A common page for Kannada, Hindi, English new movie reviews!---- By Abhishek S N
| More of it COMING SOON!!!! Here u can find reviews of latest movies in town. Enjoy!!SOUNDARYA Reviews Coming Soon.... BLOOD DIAMOND Blood Diamond is a gem in a season with lots of worthy movies. TIMMA Reviews coming soon... PROVOKED Inspired by the real life traumatic story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia's biography, Circle of Light, Provoked traces the anguish and agony and delivers an act that would leave everyone thinking. PREETHIGAAGI Coming Soon... EKADANTA This is the real moving cinema – 'Chalana Chitra'. The film inside the bus in a gripping and cautious style is narrated by famous Marathi and Hindi actor cum writer Sachin in his debut Kannada direction. He has picked his own novel 'Chala Na Gade'. Besides the hilarious presentation of the film Sachin has shown the right attitude. He knows the pulse of the audience, he has picked the right artists and made 'Ekadantha' that is a very good family entertainer. PARODI Superstar Upendra coming back after a series of debacles in the last years fails to impress once again in this hotchpotch remake film. Drawing inspiration to a maximum extent from 'Kranthiveer' (of Nana Patekar) the film 'Parodi' is disgusting with nothing new in it. What for a creative thinker actor and director Upendra accepted this project? What is the new thing he found in this? Is it just to increase his bank balance? GOK – God Only Knows. A senior director Om Saiprakash with nearly 80 plus films to his credit has not used the minimum common sense. Vijay (Upendra) is the wayward in the childhood (but why does he becomes like that-director gives no answer). He bunks the classes, plays cards collecting friends. This is shocking to his mother and grandfather who have great hopes on him. The grandfather knowing the true colors of Vijay, dies of heart attack while his mother kicks him out of the house giving a label of 'Parodi'. Vijay runs away from his village to become a street smart. He is recognized by a money lender who uses him for his whims and fancies. Vijay has his own ideologies. He does not like those who say it is not possible. Vijay is a source of energy for the people in his colony. In comes the problem from heavy weights in the society to the colony where Vijay is living. The Hindu and Muslim community disturbance created by miscreants reaches the peak. Parodi takes law in to his hands at this stage and kills the judge, police officer and two politicians in the day light. The revolutionary thinking in Vijay finally lands him into trouble. He is sentenced to gallows. Just before Vijay is hanged he is saved as documents provided by journalist support Vijay. Vijay has killed the crooked ones is proved. All the scenes and plots we see in this film are very old. 'Kranthiveer' in Hindi was released a decade ago. The rehashing of the subject and inclusion of latest information has not struck the mind of the director. Upendra has to rethink on selection of his roles. He looks good, dances well and action scenes are mind blowing. Neha is not impressive. Rangayana Raghu renders good support as stingy money lender. Umasri is too much dramatic in her short role. Cinematography by Ramesh Babu is OK but not the music. Rajesh Ramanath picks the popular tunes and adjusted it with new lyrics. This is disappointing even for Upendra fans. DUNIYA It's a welcome trend that new Kannada filmmakers are taking the industry to new heights and direction. Films like Mungaru Male and Jothe Jotheyalli are examples of the new turn of events. Remakes are failing at the box office while original films are making waves. SAJINI There was a lot of hype around Sajini and that was mainly because A R Rahman had composed the music of the film. And it was for the first time that he was doing it for a Kannada film. Unfortunately none of the tunes are original; he had composed them first for the Tamil film Jodi a film that had Prashanth and Simran in the lead roles. Fortunately, all the songs are well choreographed and well shot. BLACK FRIDAY Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Black Friday’ is a hard-hitting movie that revisits the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which more than 300 people died and many were injured. Audaciously and uncompromisingly, director goes deeply into the terror attacks and probes its reasons and aftermath. POLICE STORY 2
DIRECTOR Thriller Manju and Saikumar have teamed up for a sequel of Police Story that was released 10 years ago. Police Story has everything that made the original a sort of
trend-setter —Saikumar’s hamming, over-the-top dialogues, foul language,
lots of killings and of course Thriller’s stunts. ARRASU This is another telltale film on love, friendship, class distinctions and worldly realities. Although neatly made, it falters at various levels and struggles to push through its point of view. Despite a promising start, it ends up as another dull narrative. Director Mahesh Babu's inability to perceive the theme betrays the producer's claim that the late thespian Dr.Rajkumar and his younger brother the late Varadappa were all appreciation for the script. The very title of the film "Arasu" is interesting. But the director Mahesh Babu fails to get to the depth of the title and limits himself to superficial things. The term "Arasu" in Kannada has many contextual connotations. Its general meaning would be king, and search. In the context, the title is applicable to the name and status of the hero and his search for the boundaries of human bondage. Rich and careless young man Shivraj Urs (Puneet Rajkumar) falls in love with his employee's daughter Shrithi (Ramya). But Shrithi challenges the hero to prove his worth by earning money on his own. In the course of proving his mettle, the hero comes across Aishwarya (Meera Jasmine) and realises the boundaries of love and friendship. Puneet's acting and stylish appearance and histrionics of Ramya and Meera Jasmine give an edge to the otherwise stale theme. The climax looks like as if it would impress the 'class' audience, but it actually does not as the justification that the director provides for the climax is just not sufficient. The guest appearances of Darshan and Aditya looks waste. Songs of this movie are just good to listen. Puneeth steals the show in action. Meera Jasmine steals the show in acting. Ramya steals it in glamour. Finally, its left to the audience to make it win or lose! GURU Meet India's most powerful man,........ JUGAARI CROSS @ rangashankara “Jugaari Cross”, a highly acclaimed novel written by K P Poornachandra Tejaswi has been adapted to stage by Samudaya Group and is directed by Nataraj Honnavalli. Since I haven’t read the novel, so can’t say much about the same but after having seen the play, I feel it must be a great novel with lots of political overtones putting forward the present status of society where there is always one person controlling the other who is depicted as “boss”. The whole set of events take place in a span of twenty four hours at a place called Devapura where there is a crossing of four roads named “Jugaari Cross”. Once we start getting into the play we get a feeling that the characters, the turn of events, situations etc., are not at all linked to each other and raises a question in our mind that there is a big “boss” who is controlling all these. What is that person doing and why is he doing that is what we start thinking about. But lateron in the play we get to know how the events and characters are linked to each other. What starts off as a question in our mind culminates in a quest for some ancient hidden truths which get answered at the end of the play. Jugaari Cross as mentioned is a place where people from different walks of life commute with different goals/aims – travelers, cardamom traders, farmers etc. At the cross, it is shown that the forester there is corrupt and extorts money from innocent farmers and traders who pass by that place. The cross is also shown to be a place where lots of underworld activities like smuggling of opium, ganja etc., take place. The main story is told from the point of view of a couple Suresh and Gowri who set out to sell their cardamom at a nearby town called Devapura. Suresh an ex-communist is shown to be a person who is influenced a lot by his guru Ganguli whereas Gowri is a simple girl who wants to be rich by selling off the cardamom at the highest price possible. On their way, in the bus two people from the underworld place a box in their sack of cardamom to protect it from the eyes of police. What is inside the box becomes the centre of attraction from this point. At Devapura they get to know that the weight of the sack is increased by 2.5 kgs and are surprised at this. By this time the people who had placed the box in their sack get to know that it is missing and go in search of the couple. Huchche Gowda, a cardamom merchant at Devapura puts the cardamom they bring for auction and two mysterious people bid at a very high price and pay them through cheque. Since the couple require cash, they go to a commission agent Sethu, who pays them cash after checking out the cheque they bring in and also warns them to be careful. He reveals to them that the person who has signed the cheque is related to the underworld and two people previously have vanished after receiving similar cheques from him. He also tells them about a precious “red stone” which is got near Doni Hole near Devapura. After getting to know about this, the couple get more curious about why they were paid so much for the cardamom and also want to know if the “red stone” story is a reality. The rest of the story is their saga in getting to know the truth behind these and how the different characters they encountered during the day take them towards the truth. Being a metaphorical story, it is quite interesting to know where the couple head towards and the revelations they face make us think of our present society where there is a “boss” above everyone of us to control us and makes us dance to his tunes. A lot of thought is required to get into the real idea behind the story which might be fully clear if we read the novel. Coming to the play, it is a great work by Samudaya to bring such a complex novel (can guess it by the plot!!) on to the stage. Their effort is highly commendable. Good props and sets by Keshava Murthy are an added advantage to give the feel of the Jugaari Cross. Good lighting by Muddanna Rattihalli and Shashidhar Bhaarighaat to give the special effects of a railway tunnel and the smoke to give the misty feeling make the play a treat to watch. The title song which the actors themselves sing on the stage is good to hear and catchy. The play gets a good feeling by the good music of Gajanana T Naik. (Heard that the music for the play was composed in just a day!!!) Good makeup and costumes add to the feel of the play. Some comic moments in between provide a good relief for the viewers who get too involved to know what will happen next in the two hour long play! It is a great work by the director Nataraja Honnavalli to take up the challenge of adapting the novel to stage. He gets the best out of every performer in the play. What I remember the most from the play are some characters like Gowri, Shastri, Ganguli, Suresh and Sethu played with good perfection. Also the title song in chorus from the troupe is captivating and hummable. With each enact, the plays improve and move towards perfection. Also not being the right person to judge the act and actors, what I can say is it’s a good effort by “Samudaaya” and I appreciate their efforts and wish them all the best for their future presentations of ‘Jugaari Cross’ and forthcoming ‘Pampa Bharatha’. A clean review by Chetan B S (my friend).... ee RAJEEV... gandhi alla?... Seeing the promos I was very excited about watching an out and out action movie in Kannada and that too with police touch. The promos are good no doubt. The action and a superb performance as the action hero by Vijay Raghavendra should only attract the mass as there is no perfect story.. It just looks like a commercial documentary to convey a very good message in a harsh way. The movie has good stars two good stars Vijay Raghavendra and Rakshita. The movie seems to bank only on the action oriented performance of Vijay who carries on the job well. The movie tells the story of bravery of 5 police officers of crime branch of Bangalore city and also about their crusade against rowdies, underworld, press and politicians.
The movie starts off well with good narration about the five police officers Rajeev Rai(Vijay Raghavendra), Shravya (Rakshita), Vivek, Musa and Bhiku who are working in Crime Branch Bangalore and their only motto is to free Bangalore from crime and their methods are very very bloody. Their main motto is pumping bullets into body of underworld people and rowdies. In the due course they confront with Dubai based underworld leader names Samson(Shobharaj) and his brother Bachchan. With their act, they become heroes in people's view but they face the ire of the lady Human Rights Commissioner. Their only support is their senior officer who would be shielding them. But once they come in the view of Human Rights Commissioner, he is forced to transfer them to normal police jobs. Here also they perform their duties with full sincerity and try to highlight the problems faced by Police Officers and Constables during their course of duty and bring these to the notice of their seniors. While they are busy with their normal police duties, the underworld activities of extortion etc., increase in Bangalore with Bachchan coming to Bangalore and creating terror. Even the Human Rights Commissioner's child is kidnapped for ransom and is killed and that's when she realizes their necessity in Crime Branch and they get back the job which they are good at! They continue their job of hunting down the underworld people and end up killing Bachchan after he kills Musa. That's when Samson is enraged and comes to Bangalore vowing to kill all of them. He hatches a plan to replace their supporter-the commissioner with his man. Also he plans to break their friendship and damage their career. Will he succeed in his intentions and how does Rajeev and his friends face this? Will they succumb to his plots or fight back is the main story.
With this there are sentimental moments wherein the relationship of Rajeev and his sister (Pavitra Lokesh) is brought about very well. Also, the love between Shravya and Rajeev is given some highlight. But what catches in the movie are its hard hitting dialogues which target towards the Press, Politicians and the Public. Two scenes are very catchy. One wherein the five officers confront the police saying they are doing wrong in accepting bribe quoting their low salary as reason and second is one wherein they confront their new commissioner calls their deceased friend is a mess and they should clean up the mess. Also finally there is a message by Ravi Belegere who puts question to the public about their role in making this society a better place to live by supporting the police by treating them as humans.
Speaking about the technicalities of the movie, the screenplay has a very fast pace which takes a beat with the two unnecessary songs. But I do agree that the songs are required to give a relief to the people from the blood bath all through the movie. One song is an item number which was quite unnecessary. The other one is a duet which I felt was quite out of frame. The music and background score by Sadhu Kokila are just ok and at times too loud to suit the action. Good camerawork to suit the action sequences is mindblowing. But I wonder if it was really required to use so much green filters while filming. The dialogues by Rajashekar and Ramesh are very hard hitting and sometimes very vulgar to invite lots and lots of beeps all through the movie. The dialogues where they speak about the status and real lives of police inspectors and constables, confrontantion with politicians explaining situation of police and their confrontation with their new commissioner after their friend's death are really good.
The direction by Ravi Srivatsa is good and he handles the narration very well. But finally what I wonder about is his intention behind the movie - whether to glorify police or to give a message that nothing can change here in this society and also that honesty in a policeman is bound to ruin him. Finally I came out of the theatre with a question myself that what the director was trying to prove.
Coming to performances, its clearly Vijay Raghavendra who steals the show with his action. He emotes well in his scenes with Rakshita and his sister. Rakshita does a good job as a police officer. Good to see her in such a serious role. But one thing which I noticed was she just disappears in action sequences while the other four are bashing the goons. Quite natural!!! J Shobharaj as Samson is always on phone in the movie fails to impress as the villain. Other three officers ? Vijay, Nagashekhar and Hareesh Rai are just there doing their part. Pavitra Lokesh surprises with her act as Rajeev's sister. She proves that she is talented and needs better roles.
Talking about box office, I personally feel this might not get the family audience which is very much required because of this bloody action and (at-times) vulgar dialogues. Also it might take a back seat because of the other releases Shivrajkumar ? Rakshita's "Thayiya Madilu" which is a family tear jerker and also Abhishek-Aishwarya starrer "Guru" which has got a good opening.
I finally feel that Ravi Srivatsa should have taken steps towards making it more watchable with the family. Actually I found exactly two ladies in balcony in the theatre where I watched the movie. That's what might affect its box-office performance very much. SIXER Reviews Coming Soon... NEELAKANTA Reviews Coming Soon... MUNGAARU MALE At the end of the year, we have a great film which will can bring a charm to the industry in the new year. BY Gandhadagudi Govu ! BHAGAM BHAG Reviews Coming Soon... KALLARALI HOOVAAGI The latest offering by T S Nagabharana "Kallarali Hoovagi" starring Vijay Raghavendra, Umashankari, Anantnag, Bharathi, Ambareesh, Avinash etc., is truly a visual treat to watch.
The movie based on a novel of the same name by B L Venu is a fictitious love story set in Chitradurga during the reign of Madakari Nayaka. The novel itself is truly enchanting to read but T S Nagabharana has put full life into into it in the movie. The story is about the love between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl and their sacrifice for Chitradurga. The author has handled such a meticulous topic so well that there is no scope for so called fundamentalists to create a furore etc., Jayadeva(Vijay Raghavendra) is a postman and a talented youth of Chitradurga. One night he rescues an injured girl Noor Jahan (Umashankari) from the battle field who is shocked after her parents were killed by Madakari Nayaka's (Ambareesh) soldiers. She actually is the daughter of Hyder Ali's (Devraj) main sentinel. Jayadeva brings Noor to his house where his doctor-father, Basayya (Anant Nag) treats her despite Basayya's wife's (Bharathi) initial resentment to keep a muslim girl in their house.
The family has to protect Noor Jahan's identity since she is from the rival king's land. So they rename her as Ratna and she becomes a part of their house. As time flows, Jayadeva falls in love with her and he rejects the offer of marrying his uncle's (Mukhyamantri Chandru) daughter. Madakari Nayaka comes to know of this love between the Jaya and Rathna and approves their love and also makes Jaya one among his trusted men. Jaya too helps the king and kingdom by capturing Hyder Ali's spies with his valor and tact. Towards the climax, he himself acts as a spy of his king in Hyder Ali's army who gather around Chitradurga fort to capture it. He succeeds in defeating them with his clever plans. Finally what would happen to the lovers? Will he able to save chitradurga from Hyder Ali? The Climax becomes a sentimental part of the movie. Vijaya Raghavendra has given the best performance of his lifetime with his nice looks, acting, dancing, fights and espicially the right body language at the right time. Umashankari is good as Noor and looks pretty. (but personally I feel she isnt the right pair for Vijay because she looks a bit oversized compared to him :) ) Anant Nag and Bharathi perform well as they have done before. Ambareesh as Madakari Nayaka impresses in some scenes. Avinash as one of Nayaka's trusted men does his usual best. Mukhyamantri Chandru is loud as Jaya's uncle and Sumalatha as Nayaka's wife hardly speaks in the movie. Also seen in the movie is the thespian M P Shankar as one more trusted men of Nayaka. This definitely is Vijay Raghavendra's movie and will be a showcase of his acting prowess and his display of various emotions and also valor. No doubt he will be compared with Annavru in doing justice to historical themes.
And very much the movie will also be compared with the other historical release of the year "Gandugali Kumararama". T S Nagabharana wins at his narration by getting out the best of everything from all his actors. Be it expressing the love in terms of "sampige" flower or depicting valor in the eyes of the actors, Nagabharana scores as the best. The film also has its light moments when Bharathi dreams about her household turning into a muslim household. This evokes lots of laughter and its not overboard. The sets are lavish - thanks to producer Madhu Bangarappa, the producer who has put in lot of money in making of the movie. The historic sets in the ramparts of Chitradurga are very convincing and realistic to suit the Durga of those times. Nagini Bharana wins in the costume design category. The two other heros of the movie other than Vijay Raghavendra deserve a huge applaud. Firstly, the music and background score by Hamsalekha which are too much in tune with the time and mood of the movie. The songs are very situational and captivating which are very suitably put at the correct situations. The title song and biriyani song are a treat to watch and hear. Secondly, the photographer of the movie, H C Venu takes the viewers to the visual delight of the fort and ramparts of Chitradurga.
Totally its a good movie and might turn out to be the return of historical movies to the Kannada screen. Great work by T S Nagabharana and Hamsalekha who enlighten the movie with this skill and expertise.
TENALI RAMA Tenali Rama is an out and out comedy movie. Hatrick director, Nagendra Magadi has come up with an other comedy movie after "Olu Saar Olu" and "Honeymoon Express". Ramesh and Jaggesh combine for the firstes time together imn a movie. Jaggesh has performed very well in this movie. DHOOM 2 Reviews Coming Soon... C/O FOOTPATH C/O Footpath is the movie which can make not only Karnataka proud, but even has made the whole of India proud. Master Kishan creates a history by becoming the world's youngest movie director. He has also succeeded in his efforts of directing and acting. This way, C/O Footpath becomes a masterpiece for Kannada film industry. Great artists of India like Jackie Shroff, Saurabh Shukla, Tara, Sudeep, Rebel Star Ambarish, Ravi Belagere, Mimicry Dayanand, B.Jayashree etc have been a part of this movie along with Master Kishan himself. The story is all about the success story of a small rag picker whose address is supposed to be "C/O Footpath". The rag picker, who has no parents will be living in a slum and his name would also be 'slum'(Master Kishan) :D. B.Jayashree has managed the role of the guardian of 'slum'. 'Slum' develops interest in studies and starts learning with the help of children who go to school everyday by completing his rag picking work everyday early morning. He struggles hard and completes all the lessons up to 5th Std at his small age of 8 years without any proper teacher, time and books. Later he wins the heart of certain people, teachers and manages to get admission to the school for 3rd standard. But he rejects that because he would be sure that he has completed all lessons up to 5th standard. This delays 'Slum's admission to school and he continues reading lessons and comes up to 7th standard lessons. Later his guardian ( whom he calls mother) dies. Will Slum get admission for the right class(standard)? Will he get to write the examination? How does he succeed in life later? Kishan gives a reply in an amazing way in this movie. Saurabh Shukla of Bollywood has acted as MLA's sisya and gives the right expressions. Rebel Star Ambarish wishes Kishan, all the best, in the first scene. Kiccha Sudeep makes a guest appearance by taking the role of filling enthusiasm in to 'Slum'. Jackie Shroff as the Chief minister looks uncomfortable with doing lip movements to adjust to kannada dialogues. Ravi Belagere gives his 'Crime story' voice in the beginning of the movie. Music looks fairly cool and suits the sequences in which they are put in. Master Kishan has not failed one bit in directing this master piece. Hats off his confidence, courage and of course his talent! This movie has already won 2 state awards. Master Kishan has already also entered Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest director in the world which had a European's name all this time in that place. Overall, its the best movie possible to see for children who go to school. Its the one movie that any Kannadiga should watch also. :-) I wish Kishan all the best in his future endeavors. TANANAM TANANAM Tananam Tananam, is the first movie in which the 2 (R)s of Sandalwood have acted together. Yes, Rakshita and Ramya have done a great job by accepting to act in this movie together. Ramya looks cute as usual and Rakshita has not disappointed her fans. Kavitha Lankesh, whose movies have never failed to impress the class audience has given a mega treat for kannadigas this way! The main heroine of this movie can be told as Ramya as the story revolves only around this girl even though Rakshita's role is the most important role for the story. Sham, a young, talented, smart guy who comes to the village to learn violin from his uncle(Girish Karnad), whose daughter is Ramya. Bharathi plays the role of mother of Ramya. Looking at the talent, nature, potential of Sham, Ramya's parents decide to arrange for Ramya's marriage with Sham. Ramya also starts liking Sham. At the same time, a stage drama team arrives in to the village for daily shows. Rakshita would be the main heroine of the whole drama team because of her beauty and talent. Rakshita will also be the main reason for the survival of her team. As many of the men in that village, even Sham gets attracted towards Rakshita and blindly falls in deep love with her. He loses interest in his music practice and other activities and falls behind Rakshita. Later Rakshita tries to explain her weaknesses and her helplessness which is making her not to accept Sham's proposal and leaves the city along with her team. Sham in an accident loses his eyesight and later becomes very depressed about Rakshita even though Ramya cares for him a lot at home. Whom will Sham marry? How will Ramya try to make blind Sham happy? These questions are well answered by kavitha lankesh in the movie. The movie would have been made much better. The lack of good editing can be clearly seen during start of song sequences and other main scenes. Comedy scenes have been inserted forcefully with hardly any comedy! The stage play sequences of Rakshita slows down the tempo of the story. Music has come out well with all songs melodious. Girish Karnad gives his majestic usual performance. Ramya has acted the climax in style. Sham needs to improve a lot in acting even though he appears good in some scenes. Looks like its a fairly good movie for the family. Lets see!... http://www.chitraloka.com/hubli/00002/00002.swf 'Hubballi' is supposed to be the biggest venture of 2006 in Kannada Cinema. Om Prakash Rao, after the success of 'A K 47', 'Huccha','Mandya' has come back for sudeep with an other typical "mass"movie. Sudeep, in his last movie tasted failure("tirupathi"). This film just looks like tirupathi-part 2 with some suspense. PAANDAVARU "Pandavaru" is a well packaged film with some commercial elements which appeal to baser instincts. It is like a made to order entertainer made with a big star cast, five of them heroes at one time or the other.
DON DON, the multi-starrer, most expected movie has been released as promised before, on Diwali-Eid. A remake of Amitabh Bacchan starrer 'DON', now made by Farhan Akhtar is a actually a remix of original 'DON' to suit the present generation. The movie features how 'DON' keeps escaping all attempts to catch him and his team by the police and opposite gangs. The movie doesnt show any scene to explain the kind of bussiness('deal') being done by DON and his team except for the discussion about DON that goes on amongst the police. The twists in the movie makes the audience sit on the edge of the seats. The intermission twist and climax twists are the most amazing twists of the movie! Sharukh Khan, even though doesn't reach Amitabh's class acting, manages the main role well in most of the scenes.Priyanka Chopra shines again in this movie which has made her increase her 'pay per movie' considerably. Kareena and Isha appear 'now and then' in the movie and have done justice to their roles. Arjun Rampal has done his role with style. Some famous dialogues: SHRADHAA @ 'rangashankara' This play by the new troupe "Panchamukhi Natara Samuha" (staged at rangashankara on 17th October) deals with the feelings of devotion of four children who realize their father's love towards them late in life. The play was executed technically well with the basic Set Design, good Sound Design and very good Lighting Design. I felt the lights spoke for themselves with the actor's mood. Rangashankara was the best place to watch the play. One of the speciality is that they dont have a microphone or a speaker to enhance the voice. Dialogues and music reach your ears as it is which gives u a very pleasant experience. The seating arrangement is also very good and at the same time comfortable for typical one hour play. The discipline that is followed inside the theatre is wonderful. Overall, it was a different experience! WOH LAMHE... Coming Soon.... SNAKES ON A PLANE Coming Soon... JEEVANA CHAITRA(Re-Released) Coming Soon..... JOTHE JOTHEYALI Jothe Jotheyali is a movie which is actually different from other films because, the story is a very common story! The simplicity of the story makes the audience easily guess what is gonna happen next. AISHWARYA CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE THEM ENLARGED Aishwarya was the most awaited movie ever since Indrajit Lankesh(Director) announced about it and made news by giving new look to super star, real star Upendra. 'Aishwarya', even though termed as originally inspired by the director Indrajit, has its core script borrowed from the movie MANMATHUDU(telugu), and some comedy flashback sequences from the movie GAJINI(tamil). But he had combined both of them intelligently and has shown it on the screen very nicely. Aishwarya is a movie with a very simple story, but presented in a very stylish and entertaining way. Indrajit Lankesh again shows richness, style and freshness, as he has done in his all other movies. Upendra bears a new look in this movie,-> full short hair cut with some part of it coloured in the latest fashion style. Deepika Padukone is one more star attraction for this movie. She really looks hot and beautiful on the screen. The acting part is also not bad from her!. Even though Daisy Bopanna's role is actually copied from the tamil super-hit GHAJINI, it doesnt irritate the audience, but it instead creates interest and fun among them. Daisy looks gorgeous as ever. Uppi's style of living in the movie and his dialogue delivery impresses his fans(and also me). One of the main negative is again the voice dubbing part of it in the first half of ther movie. Lip movements and dialogues have not been edited and re-recorded properly in some scenes in first half. Even though, this irritates the audience, it wont remain in 'his' memory for long time because of the entertainment that the movie provides. (4 star rating in Times of India) More photos here http://www.chitraloka.com/aishwarya/gallery.html LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI Lage Raho Munnabhai, is a movie has light hearted comedy with prominance shown to Gandhiji's values (termed as 'Gandhigiri' in this movie!). Its a movie from which a person can get inspired to speak truth and have such values, principles in life for betterment of himself. This movie is not an exact sequel to "Munnabhai MBBS". But the character of Munnabhai has been used to present again a good story with comedy. Arshad warsi has timed his comedy very well in the second half of the movie. Abhishek Bhachan's guest appearnce impresses the audience. Diya Mirza provides justice to her role. Vidya Balan features as a heroine in this movie and has proved herself. To be continued!.. :-) GANDA-HENDATHI and a Boyfriend CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE THEM ENLARGED Review Coming Soon... APPU (Re-Released)
Review Coming Soon... ODAHUTTIDAVALU Odahuttidavalu is a movie with 3 'R's.... Ravichandran, Rakshitha, Radhika as the stars. But the story only revlolves around the first 'R', crazy star Ravichandran... In one sentence it can be called as a "Typical Sai prakash movie". Lots of scope for brother-sister sentiments as the movie title itself conveys. All roles other than Ravichandran's role (brother) and the sister's role, are just to highlight more about that brother- sister relationship and they have nothing important to do as in other traditional movie heroine roles. The movie story has a great message embedded in it! The director makes the successfull supporting actor 'Komal Kumar' to deliver that message in the movie very intelligently. It makes the audience think more about it. The scene where in Ravichandran denies to marry his lover, rakshitha in the climax but instead marries a physically handicapped person is very impressive. This scene proves the hero's dedicated love for his sister. The scenes are beautifully sequenced to maintain the pace of the story. The story revolves around a simple ordinary man who wants his ugly and dumb sister to be married to a very good and wealthy person beacause of his love towards her. He is ready to sacrifice his wealth, life and everything else for her. He forgets that his main intention is to keep his siter happy between this. But he later finds out that his approach of searching bridegrooms is not correct. By that time, it would be too late and he loses his sister in a very interesting twist. He also denies to marry the girl who loves him, for the girl whom he loves amidst all these. But in the climax, he denies to marry her too and marries a physically handicapped girl to show his dedicated love towards his sister. Why exactly does he do it? This is the theme of the story which has been brought out very sensitively and beautifully. R.P.Patnaik's music is pretty soothing. "Kumbara Kumbara" song in the movie has great lyrics. Radhika and Rakshitha shine in glamour and their 'sacrificing scenes'. Ravichandran does his usual acting in this movie too. Komal kumar has an important role in the climax. Sadhu kokila (as 'jogi' :-) ) and Rangayana Raghu have done justice to the light comedy scenes in the movie. Overall, its a sentimental movie with a great message in it, is what I would say! NANNA KANASINA HOOVE 'Nanna kanasina hoove' is a simple and straight forward story which has a message "Believe in Dreams". Its not any usual College love story. Its not an usual story with violence and other stuff. The story really shines in the movie. The story revolves around a fat, simple boy deepu(joshi) who wants to express his love to a girl who is the boy's mistress and this boy is her servant in her house! Vinayak Joshi really suits for the role. He looks cute and has done good acting in his first movie as a hero though there are areas for him where he can improve a lot in his movies to come. I wish him all the best for this. Generally in most of the movie reviews, I keep pointing out the mistakes in the screenplay and direction. But this movie screenplay does not have much of mistakes or confusiion. The screenplay is rather very intelligently and logically designed to suit the actual reality. 2 songs are really impressive which includes even the title track. I would say that the theme and concept of the story has come out very well. The team's attempt to get a neat and clear movie out, should be really congratulated. The screenplay has utilised the personality of Vinayak joshi(Fat personality) very well to create logical build-ups to the story. For eg, there is a dialogue where in people see vinayak's dance and they say that, "There is nothing special when an ordinary guy dances. But its a news when a fat guy like him dances well !". This is ofcourse true and has been very intelligently introduced to give reasons as to why vinayak joshi's dance is liked by people in the movie. Positives:
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I personally feel that these negatives should not matter at all for a viewer! When you come out of a theatre, you would be really feeling good about the story. I really wish a very good luck to joshi for his debut movie and also for his future attempts. By Abhishek S N MOHINI Rajendra Singh Babu is one of the few directors in Kannada who tried his hand in almost all genres of cinema and has been successful. Now, for the first time, he ventured into a horror thriller 'Mohini' and it's very disappointing to see Babu as a loser. GANDUGALI KUMARARAMA
-Which was the last seen historical movie? Ashoka? Mangal Pandey? Taj Mahal?
KRRISH
A sequel to Koi Mil Gaya movie. Lowest standard story for the present trend. The script of the movie is a combination of all of the very common sequences in other traditional hindi movies. But the picturization, the way of portraying characters is very good. People planning to watch this movie should not search for a good story in this. The story is just meant to show Hrithik in action. Hrithik does justice to his role as Krishna, Krrish and Rohit. The concept of 'future dectecting computer' doesnt have a base. Only chidren can beleive in this story(probably not even them!). The best part of the story can be seen when Naseeruddin Shah tries to build a future detecting computer 'again' which was previously built and now destroyed(bcoz Rohit gets to know shah is the villian!) by genius Rohit(Hrithik)(but he would not have destroyed the research papers related to it). Shah keeps Rohit survived only for one reason! He comes to know that the the password for the machine was Rohit's retina and heartbeat scans! Funniest part is here.. when he is trying to build the machine from scratch again(as it was destroyed), what is necessity to retain the password as Rohit's retina and heartbeat scan only :P ??. Even if they are so dumb, how can they make the machine learn about such a password when developing the machine again without Rohit?? There are many such great holes in the story. The script seems to be very easily written as it seems to be borrowed from the movies such as minority report, paycheck, and not to miss - typical old hindi movie sequences :). But as far as the special effects are concerned, they have come out really well. Second half gives some sort of pleasure to the audience! Hrithik in action is a treat to watch. One song is very melodious. Must watch for Hrithink fans ofcourse!
THE OMEN
Although tagged with the term "horror movie", u dont get horrified anywhere! (I agree it would be a horror for the characters in it, if they would have faced such situations. But the main theme of horror movies is to induce horror among the audience right? Omen fails to do it effectively). I would say, the rework of the concept of anti-christ was good. The way in which people get to know that the child must be an anti-christ is also applaudable. Personal feeling is that the ending was not satisfactory and I was not getting horrifed as much as I expected..(Its anyway subjective to people..right :)) )
CHELLATA
Superb hilarious comedy. Director makes no mistake in projecting what is planned. Although 'Comedy Time' Ganesh features as the hero first time in a kannada movie, he doesnt have much to do with the comedy scenes. Rangayana raghu's ring episode, Madhumaga episode, Engagement episode, Dharmendra episode etc make the audience die out of laughter. A Must watch for a comedy & time pass lover! Hot Rekha comes back with a hit again. Gurukiran has given good music asusual.
FINAL DESTINATION - 3
I would call FD-3 as an underdog when compared to FD-1 and FD-2. FD-1 created waves bcoz of the concept and stunning scenes it had. FD-2 made waves as it was an intelligent sequel to FD-1 with more of stunning scenes. But FD-3 fails to continue the trend! No doubt, it has some funky scenes.. but it fails to reach the suspense. The pattern has become very common now after FD-1 and FD-2 although the concept remains interesting(finding out the pattern of death and cheating death!) CYANIDE
1)Wonderful movie! 2)All real, no reel 3)Very serious movie 4)No masala added to make the movie run! 5)No songs, fight, bomb blast, dance sequences 6)3-4 comedy dialogues which is also absolutely real. No intentional comedy introduced anywhere 7)Objective of the movie seems to be very clear to the director. 8)No heroism and villainish hypes created. No attempts in the movie to show(or hype) the power of any character. All the characters considered as normal people with their own priciples of life.
Coming to the story, its a real story which expalins the 20 day trauma faced by Shivarasan, Shubha and fellow militants who were responsible for Rajiv Gandhi's murder when they were at bangalore before they died in the konanakunte house in bangalore. It shows how they shifted places inside bagalore and finally came to konanakunte house to die!
Its not a movie for which a lot of efforts seem to have been put in terms of finance. Its just the exact replica of what happened from Aug 1st 1991 to Aug 20th 1991 in Bangalore. There is no imagination involved here. But the screenplay has come out wonderfully to make the audience sit on the edge of their seats until the end even though whole country knows the climax! The fact that all theatres in bangalore are running housefull shows proves the fact!
Shivarasan (with one eye :-) ) has acted wonderfully. Tara deserves an award for acting exactly as Mrudula. Rangayana Raghu as ranganath seems to be really serious in acting! Malavika as subha has been capable of showing expressions to show that what she has done is right from her perspective and even demands sympathy successfully! Sandeep Chowta's background score helps to make the audience feel the trauma themselves!
Technically speaking, all is fine except for the dubbing in few scenes of actors Nazeer, Suresh Hubliekar and reffering the victim who was killed in the bomb blast as 'VIP'(as though u dont want disclose the name directly expecting censor problems) sometimes and as 'Rajiv Gandhi' in some scenes. But this doesnt seem to be reflecting on the audience very much. One thing which was the best, was the camera-work and lighting!
According to me, it was a cake-walk for the police actually to find out the hiding place of the militants. No heroism was involved there! It was all due to the foolish clues left out by people who helped the militants to hide.
To find out the real trauma faced by Shivarasan, Subha and fellow militants and innocent people involved in it, watch Cyanide!
FANAA
-First half looks really as a big reel to me! Story starts from the second half. When you analyse the story you can feel that the second half is the main story and to create those situations, the first half has been exploited, resulting in mixing unbeleivable things. The theme of the story looks like a very old known theme. But it has been told in a different way, especially the second half. Shayaris form the basic entertainment during the first half! Story seems to be dragging during second half but actually its not!!! Overall, a good movie infact when compared to present standards!
MI-3
-Good combination of Action and sentiments. It seems to me that they have purposely introduced the sentiments part for the story which is unusual for a MI movie. The action scenes looks really dangerous. Sentiments form the story. Action scenes form the movie!
TIRUPATHI
-As usual nice acting by sudeep. First half seems to be a bit boring. It only has gimmicks to show who is the hero and how strong is the villan. Second half seems interesting and full of action. But the last 10 mins would be very much predictable. The way he kills people(enemies) in the second half cannot be justified!!! GOOD LUCK - Hero and villan are not projected traditionally as in other movies. Interesting characters makes the movie interesting. Radhika does usual acting with same exposure level. Damini provides justice to her role even though unnecessary exposure is highlighted.! HONEYMOON EXPRESS
- Clean comedy... Interesting first half. But a dragging second half.... But full of comedy sequences... Nothing new in fact! DATTA
--Nice Timepass movie... Nothing great.. Even then interesting! Keeps u entertained completely! Darshan rocks in comedy! Ramya looks cutest here!
TAVARINA SIRI
--Probably a Kasthuri nivasa/Bangarada manushya by Shivanna. Daisy has done her role well. Shivanna needs to improve still.
JULIE
-Doesnt suit the current generation at all. People watched it only for ramya.
SEVANTHI SEVANTHI
-Nice story... Seems like u dont want to get out of the theatre even after the movie ends. Nice idea to feature folk songs in a nice tune for this movie. Super hit! Ramya again looks superb in it.! Vijay Raghavendra has sung a song for the first time. He has acted as usually superb.. He is anyway a national award winner!!
MY AUTOGRAPH
- Still going great after 130 days!!!! No comments... Congrats to Sudeep!
AMBI
-Nothing new... Bad acting by hero.
AJAY
-Superb action!!!! Action == Ajay! Puneeth Rajkumar has proved himself again. Sure to run for 200 days is what i say! Songs are melodious too!
AMRITHADHAARE
- Need not comment on Nagathihalli's work. Ramya looks really gorgeous. Touches the heart finally!
DA VINCI CODE!
- Not Bad.. But not so good.... Can only provide life to our imagination about the story in the novel. Not a complete movie. Should see after reading the novel. But after you read the novel, the climax would be very obvious for you, which would not make you sit in the edge of the seat.
AKASH
"Akash" is the new production from Kannada Movie icon Dr. Raj Kumar's production company, better known for its neat family entertainers. The films produced by Ms. Parvathamma Raj Kumar, wife of Dr. Raj Kumar have some brand value in the Kannada film industry, as the films will not have even a tinge of sex, violence and double meaning dialogues.
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