Archive for the ‘Telugu’ Category

Madatha Kaja – Suffers from Loose (Motional) Screenplay…oops!

Madatha Kaja

For some reason, Allari Naresh has stuck to his image of being a comedy hero and over the last few years, he has been churning innumerable comedies. Most of them actually work and it’s quite natural to expect that his films would be outrageously funny, unless stated otherwise. The biggest crime a comedy film can [...]

Dookudu – Mahesh-Brahmi-MS save the day

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Dookudu is a typical Srinu Vaitla’s film where the hero dupes a bunch of sidekicks to achieve his goals in a highly entertaining fashion. In a lot of ways, it’s a carefully designed film where the writers seem to have resolved to strike a balance between an action film and a family entertainer with oodles [...]

Gambler – Ajith’s show all the way

Gambler

There are films which work because everything falls in place and then there are films where one character overshadows almost everything else. Gambler, starring Ajith, Arjun and Trisha falls in the latter category.  Directed by Venkat Prabhu, this action thriller has a huge ensemble cast including Vaibhav, Mahat, Premji, Ashwin, Jayprakash, Lakshmi Rai, Anjali, Andrea [...]

Akasame Haddu – Surprisingly good

Akasame Haddu

Akasame Haddu is a surprisingly good film for what it tries to achieve. Navdeep, Rajeev and Panchi Bora play the lead roles in this romantic drama which has an important message that life and career is more important than love. Yes, we have had films which run on similar lines; however, Aakasame Haddu keeps you [...]

Nenu Nanna Abaddam – OMG range WTFness!

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Nenu Nanna Abaddam desperately tries to fall in the genre of films like ‘Premisthe’ and the sense of realism which the film tries to achieve fails to live up to its promise. Directed by Govind Varaha, the film has Nandu and Divya Nagesh in lead roles as two young lovers who are separated from each [...]

1947 – A Lover Story is a great effort

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Filmmakers, often, go to great lengths when it comes to making a period film in terms of research, set designing, costumes and several other issues. 1947-A Love Story is one such film which is set in Madras in the mid 1940s when the British rule in India was almost coming to an end. Directed by [...]