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Andariki Namaskaram! Welcome to Tollywood Kaburlu, a weekly Telugu movie podcast hosted by Teja Rao, an aspiring actor and screenwriter in USA with new episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Our podcast mainly revisits old Telugu movies and assesses their rewatch value in present day. In addition, we occasionally review new Telugu movies and talk about Telugu music. Hope you enjoy listening to the nostalgia blast! Email us your feedback and requests at Tollywoodkaburlu1@gmail.com Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQpxAc1vvnfBykdF3qRXLw

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Andariki Namaskaram! Welcome to Tollywood Kaburlu, a weekly Telugu movie podcast hosted by Teja Rao, an aspiring actor and screenwriter in USA with new episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Our podcast mainly revisits old Telugu movies and assesses their rewatch value in present day. In addition, we occasionally review new Telugu movies and talk about Telugu music. Hope you enjoy listening to the nostalgia blast! Email us your feedback and requests at Tollywoodkaburlu1@gmail.com Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQpxAc1vvnfBykdF3qRXLw

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Revisiting Balu ABCDEFG (2005): Review + Interesting Facts

5/7/2024
Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Shriya, Neha Oberai, Gulshan Grover, Jersey Singh, Sunil, Suman, Saurabh Shukla, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Rajan P Dev, Brahmanandam, Jaya Sudha, Music: Mani Sharma Dialogues: Kona Venkat Lyrics: Sirivennela, Jonnavithula, Chandrabose Choreography: Kalyan, Vaibhavi Merchant, Saroj Khan Cinematographer: Ramesh Art: Anand Sai Stunts: Stun Siva & Vijayan Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao Story - Screenplay - Direction: Karunakaran Executive Producer: Saibaba Co Producer: Priyanka Dutt Producer: Aswini Dutt Theatrical release date: 6th January 2005 Interesting Facts: Nitin Raikwar came to Hyderabad and stayed here for 4 days to pen lyrics for the Hindi song Hut Hatja idlebrain.com

Duration:00:58:06

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Revisiting Anji (2004): Review + Interesting Facts

5/3/2024
Credits Banner: MS Arts Cast: Chiranjeevi, Namrata Sirodkar, MS Narayana, Tinu Anand, Bhupinder Singh, Rami Reddy, PT Raj, Saraswatamma, Baby Keertana, Baby Meghana, Baby Muthya, Master Vamsi, Master Bharat, Master Ajay, Ramya Krishna (SA), Rajya Lakshmi (SA) and Reema Sen (SA) Music: Mani Sharma (Sri for one song) Dialogues: Satyanand Cinematography: Chota K Naidu Art: Ashok Lyrics: Sirivennela, Bhuvana Chandra, Chandrabose Choreography: Lawrence, Raju Sundaram, Raja Sekhar, Robert Stunts: Kanal Kannan, Peter Heins Visual Effects: Firefly Creative Studio Creatives for visual effects: Bapu Editing: KV Krishna Reddy Production: Edu Kondalu Story - Screenplay: MS Arts Unit Direction: Kodi Rama Krishna Producer: Shyam Prasad Reddy Release date: 15th January 2004 Writing/Direction It's perfect example of good concept, bad execution. The story has potential but the screenplay is so bad to be honest. Its so badly written lmao. The movie is so clearly a mixture of Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade: In temple of doom, he has to bring back the Shiva Lingam and in last crusade they have to find the Holy Grail which grants immortal powers. Holy Grail is in a temple, here the Shiva Lingam is also in a temple or in some save when you enter it. Opening sequence and first 15 minutes is excellent, then the credits roll and everything seems well and good until Anji intro and first song. Ok. Then a random scene with forest people trying to capture an elephant. Then it introduces heroine and tries to bring in conflict point and tie in the story. But the villain is very weak, heroine is irritating and MS NArayana character is supposed to be henchman of the villain and it also gives irritation and is not funny. It's so forced and cringeworthy. Basically its an adventure movie with commercial elements: action, comedy, romance, emotion, and drama. But any adventure movie, the set pieces need stakes. Look at Indiana Jones, the opening scene which this is clearly inspired from he takes the thing and then a giant boulder comes and basically the villain gets it. I didnt feel it so much in this movie. For example he goes to get the sessanam, gets it, comes back, it gets burned. Ok. But somehow Naga Babu knows everything lol. The drama is decent, action is there but forced, comedy is worst, and romance is non existent. Basically movie starts off well but then it tries to go in romantic and comedy track and fails miserably. Also interval is illogical and so convenient. He falls off a cliff of such height, he will most likely not be alive and falls where the snake and that knife formed into 72 years ago. Also if the tantrik 72 years ago dropped the praying materials into some black hole, how did some random priests in Uruvakona recover it? We are never told. Then Bhatia comes and then its like he has motives and then they bring tie in the subplot between elephant trapper and Bhatia who join hands to kill Sivayya. And then from there movie just gets unbelievably violent. He dies. And then Anji comes for revenge to kill everyone and then finally they go to climax. And it got very boring and exhausting. Climax is illogical because only Anji goes yet somehow if everything was that difficult how come in climax Bhatia comes just like that. In any adventure movie hero and villain always go through final hurdles and location together. Here he just comes somehow. And its just athi that he shoots the girl. So violent and over the top for no reason. Finally the movie ends and its just like. Ok. Movie ends but you dont feel anything. Are the graphics good? I mean maybe but ive seen Star Wars and Indiana Jones but it doesn’t feel anything. Its very clear its not that range. Direction by Kodi Ramakrishna is not good. As said before beginning and end are very good with set pieces and excitement but rest of the movie is so badly directed and executed you can’t forgive the rest.

Duration:00:58:46

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Episode 160 - Revisiting Vasu (2002): Review + Interesting Facts

4/30/2024
Credits Banner: Creative Commercials Cast: Venkatesh, Bhumika Chawla, Ali, Vijay Kumar, Manjula, Varsha, Sunil, Jogi Naidu, Achyut Dialogues: Trivikram Srinivas Lyrics: Sahiti, Pothula Ravi Kiran & Sirivennela Camera: Ramesh Babu Art: Anand Sai Music: Harris Jayaraj Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Fights: Vijay Story - Screenplay - Direction: A Karunakaran Producer: KS Rama Rao Theatrical Release Date: 10th April 2002 Interesting Facts: It’s Venkatesh’s 50th film Harris Jayaraj Telugu debut, I heard it was Venkatesh's choice They filmed the last song Vaale Vale Poddula of the film in a set erected at Chennai on Venkatesh and Bhumika Chawla. The first set of 2 lakhs of albums was sold in 4 days after the audio release. The audio has got unanimous hit talk all over. Writing/Direction Oh man, where to start? Honestly speaking watching this movie was an experience. One because it was relatable, but two because it could have been so much better. If you want to work in the arts or want to be an artist, it will be so relatable for you and it was for me since I want to be an actor and writer in films. Movie is basically about a guy who aspires to be a singer and what obstacles he faces to get there. Similar movies are Satyam and then Gowtam SSC. After watching this film I realized this and Satyam almost same story. Good intention hero, gets into a fight and thrown out of his house by his dad, has aspirations in music industry, heroine misunderstands him, his friends are there to support him, lastly needs heroine family permission to marry her, father accepts their mistake and he gets heroine in the end. The conflict in the movie isn’t well done or strong enough is the problem. The two points aren’t good. The first point is between Venkatesh and Vijayakamumar. His dad wants him to become IPS but he wants to become a singer. There’s really only one scene where we feel this emotion and thats when they have a heart to hear conversation. This is the only time. Other conflict point is making heroine like him. He does all chiller stuff stalking the girl and doing weird things following her and trying to make her fall for him. And they have no chemistry because heroine is not developed properly. What does she do? What are her interest? What are her goals in life? We know nothing about Divya as a character other than the fact that she is Vasu’s love interest. Also all of the songs are Vasu’s fantasies about her. He imagines something and then cut pana oru song Thalaiva except intro song and climax song. None of them are natural and are so out of sync. Their love story is not believable at all and is so convenient that she happens to stay in their house. Also the point of the movie is Vasu’s struggle etc. To be quite frank, we never actually feel it in the movie due to weak conflict points. He gets rejected, he hangs out with his friends, etc. but we never feel the real struggle of his musical efforts. Because we don’t really feel invested, director tries to add sister sentiment as a subplot and it works to an extent because its all connected to the story but it felt more forced rather than natural. Vasu is a rom com so the romantic part is bad but comedy is surprisingly good. Trivikram’s dialogues and Venkatesh and Sunil comic timing are good and keep you entertained. However last 50 minutes are excellent and have great emotion. If rest of the movie was like that, definitely movie would have been a success. Climax is clear Trivikram inspiration of hero liking a girl but her marriage is fixed with someone else so inside he is feeling bad etc. Direction by Karunakaran is ok. He should have focused more on having stronger conflict points and heroine character to make her a real character so romantic track would have been better but overall it was a weak effort from him. Because the movie never bores you, his direction seems fine, but writing wise its a huge disappointment.

Duration:00:55:55

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Revisiting Sammohanam (2018): Review + Interesting Facts

4/26/2024
Credits Banner: Sridevi movies Cast: Sudheer Babu, Aditi Rao Hydari, Naresh, Tanikella Bharani, Pavitra Lokesh, Harshini, Nandu, Kadambari Kiran, Hariteja, Rahul Ramakrishna, Kedar Shankar, Shishir Sharma Music: Vivek Sagar Cinematographer: PG Vinda Production design: Ravinder Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry, Ramajogayya Sastri Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh Story, Dialogues, Screenplay & Direction: Indraganti Mohan Krishna Producer: Shivalenka Krishnaprasad Release Date: June 15th, 2018 Sold or 8 crores WW and Finally it collected 7 cores are at the box office and was average at the box office. Writing/Direction: So honestly speaking its basically Notting Hill but with telugu masala. If you ask me Sammohanam is a commercial film but its missing the two things that would make it more appealing which is action and emotion. But its a rom com for sure. And its a very conversational film and the conversations are very meaningful and well done. You can almost think of film as more than meets the eye. That’s precisely Sudheer babu’s point in the movie. He feels film industry is so fake and its basically a mukhabhagam. He doesnt like his dads thing and if you notice his sankocham towards it when he’s asked to help Aditi Rao Hydari out. He sincerely feels its so fake and tells his dad this and everything. If you notice the whole movie whenever something related to films is Brought up, he always denies it and has a chinna choopu towards it. So when the love interest themselves is a heroine, it has the potential for a lot of conflict and interesting moments and it does. The more time they spend with each other, the more the attraction goes, Thats why when she leaves, they both feel bad and he feels he’s losing a part of himself. Movie goes in a very smooth and breezy manner in first half. But this movie can be summed up as a tale of two halves. First half is very entertaining but the movie literally ends at the interval. For comedy purpose they put Naresh track and introduced that subplot and its so entertaining and funny. Naresh makes it so believable. Also that movie Kummestha is very funny. At times I got reminded of Neninthe because its a film set within film industry and the characters and people are so funny like the guy who plays the writer of the film promises Naresh. Also Vijay’s friends and everyone are so excited when he meets Samara he has that clout etc. so its very funny. The only conflict left in the movie is if they will unite which they do because its a Telugu movie. And 2nd half is so boring and slow man. It tested patience. All the scenes felt like filler. And then introduces heroine flashback which seemed so out of place unconvincing. Just randomly in there and felt forced. It also doesnt help that that guy really couldn’t act. The comedy scene they put is also funny but by that point you’re just kind of waiting for the movie to end. Basically thats the reason she rejected him and overall when I saw it felt unconvincing mainly because of how badly done it was. If they gave another reason I would have believed it. The only meaningful scene was the rejection scene which is very real and relatable because it all happens to us at some point. When he gets rejected as well, its also very well done. Also liked that Vijay’s character is a children’s book artist. The book he wrote was very good. The climax is also feel good and leaves you with a good feeling but I dont know. Felt very mixed on rewatch. It was ok at best. Direction by Mohankrishna Indraganti is pretty good. Writing, acting, rom com feeling, and overall vibe of the movie is very good but pacing and 2nd half were not great. Music and BGM by Vivek Sagar is CLASSIC. Overall: Sammohanam is a decent movie on rewatch. First half, good music, relatable scenes and performances are the good part but a boring 2nd half and slow pace outdo the positives. Movie ends nicely but its take it or leave it in the end. I dont think its repeat value...

Duration:00:55:26

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Revisiting NTR's Aadi (2002): Review + Interesting Facts

4/19/2024
Credits Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions Cast: NTR, Keerthi Chawla, Rajan P Dev, Ali, LB Sriram, Chalapati Rao, M.S. Narayana, Ahuti Prasad, Raghu Babu, Rajeev Kanakala, Venumadhav, Sangeetha and Bangalore Padma Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers Music: Mani Sharma Edting: Gautham Raju Choreography: Pradeep Anthony, Raghava Lawrence Photography: Ram Prasad Stunts: Vikram Dharma Story - Screenplay - Direction: VV Vinayak Producer: P Naga Lakshmi Theatrical Release Date: 28th March 2002 Interesting Facts:

Duration:00:49:05

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Revisiting Bharat Ane Nenu (2018): Review + Interesting Facts

4/9/2024
Credits Banner: DVV entertainment Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kiara Advani, Prakash Raj, Sarath Kumar, Rao Ramesh, Devaraj, Posani Krishna Murali, Brahmaji, Ravi Shankar, Yashpal Sharma, Anish Kuruvilla, Ajay, Rahul Ramakrishna, Shatru, Devadas Kanakala, Prudhviraj. Jeeva, Suriya, Sithara, Aamani, Banerjee, Rajitha Music: Devi Sri Prasad Cinematographer: Ravi K. Chandran & Thirunavakkrasu Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry Production design: Suresh Selvarajan Editor: Sreekar Prasad Fights: Ram Lakshman Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction: Koratala Siva Producer: DVV Danayya Release date: April 20th, 2018 Interesting Facts:

Duration:00:57:39

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Revisiting Mahanati (2018): Review + Interesting Facts

4/5/2024
Credits Banner: Swapna Cinema Cast: Keerthy Suresh, Dulquer Salmaan, Samantha Akkineni, Vijay Devarakonda, Rajendra Prasad, Tanikella Bharani, Malavika Nair, Shalini Pandey, Tulasi, Divya Vani, Naga Chaitanya, Mohan Babu, Prakash Raj Music: Mickey J Meyer Cinematographer: Dani Sanchez-Lopez Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry & Ramajogayya Sastry Costume Design: Gaurang Shah and Archana Rao Dialogues: Sai Madhav Burra Production Design: Shivam Rao Art Director: Avinash Kolla Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao Written & Direction: Nag Ashwin Producers: C Ashwini Dutt, Swapna Dutt, Priyanka Dutt Release Date: May 9th, 2018 Writing/Direction: Obviously this is the biopic of the greatest Indian actress of all time and Nag Ashwin chooses a back and forth screenplay meaning it runs on two parallels: the past and the present. Generally with these types of movies, they tend to test your patience and confuse you but here its brilliantly done and so seamless. You can look at this movie in so many different ways but much like the story I’ll talk about it in two ways: a biopic and its actually a mass movie at the same time. So usually in films biopics are whitewashed which means you purposefully dont know the flaws or bas things about someone to glorify them. That’s where mahanati gets things right in that it elevates Savitri garu but also shows her flaws as a person which led to her downfall. Why I see it as a movie mass is because it has everything you’d expect from a mass commercial film and also because mahanati has the rare distinction of appealing to literally everybody. It is about the period that made Telugu cinema famous so literally from old people to young people even those who dont know Savitri, they will enjoy the movie. Naresh gives that elevation in the movie about it: It has amazing music, it has comedy, it has romance, it has the best drama, it has emotion and most of all it has highs, not one but so many goosebumps moments and elevations. Movie has so many elevations I lost count but here they are: I usually dont cry in movies. But the last 30 minutes made me cry and climax scene and credits made me cry a lot. It’s so sad knowing that the greatest actress who ever lived is not with us anymore. Direction by Nag Ashwin is perfect. This movie is a masterclass in storytelling and it a classic. From writing, direction, and all technicalities, it is flawless. These are the types of movie they should make on a weekly basis meaning this range or quality in Telugu instead we get such rod films almost every week.

Duration:01:19:50

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Episode 155 - Revisiting Vasantam (2003): Review + Interesting Facts

4/2/2024
Credits Banner: Sri Sai Deva Productions Cast: Venkatesh, Kalyani, Arti Agarwal, Tanikella Bharani, Chandra Mohan, Surya, Vizag Prasad, Ahuti Prasad, Delhi Rajeswari, Akash, Sunil, VVS Laxman (special appearance) Dialogues: Chintapally Ramana Music: SA Raj Kumar Songs: Veturi, Sirivennela, Kulasekhar & Chandrabose Art: Raju Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Co-director: Uma Maheswara Rao Producer: NV Prasad & Sanam Naga Ashok Kumar Story - Screenplay - Direction: Vikraman Release date: 11 July 2003 Interesting Facts: Film is was simultaneous shot in Tamil as Priyamana Thozhi with madhavan, Jyotika and Sridevi. It was average in Tamil but super hit In Telugu. Audio was released on June 14th 2003 in Ramanaidu Studious and it was the first Vasantham is also the first Indian film to be shot in Greece (Ninnu Choodaku song was filming in Mykonos) Additional songs shot in Switzerland and then Ammo Ammayena song was filmed at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, Rajasthan It released alongside Simhadri and ran better than Simhadri in some areas. Overall it was a super hit at the box office. Writing/Direction: Based on friendship but unlike Nuvve Kavali which had great entertainment, pacing, and emotions, Vasantham has none of these. Its straight up boring. Julie and Ashok have been childhood friends ok, and he respects her religion and everything but like nothing worked for me on the rewatch. It aged terribly. Also his family doesnt like him because he’s trying to be a cricketer and he comes home late at night etc. But this aspect isn’t even explored well either. Its so over the top and almost serial like. They’re annoyed he comes home but how does it affect their family it’s never shown. I always come back to the movie but a guy who drinks and wastes time with his friends is much better explored in AMAV. Movie is full of illogical and cringeworthy scenes Sunil and Dhamarvarupu entire comedy track actually every comedy scene is cringe max. Its not funny at all. That too Sunil tries to do his best but the comedy didnt work at all. Direction by Vikraman is terrible. No emotion, no entertainment, and nothing. It’s flat out boring and just unintentionally funny. Movie was aged terribly and is a rod in present day. Venky has many great family movies but Vasantham is not one of them in present day.

Duration:00:46:12

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Revisiting Nuvve Kavali (2000): Review + Interesting Facts

3/26/2024
Credits Banner: Ushakiron Movies Cast: Tarun, Richa Sharma, Sai Kiran & Varsha Music: Koti Camera: Hari Anumolu Art Direction: Ranga Peketi Editing: A. Sreekar Prasad Dialogues : Trivikram Story: Iqbal Kuttippuram (Niram) Story, Screenplay & Direction: Vijaya Bhaskar Executive Producer: Sravanti Ravi Kishore Producer: Ramoji Rao Theatrical Release Date: 13th October 2000 Interesting Facts: To give insight into the run it just ran and ran and ran 1. Srikakulam - Keerthika - 252 days 2. Vizianagaram - Sivaranjani - 273 days 3. Vizag - Leelamahal - 266 days 4. Rajamundry - Urvasi - 252 days 5. Kakinada - Sridevi - 266 days 6. Eluru - Kalpana - 266 days 7. Bhimavaram - Mini Mahalaxmi - 266 days 8. Vijayawada - Shanti - 295 days 9. Machilipatnam - Mini Revathi - 266 days 10. Gunadala - Vinayak - 203 days (Late release) 11. Guntur - Pallavi deluxe - 252 days 12. Tenali - Mini Sangameswara - 266 days 13. Ongole - Tulasiram - 219 days 14. Nellore - Leela mahal - 242 days 15. Anantapur - Gowthami - 277 days 16. Kadapa - Sudha - 247 days 17. Kurnool - Apsara - 259 days 18. Madanapalli - Mini Siddartha - 210 days (Late release) 19. Nandyala - Mini Venkateswara - 201 days (Late release) 20. Hyderabad - Odeon 70mm - 266 days 21. Warangal - Kakatiya - 252 days 200 days run with shifts : 2 centers 1. Tirupati - Srinivasa 94 days + Mini Pratap 164 days - 258 days run 2. Chittoor - Raghava 195 days + shift - 200+ days Remaining 175 days centers : 4 1. Ballery - Sri Rajeshwari - 175 days 2. Nizamabad - Devi 70mm - 175 days 3. Bansuwada - Ramakrishna - 175 days 4. Hindupur - Venkateswara - 175 days

Duration:00:58:57

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Revisiting Chitram (2000): Review + Interesting Facts

3/22/2024
Credits Banner: Usha Kiron Movies Cast: Uday Kiran, Reema Sen, Tankiella Bharani, Banerjee, Chitram Seenu, Rallapalli, Gundu Sudarshanam Cinematography: Rasool Ellore Choreography: Shankar Art Director: Narayana Reddy Editor: Shankar Music: RK Patnaik Dialogues, Story, Screenplay and Direction: Teja Producer: Ramoji Rao Release Date: June 16ht, 2000 Context: Don’t even remember the movie just know that is Uday Kiran, Reema Sen, and Teja first movie. Rewatched it and it was ROD RAA BABU. Unbearable cringe just so slow and so boring and gave headache. It the worst movie we have rewatched since starting this podcast. I hated it that much. Acting: Uday Kiran is decent. Looks the part thats about it. Looked very rough but obviuiosy improved. Reema Sen is obviously vert attractive and has great screen presence and suited the character perfectly, Acting wise she did ok as they’re both new actors. Tanikella Bharati is the hug light as typical middle class father who is always yelling at his sons. Banerjee is decent. Entire friend gang gives irritation and they were terrible. Rallpallai garu was ok. Gundu Sudharshanam has a cameo as auto driver. Not much to talk about acting overall. Writing/Direction: This is a perfect example of a movie that has aged so terribly its not even funny. The core concept of teenage pregnancy is good but the execution is so bad. First of all the whole movie gives irritation with its taking. And because by that point I was already so frustrated with the movie, whatever conflict they faced after having the baby I didn't care at all. Movie was so slow and boring, No entertainment, just straight up boredom and irritation more than anything, There’s literally nothing to praise in the movie. It was pukka rod. Direction by Teja is terrible. Movie has aged so badly and its so slow and boring in present day with no entertainment and illogical writing. Technicalities: Songs and BGM by RP Patnaik are pacha lite. I didnt like a single song. Cinematography is decent and so is Art Direction for the music portion. Editing is awful. Theres no pacing or flow to the movie whatsoever Production Values by ramoji rao are decent. Its a low budget movie and clearly looks like one. Overall: Chitram is unreadable rod in present day. With no entertainment, cringe pro max, and such a slow and boring movie. Dont even bother trying to watch it again, That is all. Thank you.

Duration:00:44:36

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Revisiting Nuvvu Nenu (2001): Review + Interesting Facts

3/19/2024
Credits Banner: Anandi Arts Creations Cast: Uday Kiran, Anita, Tanikella Bharani, Sunil, MS Narayana, Dharmavarapu, Shakuntala, Rallapalli Music: RP Patnaik Lyrics: Kula Sekhar Cinematography: Rasool Ellore Art: Narayana Reddy Editing: Shankar Story, Dialogues, Screenplay & Direction: Teja Producer: P Kiran Theatrical Release Date: 10th August 2001 Context: Watched it when I was young and the only reason I remember the movie is Gajuvaka Pilla, even today that’s the only song I liked and remember and of course one of Uday Kiran’s biggest hits, 2nd of the 3. Decided to rewatch it as we are doing all youthful love stories during that time, and it was ROD RA BABU. ROD RAMBOLA. Interesting Facts:

Duration:00:45:32

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Revisiting Nuvve Nuvve (2002): Review + Interesting Facts

3/15/2024
Credits Banner: Sri Sravanthi Movies Cast: Tarun, Sreya, Prakash Raj, Chandra Mohan, Sunil, MS Narayana, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Chitti Babu, Sudha, Pragati, Rajiv Kanakala, Anitha Chowdary, Swapna madhuri, Silpa Chakravarthy, Sudarshan, Naveen Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry Music: Koti Photography: Hari Anumolu Editing: Srikar Prasad Art: Peketi Ranga, Ram Mohan Choreography: Suchitra Chandra Bose, Shankar Producer: 'Sravanthi' Ravi Kishore Story - Dialogues - Screenplay - Direction: Trivikram Release date: 10th October 2002 Interesting Facts: Nuvve Kaali Vanamani house shooting, Trivikram narrated the story to Ravi Kishore. He went to his car and brought his check book, and gave him advance as much as he got entire rumenuration as writer for Nuvve Kavali, he bought a bike with that money. At that point Nuvve Kavali still hadn’t released and he had confidence in him to do it. So basically everybody who worked for Nuvve Kavali worked again for Nuvve Nuvve as a formality basically as goodwill. Went to Mumbai to meet Shriya to narrate the story I directed Nuvve Nuvve film after the release of Nuvvu Naaku Nachav. I couldn’t do that film the way I wanted. I was not completely satisfied with my work. I think the dialogue writer in me dominated the director in that film. However, it was a commercially successful project for the producer and was a hit at the box office. Writing/Direction: So actually the main point is that a father’s love for his daughter can never be beaten. The entire movie is actually a flashback because Prakash raj narrates entire story to Tanikella Bharati of what happened. The best part of the movie is that its very realistic but also the whole world created for the characters. Basically all of them face the same problem which is everybody is torn between father and lover all 3 main characters. Also with Rishi, Anjali, and Viswanath, you get to travel with them, learn their worlds, learn their ideologies, and learn the way they think and go through this wile journey with them which is rare for a film. But much like the movie idiot, this is one of those point of view movies, and if you ask me the only correct POV is Prakash raj. But yourself in his shoes and whatever doubts he has they are valid. Praksh raj isn’t even the villain, hes just a man trying to understanding veeyrhting and fears that someone other than him will love his daughter kore than him. Vishwananth seems like a man with such high morals and everything but theres a crucial scene with Rajeev Kanakala where he calls out Viswanath’s hypocrisy and he starts to think about it. Also Rishi and Anjali’s actions start to affect their families as well and its like everything that’s going on is basically like a chain reaction, IN that aspect this is a brilliantly written and directed film. He eventually loses and gives Anjali to Rishi. That being said two points seemed very over the top: First one was them just casually going to Mumbai and back, idk how that works but it seemed quire unrealistic and illogical and then they run out of petrol and just keep pushing the motorcycle towards Annavaram. What he did there was actually stalking even though they like each other. Also the movie pace was really slow and especially 2nd half it just completely slowed down. The copy iw watched was 2 hrs 48 mins. Also movie is so dialogues heavy that I get exhausted. Its one thing to have heavy dialogues and they work, like theyre really good, the opposite would be Aagadu so I hope it makes sense. These drama movies aren’t my thing no matter how good the drama might be, I need some other commercial elements in the movie. Very little Trivikram mark comedy as well. Direction by Trivikram is good for the characterizations, writing, and dialogues. But huge pacing issues as the movie is very slow and feels like a lot of lag in between giving boredom. In the end, Amma avakayi Anjali bore kottindi actually.

Duration:00:51:21

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Episode 150 - Malliswari (2004): Movie Discussion ft. Pranav

3/1/2024
Credits Banner: Suresh Productions Cast: Venkatesh, Katrina Kaif, Balaiah, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Tanikella Bharani, Naresh, Ahuti Prasad, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Mallikharjuna Rao, Chalapati Rao, Sunil, CVL Narasimha Rao, Devdas Kanakala, Chitram Seenu, Benarji, Ganesh, Prabhu, Raghunadh Reddy, Gowtam Raju, Chitti Babu, Poosala, Lakshmipati, Sudarshan, Rajya Lakshmi, Rajitha, Sana, Padma Jayanth, Priyanka, Hema, Baby Greeshma, Gajala (SA) & Smita (SA) Story - dialogues: Trivikram Lyrics: Sirivennela & Bhuvana Chandra (Janma Janmala) Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Raja Sekhar, Krishna Reddy Co-director: Sudhakar G Art Director: Bhupesh R Bhupathi Editing: Srikar Prasad Stunts: Stun Siva Cinematography: Sameer Reddy Music: Koti Producer: D Suresh Screenplay - direction: Vijaya Bhaskar K Release date: 18th February 2004 Interesting Facts: https://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/pressmeet-malliswari.html Katrina Kaif was paid 65 lakhs for the movie, all time record salary for a heroine in South Indian cinema at the time. All the songs were picturised in outdoor locations except a song. He said songs were picturised in the beautiful locales of New Zealand (2 songs) and finest islands of Bangkok (1 song) along with Mysore, Goa and Hyderabad. Collected 14 crores share at box office and was a hit Ran for 50 days in 119 centers and 100 days in 33 centers Vijaywada Apsara theater 112 days run - 62.77 lakhs gross Rajamundtry Syamala theater 110 days run - 50.26 lakhs gross Guntur Venkatakrishna theater 100 days run - 33.86 lakhs gross Vizag Jyothi theater 111 days run - 58.03 lakhs gross Gajuwaka Mohini theater 111 days run - 25.76 lakhs gross Gudivada Sarath theater 100 days run - 15.53 lakhs gross Machilipatnam Siri Venkat theater 105 days - 15.08 lakhs gross Set up and Payoff - Asks the panthulu if when he sees the girl lighting will come, flowers will fall, directly after that it happens, 5) Favorite Scenes 6) Why it will always be a classic - evergreen dialogues, clean comedy masterpiece direction, and evergreen entertainment from start to finish.

Duration:01:35:22

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Chiru Navvutho Review + Interesting Facts

2/23/2024
Credits Banner: SP Entertainments Cast: Venu, Shaheen, Prema, Giribabu, Gundu Sudarshan, Brahmanandham, Ali, Anantha, Giridhar, Sudha, Chandramohan, Prakash Raj Music: Mani Sharma Cinematography: K Prasad Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Story & Dialogues: Trivikram Director & Screenplay: Ram Prasad Producer: Shyam Prasad Theatrical Release Date: 10th November 2000 Interesting Facts We met Ram Prasad for the first time when he was assisting B Gopal for the film 'Gang Master' in the year 1996. He is a hard worker and a very sincere guy. His experience helped us in the making of 'Chiru Navvuto'. He worked without an assistant for that film most of the times. I give all the credit for the success of the film to G Ram Prasad for his direction. During Nuvve Kavali making, Trivikram had simultaneously penned story and dialogues for Chirunavvutho. After the unit of SP Entertainments returned from Canada after canning three songs on Venu and Shaheen, it commenced its scheduled at Hyderabad recently. After giving a good thought on various titles, atlast it was decided to call this different love story as Chirunavvu (Smile). A situational song was picturised on Venu and his friends alongwith 250 junior artistes at Annapoorna Studios. The budget for Chirunavvuto was a little over 2 crores and it collected a share of 5 crores and was a hit at the box office. Ran for 100 days in multiple places Writing/Direction: So basically the movie summed up in a line is a man who thinks with his brain and heart and cannot be friends with a girl after expressing his love. Whether or not he’s successfully is the story. This movie is literally a sequel to Swavyamvaram. Same producer, same hero, same writer, and literally same cast with addition of Brahmanadham and LB Sriram. And almost same story as well. There it was love is greater than marriage, here its you love with different mindsets affects people after learning abut their mentalities in love. Thats it. But a great 2nd half and excellent dialogues makes the difference for Navvutho. 3 characters Venu, Sandhya and Pratap you get to see their intentions and the movie actually places Sandhya is a very confused state and you start to feel for her. Venu says I always talk with my heart and do whats in my mind and he cannot be friends with Sandhya after expressing his love. He wont force anything. Sandhya meanwhile likes Pratap but one scene int he jewelry store shows how controlling he is and doesnt care about Sandhya’s likes or wishes only his. Already a red flag. And then Pratap cheated Venu’s maradalu which already shows hes not a good person. The dialogues, characterizations, and sensibilities were very well done. Also the scene where Sandhya talks to her mom and who will we be happy with: she says madam preminche vaalu kante, manalni preminche vaale tho jeevitham baguntadi. After hearing this, Sandhya decides that venu is the right person for her. That being said, this review is coming 24 years after the movie released for the first time and I found it to be exhausting with this trope. Literally of Trivikram’s movies as a writer dealt with marriage and issues and specifically hero likes heroine, but heroine marriage gets arranged with someone else and in the climax she realizes she likes hero and goes back to him only. Literally every single one: Swayvamvaram. Nuvve Kavali, Chiru Navvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Manmadhudhu, Malliswari, Vasu, the only exception is Jai Chiranjeeva becayse theres no pelli there only killing of Arbaaz Khan and Im so tired of seeing this trope. From Swayamvaravam all the way to Geetha Govindam literally every single love story or rom com same exact ending. Solo as well. It gets exhausting and tiring. Comedy is not Trivikram range that we are used to either. Its just something but the dialogues for the majority are incredible. Direction by G Ram Prasad is very good. I was never bored at any point and movie is very breezy throughout.

Duration:00:45:51

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Anandamanandamaye Review

2/20/2024
Credits Banner: Usha Kiron Movies Cast: Akash, Renuka Menon, JD Chakravarthy, Preethi Jinganiya, Sunil, Devan, Sivaji Raja, Hema, Rajya Laxmi, Sumalatha, Venu Madhav, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, MS Narayana, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, Sudhakar, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sumithra, Bharath, Zeeba, Sudeepa, AVS, Gowtam Raju. Music: Koti Dialogues: Diwakar Babu Cinematography: Ajay Vincent Story - Screenplay - Direction: Seenu Vytla Producer: Ramoji Rao Release date: 6th February 2004 Writing/Direction: To be honest its quite hard to describe this story in one sentence. An orphan who works at an NGO falls in love with an aspiring painter who has a huge joint family. Two conflict points in the movie is Akash mistaken identity and then JD CHakravathy conflict with the family. And nether of them work because neither are convincing enough or strong enough to run the entire movie. Also clear to see that comedy inspiration would become two full length tracks in the future: Painting thread with G=Bhuvana in King was expanded and then train scenes with Akash, Venu Madhav and Gotham Raju were used in Venku right after this What does work are the separate comedy tracks which are brilliantly done and Sreenu Vaitla was comic genius. First track is between Venu Madhav, Kondavalasa, MS Naryanaa, Sudhakar, Dharmavarupu 1st thing: Venu Madhav tells Kondavalasa to have happy hour at 7 PM to get max profits but within 30 mins he runs out of alcohol and the people beat him up. One guy cheated 2nd: MS Narayana is screening Manmadhudu byt Venu Madhav tells him to screen Shakeela movie during happy hours and put English movie bits as well. He screens the movie and then Censor Board members come and he tells him to watch it and he gets his theater seized 3rd: He tells Sudhakar to go to pakka ooru Rajahmudnry club and play there. That night a police played by JP Reddy comes and tries to arrest him. He forgot his keys and then steals the Police’s motorcycle itself 4th: NGO track with higher officer he gives his suit to Dharamvarupu and he books Dharmavarupu. All of these are very funny. Dharmavarupu dialogue delivery was actually quite annoying and brought irritation. 2nd track is between Sivaji Raja and Bharath. Highlight. Sivaji Raja always roasts him are chetulu lo cinema actors chopistava, Hyderabad lo Taj Mahal vundi ante and then the classic monologue: title Pepepa anti Ananganaga oka pedha kutumbam, aa kutumbam lo thanri chala pedhavadu thalli kuda pedhade valla pillalu Thota malli vontavadu, aakiriki car driver kuda pedhavade, papam vaalu tinnadaniki chicken biryani kuda doraka, alkali tho AC car tho velthundaga Orey! pandi yedava 20 mandi panollu AC car lo vunnolu pedhola, idi rayadaniki school yega dobbuthava. And then to escape from JP Reddy 2nd time with his wife on his cycle, he comes to store on his bicycle and he finds Sudhakar and he to escape he puts on Enugu costume and then he steals JP reddy’s cycle. The comedy is really good. But main negative is The main story lacks emotion and it’s not convincing. Preeti character is like a pysco and she acts very weird. Also some scenes are so weirdly done, she calls her dad and she’s like Nanna nenu chahipithujna Amma Mahi! And the flashback is not convincing at all. Not enough conflict for there to be a family conflict at all. And then JD Chakravarthy comes back and everyone is so casual about it Mahi chanipoyindi andi antaru. It was such comedy. So in the end except for some comedy scenes, there’s noting in the movie. Direction by Sreenu Vaitla is ok. Comedy is excellent but main story, emotions, and everything else is not so good.

Duration:00:41:33

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Swayamvaram Review + Interesting Facts

2/16/2024
Credits Banner: SP Entertainments Cast: Venu, Laya, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Sudha,, Ali, Giri Babu, Brahmaji, Venu Madhav, MS Narayana, Ananth Babu, Ironleg Sastri, Rajitha, Music: Vandemataram Srinivas Cinematography: K. Prasad Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Story-Dialogues: Trivikram Srinivas Producer: Venkata Shyam Prasad Screenplay - Direction: K. Vijay Bhaskar Release Date: April 22, 1999 Interesting Facts: https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/interview_shyam.html Acting: Venu is amazing in his role. His first movie, incredible comic timing, dialogue delivery and intensity towards the end and incredible screen presence. It proved his talent with first movie itself. Laya is equally as good. She is exceptional in the emotional scenes and has great chemistry with Venu. Both leads but killed it in their debut movies. Giri Babu is excellent as the evil father. Technically he is the villain, typical heroines father. Kota is very good as usual as hero’s father. He also gets a chance to showcase his comic timing in some scenes. Sudha is very good, MS Narayana is hilarious as usual. Ananth Babu is breif and Dharmavarupu scene is hilarious in a cameo as dr. Dhariyam, Venu Madhav also has a cameo. Ali plays a their in a separate comedy and he’s funny. Writing/Direction: Logline is about a man who doesnt believe in marriage and prefers love. But his characterization is like beware guy and then heroine hates him for most of the time. And the conflict point isn’t strong enough which makes the 2nd half completely dragged and dull. Other than the Dharmavarupu scenes, hardly any of the scenes make you laugh. Storyline has potential and it has a few good scenes like post interval that scene, then Kota coming and apologizing to them, the scene where Venu meets her mother and thats about it. Theres an attempt to create entertainment through Ali in a separate comedy track and Venu’s friends but it didnt work really. Ali’s tracj becomes of like a disturbance and then vent’s friends aren’t funny and dont do much. Also the other reason I probably didnt really enjoy it is because this movie is a pure drama movie. I need some commercial elements in there like comedy or action, which this movie doesnt have much of at all. To run an entire movie based on drama itself, it needed better drama in the 2nd half. Vijaya Bhaksar movies are sensible in that they deal with things like Paruvu and avamanam in very classy ways instead of simple. The human emotions and chraxctrerization make a difference to his movie. There are glimpses of Trivirkma’s vintage writing, as this was first movie it was fully developed yet and the dialogues and some scenes are good, but overall it lacks the entertainment value of their other films together completely. The trademark clean comedy and punches are not here. Also after watching this film I realized that all Vijaya Bhaskar movies are the same and it created the trope of heroine getting married to someone else, but in the end she chooses hero or something else happens and they unite in the end and somebody is made a bakra. Here its Brahmaji. This movie ends the same way and actually ends on a cliffhanger. Direction by Vijay Bhaskar is ok. First half is decent with some entertainment and then boring 2nd half, some scenes work to an extent. But the rest doesnt. Its a timepass film but of course he would go onto to become a legend with the next 4 movies.

Duration:00:44:00

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Revisting Souryam (2008): Review + Interesting Facts

2/13/2024
Credits Banner: Bhavya Creations Cast: Gopichand, Ansuhka, Poonam Kaur, Dharmavarapu, Aali, Ajay, Manoj K. Jain, MS Narayana, Sarat Babu, Tanikella Bharani, Krishna Bhagwan, Supreet, Subbaraya Sharma, CVL Narasimharao, Vijaya Rangaraju, Sudha, Aarthi. Dialogues: M. Ratnam Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla, Anantha Sriram, Rama Jogayya Sastry Fights: Vijay, Ram-Lakshman Dance: Ashok Raj, Dinesh Art: Vivek Stills: Anand PRO: Pulagam Chinnarayana Pro. Managers: Mahender Reddy, R. Seshadri Raju Pro. Exe.: Bandi Seshayya Co-Dir.: Satyam Bellamkonda, Rajasekhar, G. Adinarayana Asso. Dir.: Anil Ravipudi, Anil Nayudu, M. Harikrishna Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh Camera: Vetri Music Director: Mani Sharma Producer: V. Anand Prasad Story, Screenplay, Director: J. Siva Interesting Facts: https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/siva-souryam.html https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/gopichand2008.html Movie was launched on April 18th, 2008 basically in 7 months they filmed the movie and released it, Audio was released on August 21st, 2008 Hotel Marriot, Hyderabad and got a good response. The starlit gathering had the presence of Seenu Vytla, YVS Chowdary, Gopichand, Anushka, Poonam Kaur, Pokuri Babu Rao, VN Aditya, Anand Prasad (producer), Siva (director), Ratnam (Dialogue writer), lyricists Bhaskarabatla and Ramajogayya Sastry and others. Jhansi anchored the event. Pramuka darsakudu Anil Ravipudi worked as Assistant Director for this film and what I heard was the entire classic Krishna Bhagwan comedy track in 2nd half was written by him. He’s also in the movie, watch the scene when Sivaram Gowd comes to hospital he comes to the desk a man hands him papers, that guy only is Anil Ravipudi. He also made a lot of changes Finally it released on September 28th, 2008 and became a hit movie at the box office, collected 13 crores share and ran for 50 days in Hyderabad in 3 theaters, Odeon Deluxe - 64 days Brahmaramba 70 MM Rajadhani 70MM What works is are the 3 threads: Action: Conflict between Sivaram Gowd and Vijay is very well established. And actually the writing keeps you in suspense until interval with whole chasing aspect we typically see. Its kind of like Baasha, guy hiding from his past and villains looking for him that template and everything gets revealed at interval. Flashback is easily the best part is and is so entertaining. Conflict is pretty basic but its done so well and in an entertaining way its fun to see. Sentiment angle: brother sister sentiment actually has stakes to it and is heart touching. They are orphans after their father dies and nobody isn their basti wants to help and everyone hates them. Christina missionaries come and The brother doesnt want to see his sister struggle and wants her to have a good life with food and etc so he tells a lie, but she takes it seriously and they separate for 15 years. Finally he comes back for her because he loves her. So the reasoning behind it is logical Comedy angle: Ali as gyms develops the romantic track actually as Gopichand trolls Gymson and then highlight of the movie is 2nd half comedy track, it lasts for about 15 mins and its so good. Keeps you so entertained you dont even care about the story after that. What didn’t work: The romantic track: Its so cringe worthy and didnt age well at all. Anuksha gets drunka and says she’s going to rape Gopichand. I think dont think it helps that Gopichand and Anuksha dont have that great chemistry so it doesnt make it smooth or believable. Emotion: the movie should make you feel something but when Sivaram Gowd terrorizes the town and then fight back, I didnt get that high. Also huge Vikramarkudu inspiration I felt for 2nd half. Police fights a ruthless criminal who is terrorizing a small town and then instills souryam in them to fight back against them. And its for personal revenge. Overall the writing is good overall for most of the commercial elements which results in a very entertaining...

Duration:00:57:11

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Episode 145 - Revisiting Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020): Review + Interesting Facts

2/9/2024
Banner: Haarika Hassine Creations & Geetha Arts Cast: Allu Arjun, Pooja Hegde, Sushanth, Nivetha Pethuraj, Murali Sharma, Tabu, Jayaram, Sachin Khedekar, Rajendra Prasad, Samuthirakani, Vennela Kishore, Sunil, Navdeep, Rahul Ramakrishna, Ajay, Harshavardhan, Brahmaji, Tanikella Bharani, Rohini, Chammak Chandra .etc Music: Thaman S Cinematographer: P.S Vinod Art: AS Prakash Action: Ram-Lakshman Lyrics: Seetha Rama Sastry, Ramajogayya Sastry, Kalyan Chakravarthy, Kasarla Shyam & Krishna Chaitanya Editor: Navin Nooli Story, Sreenplay, Dialogues & Direction: Trivikram Producers: Allu Aravind - S. Radha Krishna(Chinababu) Release Date: January 12th, 2020 Interesting Facts: After Sarrainodu, Allu Arjun didnt have a single hit, DJ average and NPS disaster, he took a little break and decided to work with Trivikram. For Trivikram as well, he just delivered a disaster in agnythavaasi and then did Aravinda Samantha but its outside his comfort zone. They wanted to make a family story and he narrated it and Allu Arjun. December 31st, 2018 movie was officially announced "It was tough to get a house with interiors that match the exteriors of that mansion and they only gave 2 days permission for exteriors shots. Hence, art director AS Prakash erected a set in Annapurna Studios with Rs. 5 Cr budget that was so perfect as the interior for Trivikram's Vaikunthapuram." In mid-October, the team moved to France to film the song ''Samajavaragamana''. Parts of the song was shot at Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, and the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. The song was also filmed at Lido de Paris, a world-famous cabaret theatre, and became the first South Indian film to shoot there.[45] The makers cost up to ₹5 crore (US$630,000), for the song shoot.[46] The team also shot the song "OMG Daddy" in parts of Europe.[47] Later on December 2019, the makers moved to Hyderabad to shoot the song "Butta Bomma", for which a huge set was erected at the Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad.[48] The shooting of the film was wrapped up on 28 December 2019. After Samajavrargama, Raamulo Raamula was released and that also become a sensational hit some 200 million views as well, after that OMG Daddy, after that Butta Bomma, and album just became e a huge sensation that instead of pre release event, for the first time they held something called a musical concert on January 6th, 2020 at Yousufguda Police Grounds where all of the songs were performed and later they released jukebox. AVPL is the biggest Telugu album of all time with 2 billion streams/views on YouTube and is one of the greatest commercial albums ever made. Finally movie released on January 12th, 2020 to somehow positive talk, they paid all the media sties, 3.5 ratings on all major websites except Greatandhra, bad reviews for Sarileru all around, and then it was declared Sankranthi winner after one day. It collected 160 crores share overall and collected 3.61 million in USA, becoming Non BB industry hit in India and USA until it was beaten by Hanuman in USA this year which has collected 5.12 million so far. Completed 50 days in 106 centers and then 100 days in 8 centers.

Duration:01:11:31

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20 Years for Aaruguru Pativratalu - Review

2/6/2024
Credits Banner: EVV Cinema Cast: 6 heroes, 6 heroines, 6 child artists, 6 comedy artists, 6 characters artists & one and only Chalapati Rao Background Music: Kamalakar Dialogues: Janardhan Maharshi Cinematography: Trinetra Editing: V Nagi Reddy Story - Screenplay - Direction - Producer: EVV Satyanarayana Release date: 6th February 2004 Story: 6 10th standard studying girls were forced to depart from each other as their parents are moving from Korukonda. They decide to meet again after 6 years. When they meet, five of them are already married and sixth one is about to get married. This film is all about the stories of their marital life and husbands. Acting: Girl who plays Sita did a really good job, guy who is Pelli koduku in Athadu plays his wife, and then that guy is in Nayak movie starting they all did a good job, Highlight is the guy who plays 3rd story husband, so funny and over the top. Was laughing the entire time. Rest of the actresses did natural acting as they are new and theres not much ti judge. Writing/Direction: I have seen many EVV movies like Hello Brother, Alluda Majaka, Evade Gola Vaadidi, I know his style, this is produced, directed, and written by him, wanted to make a different concept. I get the intention behind the film but by the end it becomes exhausting and stupid. It basically states whatever the women do, it’s correct and there’s no solution to anything. Movie talks about a lot of themes like sex, extra marital affairs, toxic husbands, and marriage as a whole. It attempts to show what problems women may face after marriage but overall there’s such a lack of connection because the director doesnt even know what he wanted to sya. It’s definitely unique and progressive movie such it talked about things most people wont. The first story seems mind blowing and crazy but by the end it just becomes comedy. Actually all of the writing becomes comedy. 1st story: Husband has ED so his wife wants physical intimacy and she gets it from someone else, he finds out, and then cant leave her, so he suggests all 3 live together. In this story he wanted to show that women need and want physical intimacy and sex. But the solotuin is so comedy. Nobody would do that. Guy is a cuck and tbh honest such a Jaffa. 2nd story: Nathi angle gives irritation. Here he attempts to show that society still wants women to be housewives and w=men should work but girl has too much self respect so she doesnt do it. Ok. And to make her annoying mother in law settle in down, she set up the broker and her at night. Ok. 3rd story: funniest thing man, acting is so rodidciulous and over the top,. Literally Andrew Tate, also im not sure if people wear underwear under lungi, I was surprised and also the guy working out has such bad form doing the dumbell raises. The acting os the husband is so funny. And then when he gets injured it’s such comedy. Falls on the rock by slipping. What dude would scale his own house like that. Peaks of stupidity. Dad claims the guy is a sadist when in reality he is a sadist for being happy when hes in that position, girl decides to stay with him for unknown reasons because bartha. 4th story: so illogical, which guy would get stuck in an elevator for so long and then during Kashmir shootout he has phone sex with this wife guns blazing and bullets firing then he dies. Such illogical writing. Stupid. 5th story and 6th story I turned it off, I had enough Direction sucks. EVV wanted to say something but in the end, its just useless. Technicalities: Movie has no songs which is interesting and BGM is good with veena and other stuff. All other technical values suck. Its like short film quality. Editing is decent with some intercuts like stove getting turned on when girl is touched and then soldier dying and then his photo breaking in house. Overall: don’t watch the movie, just enjoy the memes. Such a waste of time. Boring movie. That is all thank you.

Duration:00:41:20

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Revisting Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu (2002): Review + Interesting Facts

2/2/2024
Credits Banner: Suresh Productions Cast: Tarun, Arti Agrawal, Kiran Rathod, Laya, Sunil, Brahmanandam, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Sararh Babu, Chandra Mohan, Sudha, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, K Viswanath, Ahuti Prasad Director of Photography: Sekhar V Joseph Choreographers: Suchitra Chandra Bose, Lawrence, Ashok Raj Art Director: Narayana Reddy Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh, Madhav Music: RP Patnaik Lyrics: Veturi, Kula Sekhar & Y Kasi Viswanath Story - Screenplay - Direction - Dialogues: Y Kasi Viswanath Production: D Suresh Babu Theatrical Release Date: 14th January 2002 Interesting Facts: too many - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZ_9JA5ylA&t=1065s&ab_channel=RajeshManne Writing/Direction: Writing is mish mash of 3 successful movies, yet somehow the movie works. So basically the story is two childhood friends realizing they have feelings for her each other and how they unite and their love wins everyone over is a time tested story. This is literally the plot of Nuvve Kavali. So two friends falling in love plot is Nuvve Kavali Ahuthi Prasad hates Chandramohan family for not marrying his sister and marrying someone else - literally Srihari from Kalisundam Raa Tarun sacrifices his love in climax for greater good of the two families as he didn’t want to break the friendship - Nuvvu Naaku Nachav Venkatesh It literally mixes all 3 movies and presents it to you as Nuvvu Lena Nneu Lenu. To make a difference, the finance/busuiness angle is there as well as the presence of K Viswananth. Since this is a Suresh Productions banner and because the director worked for Kalisudnam Raa, the comparison and influence is inevitable. Despite that, the leads have very good chemistry yet I felt the way that they like each other was a bit unconvincing. Only after their Panama says you two should marry, then they start taking it seriously but I guess they always liked each other. Aarti Agarwal character is the best written character as the emotion in the film stems from her. Kasi Viswananth merged all the themes of friendship, love, and sacrifice seamlessly and then added his own comedy track to keep you entertained. Sunil is the biggest source of entertainment in the movie and his comedy keeps you laughing like anything Two things I really liked were set up and pay off of the following: Another thing I really liked was hero’s name is Radha and girls name is Krishna, so symbolically they are saying they are eternal lovers. Direction by Kasi Viswanath is very good. I can’t explain it, but its so well directed, emotions are so good, and most of all movie is so entertaining you never feel bored. Also since this is a musical hit, the elevation scenes are the songs much like Nuvvutonante Nenoddantana and many other films. His creative inputs and writing was excellent in his first film, and after 22 years we still remember the movie, that must mean he did an extraordinary job which he did. Music and BGM by RP Patnaik is CLASSIC RAA AYYA, each and every song is a classic, the only song I dont like is Chi Chi Bulamma sounds funny and isn’t as good as the others. My favorite songs are Ela Ela Ela and title song, childhood memories. Nindu Godari is also too good and then Edo Edo is also classic. BGM is too good. Elevates so many scenes and gives goosebumps. Classic that’s it.

Duration:01:05:10