Cast: Siddhardh, Tamanna, Prakash Raj, Ramya Krishna, Nassar, Samrat, Karuna, Sudha, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Hema, Surekha Vani

Rating: 3/5

Banner: Lakshmi Narasimha Productions

Music: Shankar Ehsaan Loy

Background score: Mani Sharma 
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Chandrabose, Ramajogayya Sastri 
Cinematography: Vijay C Chakravarthy 
Dialogues: Abburi Ravi 
Editing: Srikar Prasad
Screenplay: Vikram Siri - Deepak Raj 
Story - direction: Kishore Kumar Parthasani 
Producer: Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji) 
Release date: 5 February 2009

Story:

Siddharth is a happy-go-lucky guy whose parents(Prakash raj, Ramya Krishna) get seperated in his childhood . He falls in love with Geetha(Tamannah), a traditional village girl who comes to the city for her studies. Geetha's father(Nasser) doesn't agree for their marriage citing the hero's parents' parting. The rest of the story is how siddharth unites his parents and wins his love.

Artistes' Performance:

Siddharth is very good in the role of a sincere lover and a lovable son. He puts in a lot of energy in to his role. This kind of roles are not new for him and he shows natural elaan.Tamannah suits the role well as his love. She has improved a lot from her previous films. Prakash raj excels in the role of Siddhu's father. Ramya krishna is not so good in the role of Hero's mother. Jaya sudha could have been a very good choice. Nasser is apt as the father of the heroine. Brahmanandam as 'Gachibowli Diwakar' and Venu madhav provide comic relief. The friend-gang of the hero and heroine are good.

Direction:

Director Kishore Kumar makes his debut with this film. The first half of the film deals with the romance of the lead pair and the second half is about the the re-union of the hero's parents. The story of the film is not new but the director shows novelty in dealing with this kind of subject. The songs are well-picturized. Especially the songs 'Konchem istam konchem kastam', 'Egire egire', 'Aanandama', 'Panchirey' are a feast to the eyes. The climax of the film, though dragged, fits the bill. Direction of the film is good in some scenes. The following scenes are well-made

1. The concept of 'Nammakam' by the heroine

2. The Geetanjali episode

3. The concept of crossing marks, again by the heroine

4. The hero apologizing when he is drunk 

5. The way the song 'Konchem istam konchem kastam' song is used

6. The lead-pair's efforts to regenerate love between hero's parents

              However, the basic plot of the film arond which the story is woven- the parting of the hero's parents, is not well-established. The narration of the film is slow. It picks up momentum in the beginning of the second half but slackens after the 'Konchem istam konchem kastam' song. The director couldn't avoid a lot of melodrama in the climax of the film. Duration of the film is too long and the climax of the film is a little bit dragged. 

Technical Departments:

       Music by Shankar-ehsaan-loy is top-notch. Infact the songs add more value to the film. Lyrics by Siri vennela Seetha ram sastry, Chandra bose and Ramajogayya Sastri are excellent. Editing is not that good. Especially the scenes doesn't appear to be in a flow. The six-time National award winner(Srikar Prasad) could have done better. Cinematography by Vijay C Chakravarthy needs special mention. His Camera work carries the mood and tempo of the film. The Vibrant colours and light work makes the film a visual wonder. Art work is good. Back ground score by Mani sarma is adequate. Dialogues by Bommarillu fame Abburi Ravi are good at parts. The dialogues in which the heroine's father explains why he doesn't accept her lover(nee istam), Brahmanandam's dialogue, "break kaalitho vesananukunnava, ledura jaalitho vesanu" are very nice. The dialogues which form the climax of the film are also well-written. Technically the film is sound, and the producer is praise-worthy, for providing with good technicians, to a debut director

Review:

       On the whole 'Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam'  is a movie that can be watched for its lead pair and  a couple of subtle performances and well-picturized songs . The success of the film depends on how it appeals to the family audience.

Genre: Horror

Director: Ram Gopal Verma

Producer: Azam Khan

Music: Amar Mohile

Star Cast: Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Shrey Bawa, Jyothi Subhash, Ashwini Kaleskar, Kenny Desai, Ganesh Yadav, Lileete Dubey, K. K Raina, Zakir Hussain, Javed Rizvi, Anu Ansari, Shankar Sachdev, Kishore Kadam, Bharat Kaul

Release Date: August 22, 2008

After the action and drama of the movie Contract, Ram Gopal Verma is all set to amuse the viewers with its upcoming movie, Phoonk. As the name might suggest, it is a horror film, which claims to grip the audience. The film is directed by Ram Gopal Verma and produced by Azam Khan. The music of the film has been given by Amar Mohile. The star cast of the film includes Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsas Channa, Shrey Bawa, Jyothi Subhash, Ashwini Kaleskar, Kenny Desai, Ganesh Yadav, Lileete Dubey, K. K Raina, Zakir Hussain, Javed Rizvi, Anu Ansari, Shankar Sachdev, Kishore Kadam and Bharat Kaul.

The story of Phoonk features Rajeev (Sudeep), who is a successful Construction Engineer and a strong atheist. He has a doting wife (Amruta Khanvilkar) and two children of age 10 and 8. He does not approve of the existence of God and even the black magic powers. However, his very existence and his beliefs are threatened, when an evil power grips his loved ones, the existence of which his rational mind denies to accept. Entwined with this, is another story of a fanatic believer of God, who is forced to become a non believer under traumatic circumstances.

The film is claimed to be quite scary, surpassing the fear of Ram Gopal Verma’s previous horror flick, ‘Bhoot’. The fear factor featured in ‘Phoonk’ is said to seep into the system of the viewer rather than just affecting him visually on the surface level. The horror element in the film is said to have been blended quite well with the emotional component, making the viewer relate to the situations and characters of the film. Whatever might be the estimations, the truth will be revealed on August 22, 2008, when the film will be released.

'Salute' is Directed by A.Rajasekhar. The f'Salute' is Directed by A.Rajasekhar. The film casts Vishal, Nayanatara' Upendra, kotasreenivasarao and others. It is Produced by Vikram Krishna under the banner of G.K.Corporation vikram producing the film. Producer says Upendra character is highlight of the film.

For the first time, Vishal plays a spirited IPS officer with lots of action, romance and sentiment. In this movie Nayanatara acted as a daring reporter . 'Salute' releasing in Tamil and Telugu versions.His last 4 films good at tollywood boxoffice.So this film already created hypes on Vishal in the audiance. 'Salute' movie music is Good, and the director is Harris Jayraj. Directo, Producer and Music Director are expeting that music is good and it hit as well as the film story also. You are bound to realize how true this actually is.All set to hit the theatres on August 15th, 2008.ilm casts Vishal, Nayanatara' Upendra, kotasreenivasarao and others. It is Produced by Vikram Krishna under the banner of G.K.Corporation vikram producing the film. Producer says Upendra character is highlight of the film.

For the first time, Vishal plays a spirited IPS officer with lots of action, romance and sentiment. In this movie Nayanatara acted as a daring reporter. 'Salute' releasing in Tamil and Telugu versions.His last 4 films good at tollywood boxoffice.So this film already created hypes on Vishal in the audiance. 'Salute' movie music is Good, and the director is Harris Jayraj. Directo, Producer and Music Director are expeting that music is good and it hit as well as the film story also. You are bound to realize how true this actually is.All set to hit the theatres on August 15th, 2008.

Stay tuned for the review........we ll be the first to post it..........

Tagline: Baladoor - mama idi oka pedda family drama

Strengths: Ravi Teja

Weaknesses: Routine story and slow second half

Must see scenes:

1. Ravi Reja entry shot where he jumps from top of a car

2. Temple fight and market fight

3. Super star Krishna fight in the climax

Must avoid scenes: Nothing much

My analysis: Baladoor movie is a decent family entertainer but with a routine story line. One big family, one useless kid (hero) who is nice at heart. The whole family misunderstands him and he is pushed out of the house. But this good hero saves the entire family from different difficult situations but always is behind the scenes. The family realises his good deeds in the climax and the hero rejoins the family. We as audience have seen lot many telugu movies in the past with the same story line.

This weak and routine story line and a dragging second half makes this Baladoor just a watchable movie. The story writer should have taken care of the script and the screenplay in the second half should have been done better by the director to make it a better movie.

Uday Shankar who earlier directed Kalisundam Raa for Suresh Productions is still in the same mood of family stories. How could he think that a superhit story 8 years back can re-create the same magic and success again??? He could have worked more on the script part and changed it according to the new-age cinema audience.

Performances: Ravi Teja is the saving life of the movie. He has done his routine care free action in the first half and a little serious mixed with mass action in the second half.

Superstar Krishna does the role of peddanana to Ravi Teja. It is very nice to see Krishna in such kind of decent and nice role. He did his performance with ease and elan. The best part in Krishna’s action is the action sequence in the climax where he hits 10 goons at a time and proves himself once again as Superstar.

Anushka is good as heroine. She has lost the unnecessary fat in this movie which she developed for Don movie. Anushka’s role is just restricted to the songs. She showed all her glamour in the songs.

…..Anushka vacchindante then song vachindannamata…..

Chandra Mohan as Ravi Teja’s father, Pradeep Rawat and Subbaraju as villans are good and adequate in their roles.

Brahmanandam and Sunil created the much necessary comedy in the movie which was good.

Fights are well picturized in the movie and showed Ravi Teja’s powerful emotions in the movie.

Songs are average. Music by Radha Krishna is also average. No song can make any impression on audience except for the last song. The good part in songs is that they are all shot in good locations and sets. Another asset for the songs is Anushka.

Screenplay and direction by Uday Shankar is just average. He selected a routine and old story line and tried to give a new look to it in which he miserably failed. The story lost tempo in the second half and also he added more emotion in it because of which the audience will feel little bored.

Story: Chanti (Ravi Teja) is a care-free family member in Ramakrishna (Superstar Krishna) joint family who does nothing but kicking baddies. Chandramohan who is the father of Chanti sends him out of the house. Bhanumathi (Anushka) who is a student falls in love with this Baladoor for his good deeds. Chanti who comes out of the house saves his family members from all the problems created by Pradeep Rawat and his brother-in-law Subbaraju.

In the climax, Ramakrishna and his entire family comes to know about all the good deeds of Chanti from a well-wisher and brings him back to the house along with his lady love Bhanumathi.

Cast: Ravi Teja, Anushka, Superstar Krishna, Chandra Mohan, Brahmanandam, Pradeep Rawat, LB Sriram, Sunil, Subba Raju, Parachuri Venkateswara Rao and many more.

Banner: Suresh Productions

Music: KM Radha Krishna

Producer: Suresh Babu

Screenplay & Direction: Uday Shankar

Final Judgement: Average

Singh is Kinng is about a halfwit Sikh guy, Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar), from a village in Punjab who always cause trouble to village people and they are vexed by his unique ability to cause troubles. So, in order to get rid of him, they pack-off him to Australia to bring underworld King, Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood), back to their village. There he lands into various troubles and meet the love of his life, Sonia (Katrina Kaif), who is already committed.

This is the general outline of the film and to be honest, it is not that “original”. Singh is Kinng is filled with serendipities and misunderstandings. Add a lot of toilet jokes to it, and there you have a typical Anees Bazmee movie. His last movie, Welcome, was a big success, but the same thing can’t be said about the reviews from both the critics and the audience. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out IMDB.com, there it only got 5.4/10 rating from 825 votes.

But that was the past, now let’s get back to Singh is Kinng. Honestly speaking, Singh is Kinng is a very competent idea of the director to make huge money, just like with Welcome, without even giving a damn about the audience who pays a lot to watch an amiable and sensible comedy.

From the title of the movie, you expect it to have some different approach to portray Sikhs in the Bollywood movies unlike those movies in which Sikhs are represented as cretinous (idiots). But no, this movie is the same like those movies. I’m a person who believes in providing full liberty to the artist to express his opinions, even if they offend someone.

But, if you give a title Singh is Kinng to a movie, then I expect you to justify the title of the movie. Sadly, this is not the case with this one. No doubt, this movie would be a big hit, but when it comes to morals and honesty towards your work, it falls flat.

Performances

Akshay Kumar

He is undoubtedly the king of comedies and he is proving his worth with every movie. He really gets into the character of Happy Singh, and delivers it with brilliance.

But again, I’ve one question for him. I know you are a popular star now, but why are you pretending to care about the Sikhs? You go on blabbering about Singh is Kinng on award shows and promotional events, but where is your honesty towards the subject?

Just say that, “I only want to make money out of it and I don’t give a shit about anything else. I want to be the King of Bollywood.”

You should use your popularity to do some movies that can send some good message among the youth of India instead of doing such cheap movies. That is the difference between you and Aamir Khan and ShahRukh Khan.

Katrina Kaif

Please someone tell this girl to stop acting. This is one of the worst performances I’ve seen in a long time. She can even make Ayesha Takia’s performance in De Taali as an Oscar worthy performance.

I know you’ve the looks that can make any guy want to be with you in bed and believe me, directors and producers are using you for this reason only. You don’t stand anywhere close to the other female actors in terms of acting like Vidya Balan, Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor, hell you are even worse than Aishwarya Rai and I’m really serious about this.

Please go to some good acting school and learn some acting. You’re just an eye candy in the movies and I don’t think it is a good sign for your career.

Supporting Cast

I’m really mad about the wastage of Ranvir Shorey in this movie. He is one of the best actors to come out from Bollywood in recent times. Why did you waste such a wonderful talent in your movie, Anees Bazmee?

Om Puri shares a good chemistry with Akshay and gives an above average performance. Kirron Kher really stands out in the movie. Javed Jaffrey, Neha Dhupia and Sonu Sood give average performances.

Final Words – Singh is Kinng is your average Akshay Kumar entertainer. Go to the cinema hall without your brain and you’ll enjoy it, although chances are less. Akshay Kumar carries this movie on his shoulders. If you are a diehard fan of Akhsay Kumar, then it would be a perfect treat for you. And if you are not, better wait it to come on TV.

One advice to Anees Bazmee - Please stop making such stupid movies and use your talent in a better way. I know you want to make a lot of money, but please, don’t do it on the expense of someone’s feelings and yes, I’m talking about Sikhs. Have some morals and I’m talking to you too, Akshay!

I’m not a religious fanatic and I simply don’t care about anything but not everyone is like me. But I can bet that many Sikh groups would be pissed at this movie. I was going through the reviews of the movie and found one on Sikhnet. Do read it and you’ll see what they think about this one.

Verdict – If brainless and toilet humor is your taste of a good comedy then go watch it. Be my guest. But if your taste is opposite to mentioned above then refrain yourself from this one.

Box-office result – It would be a big hit as I mentioned earlier, considering the hype around this movie. But sometimes, there is something more than just money which is certainly not true for both the director and the actors.

Rating - 1 out of 5

Pandurangadu is a Telugu film, starring Balakrishna, Sneha, Tabu and others , directed by K Raghavendra Rao. Produced by ---, and music composed by M M Keeravani. This film released on Summer 2008.

• Starring: Balakrishna, Sneha, Tabu and others
• Director: K Raghavendra Rao
• Music Director: M M Keeravani
• Release date: 30-5-2008

Story:

Kundarika ( Balakrishna ) is a follower of Lord Krishna but for the wrong reasons. He does all the mischievous things that Lord Krishna did in his reign. Once when his family members ask him to marry he leaves his village and runs away. After his family members perform a yagnam he comes back to his village. In the neighboring village Lakshmi ( Sneha ) is a big devotee of Lord Krishna. One night Lord Krishna appears in her dreams and asks her to marry Kundarika. So Lakshmi's father approaches Bala Krishna but he refuses. Later after some persuasion from Lakshmim, Kundarika accepts the marriage.

In the mean time Amrutha ( Tabu ) a dancer comes to their village. Kundarika is mesmerized by her beauty and goes into a relationship with her. He offers all the gold in the house to her. But after the marriage he stops visiting Amrutha. Knowing this Amrutha's mother calls Kundarika for a meal and serves poison to him and grabs all his wealth. The rest of the movie is how Kundarika turns to Lord Krishna's devotee and get backs to his family....


Highlights

Nandamuri Balakrishna's action in the movie is the top notch. He managed the dual roles of Lord Krishna and Kundarika very well. He adjusted from the woman's man role to devotee role very well. Balakrishna as Lord Krishna made the audience think of Sr.NTR .

Sneha's acting has done a good job as wife of Balakrishna. K.Vishwanth as always stealed the show with his acting. Mohan Babu's guest role is brief but brilliant. Raghavendra Rao's direction showed in the songs. Also he succeeded in showing the movie differently when compared to his previous movies.

The taking second half of the film is simply awesome. Second Half of the movie dominates. Kiravani's tunes added to the movie.


Sidelights:

L.B. Sri Ram as Narada did not fit the role. Bharavi's story is not as effective as his previous ones. The graphic work in the movie is too weak to handle. The story is the first half seems a little bit dragged. There is no much comedy in the movie. The comedy scenes involving Sunil, Ali and Dharmavaram Subramanyam pertained to a few giggles in the audience. Raghavendra Rao's selection of character artists for Lord Krishna's wives did not please the audience.


Verdict: Movie is a 100% hit and works out very well at the box office.

Rating : 7/10