Jai Bolo Telangana, directed by N Shankar is essentially a love story which unfolds in the wake of the Telangana movement which took the state by storm in 2009. The film has Sandeep and Meera Nandan in lead roles while Smriti Irani, Jagapathi Babu, Nagineedu and few others play important roles. The film chronicles the [...]
Does love change with time? How long does love last between two individuals? Is it possible for two people to have the same amount of love all their lives? Questions like these form the base for Ram Charan’s new film Orange. It narrates the story of bloke who’s very practical and honest about his love, [...]
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Tags: Bhaskar, Genelia, Love, Love Story, Orange, Orange Film Essay, Rajasekhar, Ram Charan Tej, Romance, Shazahn Padamsee, Truth 
5 Comments »Mani Rathnam, the name itself conjures million images of varied emotions and classics like Nayagan, Iruvar, Roja, Kannathil Mutthamital among several other films. He’s the undoubtedly one of the brightest diamond to have emerged from Chennai and a rare film maker who has managed to transcend all boundaries of language, stars and superstars. People would [...]
Posted in Films, Hindi, Movie Reviews, Movies Tags: abhishek bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Beera, Mani Rathnam, Manikandan, Raavan, Raavan Movie Review, Raavanan, Ragini, Ramayan, Santosh Sivan, Sreekar Prasad, vikram 6 Comments »Few days ago, I received an e-mail where the person who had sent the e-mail wanted to meet me to discuss matters of great importance. I had never even seen or heard about this gentleman. The reason behind this unusual request, atleast the way I see it, is that he had read my blog and [...]
Telugu Cinema lacks originality is the new cliché! In an age when raking in moolah is the only thing on a film maker’s mind, it’s hard to say if fresh ideas can ever be brought forth in our films. Interestingly, the parameters of a typical Telugu movie’s formula might have changed, but the fact still [...]
Posted in Film Essays, Movies Tags: Aithe, Baanam, Chaitanya Dantuluri, Chandrasekhar, Deva Katta, Leader, Prasthanam, Saikumar, Sekhar Kammula, Sharwanand, Sundeep Kishan 22 Comments »
Note: The Post is written from the perspective of how multiplexes in Hyderabad are changing the way we watch Telugu movies (and only Telugu movies!)…read on. Every year in the hinterlands of Andhra Pradesh, families get together for three days of festivities. The month is January and the occasion is Sankranthi which is the most [...]
Posted in Film Essays, Films, Movies Tags: Audience Behaviour, Hyderabad, INOX, multiplexes, Prasads, PVR, RTC X Roads, Telugu Cinema, Telugu movies, ticket prices 9 Comments »
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