Champions trophy. I get this feeling that there are some issues among team members. And this was clearly evident in final match in SriLanka where Yuvaraj was acting like Bhai (Bhai bole to DON) of Indian team. I can clearly see no communication between Dhoni & Sehwag or between Dhoni & any senior player for that matter. Dhoni either can make decisions on his own or hate to consult senior players.
It is very unfortunate that we can not see any upcoming quality players in India these days. If you look at Sachin, Dravid, Ganguly & laxman they are like the best examples of 90's cricket. You enter the team based on your talent and consistency and not records. Laxman & Ganguly belong to different class. Ganguly focussed more on charm, aggression than improving technique in later parts of career. At his peak, he deserved Dravid's admiration about off-side play. Laxman's is kind of a roller coaster. Injuries, poor/very little confidence shown by selectors, Inspite of his ability to score runs, especially in test cricket. Eventhough Laxaman is not techically perfect, he has his own approach and can be very good against any bowling attack. Sachin & Dravid are the best cricketers for inspiration to younger generations. Even today, Dravid amazes me when he rocks back and cuts the ball through square. Sachin started giving real time video shows by playing some best strokes using best technique. Dravid always looked like someone trying to evolve always and near perfected his technique. Selectors resorting to him after all young blood got "bounced" in England was a great example of his abilities.
I can not think of suresh Raina or Yuvraj or Dhoni displaying such great technique in scoring runs. Imagine test cricket (for India) without Dravid, Tendulkar & Laxaman. It will be Gambhir, Sehwag, Dhoni, Yuvraj,Raina, Rohit sharma, Karthick. Who is the next best technically good player for India after Dravid & Sachin? Rohit sharma has good technique. Dhoni is completely unorthodox. You might enjoy looking at scorecard but not watching him bat. I can not remember him scoring an orthodox cover drive or straight drive. Sehwag is exception. He is good at scoring runs but not completely reliable. Yuvraj does not know how to play cricket without charm and arrogance. He needs constant guidance not to loose patience and temper. Gambhir is good. What is India is 10/3 . who can come out and bat for rest of the day?
But one thing is sure. We will see many players in next year's IPL hitting fours and sixes like they took adrenaline shot. No need for technique just learn one or two things and keep rocking. And IPL continues ruining world cricket and fate of other forms. It is unbelievable that no young cricketer wants become a Bedi or Chandrasekhar or Kapil Dev. All of them want to be Sachin or Dhoni and appear in every ad you can possibly imagine. I do not know how many of yesterday's ICC awards were bought using ad money. And meanwhile Amit mishra, Ojha, Powar will pray god for Harbhajan's retirement. However, thats not the case with fast bowlers. No one looks consistent and promising. Biggest upset being Irfan pathan. He can become Bracken of India. Do not know what happens with him every now and then. I will not surprised if Dhoni is fixing half the matches he plays and paying selectors for his wishes.
It is very unfortunate that we can not see any upcoming quality players in India these days. If you look at Sachin, Dravid, Ganguly & laxman they are like the best examples of 90's cricket. You enter the team based on your talent and consistency and not records. Laxman & Ganguly belong to different class. Ganguly focussed more on charm, aggression than improving technique in later parts of career. At his peak, he deserved Dravid's admiration about off-side play. Laxman's is kind of a roller coaster. Injuries, poor/very little confidence shown by selectors, Inspite of his ability to score runs, especially in test cricket. Eventhough Laxaman is not techically perfect, he has his own approach and can be very good against any bowling attack. Sachin & Dravid are the best cricketers for inspiration to younger generations. Even today, Dravid amazes me when he rocks back and cuts the ball through square. Sachin started giving real time video shows by playing some best strokes using best technique. Dravid always looked like someone trying to evolve always and near perfected his technique. Selectors resorting to him after all young blood got "bounced" in England was a great example of his abilities.
I can not think of suresh Raina or Yuvraj or Dhoni displaying such great technique in scoring runs. Imagine test cricket (for India) without Dravid, Tendulkar & Laxaman. It will be Gambhir, Sehwag, Dhoni, Yuvraj,Raina, Rohit sharma, Karthick. Who is the next best technically good player for India after Dravid & Sachin? Rohit sharma has good technique. Dhoni is completely unorthodox. You might enjoy looking at scorecard but not watching him bat. I can not remember him scoring an orthodox cover drive or straight drive. Sehwag is exception. He is good at scoring runs but not completely reliable. Yuvraj does not know how to play cricket without charm and arrogance. He needs constant guidance not to loose patience and temper. Gambhir is good. What is India is 10/3 . who can come out and bat for rest of the day?
But one thing is sure. We will see many players in next year's IPL hitting fours and sixes like they took adrenaline shot. No need for technique just learn one or two things and keep rocking. And IPL continues ruining world cricket and fate of other forms. It is unbelievable that no young cricketer wants become a Bedi or Chandrasekhar or Kapil Dev. All of them want to be Sachin or Dhoni and appear in every ad you can possibly imagine. I do not know how many of yesterday's ICC awards were bought using ad money. And meanwhile Amit mishra, Ojha, Powar will pray god for Harbhajan's retirement. However, thats not the case with fast bowlers. No one looks consistent and promising. Biggest upset being Irfan pathan. He can become Bracken of India. Do not know what happens with him every now and then. I will not surprised if Dhoni is fixing half the matches he plays and paying selectors for his wishes.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Who is Paul valthaty?
I watched a marvelous innings today by this guy. I think I saw his name pop up in domestic circuit sometime ago. But never really paid attention. But his innings today epitomized class batting as I learned during my childhood. No non-sense cricket. Pure cricketing strokes. And never for once he looked in rush. Except in the end when he flashed his bat to finish it. He played this innings may be a bit too late. By 4-5 yrs. Otherwise he would have been drafted into National squad. His career was halted by an injury to eye it seems. What a luck?
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Champions League 2010
Finally Chennai lived upto IPL hype to clinch CLT20. Warriors unfortunately added more substance SA's chokers image. Dhoni managed his troop really well to squeeze out a good performance in semi-final and final. Ashwin has been a new revelation and in line for next spinners berth on Indian squad. Raina, Vijay were at their best at times to provide solidity. Foreign players contributed in every match to win.
In all, the tournament was of high standard and better compared to IPL. In IPL at least 2 teams appear below par every time. Punjab of course takes first place, while Kolkatta is not even close there. Even champions league showed those shades with Central districts and Wayamba succumbing to pressure in every game. It was amazing to see RedBacks, Lions and Warriors winning games against all teams. All matches were really good with medium and slow pace bowlers controlling games. Mumbai lacked winning attitude, Central Districts has no key players while Wayamba couldn't get their attitude right. Except for Ravi Shastri, Gavaskar and sometime Doul, the commentary was also good. T20 did indeed change the dimension of the game. Watching Champions league T20 on a 36inch HD TV gave me that franchisee sport feel, that we get with NFL & Euro soccer leagues. It was more like a party out there at BullRing except for the serious cricket in the middle.
I felt that RedBacks gaveup too easily in the semifinal but worked too hard to deserve a chance in the final. But Bangalore was up and down and couldn't repeat their magic against Chennai. Lions were decent but not good enough in the crunch games. Victorians were good to comeback strong but were a tad bit late. They had to hope for the third team's loss to enter semis.
To be continued..........................
Friday, July 9, 2010
India vs SriLanka or SoapOpera? - I
Yes. This is what I am thinking about right now. These two cricket boards are so after money that instead playing per calendar and sparing time- they play cricket in spare time i.e when both nations have no ICC commitments. Cricinfo has actual statistics of how many times these two played since Jan 2009. What I don't understand is the attitude of both cricket boards.
BCCI are in never ending Money coma that nothing else matters. No quality bowler? So what Selectors are sleeping and rest of the administration trying to solve "unfortunately become public" issues, power fights & rejecting candidates. BCCI treasurer owns a private cricket franchisee? GOK whats going on. Secretary's son gets a chance in A team. Union minister becomes ICC president. Hello, what is ICC. Indian Cricket Money, corruption Coma. Surprisingly Indian government has no role to play. They do not want to manage cricket like Hockey or other Olympic sports. But I can guess the reasons. They do not want cricketers like Sachin Tendulker buy their own tickets to overseas trips while Govt managed BCCI office houses lousy staff enjoying all the funds through various ways. Hold on! Its just another case of respecting British legacy? Like administration, railways etc? Ghosh, there is no Nehru to send teams to CA, CSA to see how they administer cricket. Rest We know (Money & power).
SriLanka on the other hand is thirsty for matches so it can clear all debts. Every new development- sport minister of the country makes announcement. Not sure I understand if its support or the interest to follow the cricket board on the other side of adam's bridge. Hang on fans. Asia cup organization shows the interest in revenue vs game. Poor floodlights, stupid format & unconvincing effort. Not sure if Bangladesh players remember that series as Asia cup or something else. I sometimes doubt if BCCI & Srilanka Board agreed to play a certain no.of series between them and pre-decided how many to share between them.
So these tests are consequential? No way. Who will enjoy them?
1. Players like Mahela, Tendulkar, Dravid & Murali who were from the test era (and few others of course). BTW, definitely not Yuvi
2. Test cricket fans who will watch them on TVs
3. New fans who come down to see cricketers.
4. Boards for ranking reasons and revenue
5. Yeah. I did not forget. Dhoni, if he wins the series. Not sure Murali or Warne is the best. But Dhoni will be the best among who played against Lanka in all respects.
I want to wake up one day and hear that no one is watching cricket on TVs anymore. Guess what happens to BCCI & SriLankan cricket boards?
to be continued.............................
BCCI are in never ending Money coma that nothing else matters. No quality bowler? So what Selectors are sleeping and rest of the administration trying to solve "unfortunately become public" issues, power fights & rejecting candidates. BCCI treasurer owns a private cricket franchisee? GOK whats going on. Secretary's son gets a chance in A team. Union minister becomes ICC president. Hello, what is ICC. Indian Cricket Money, corruption Coma. Surprisingly Indian government has no role to play. They do not want to manage cricket like Hockey or other Olympic sports. But I can guess the reasons. They do not want cricketers like Sachin Tendulker buy their own tickets to overseas trips while Govt managed BCCI office houses lousy staff enjoying all the funds through various ways. Hold on! Its just another case of respecting British legacy? Like administration, railways etc? Ghosh, there is no Nehru to send teams to CA, CSA to see how they administer cricket. Rest We know (Money & power).
SriLanka on the other hand is thirsty for matches so it can clear all debts. Every new development- sport minister of the country makes announcement. Not sure I understand if its support or the interest to follow the cricket board on the other side of adam's bridge. Hang on fans. Asia cup organization shows the interest in revenue vs game. Poor floodlights, stupid format & unconvincing effort. Not sure if Bangladesh players remember that series as Asia cup or something else. I sometimes doubt if BCCI & Srilanka Board agreed to play a certain no.of series between them and pre-decided how many to share between them.
So these tests are consequential? No way. Who will enjoy them?
1. Players like Mahela, Tendulkar, Dravid & Murali who were from the test era (and few others of course). BTW, definitely not Yuvi
2. Test cricket fans who will watch them on TVs
3. New fans who come down to see cricketers.
4. Boards for ranking reasons and revenue
5. Yeah. I did not forget. Dhoni, if he wins the series. Not sure Murali or Warne is the best. But Dhoni will be the best among who played against Lanka in all respects.
I want to wake up one day and hear that no one is watching cricket on TVs anymore. Guess what happens to BCCI & SriLankan cricket boards?
to be continued.............................
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