Monday, February 22, 2010

Leader - My View ..

First word about 'Leader' is Simply Superb....  Hatsoff to Sekhar Kammula for his honest attempt.

Movie comes at the right time in view of present crisis  "the absence of a LEADER."
The movie is how politics, politicians change the man who enters into politics to do something good for the public.  The movie is how Arjun Prasad( Rana) enters into the politics  to save the public from corruption, insane politicians and to change the way of politics,  finally seeing himself falling with them and how he comes out from them .

Performance wise Rana is ok... well suited for the role. His strcuture (height, body)suited well. His voice is good. He need to work on expressions. Kota has excelled as Peddayana. Suhasini Maniratnam is good as Rana's Mother. Special mention for Subbaraju .

After Kammula , the hero is Mickey J Mayor ... who has  given wonderful music. Background score has elevated scenes...

Special note for the dialogues.Dialogues are simple and shot.

There are few for instance hero's mother says " I want my son to be a leader not a politician" and hero in climax says " oka aadapillaki  nyaayam cheyya leni CM vunte enta vudithe entha"

 Kammula shows what the leader is in the movie

It also has some flaws . Over all movie is good.

My rating is 4/5. Worth to watch and must watch movie.

Monday, February 15, 2010

View on Yugaaniki Okkadu ..

Yugaaniki Okkadu...

Two things raised my expectations on this movie 1. Sri Ragava 2 . long duration taken for the shoot.
The movie got hype in telugu through the promotions as movie is in list of Arundati, Magadheera, 2012... But to say visual effects are good but not like in the above mega hits..


Firstly, I'd like to tell Ragava ( Film Director) to reduce the Violence in his movies... Really Guys some scences are too violent & repugnance . but should applaud him for taking such different concepts..

Movie is dubbed version of Tamil - Aayirathil Oruvan, which is doing decent business ( offcourse got mixed reviews). Moves starts with around 1279AD , the war between Cholas and Pandyas in Tanjavur (Tamilnadu). Fearing losing to Pandyians,  Chola king  sents his Prince with his Guru and other remainders  to save chola dynasty to a secret territory. They take Pandyas sacred idol with them. Pandyans explore all the ways, methods to retrieve the sacred idol and the last chola which go all in vain. Coming to the present, an archaeologist goes missing in search of the secret location of the lost chola group. Indian GOvt forms a team with Anitha and ex major in expedition of the lost chola group and missing archaeologist.
Along with them the daughter of missing archaeologist and a team of helpers goes for the expedition. Their journey, how they face the traps set by cholas to protect themselves from Pandyans forms rest of the movie.

Applauds to Ragava and Ravindran (producer)in taking this subject which invloves heavy budget (32 crores as per wikipedia)  and risk. 

Partiban has done excellent job as present Chola king. Karthi excelled in his role. Reema sen is hot ,, and Andrea has nothing to do...

Photography by Ramji is excellent and editing is OK ...music elevates the scenes. G.V. Prakash has done good job in background score but failed for songs.

Shouldn't watch with Children..some scenes are abhorrence with violence and sex ...

Visual effects in the movie are good.. the only thing to watch in this movie..

Finally my rating - 2.5/5 ... 

Saturday, February 13, 2010

KEDI - My View ..

Today went for NAG's KEDI ...

First things first .. Movie is simply sick .... NAG has done his job, same with other artists and technicians except KIRAN....debut director...

KEDI is defntly a new genre movie in Telugu .. Credit goes to Nagarjuna for encouraging these type of variety stories..Kiran got golden chance directing a big hero wasted it.

Mamatha has nothing to do except fo few scenes. Harshavardhan as  Hero's frnd done good job. Brahmi elevated his scenes. Those r the only ones saving grace in the movie. Kelly Dorjee and Linda are wasted in small roles. Ankur as a villian did neat job. But Wonder why Kiran roped all the talented artists for small roles like Guy who played as Shailesh Yadav ( Maoist), Linda, Kelly DOrjee, Tanikella Barani..

Music by Sandeep is good  but not as expected in "SUPER" .editing , Photography r good...

Finally,, KEDI is not the one to watch in Cinemas. If u have money and time or a hardcore fan of NAG u can ..Else wait for DVD or to telecast in some channels...

My Rating :- 2/5