Ashok Movie

Ashok:Unfortunately, this time also Jr.NTR could not hit success with his latest movie Ashok. The picture is not ok and is not in a position to please the audience. The appearance of hero heroine is more hefty. Violence crossed the limits and even that violence is not artistic,as it was the case with pokiri. Heroine sameera reddy is not impressive. She is not properly utilized. final verdict: 55%

Annavaram Movie Review

Pawan kalyan takes lot of time to complete and release his picture, and meanwhile lots of things happen in the movie world and he gets some shocks. Annavaram directed by Bhimaneni sreenivasarao. As told many times, now a days all directors who gave some type of hits before 2004 can not direct a film to the satisfaction of present audience. Same is the case with the movie. The direction picturisation of this movie resembles a movie directed ten years back. Old narration methods, bad editing (indeed very bad), poor music by gogula tests the patience of the audience. What we can see in this movie is a depressed look in pawan kalyan. There is no bright ness , sharp ness , joy in his face or eyes all through the movie, may be because he was far from a hit. Yet this depressed look merged with his role. The grace from him in this movie is his action as a brother.His love expression to a sister would be unique and we feel it from tammudu movie onwards. Same good love shown here by pawan , specially. His action when he offers a ring as a gift in haarathi pallem to asin and the dialogue by him at that point is also good. Fights and stunts nothing special. We have seen this type of medium fights lots of times. MS narayana, ali, brahmanandam, venu madhav all failed to give good performance because of ignorance and laxity by the director and producer. Sandhya is not very impressive because of her big nose. Only by the presence of Asin heroine, we can ensure that we are watching a recent movie. Her make up , her action are very good. These heroines like trisha, asin try to boost the morale of the films to their best , but all other elements bring the tempo down. Scenes editing is very poor. Some places the scene suddenly ends while we expect some thing there. The picture lacks a subham card and abruptly ends too. The death scene of venu madha prolonged , and this picture is not suitable for such scenes. That scene fits well with R Narayana murthy films or Srhari movies. The singer tone should be changed for pawan kalyan, and better get sung by balu, as the tone of the present singer is very pale for pawan. Pawan kalyan mexican dresses in a song looks good. His body movements at some steps in songs are good.Now a days, it is very difficult to impress audience unless you complete the movie in 3 months. This annavaram has long gestation period like elephant gestation period and gave birth to a rabbit. Picture is not very bad but this much time need not be taken for this picture. Choreography is poor and outdated.One bad custom crept into the movies now a days. The entrance song for hero will come abruptly , without establishing him . In this movie and in stalin also. Then we can not enjoy the song. Song is also not good. The introduction for the hero is too much. That much introduction, and later a dull picture spoils the image. Comedy is very poor in this movie.If you select better actors for the roles, you can improve the movie.

Legendary telugu cinema

A legendary means a person who has contribute a great amount to the film industry and also who has influenced the trends of the the industry. NT Ramarao, Akkineni nageswara rao , sv rangarao are legendaries . Even now, new and old actors some where imitate them and get influence from their actions. If you give any legendary award to ANR it is an honour to the award itself. Recently Chiranjeevi was given. It is very premature to award him, at this point. Because in recent years or in olden days, there was no such exemplary contribution in action from him, except commercial movies. More over , now a days he is flooded with costly awards like padma bhushan, doctorate etc. I dont know why the awarding world woke up from long sleep and awarding all in a year of time. Definitely some political brain can be seen behind all these. It would be nice for the actor to get rid of these , because the more faster you get costly awards, the more risk you have to be pointed out.
Nirmallamma, anjalidevi contributed a lot to the industry through action. But they have no fans and politicians for such awards.

Telugu suspense Horror Movies trend

Poor Publicity campaigns for Telugu movies
Present day telugu movies fail because untargetted publicity. All think that some thing is wrong with the movie, but people, producers ignore the publicity which pulls the crowds to the movies. They have not recognised the power of the publicity hype in present day ;Take the example of kitakitalu by evv, he planned a better advertisement campaign highlighting the main theme of the movie, which attracted crowds just to see the fun between a lean husband and a stout wife. EVV succeeded in his plan.If you watch the trends of the publicity of the movies, there is no variation, no creativity and we lag decades behind in good publicity which tells the attractive features of the film, or provides one reason why we should see the movie. Third rated publicity campaigns for many movies are contributing atleast 20% low collections for their movies.Do you find any one good movie publicity better than minto fresh ad or surf excel ad (maraka manchide!)?
A film by Aravind -case: This movie is a special movie. If you missed it , you can watch it. It has shown how telugu movie can also be taken with suspense and "horror". Rajiv kanakala, mona chopra, rishi acted in this movie. Mona chopra selection for the role gets full marks . Rajiv kanakala acted well, ofcourse his character was killed unnecessarily. The greatest feature of the movie is the back ground music. It scored full marks, as entire film the suspense theme is well maintained through the back ground music and it added value to picturisation. Locations are very good, The forest area was shown superbly. Small or medium mistakes in story, directions are there. For example, the scene says it is going to have a cyclone, but the scenes will not establish it ,but for light breeze and occasional artificial lightenings. If story is improved, and the rishi character improved , the picture would have been a memorable movie like chandra mukhi. Rishi character can add lot of value with special mannerisms, idio synchrosies, dialogue deliveries. but this role was just ignored and we have to satisfy with simple appearance of a healthy man as hero.Anyway, if you want to spend with a telugu suspense horror movie in any night, watch this.
One more important point! Our directors like this sekhar suri, ram gopal verma are unable to get away from the spell of hollywood horror movie trends. When you see the psycho killer in this movie, you can link that characterization to 20 hollywood horror movies. Telugu horror field is different. You never attempt at macabre, gore scenes, showing blood, cutting off heads etc. These belong to hollywood only. Telugu field suspese is different. Telugu people get scared with Ame evaru, antasthulu type of songs and picturisation. That itself create chill in spinal chord.(Remember ninu veedani needanu nene song, or oh na rajaa songs?).Hollywood picturisations resort to spitting green liquid from mouths, shades in eyes, chopping off bodies with axe or chain saw ,hovering bodies in the air in a peculiar way.
coming to Publicity of the movie, we could not understand what for this movie is made(when release, through ads). Had they shown some good dialouges in this movie, some suspense scenes in tv publicity, it could have drawn more crowds who are waiting for a thriller , as a change. Hope Nandanavanam 120 KM atleast implements better publicity to pull the crowd who love to watch suspense movies.

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Posted by gvs gopalarao to Telugu Cinema Reviews-Pokiri vikramrkudu ,Illiana at 7/14/2006 11:54:00 AM