Prabhas Becoming into Yogi

Prabhas has a special place in the hearts of the telugu audience because of his very good personality , which is God's gift which no other hero has presently. Added to it, his action, dances fights are catching masses expectations. His varsham, chatrapathi movies are very good. Varsham came in the begining of the action floods and so, the picturisation was mediocre but songs were too good and they stand apart from other songs. Choreography was also good in varsham. Chatrapathi was high tempo till the interval and further also good except the unwanted sentiment ointment. Pournami theme is different and disappointed the masses because of other reasons than prabhas presence. But songs from pournami were very good and melodious. Thus Prabhas movie difinitely brings good opening collections. Fortnunately now he is acting with moderately better heroine like nayanatara. The most important factor for high expectation for the movie is the director v.v.vinayak. He is really a good director, proven track record, but some failures and mis attempts . But he knows how to raise the temo of a movie. So, this time, since vinayak is hungry for success, he will put all efforts to make a big commercial hit. Now a days Pokiri success is the yard stick for any commercial success. Music is by Ramana Gogula . If he can give two or three good tunes thats enough for this prabhas to make an above avarage film, without any effort. Nayanatara is at the border of becoming stout and care should be taken. Directors are projecting her mostly sarees , for this reason. Nagarjuna again met a flop with this heroine in his Boss which raised expectations.
Presently, as told earlier in these columns, there is a trend in the telugu industry. 4 directors like vinayak, rajamouli etc, and 4 to 6 heroes like venkatesh, nagarjuna, balakrishna mahesh babu and three or four heroines like trisha, asin, nayanatara, meera jasmine. For any movie, combinations of these three sets are working.

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Posted by gvs gopalarao to Telugu Cinema Reviews at 11/03/2006 11:33:00 PM

Pournami Telugu movie review

Over all verdict: Not bad. Enjoy the hero and heroines.Poor Direction

Story

Some story is there but not very convincing, yet a different type of story belonging to few decades back. That is the variety. But story is woven very loosely. Enough hard work , home work was not done in this case too. Just some plot was taken to make a film in oldage background, with concentration on the last event of dance in the temple. Lot of unwanted suspense,filled in many frames which throws a viewer in to some type of despair.

Brief Story:   

Chandramohan has two daughters. He teaches elder daughter dance to dance in a temple on a special occassion(which comes once in 12 years), as per the tradition coming to their family centuries together. But that daughter runs away from home,afraid of local zamindar. she takes shelter with a banzara group, dancing in that group. Hero sees her loves and one way marries her.She succumbs to the village factionism who tried to kill hero. Then hero comes to that village in disguise to make second daughter to learn and dance for the specific event in temple, as the dying elder daughter took that promise from her husband , that is the hero. Some fights, some mis apprehensions, some patches of different stories in different places at different times added to this.(Entire story is in a faroff place where you wont find a policeman though half a dozen murders took place and equal number of fights take place.

who killed the action?

Chandramohan, could not act convincingly, nor added any spice to the role. unjustice done successfully by bharani,that yellow pages man (acted as brother of manju bhargavi). Almost all actors made injustice excepting 4 .No humour , though some good comedy actors are there. No powerful dialogues from parachuri.

Good Performance

Prabhas,charmie,Trisha and Kota. Only these four actors run the show effectively.To some extent sunil also commanded the role. Prabhas performance , his feelings are good in many scenes. Where ever his performance is not apt, it is just because of the bad direction only. He utilized many scenes to get good marks. Helpless ness is a feeling that he shows very well. It is his own asset.Stunts were not good.Trisha again proved that she got good body shape , her talent to speak with eyes, and smiles. good performance by her within the frame given to her. Charmie took lot of responsibility to run the show. Though most of scenes,action given to her were badly composed , her involvement to improve the role catches our eye. She proved again that she can act well and run the show. Hightlight of the movie is the last dance scene in the temple. Many people liked. worth seeing . The settings in this movie are very good. zamindar house setting, the temple settings,outdoor shooting in fields while chasing the enemy son to kill are very good. Sound track recording at some places is also good.

Direction:

Entire bad credit goes to Prabhu Deva. He could not improvise any role. He could not dramatise any scene.No wonderful songs (by music or lyric).No characterization at all.It proves that Prabhu deva lacks a lot and to really learn how to make a good movie, whether it is hit or Phat. If you consider Nuvvu vastanante.. that movie story is also a chandamama story but made great because of dramatization, dialogues, performance by 5 to 8 artists, and good songs. Here this movie lacks all the plus points he got in his first movie (he directed). Direction wise he gained negative points by this movie.