Mahatma POSTER

MAHATMA is the latest Telugu Film starring Srikanth (100th film) & Bhavana. MAHAATMA movie is directed by creative director (so called?) Krishna Vamsi.

STORY: Das (Srikanth), a small time goon in Hyderabad joins the gang of local MLA, Daada (Jayaprakash Reddy) to become a hero in the film industry. Dada starts using Das for his own evil purposes and in the process, Das realises the cunning nature of Dada and comes out by challenging Dada. Krishnaveni (Bhavana), a junior lawyer keeps bailing out Das in the trouble times and both fall in love with each other.

Das starts a political party named ‘Mahatma party’ with the help of his gang (consisting of Uttej, Paruchuri, etc). With an enlightening song narration, Das transforms to a Gandhian giving up liquor, non-veg, violence, etc and he gets good media coverage and fan base (with just 2 media coverages…??) in the process. How he follows Gandhi principles and become a winner forms rest of the plot.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Srikanth‘s intense performance (though he tried to imitate Chiru in drinking sequences).
• Jayaprakash‘s terrific performance as a cruel politician & Ram Jagan‘s unexpected portrayal of freedom fighters.
• Pre-interval episode and RamJagan’s death scene were very good.
• Starting titles’ song & “Indiramma inti peru…” song were pretty effective with wonderful lyrics by Sirivennela.
• Duvvasi Mohan’s 2 minute episode about the qualifications of a hero is hilarious.
• One drunkard yelling out the names of different party leaders like: ‘budda ntr’, balayya, chiru, JP, etc is pretty realistic.

PITFALLS:

• 1st things first: Director KrishnaVamsi has lost his touch long back (with Khadgam movie) and now, he tried to dish out a message oriented film in a commercial way and he succeeded only in bits and pieces.
• Over concentration of satires on present film industry and political scene dilutes the main purpose of film: showcasing the ideoligies of Mahatma Gandhi.
• The inconsistency of hero’s character over the principles of Gandhi is very sub-standard.
• A dream song with a group of dancers was mis-placed when the film is getting engaged.
• Mass-orientation should have restricted the director’s risk attitude.
• Film clearly lacks the entertainment quotient.

Final ANALYSIS: Though MAHATMA is not great, we can watch the film for it’s own merits. Vijay Anthony’s re-recording work was better than the songs scored for the film. The film gives us a feeling of watching some 1995 film and doesn’t completely get into the concept. It also reminds us some of SriHari’s movies, KodiRamakrishna movies that were purely targetted at B & C centers. To be frank, the film has got good response from general public many a times during it’s run, but the director has failed to maintain the grip until the final episodes.

MAHATMA will surely attract masses and will be a safe project (at least in B & C centres)…!

Tamil and Telugu film industries were annoyed to see an half page article published by DinaMalar newspaper revealing the names of few prominent actresses and linking them with the ‘Flesh Trade‘ scandal. Few days back, character actress Bhuvaneswari [Click to see Photo] was arrested on the charges of running a brothal house in Chennai and running a sex racket. As per the news, DinaMalar was able to contact her and has published an article saying that it’s the confession report given by Bhuvaneswari herself.

Bhuvaneswari's article published by DinaMalar

Buvaneswari confessed that many other actresses in the industry are involved in this sex-racket. The names that she revealed include: Namitha, Nalini, Seetha, Manjula Vijaykumar, Shakeela, SriPriya & Anju. She said that the above mentioned celebrities have a good rapport with the film industry and Police department alike and as she doesn’t have that, she was being targetted by Police everytime. DinaMalar has published the article without any censoring the name list. Now, this has created a stir in the film fraternities all over and Nadigar Sangham has arranged a pressmeet last night condemning these reports. Rajinikanth, Vijayakanth, SarathKumar, etc have addressed the issue!

Ap-CM-YSR-Missing-Found

Andhra Pradesh CM : YS Rajasekhar Reddy has started from Hyderabad this morning @ 8:45 am and was supposed to reach Kurnool at 10:30 am. Though there was an unofficial information few hours back from Government that YSR was found, the latest official news from K Rosaihh confirms that YSR is still missing… needs to be seen when our CM will get in touch with the authorities…!

YSR's Helicopter Debris after Crash landing

Latest Update: YS Rajasekhar Reddy (YSR) was found dead today (3rd Sep) morning along with 4 others in the helicopter. The helicopter had crash-landed onto one of the hills in Nallamala forest. Though I’m not a pro-YSR, I was deeply moved by this incident. The common man (poor people) has lost their leader and it’s very hard to replace him in the near future. There’s surely a vaccum in the state of Andhra now…!

What an irony….

• Seen YSR’s body being taken in 108 Ambulance which he always used to publicize and asked the people to utilize as much as possible…!
• Few days back, I’ve seen him stating that he completed 60 years of life and it’s enough for him. He added that how much ever he lives from now on, it will be a bonus for him…. Is he seeing the tragedy coming??

Happy Birthday to you...PAWAN

Yey! Today (September 2nd) is the birthday of Power Star PAWAN KALYAN and I wish him a great life ahead. Waiting to see his real potential get unfolded in the near future. I wish SATYAGRAHI movie starts again with Pawan directing it… and, more than anything, Mr.Perfect & Mr.Intellectual starts doing some meaningful films…!

While working for YuvaRajyam & PrajaRajyam’s website, I got to meet him personally for 1 hour sessions (twice) and needless to say that they were the most exciting moments of my life…. To be frank, I like him more in the REAL LIFE than in the REEL LIFE..

Just wanted to say something about Pawan Kalyan….

God created PAWAN KALYAN and gave him a distinct and aggressive personality. However when it came to choosing Pawan’s audience and fans, God assumed they should be like the rest of the mob. No different..!

I found JOHNNY (finally got the original DVD few months back) to be the best movie in PK’s career in terms of technical finesse, direction and treatment. The story had no takers in AP but that doesn’t mean it was a bad film. Sometimes you have a perfect script and a perfect movie but the audience denounces it completely.

Johnny suffered a fate it should not have. It went into the annals of history as a movie that didn’t and couldn’t. I would rather list it as a masterful movie that misguided Pawan Kalyan.

Johnny challenged the Formula. It went against the tide. And, it drowned. Pawan Kalyan registered his first ever flop, one of colossal proportions and he himself was responsible for it. It was a great movie with perfect treatment and excellent performances. The only drawback was that the audience did not understand what the movie was all about. They wanted to see Pawan Kalyan and were disappointed because the script rose above the star in this case. The love story was tender not loud. The chemistry between the lead pair was remarkable but not flashy. It was a subtle expression of celluloid magic not the pretentious cacophony of cliché-ridden Formula.

The disaster of Johnny caused another twist to Pawan Kalyan’s career. He realized that he had to stop trying for the perfect movie. All he had to do was to come up with a movie which would be liked by his fans. He had this obligation. He had to satisfy them. Though he had never conveyed to anybody that he would follow The Fomula, he had to finally succumb to the pressure of his fans. In my opinion this was the greatest damage done by Johnny to Pawan Kalyan. The financials are of course important. However instead of persisting with the new wave of cinema and making a bold statement to the world that he would not change, Pawan Kalyan chose to shun it all and started to accept the beaten-to-dead threads/scripts/paths. Sorry for my BOSS!

But, I wish that he will take a strong decision about his being. He doesn’t have to stick to the hit formulas. There are many other heroes (almost all the actors) to do the commercial films, but none of them can think of acting/directing a master-piece.

If we see the movies of PAWAN KALYAN after Johnny, we can easily understand his idea behind his approval of those subjects…

Gudumba Shankar: Might have thought that the ‘lack-of-comedy’ was the main reason for Johhny’s failure. He made this film for giving an out and out entertainer for his fans. In the process, he went overboard and faltered at times. Though the comic timing was perfect, the universal appeal was missing.

Balu ABCDEFG: Liked the Mafia Mania and given a green signal to Karunakaran.. Confused script with stupid flashback episodes of hero’s family. Movie was a mixture with over action comedy and some serious Mumbai Mafia episodes…

Bangaaram: Trusted the Tamil director and given us a below par faction film. Wanted to try the No-Love-Pair thread, but hasn’t worked out.

Annavaram: Again, Tamil film all the way… But, we can see Pawan’s energy coming back at times in the film. He was perfect in sentiment and action episodes.

Jalsa: At last, Pawan might have thought that he should stop worrying about what his fans like and rather do a film which can resemble his past-HIT-movies… He gave Jalsa and it satisfied many a fans and general audience. Still, seems confused about the message he wanted to give. Can clearly say that he directed the pre-interval and post-interval episodes and lost the grip there after….

I strongly hope that THERE WILL BE AN END to this ideas & thoughts about his fans in the coming years and PAWAN KALYAN stands as an icon for GREAT TELUGU CINEMA…. Happy Birthday!

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EENADU's main page article on PRP

Top telugu news paper: EENADU has published an article about Chiranjeevi‘s PrajaRajyam party (PRP) in it’s Wednesday issue and it’s creating ripples all over the state now. As per the news (12 pm mid-night), the followers of PRP has started their agitations against Eenadu & AndhraJyothy news papers in Rajamundry and Nellore. The pressmeet by Chiranjeevi is also the reason behind his fans’ angusih. Chiranjeevi never looked so depressed and hurt as he is fuming over the article.

Everyone knows that PRP has lost in elections in a bad way though it managed to get 7 million votes. As per my understanding, TDP is strongly believing that PRP was the major reason behind they losing in this 2009 elections. Eenadu and Jyothi have been supporting TDP and they are looking for an occasion to show their disgust over Chiranjeevi’s PRP. As there were many rumors from last few days about PRP’s merge with Congress party, they have gone out and written a main page article saying that “PRP is going to vanish in few days and even Chiru will have to think of options…”

Is CASTE playing a major part in this scoop..? As Eenadu & Jyothi belongs to KAMMA community, they always backed their caste leader: Chandrababu. To nullify their effect, Jagan has started Saakshi to rescue their REDDY communtiy and it’s leader: YS Rajasekhar Reddy. And, from the day of PRP’s inception, the whole media is almost against PRP. It looked like the media wanted only 2 parties in the state, namely: TDP & Congress. Now, they have gone a bit further and sincerely trying to remove the PRP party from it’s roots…

• Will it be possible to delete PRP from AP Political Parties list?
• Is PRP such a small party (even after getting 18% of votes)?
• Where are the ethics of media heading?
• Will the MLA s of PRP leave Chiru and join Congress?
• Will Chiranjeevi himself goes out and join Congress?
• Will there be no Prajarajyam party after few days?
• Will Allu Aravind gets back to his own business?
• Will PawanKalyan continue to raise his voice against the existing parties without Prajarajyam…?
• We should wait for the answers…

KAMMA, KAAPU, REDDY…..! Will there be a clear WINNER out of them (winners can rule this state for a while and can earn 1000′s of crores for the rest of their life…)

MALLANNA (Telugu) or KANDHASWAMY (Tamil) is the latest movie of Vikram. Shreya Saran is the heroine and Susi Ganeshan directed this high-budgeted venture. After a lot of delay, the MALLANNA Film is releasing today (21st August) with lots of hype surrounding it. Devi Sri Prasad’s music is already a major hit and we will need to wait for few more days to decide the fate of MALLANNA

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Lavishness in making
• Vikram’s different get-ups and his performance
• Shreya’s super glamor show (lots of skin show)
• Superb Re-Recording work and few catchy songs by DeviSri
• Wonderful Action Episodes
• Great Photography by Ekambaram

PITFALLS:

• Mallanna is too long (more than 3 hours) and editing needs to be sharper.
• No comedy inspite of having Brahmanandam
• Gives an ‘Already Seen’ feeling as it has shades of Sivaji, Tagore, etc films
• Too much of the film was already shown in TV channels in form of promos
• Poor screen-play with no gripping elements

FINAL ANALYSIS: Though Mallanna starts well and has few breath-taking moments, the movie falls flat with not so gripping script. The film was carried by Vikram very well with the help of Shreya. The richness & technical finesse can’t take the film to heights as it lacks a sound script. MALLANNA is a feast to watch for it’s action episodes and technical values. The film’s collections might also take a beating from un-stoppable MAGADHEERA… The movie will surely satisfy the common audience, but might not have a long run…!