Archive for February, 2010

11
Feb

Phoonk 2 [ఆవహం] on April 9th!

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Ram Gopal Varma is coming up with a sequel to his critically acclaimed hit film: PHOONK. This PHOONK II will be released in all the 3 languages of Telugu (as AAVAHAM), Tamil (as BOMMAAYI-2) and Hindi (as PHOONK-2). This sequel is being directed by Milind Gadakkar and RGV produces it! RAMU has been trying to scare us with his horror films (Raat, Bhoot, Phoonk) from many years and has been successful only in parts. We’ll need to see if does that this time at least!

Phoonk II has RGV’s new found talent: Sudeep as it’s hero and other cast includes: Amrita, Ehsaan, Rishab, Maneesh, etc!

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11
Feb

MAHESH BABU in new Thumbs Up AD – STILLS

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Looks like Telugu Superstar: Mahesh Babu is more interested to act in Ad Films/Promos rather than acting in a full length feature film. He seems busy with his Thumbs Up ads one after the other, but it has been ages since his movie got released. Whatever be the reason (personal problems, delay in schedules, etc), MAHESH has to pace up his work and make sure that his next movie (in the direction of Trivikram) will get released even before the audience (at least the normal viewers) forget him…!

The above posted pictures are of his shoot for the promos of new Thumbs Up ad and was shot for few days in Malaysia…!

On the other hand, it’s heard that Ram Charan Teja has been selected as the National brand ambassador (not just for AP and Telugu Media) for PEPSI along with Dhoni and he will be soon featuring in Pepsi promos that will be aired on National Media. It’ll be great if this turns out to be true!

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9
Feb

Spotted – CELEBS – Feb 1st Week…!

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CELEBS list include (in the same order of photographs): Priyamani, Raviteja, Katrina Kaif, Siddarth, Reema Sen, Sruthi Hassan, Priya Anand & Anushka Sharma…!

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5
Feb

BINDAAS movie review: 2.75 / 5*****

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BINDAAS is the latest Telugu Cinema from a debutant director: Veeru Potla (story writer of Varsham & Nuvvastanante Nenoddhantana films) and a new producer: Sunkara Ram. Manchu Manoj Kumar is the hero and Sheena makes her debut as heroine. Music director: Bobo Sashi also makes his debut in Telugu with this family entertainer.

STORY LINE: Story of Bindaas has the shades of other movies like: Kalisundam Raa & Ready, where the hero tries to unite two rival groups/families (of MahendraNaidu & SeshadriNaidu) with his good deeds. He obviously has a lady love and no support from the family initially and as the movie progresses, the hero will gain everyone’s affection! How he succeeds in reaching his goals forms rest of this routine plot.

PERFORMANCES: Manoj impresses us again with his ultra-cool performance. From comic timing to dialogue diction, from action sequences to dance movements: Manoj excells in most of the departments (except his not so great looks/style). He carried the film on his own very well with out any stumbling! Sheena looks cute but not a heroine material (at least for now). She should have waited for few more years to make an entry.

Comedy is the core element around which the film revolves. Brahmanandam, Master Bharat, Suneel, Raghubabu, etc are OK with their roles. MS Narayana steals the show with his small yet hillarious character. Jayaprakash is serious and Ahuti Prasad is just fine as JP’s rival.

TECHNICALS: Director Veeru Potla has taken a routine, simple and not-so-exciting story line to make his debut. But, he succeeded in compensating that with some good screenplay. His dialogues added fun to the film with some great comedy episodes. It looks like the director has taken a clue from Seenu Vytla in narrating a simple yet successful film. Other departments like: Music, Photography, etc are sloppy and doesn’t add anything extra to this flick. Production values are fine though!

ANALYSIS: Bindaas opens with some boring episodes and then tries to move on with fun filled sequences. Though there’s nothing new to talk about the idea/concept, BINDAAS has it’s own merits like: great one-liners, good performance from Manoj and a decent climax. Heroine, music & in-consistent photography will surely work against the film.

BINDAAS is an entertaining film with a beaten story line and I’ve enjoyed watching it (at least in parts) and you can easily TRY the film once! Will go withclose to 3 STARSrating in the end!

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After watching the promos of KEDI movie, I strongly feel that Nagarjuna is still the most good looking hero on the Telugu screen (even after his son: Naga Chaitanya has started acting as hero)…! Mahesh Babu doesn’t have that MACHO kind looks anyways (though many people might prefer him to Nag). And, Pawan Kalyan is one actor who comes closer to Nag’s style/looks. Apart from these 3 heroes, most of the top heroes have their own fan following irrespective of their looks (Vishnu tops my own list of Worst Looking Heroes)…!

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4
Feb

Sekhar Kammula’s CLASH with BIGGIES… again!

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Sekhar Kammula ready with LEADER film

Director SEKHAR KAMMULA is one different person in our film industry with all the guts in this world to make movies in his own style. He is also always dare enough to release his movies along with some other BIG budgeted movie. He has done this twice (and succeeded) in the past and now, he is trying to repeat the magic for the 3rd time with his LEADER movie! Just look at the  following release timings of his films…!

  1. ANAND (Raja & Kamalini) : released with SHANKARDADA MBBS (Chiranjeevi & Sonali)
  2. HAPPY DAYS (Varun, Nikhil & Tamanna): released with CHIRUTA (Ramcharan Teja)
  3. LEADER (Rana & Priya): releasing with KEDI (Nagarjuna & Mamata)

One of the posters of LEADER

Curious to see if LEADER succeeds as the music is really nice and Raana looks great! The trailers are also interesting! Priya Anand is casted opposite Raana. LEADER is releasing on Feb 11th (1 day before KEDI’s release)…!

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YE MAAYA CHESAVE is the latest Telugu film of Naga Chaitanya (Nagarjuna’s son). Tamil director: Gowtam Menon (Gharshana fame) makes his entry into Telugu Film Industry with this love entertainer. Samantha makes her debut as heroine. Oscar award winner AR RAHMAN scores music for this movie. Audio is out and released!

AUDIO REVIEW (RATINGS) of YE MAAYA CHESAVE movie follows:

NOTE: These are just small bit songs (not full songs) posted for review purpose with the highest quality/clarity available. And, please BUY original cassette/cd to enjoy the Full Songs…!

  1. Kundanapu Bomma -> 3.75 / 5

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  2. Manasaa -> 3.0 / 5

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  3. Swaasai -> 3.25 / 5

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  4. Ee Hrudayam -> 3.75 / 5

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  5. Aakaasam -> 3.75 / 5

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  6. Vintunnaava -> 3.25 / 5

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  7. Aaromale -> 4.5 / 5

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Click on PLAY button to start the song and PAUSE button to stop any of the above songs!

Ananth Sriram has penned all the lyrics and the singers list include: Karthik, Benny Dayal, Kalyani Menon, Alphons, Naresh Iyer, Vijay Prakash, Devan, Chinmayi, Suzanne, Blazee & Shreya Goshal

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1
Feb

Yay! AR RAHMAN won 2 Grammy Awards!

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Happy for AR Rahman!


Oscars of Music: GRAMMY AWARDS were awarded few hours back and our 43-year old Musical genious – AR RAHMAN had won 2 of the categories he nominated for. AR Rahman has won the “Best Compilation Soundtrack Album” and “Best Song Written For Motion Picture” for his famous Hollywood flick: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE! What an achievement! I’m so happy and kudos to our little master!

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