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It is true that for the success of any film a lot depends on the hero and his star power. That is one reason why big hero films come with high expectations. But there is also another truth. It is not just the hero who is a crowd puller, a lot depends on the heroine too as she is the one many want to watch for obvious reasons.

And one such crowd puller is Tamannah. Sources say she is all set to give a blowout to hearts in her new movie ‘Rebel’. According to inside reports, Tammu will look very sexy in the movie and director Lawrence has used maximum of her beauty and clothed her in some tempting outfits.

It is heard that Tammu would be seen in chiffon sarees draped in figure hugging way. Recently, just two stills of Tamannah were seen by many and that was good enough for them to have sweat on their temples. The film is due for release on September 28th so get ready for the hot storm folks!

Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: Amigos Creations Pvt Ltd
Cast: Abhijit, Sudhakar, Kaushik, Shagun, Zara, Rashmi, Shriya, Amala and others
Music: Mickey J Meyer
Cinematographer: Vijay C Kumar
Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh
Story, screenplay, direction: Sekhar Kammula
Producer: Sekhar Kammula
Release date: 14/09/2012

Sekhar Kammula is back and yet again he has come with a refreshing entertainer with a bunch of newbies and branded starlets. Whether it is upto the expectations let us see

Story
Set in a residential colony, the story is about Srinu (Abhijit) who comes with his two sisters to stay with his uncle for an year following instructions from his mother (Amala). In no time, he becomes friends with Nagaraj (Sudhakar) and a gadget wizard (Kaushik). Hailing from a middle class locality, these boys have tiffs with some rich boys from a nearby posh locality. Meanwhile, Srinu starts getting interested in Paddu (Shagun) while Nagaraj falls for Lakshmi (Zara) and the whizkid falls for an aspiring Miss India Paru (Shriya). Each one has their own challenges in their lives but all of them are together through thick and thin. How they face various experiences and how that shapes their lives forms the rest of the story.

Performances
Abhijit was alright. Performance wise he didn’t have that energy but he had that innocent face with a special charm that can connect him to the young crowds.

Kaushik is the lucky guy. Given the fact that he gets to romance Shriya right in his debut he could not ask for more. He would remind many of ‘Happy Days’ Tyson in his dialogue delivery and characterization.

Sudhakar was the showstealer. He had ease in front of the camera and his typical Telangana dialogue delivery strikes. He was good in the emotional scenes as well.

Shagun looks cute and has a beautiful smile, she has potential to grow as a heroine. Zara is sexy but she was stiff in few sequences, she must get rid of that.

Amala Akkineni had a subdued role but had an important part to play. She was gracious and carried her role with elegance. Anjala Zhaveri was brief but she made her presence felt.

Shriya…words may not be sufficient to describe. Her beauty…her screen presence, her ability to connect with fresh faces is very impressive. It is indeed a mystery as to how she is turning younger by the day. She fitted into her role very well, grabbed attention whenever she was onscreen and scored the brownie points.

Rashmi was neat, Surekha Vani was standard, CVL Narasimha Rao was upto the mark, the actors doing the rich kids role were apt.

Highlights

Second half
Songs
Feel of the movie
Technical values
Mother scene of the child artist in climax
Drawbacks

Length
First half
Few scenes missed the emotional quotient
Analysis
Sekhar Kammula is one of those rare filmmakers who comes in with set expectations from the audience. He is more like a Boyapati Srinu for the urban and multiplex audience because he is good at weaving emotional scenes and bringing intensity in his characters. And this time he has taken one step higher than ‘Happy Days’ and made it more of a family entertainer instead of a sugary youth entertainer. However, he didn’t miss his signature formula. ‘Happy Days’ had college, here it is a colony. That had seniors vs juniors, this had Gold Phase guys vs B Phase guys. That had Kamalini and this had Anjala.

Though the youth format is still intact, Kammula mixed his recipe with a strong sentiment of family and this is sure to squeeze the hearts. He also ensured that there is a brand value to the film in the form of Amala, Shriya and Anjala. Among them, Shriya’s mileage factor worked strongly.

However, there are few hiccups. Kammula could not generate that juice during the romantic sequences, especially the track between Abhijit and Shagun.

Secondly, till the interval bang there are many clichéd sequences that take you back to ‘Happy Days’ and the same atmosphere.

Overall, the film will still score because it is clean, it is refreshing and it has the flavor which pulls both the youth and family audiences. If only the length was trimmed and the ending was not that abrupt, the film would have been much effective.

Bottomline: Real life may not be beautiful but this one is..

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Rating: 3.5/5
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kajal, Prakash Raj and others
Music: SS Thaman
Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar
Cinematography: Sam K Naidu
Editing: SR Shekhar
Producer: RR Venkat
Story, Screenplay, Dialogue, Direction: Puri Jagannath
Theatrical Release: 13 January 2012

The most awaited film of the year has arrived. This is the mass hysteria that seldom covers entire state. While Mahesh Babu is on the apex of stardom with the industry super hit Dookudu on one hand, Puri Jagannath is on top gaining national reputation after directing ‘Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap’. Despite his last Telugu film, Nenu Na Rakshasi’ couldn’t do well, the expectations of audience on the combination of Puri and Mahesh (reminding Pokiri) are always on high. Let us see how this film that released in maximum number of theatres entertains the audience. 

Story:
Mumbai city commissioner Ajay Bharadwaj (Nasser) announces in a Pressmeet that mafia dons are wiped out from the map of Mumbai. He also states that he would break the leg if any don steps in Mumbai.

Instantly Surya (Mahesh Babu) steps in Mumbai. His friend  (Brahmaji) takes him to his room in slum. Surya asks him to quit job and join him as an assistant to do his proposed crime business. He also says that he is in Mumbai to make it piss.

How he emerges as a don falls rest of the story. He uses his brain and brawn to grow big in Mumbai. He plays with system and preys on politicians to grow his business.

On parallel line he loves Chitra (Kajal), the daughter of commissioner.

Story wise, it’s simple but the narration beauty is ample and dialogues tremble the senses of audience. Rest should be watched on screen.

Performances:
Mahesh Babu is all over the film. He charms with his style, scares with his intensity and strikes with his looks. His dialogue delivery is another high asset to the film.

Kajal Agarwal does her bit as required. She provides glamour where required and sheds tears when wanted. As such, her characterisation is not that strong but she provides some visual relief.

Prakash Raj was not used to his potential. In fact, his arrival comes rather late in the film and before he can pick up he is packed up. But those little moments he was there he made his presence felt.

Nasser was natural. His scenes with Mahesh Babu were effective and both shared a good chemistry. It is inspiring to see Nasser maintaining strong biceps even at this age.

Sayaji Shinde was standard. Brahmaji was usual. Dharmavarapu was contained. The girl doing the role of Kajal’s friend was funny. Shweta Bharadwaj sizzled in her item song. The others didn’t have much scope.

Finally Subba Raju made his presence but the scope and span of his character is limited.

Last but not least Puri Jagannadh appears as a taxi driver in a scene.

Highlights:

• Mahesh Babu
• Dialogues
• Songs

Drawbacks:

• Routine Story
• Overdose of preaching
• Lack of villain
• Climax fight

Analysis: 
In one line, the story is about the emergence of a don by a common man. However, there is a fine line between narrating a story with conviction and clubbing it with cinematic liberties.

The liberties taken were too high and this led to an artificial feel among the audience. Films like ‘Nayakudu’ ‘Dhalapathi’ ‘Saamrajyam’ were classier in portraying such tales. Secondly, Mahesh is seen giving few lines on how one should be selfish.

Well, the audience may like what he is speaking because it is the hard truth but acceptance levels will differ. Moreover, for someone like Mahesh and his charisma, such lines are quite conflicting to his image. The entire film runs purely on two things- Mahesh Babu’s performance and Puri’s dialogue power.

Here are few quotes from Puri’s pen which are the highlight of his career:

• Dabbu shaaswatham kaadu, manushule shaashwatham antoo untaaru. Kaanee manushulu chachchipothunnaaru, dabbu maathram chaavatledu.
• Discovery channel lo puli jinkani veta aadatam chusthoo jinka bathakaalani prardhana chestaam. Jinka tappinchukogaane TV kattesi manam maatram velli kodini kosi biryani vanduku thinesthaam. Manaki jinka meeda prema kaadu. Puli meeda kopam. Daanini emi peekaleka adi odipote choodaalanukuntaam.
• Manushulu chepalni udakapetti, vepi rakarakaalugaa thinesthaaru. Ade oka shark chepa manishini korikite prapamchamlo anni news channels lonu choopistaaru. Em manushulavenaa praanaalu, chepalavi kaada?
• Nenu elago alaa bathikeyadaaniki raaledu. Mumbai ni uchcha poyinchadaaniki vachchaanu.
• Chuttu round up chesi confuse cheyoddu. Confusion lo ekkuva kottesthaanu.

Coming to the songs, Saar osthaara…was well canned and Kajal looked her sultry best, same with Chao Pilla.

The other song ‘Chandamama….’ is well canned wherein the much talked about lip kiss between Mahesh and Kajal is seen. That was shot aesthetically. As for the item song featuring Shweta Bharadwaj, it was disappointing to see many areas getting blurred due to censor objections. The other songs were alright.

Overall, this is a film that will strike a strong chord with fans of Mahesh Babu and to those who love to hear some punch packed dialogues. But apart from that, the film takes a hiccup on lack of entertainment quotient, comedy, strong characterization of villain.

Despite profanity, the charisma of Mahesh Babu pulls female crowds to theaters. The film deserves good commendation for not making in the typical hero-villain-comedian concept. It’s a big risk but the director attempted it so efficiently. Entire film was shouldered only on Mahesh Babu and finally the output is not boring but hooking.

Nothing haunts other than Mahesh Babu’s dialogues from the film after coming out from theater.

Bottomline: Watch it for Mahesh and dialogues!!

(Karthiksri can be reached at  Karthiksri@cinemirchi.com)

Ravi Teja-Siva’s movie has been titled as Daruvu.

The film is progressing at a rapid pace in Badami and Burugupalli Shivaramakrishna is producing the movie. Ravi Teja will yet again romance the Delhi girl Tapsee in the film. Daruvu is being made under Sri Venkateswara Entertainments banner.

Vijay Anthony will score the tunes for Daruvu and Vetri is taking charge of the camera. The cinematographer turned director Siva has also proved his mettle in Kollywood with Vikramarkudu remake Siruthai with Karthi and Tamanna in the leads.

Venkatesh, Trisha starrer Bodyguard movie has confirmed its release on January 14. Though the movie was earlier slated for a release on January 12 in India and on Jan 9 in oversea, it is now hitting the screens on January 14 on Saturday.

Bodyguard is directed by Gopichand Malineni and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh on Sri Sai Ganesh Productions banner. Saloni, Prakash Raj played the vital roles and Ali has done a hilarious role in the film. Venkatesh will be seen as a Bodyguard to Trisha whose father is Praksh Raj while Saloni is her friend in the movie. Though she initially dislikes the Bodyguard and tries her ways to get rid of him, the rich lady later falls in love with her Bodyguard. Will she win his love forms the crux of the story.

Bodyguard is a family entertainer and has loads of emotional scenes. SS Thaman composed the tunes.