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Bruce Lee – The Fighter Review Roundup

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Basing on the reviews of the top rated sites of tollywood industry…

123telugu.com Rating : 3.25/5

On the whole, Bruce Lee is a decent family entertainer. Ram Charan’s mature performance, stunning songs and racy first half are solid assets. If you manage to sit through the average second half, you are surely going to love mega star’s entry at the end and come out with a smile on your face.

idlebrain.com Rating: 3.25/5

First half of the film is smooth with plot thickening as interval approaches. Second half deals with hero proving certain things in order to save his family. One tend to expect hilarious entertainment when you see character of Brahmanandam, but Seenu Vaitla concentrated on family emotions this time. Plus points are family story line, Charan’s performance, Chiranjeevi’s special appearance, music, dances and cinematography. On the flipside, a better entertainment in second half would have taken movie to the next level. On a whole, Bruce Lee is a family oriented film which has all ingredients for a box office success with Ram Charan dishing out an all-round performance!

Tupaki.com Rating: 2.75

‘Bruce Lee’ is the story of a Stunt Man fighting all the odds for his family. In a way, Director highlighted the mindset of lower middle class people and importance of Girl Education. However, An Inter dropout hero becoming into an IB Department Official is unconvincing.

The moment Sreenu Vaitla, Kona Venkat & Gopi Mohan teamed up for ‘Bruce Lee’, Audience were expecting nothing short of hilarious entertainment from them. Surprisingly, Vaitla concentrated more on the human emotions rather than entertainment which is he is known for! Of course, Emotional Scenes of Ram Charan with Rao Ramesh & Kriti Kharbanda were touching to say the least.

Characterization of Hero has been designed so well but one can’t find freshness in the story. Screenplay of ‘Bruce Lee’ appears routine with traces of ‘Dookudu’ & ‘Baadshah’. Vaitla mark hilarious entertainment is missing in ‘Bruce Lee’ inspite of using the services of several star comedians. The way Brahmanandam (Suzuki Subrahmanyam) was used in the movie reminds us of Vaitla’s past two hits but the comedy skits will entertain the audience to some extent.

At the time when audience are going restless with not much happening in the Second Half, Chiranjeevi’s Cameo in the Climax lifts their spirits and fans could only jump in joy. It gave a good feeling to audience while stepping out of the theaters despite all the flaws. The helicopter sequence reminds us of Indra’s action block. Chiru’s rugged look, screen presence and style were simply magnificent.

While the First Half is partly entertaining, Second Half is a big let down and Megastar’s re-entry is the only saving grace. Overall, ‘Bruce Lee’ is just an average fare.



Sher- Kalyan Ram’s Movie Updates

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Sher is an upcoming Telugu film directed by Mallikarjun. The film features Kalyan Ram and Sonal Chauhan in lead roles and Vikramjeet Virk plays an important role. The films is scheduled to release on 30th October 2015.
Release date: 30th October 2015
 Director: Mallikharjuna Rao M.
Screenplay: Diamond Ratna Babu
Producer: Komara Venkatesh
Music director: S. Thaman, Chakri

SHER UPDATES

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Click Here to Watch  “Sher” Naina Song Teaser

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Rudrama Devi Review Roundup

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Based on the Reviews of  Top Telugu Movie Sites.

123telugu.com Rating : 3/5

On the whole, Rudrama Devi is a decent attempt from Gunasekhar. Heavy duty star cast, rich visuals and Allu Arjun’s stunning character elevate the film to a decent level. But a dragged out narration and slow pace of the film makes things tedious during the second half. The film is bound to get some huge openings because of the buzz it is carrying. Finally, if you keep all your expectations in check and go with the flow of the film, you can easily give this film a shot for its lavish film making and historical lineage.

fitnhit.com Rating: 4/5

Trade analysts are predicting that this movie would collect 6.5-7 crores on the release day of the movie, Gunasekhar team made all preparations for slating in India and Overseas. There is an interesting fact that Guna received a notice from the producers to clear his all last dues. Producers helped him when the movie is stopped shooting after lending crores of money. Guna is searching for the solution.Go and watch the first India’s 3D historical movie, before it fades away from the screens. Allu Arjun steals the show.

gulte.com  Rating: 2.75/5

Rudhrama Devi can still be watched once despite all the flaws because of the story and the insights it gives about the characters of the great Telugu kingdom. Guna Sekhar should have come up with a far more engrossing product as he repeatedly said that it was his dream to make a movie on the warrior queen. Don’t expect wonders or an everlasting cinematic experience with this film. Guna has announced a movie on Pratapa Rudra, The Last Emperor. Hope he comes up with better product learning from his mistakes.


Puli Movie Review Roundup

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Based on the reviews of top telugu movie sites and based on the public talk.

123telugu.com Rating : 2.5/5

On the whole, Puli is a film with good concept and bad execution. The boring narration and lack luster screenplay spoils the mood of the film big time. Other than the impressive visuals and stellar performances by Vijay and Sridevi, this fantasy drama has nothing much to offer. All those who are interested in multi-starrers and lavish film making can give this film a shot, others can take it easy.

indiaglitz.com Rating-2.75/5

Despite some drawbacks and disappointments, ‘Puli’ ends up as a decent fantasy entertainer  that will be specially liked by Children and  Vijay who retains his form and charm as always lives up to his mass appeal.


Chandrika Movie Review-Roundup

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Based on the reviews of Top Telugu movie sites and based on the public talk.

Chandrika is a Horror Thriller with  a routine story Line . But glamour of the actress (Sree Mukhi and Kamna Jethmalani) and their acting skills saved the movie.

indiaglitz.com Rating: 2.5/5

‘Chandrika’ reminds one of ‘Chandramukhi’ more often than it would have had it been directed by someone with no ‘Chandramukhi’ hangover. It comes with a wafer-think story line.  A few novel scenes could have redeemed the film.

123telugu.com Rating : 2.25/5

On the whole, Chandrika fails to impress the audience due to its routine story line and slow narration. The glamour quotient of the female leads is the only saving grace for this film which ends up as a fearless horror drama.

 


Subramanyam For Sale Movie Review Roundup

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Based on the reviews of top telugu movie sites and based on the public talk.

Subramanyam For Sale is a routine story but Director Harish Shankar’s command over comedy and fan frenzy moments takes Subramanyam to a safe zone. Sai Dharam Tej will surely make an impression with this film. Mega fans will start to believe that he has potential.

idlebrain.com Rating: 3.25/5

Analysis: First half of the film is alright. Second half has good entertainment. Climax is little dramatic. Director Harish Shankar’s entertainment elements and Dil Raju’s family values (though, there are a couple of double meaning dialogues in first half) are blended well in this movie. Plus points are Sai Dharam Tej’s energetic performance and Hari Shankar’s entertainment orientation coupled with a decent story line. It will be a feast for Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan’s fans. On a whole, Subramanyam For Sale has potential to work at box office!

123telugu.com Rating : 3.5/5

Tollywood churns out big budget commercial entertainers once in every two weeks and half of them have the same story. But the films that click are narrated with hilarious entertainment and Subramanyam For Sale falls in this very same category. SFS will be a turning point in Sai Dharam Tej’s career and will put him into the big league. If you manage to ignore the routine and predictable story line, this film will entertain you from the word go and ends up as a paisa vasool entertainer.

Gulte.com Rating : 3.5/5

Subramanyam For Sale is a film made for the aam junta who look for entertainment and entertainment only. The script is sloppy with lots of holes and cliches. Interesting characterization of hero helps the bad first half to an extent. Things get better as the story moves to India. There is lot of entertainment in the second half.Harish Shankar’s command over comedy and fan frenzy moments takes Subramanyam to a safe zone. Sai Dharam Tej will surely make an impression with this film. Mega fans will start to believe that he has potential.Climax was dealt in a melodramatic fashion which is out of sync with rest of the movie. Subramanyam For Sale isn’t a perfect film and is not a bad one either. You can watch it once for its entertainment.

Indiaglitz.com Rating: 3.25/5

A rom-com and a family entertainer, this one is ‘bhale bhale’ Subramanyam for sure. Watch out for Dharam Tej’s natural act, the lead pair, and dialogue.


Mayuri – Best Thriller Movie Review

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Amidst the Horror-Comedy trend, here comes a serious Horror-thriller with Nayatara as main lead. A Tamil dubbed telugu film “Mayuri”, hows the movie, does it scared the audience? Let’s see

Plot: film starts with some weird incidents happening in the life a drawing artist after he reads a story sent by a editor for Magazine, He realizes that it is related to a place called “Maya Vanam” which is located far away in the woods.

Meanwhile, in a parallel thread, Apsara(Nayatara) a struggling artist, leaves his husband and lives with her friend. She is struggling for finances.
and there is this movie crew, made a film called “Cheekati” and for publicity, they through a challenge to public that, whoever watches the whole movie alone in theater will get a 5 Lacs as prize money.

Apsara senses this challenge as an opportunity, gives her acceptance to face the challenge, what happens while she is watching the film? Who is Mayuri? And what’s her story? forms a brilliant story.

Analysis: Director has a mind-blowing plot, in a way he justified the story with his superb taking and executed in a convincing way. Screenplay of the film puzzles the audience, makes to think but never leaves audience in a confusion, There are flaws and routine scenes here and there, but because of superb camera work and non-linear screenplay makes it a edge of a seat thriller.

One should appreciate the crew, because with in a very limited resources and budget, crew was able to deliver a good filmatic experience for the audience. With the selection of colour grading for different threads, director have done a laudable job.

Directors brilliance can be seen by, the way he handled certain roles like Mayuri and Arjun, without showing their faces. All the artists although new, gave what is required. Only song which is written by Chandrabose is good.

Artist Performances:
Nayanatara may be the lead actress but has less screen presence and she only needs just to give some subtle expressions, which she managed with perfection. All the other artists done well, Director abstracted the right expressions from them.

Technical Departments
Mayuri more of a technician’s film rather than the actor’s film. Every department done well, Cinematography is top notch, Art department have done brilliant job. Lighting through out the film is excellent. Costumes are natural. BGM enthralls you.


Courier Boy Kalyan Movie Review

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Story:

PK (Nithin) Which means Panileni Kalyan who tries alot for a job. One of his friend is a courier boy who has to deliver a package unfortunately instead of him Nithin will deliver the package coincidentally he will deliver it to Heroine Kavya (Yami Gautham), in a first glance he falls for her and to meet her regularly he’ll become a courier boy and does different stuff to impress her. Ashutosh Rana will be doing some research in medicine field like to abort pregnant women with the help of medicines and collect their traces to do research. Who ever the pregnant women visits him he will abort them without letting them know. All these consequences noticed by the compounder will courier the social worker satyamurthy(Nazar), did the courier reached to satyamurthy? How is the courier associated with Kalyan? Ashutosh Rana’s plan will turn out to be successful or not?? Should watch all these on the big screen.

Performance:

Nithin has accepted this movie only to try something new and yes he infact did that in his career. He was looking perfect as a courier boy and performed well. Love,action episodes were perfect.Yami Gautham appeared good. Satyam Rajesh got a good character in this film.Nazar,Ashutosh Rana,Ravi,Harshavardhan,Surekhavani were into their regular characters.

Technical Aspects:

Karthik,Anoop Rubens composed music they were ok. As per the story perfect rerecording was done by Sandeep Chautha. Cinematography was good,dialogues were ok.Producers have also invested good amount as per the story instead of over budget to avoid risks

Overall:

Infact this is a good script on doing a research through the stem cells to find out the cure of a disease but aborting pregnant women’s without their notice is a different concept. The Director has linked up such a broad point to courier boy. What if the courier hasn’t reached to the concerned person or to someone else, this particular suspense has been awesomely continued throughout. Though this sort of stories is new to the industry and so the entire first half director elevated Nithin to become a courier boy and that of Love track and a introduction of the stem cells research concept.

Second half was on the courier completely, such a typical story needs screenplay is the key role. Director need to involve the audience but he was late here. For the first 10minutes he has done interestingly, Saptagiri, Telangana shakuntala’s comedy didn’t work out and the Hero turning into courier boy was not so real and the love track was not connected anywhere. The stem cells concept will be greek and latin to common man, such concepts should have been explained in detail with graphics.

Songs were not upto the mark, they were like disturbance during the track. As per the script Hero’s introduction should have been naturally outside somewhere rather than in a pub. They haven’t designed the costumes as per the characters. Sapthagiri’s comedy track has been attached at the end of the film which was not at all entertaining. Stem cells, umbilical cells, fetal system like terms were not at all understandable by the audience. Satyam Rajesh reading the letter has spoiled the essence in it.

Finally:

People who like suspense,Action content based cinema’s “Courier Boy Kalyan” will surely entertain. From such different scripts we don’t expect comedy so can watch it. It cannot be said that this is a typical experimental cinema in Telugu film industry. People who are in search of new concept based cinema will surely like and be impressed with courier boy.


Srimanthudu Movie Review & Rating – A perfect family entertainer!

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Harsha (Mahesh Babu) is the son of a millionaire Ravikanth (Jagapathi Babu). Harsha is a kind of man, who wants to speak less and earns respect by his own. One day Harsha meets Charuseela (Shruti Haasan), who has a desire to develop her village with the latest technology.

Gradually, he falls in love with Charu and he also joins post graduate course in Rural Development. But, Charuseela rejects Harsha’s love as she comes to know his past.

In order to fulfill the dream of Charu, Harsha leaves to Devarakota and adopts that village. But, he faces problems from local rowdy Sasi (played by Sampath) and Union Minister Venkata Ratnam (mukeshi Rishi). Will he able to face that problems? What was Harsha’ past? Why did Charuseela reject his love? To find out answers for these questions, you need to watch Srimanthudu on big screen.

 

Artiste Performance:

Mahesh Babu looks cute, young and handsome in this movie. His punch dialogues and expressions are the highlights of this movie. Shruti Haasan has done her part well.

Her chemistry with Mahesh Babu is good.  Jagapati Babu, Rajendra Prasad, Sukanya, Sivaji Raja, Aamani, Angana Roy, Sanam Shetty, Tejaswi Madivada, Sampath Raj, Mukesh Rishi, Rahul Ravindran and Poorna have done justice to their roles. Ali and Vennala Kishore succeeded in providing relief through their hilarious comedy.

What’s good:

Mahesh Babu’s performance is awesome. Koratala Siva’s direction and screenplay is top-notch. The choreography is good and the costumes, exotic locales are also good. Dialogues written by Siva are another big asset of this movie. Devi Sri Prasad’s music is superb.

 

What’s bad:

There are several predictable scenes and the pace of the narration is very slow. Especially, the second half, which is dead slow.

Technicalities:

Srimanthudu has rich production values. Devi Sri Prasad’s background score is the main highlight of this movie. R Madhi’s cinematography is another highlight of this movie. Art direction is commendable. Especially, the sets in the song ‘Dhimmathirigae’ are amazing.

Final say:

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