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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!

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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:  Initial choice was Mahesh babu and they sent the CD of Niram to him but no response from mahesh after a month, then they tried for Sumanth and he wanted to do it but he had already accepted two big movies at that point. They thought instead of casting big heroes, let’s try to for new faces.  75 lakhs budget was finalized for the movie but Ravi Kishore didnt have the funds for it so he approached Ramoji Rao who agreed to co produce the movie and made him an executive producer on the movie with 10 lakhs base salary and 20% of the profits in final collections go ahead. The movie was green lit.  Finally filming started and 90% of the movie was done in Ramoji Film City. First they thought 75 lakhs budget but additional 40 was needed and final budget was 1.15 crores.  Finally October 13th, 2000 released in 36 centers. Bagundi ani talk bheembatsamaina range ki vellindi.  Yevanam lo vunde sneham and prema, 0 vulgarity and anni varghalu prekshalu ki nachale cheisndi movie. Kotu musić specifilay Anaganaga Aaakasam and Kallaloki Kallu Petti were heard everywhere.  Dialogues became very famous such as paalu ante allergy, kana pale energy, manta doomramga vunte vidi telidu manishi deggaraga vunte prema telidu, ishta padithe bayapadaku, bayapadithe ishta padaku, isthapadi bayapedithe badhapadaku  Tarun became a overnight star, Richa got a break, Trivkram and Vijay Bhaskar became star writer and star director and it helped so many careers.  Started with limited released and increased to 200 theaters there after, it completed 100 days in 30 centers, 200 days in 21 centers,225 days in 17 centers, 250 days in 15 centers, 365 days in 6 centers. It is the only telugu movie to run in this many centers for this many days continuously.   Without any drop it was the last movie ti run for than year and industry talk is it had the highest footfalls of any telugu movie ever during its run.  Collected 1 crores in Hyderabad Odeon Deluxe theater itself and in Nizam it collected 8 crores share double what Kailsundam Raa made back in January. Except Ceeded it set all time record in every area and became biggest industry hit of Telugu cinema until Narasimha Naidu.  Officially the movie collected 18 crores share. It remains the ONLY telugu movie to be an industry hit that features newcomers.  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
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.  Heroine is a American born person yet she has no American accent and she’s 17. What fucking college allows people to join at 17. Typically it happens at 18 so idk but it was illogical  She meets hero by following the green line to the music hall or whatever it is. You could go normal instead she does athi and goes there dancing in classrooms and etc. And she just stares at the hero Tanikella Bharani and wife cheera track is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve seen in a long time. It was cringe max. Idhi comedy ah?  Friends gang was so irritating and so fucking annoying. Especially that guy with the mop hair. What idiot plays drums in the class and then every tome hero and heroine talk to each other, he plays drums and camera switches to either of them. Those fucking drum sticks brought so much irritation I dont’t understand why you’d get married at 17 years old. So illogical. You can be together and have the baby but why get married. She basically drops out of school and doesnt finish her degree.  Their love track wasnt convincing at all and frankly it was quite uncomfortable to watch. He’s always trying touching her bondalu and clearly she’s uncomfortable but he keeps doing it. And then eventually they do it and idk if its a family movie or whatever but it was uncomfortable to watch for sure.  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. 
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: After Chitram, director Teja had some many offers, and he got an offer from Venkatesh. He readied the story, artists, tehnciaisna but at that tome Vneky was already committed to Nuvvu Naaku Nachav. Teja felt really bad and since they already had everything set under same production house and everything was ready, one day he was seriously driving the car and road addamga gorrelu tholuthu oka andamaina girl  Looking at her chiraakly, a man in a Benz car. Seeing this suddenly teja got an idea, he went back and told the producer who was supposed to make the movie with Venkatesh, thats cancelled and instead listen to this story, hero is a millionaire and girl is a gorrelu owning guys daughter and told some scenes. The producer liked it and they put murtham the very next day and started the next day. Dasaradh and Trivikram Srinivas saharakam.  Besides hero and heroine, entire cast and crew was finalized. First they asked Sumanth, he said no and Madhavan rejected it. Teja was in a dilemma, then Uday Kiran came to mind/ Uday Kiran considers Teja as his godfather, and he came to him asking for next movie advice. Teja was just observing him and Uday Kiran thought hes in some thought and as he got up to leave, Teja told him go to the gym and build a nice body youre the lead of my next movie. Uday Kiran was very excited  For heroine, they auditioned 100 people. One girl was finalized but he started asking for palana hotel, palana car, and started to do buildup so then Teja looked all the other girls left and asked who’s the cheapest girl here, the girl showed Anita’s photo and Teja said this girl is my heroine you can now leave and told this to that girls face and she got shocked.  Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Vikarabad entire shoot for completed very quickly.  Movie had 11 songs and producer asked to remove 3 of them but Teja didnt agree to it. For the movie they wanted to do with Venaktesh, Gajuvaka Pilla had already been composed and they used it for Nuvvu Nenu instead  The scene where hero’s father wants to get his son married to his lovers daughter was objected by Dasaradh but Teja said high range people are like this only.  Shooting was completed and 1 crore 60 lakhs budget August 10th release and movie got blockbuster talk from morning shows. Though we have seen such love stories, screenplay really hooked audience in and then songs, emotions everything aakatu kunnayi.  Mee Pedollu vunnare dialogue became iconic and wherever you went you heard Gajuvaka Pilla  Movie made Uday Kiran a star hero and fans clubs started around Andhra, Teja became a star director. RP Patnaik became a star music director, Dharmarupu, Vizag Prasad and Telangana SHankuntala all got. Huge break with this film  Coming to box office details and run, it collected 15 crores share and more than 20 crores gross and caused a sensation. It collected 1 crore gross in a single theater in Hyderabad  After Narasimha Naidu, Kushi, and Nuvve Kavali, it was 4th highest grossing movie ever after final run ended and Uday Kiran got the record which no star hero had at the time having a top movie in all time highest grossers currently. Late release added it completed 100 days in 70 centers.  It gave all distributors 10x laabalu. It won 5 Nandi Awards and 4 Filmfare Awards South. 
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. 
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  First watch and impressions  How your liking towards it grew  Songs and Technicalities  Writing/Direction  Set up and Payoff - Asks the panthulu if when he sees the girl lighting will come, flowers will fall, directly after that it happens,  Prasad tells Malliswari he can give her worlds most comfortable life salary with 9000 rupees. He says nuvvu ooh and oka yuvarani laa chooskunta, roju saintram, mallevppuvu, varaniki oka cinema, vela ki oka sari picnic, samsraaniki okasari ye OOtu no Kaidkonal trip, ippudu em cheppaakkarledu, take your won time, but rep saint ram vasthanu baga alochinci yes ani cheppeu kuummedham anthe, And despite her not paying attention to him, she remembers what he said in climax  She asks him about the necklace, he says when I was young my mother gave this to me when I was young, hold it and ask for anything you want and it will give it to you, naa pranam paying teeyanu, in climax he gives it to her symbolically showing that she is now his life and what means most to him.  Snoopy snoopy come on okkadu antadu, Brahmi says rei thana thali meed cheyyi vesthe karichi champesthadi, Sunil and venky do the same thing and then he dies lmaoooo  Krishaveni wants Hyderabad transfer from Vizag and then MS comes and says Vizag transfer ayyindi.  5) Favorite Scenes 6) Why it will always be a classic - evergreen dialogues, clean comedy masterpiece direction, and evergreen entertainment from start to finish.   
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.  
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. 
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. 
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 movie.  Direction by Siva is very good.
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  Filming started on April 24th, 2019 and on August 15th, glimpse was released and movie was titled Ala Vaikuntapuramlo. Trolls started on social media that another Agnythavaasi loading with the title. September1s,t first look poster was released. Funny enough that shot/scene isn’t there in the movie  Spain, France, Hyderabad mainly Annapurna studios and other sets were used to film the movie. Specifically the Vaikuntapuram house set, It is the house of NTV Chairman Chowdary's daughter Rachana's in-laws. They are relatives of Harika Hassine Creations owner Radha Krishna and on his request they agreed to shoot from the outside for a couple of days. The estimated cost to build this mansion is around Rs. 100 Cr" "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. 
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.
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:  Piggy bank: Sarat Babu gives the little girl money in the beginning for her bank and then when they are in financial troubles, the little girl comes back and says use this money. Heart touching moment  Necklaces: they have matching necklaces I think, so when Tarun jumps into the water to get  it back, it shows that he does really care about Radha and this is actually the moment she realizes she actually has feelings for him. The love starts here.  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. 
Credits Banner: Sumanth Arts  Cast: Uday Kiran, Reema Sen, Sunil, Tanikella Bharani, Chandramohan, Sudha, Tanu Roy, Shiju, Parachuri venkateswara Rao, Sireesha, Devadas Kanakala, Shiva Reddy, Kaushal Manda, Sagar, Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry (cameo)  Music: R.P. Patnaik  Cinematography: S Gopal Reddy  Editing: KV Krishna Reddy Art Direction: Rajesh Touchriver apparently  Fights: Ram Lakshman  Story - Producer: MS Raju  Screenplay: Parachuri Brothers  Direction: VN Aditya  Release Date: October 19th, 2001  After the flop of Deviputurdu in 2001, MS Raju was left in heavy losses and wanted to do a small movie either a love story or family movie  Then MS Raju’s friend the legendary S Gopal Reddy said there’s a new guy looking to make his debut as director VN Aditya he worked under Jayant C Paranji, he has matter or talent and gave him his phone number. VN Aditya said he had multiple offers to make his debut in various banners at the time. S Gopal Reddy gave him his phone number and MS Raju tried calling him 4-5 times but VN Aditya took to lightly as why would such a big producer be trying to call me.  But finally he met MS Raju in his office and he told me he wants to do a small movie, I’ll tell you two lines, you tell me which one you like. VN Aditya selected the 2nd one. Inspired from Anmol Gad and Bhagyaraja’s Darling Darling, MS Raju wrote the line. MS Raju and VN Aditya finished the script work  When the hero is crying in the rain, his friend tells him orey varsham kudos appudu appudu manaku mail chesthundi raa, mana kaneelu yedutha vaari kanapada kunda dachesthundi. This line touched MS Raju’s heart (manasu hathukundi). He wrote a 25,000 rupee advance check to VN Aditya and confirm chesaru movie ni. Parachuri brothers worked on the screenplay. The day after, they announced the movie title Mansantha Nuvve. First choice was Mahesh Babu but he had already committed to a movie with Gunahskear at the time which was Okkadu and he rejected it. VN Aditya felt if a new hero did it, it would it better. At that time, MS Raju felt Chitram hero Uday Kiran would be a good fit. At that time, Uday Kiran was shooting for Nuvvu nenu and it had not released yet Then MS Raju went to the set and saw the rushes of Nuvvu Nenu and fixed Uday Kiran as the hero, and Reema Sen was confirmed as heroine. Then Parachuri brothers said the scenic order (in sequences) scenes aren’t good, we have to change a lot, VN Aditya got sacreed and then within 10 days Aditya, MS Raju, Veeru Potla, and Parachuri Brothers worked on the script and readied a final version Then recently famous comedian Sunil was cast along with Chandramohan, Tanikella Bharani, and Sudha and then shooting started. Araku Valley, Hyderabad, and Malaysia they filmed the movie. Finished very less working days.  Budget was 1 crore 30 lakhs, because Nuvvu Nenu hadn’t released, it was done in a lower budget, audio released and became a bumper hit, every song became a classic and The song "Tuneega Tuneega" became a massive hit. It was re-arranged from Vidyasagar's original composition "Kannadi Koodum Kootti" from Pranayavarnangal (1998). RP Patnaik worked a lot to get the antique watch sound right in re recording and mixing  MS Raju went for own release and on October 19th, 2001 movie release in theaters Literally everything in the movie the audience liked and RP Patnaik became a star music director in industry with his amazing re recording and BGM and VN Aditya got a good name after his 1st movie and would go onto to make Nenuannu. Relief for MS Raju and Sunil became a star comedian with this movie  Box office details, 3rd consecutive blockbuster for Uday Kiran after Chitram and Nuvvu nenu, ran for 100 days in 36, with shifts 175 days in 4 centers and collected 12 crores share overall and was one of the highest grossing movies of 2001. Uday Kiran also got an all time record: he is the only hero to deliver 3 straight blockbusters which gave 10 inthala laabam thechipette oke oka hero Uday Kiran. 
Credits  Banner: Primeshow Entertainment  Cast: Teja Sajja, Amrutha Aiyer, Ravi Teja (voice), Vinay Rai, Varalaxmi Sarath Kumar, Vennela Kishore, Raj Deepak Shetty, Getup Srinu, Satya and others Music: Anudeep Dev, GowraHari, Krishna Saurabh Cinematography: Dasaradhi Sivendra (same for naa Saami Ranga)  Editor: Sai Babu Talari Art Director: Sri Nagendra Tangala Screenplay - dialogues: Scriptville Writer - director: Prasanth Varma Producer: Niranjan Reddy Kandagatla Release Date: January 12th, 2024 Interesting Facts: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/director-prasanth-varma-on-hanuman-this-cinematic-universe-will-also-have-a-female-superhero-film/article67694986.ece Writing/Direction: the Line of the movie is basically like every superhero movie: A man gains superpowers to save to world and fight evil. Here the stone gives him superpowers and the evil is Michael who intends to do bad things with the stone if he ever got it.  Hanuman tries to be a superhero origin story and a commercial masala Telugu movie at the same time and I felt it did neither fully. The balancing act was not there.  Positives in the writing were Hanumanthu’s characterization, elevations, the world building Anjanadri etc, actions sequences and fun factor which is main.  The action sequences were so well chroerhpraged and the first fight when he gets his powers is typical but very fun. Its a must scene in every superhero movie of the hero getting his powers and learning how to use them.   The references scene was a delight because I love that stuff and then they give elevation for Balayya. Scene when he finds the stone is very good. Gajapathi fight scene at interval is very good and then Avakayi fight was very well done with symbolism basically hes gonna beat the villains into a paste. Reminded me of Sitharala Sirapadu and theaters probably went crazy for that scene.  The elevations were also superb. If you are Hindu, then you have heard the stories and mythology and know of Hanuman’s powers and greatness and this movie does them very well.  The negatives were actually some of the commercial elements: romantic track is not believable at all nor was I entertained by it, comedy didnt work except the bird that follows Satya and then the movie really didnt have emotion. To generate emotion they kill Varalaxmi. Then I felt it, but other than that I never felt the sister brother bond. The one scene which is done really well between them is when Hanumanthu’s grandma tells him that the reason his sister isn’t married is because of taking care of him, so Hanumantu makes everything without his superpowers by hand so she can take care of herself. Touching and well written moment. Aslo Vinay rai’s villain was very weak despite an interesting backstory. He has no motives for us to connect. Its just he is bad guy and wants to do evil things.  There’s also the themes of a village that is under a ruler and they are all salves. Who will free us from atrocities and it happens to be Hanumanthu with his superpowers. Once they are freed, immediately another conflict comes in.  Direction by Prashanth Varma is amazing and very good to be honest. Despite such limited budget the output is outstanding and looks like easily a 70-75 crore film. The VFX is tacky for the animals and some scenes but what else do you expect. That being said the way he was able to craft a Telugu superhero movie despite it being a routine template movie and package it very well is amazing.  scenes that how his brilliance  Hanumanthu outside the medical camp the bullets eventually create a Ramudu from the light/fire and then behind lighting strikes and you see the Hanuman statue to symbolize that Hanuman himself is watching everything  Vibhishana elevations in climax Actually the last 15-20 mins is unlimiuted goosebumps with taking and elevations and last frame when Hanuman wakes up and flies to Hanumanthu and seeing them in one frame in the sky was goosebumps. Movie leaves you with a high 
Credits Banner: Haarika & Hassine Creations  Cast: Superstar Mahesh Babu, Sreeleela, Meenakshi Chaudhury, Ramya Krishna, Jayaram, Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore, Eeswari Rao, Murali Sharma, Sunil, Rahul Ravindran, Brahmaji, Ajay Ghosh, Madhusudhan Rao, Mahesh Achanta,  Music: Thaman S  Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa & PS Vinod (50%) Editing: Navin Nooli  Production Design: AS Prakash  Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry  Fights: Ram - Lakshman, Vijay  Choreography: VJ Shekar  Executive Producer: Suryadevara Naga Vamsi  Producer: Suryadevara Radha Krishna (Chinababu)  Release Date: January 12th, 2024  Interesting Facts: As said before, On May 1st 2021 they officially announced the movie as SSMB28 and said 2022 summer release. On August 9th, 2021 they announced Pooja Hegde as heroine along with technical crew AS Prakash art, Navin Nooli editing, and Madhie as DOP.  Originally supposed to start shooting in November 2021 but due to SVP shooting delays they never started. Then Madhie was replaced with PS Vinod and on Feb 3rd, 2022 muhurtam pooja happened at Ramanaidu Studios.  But filming only started on  September 12th, 2022 with what they called a high octane action entertainer that was choreographed by Anbariv master. What I heard was the original story was revenge drama action thriller in which Tabu plays Mahesh’s mom, he is fatherless, and Anil Kapoor is a huge Mumbai based gangster who Mahesh wants to take down. They filmed a 6 minute heavy fight with the footage Babu in full form. 2nd schedule was supposed to start on Dussera 2022 with Mahesh and Pooja Hegde but it never happened. Naga Vamsi removed Anbariv masters from the project  And then they scrapped the original action entertainer script and converted it into a commercial family entertainer with action. Full confusion started on the project and everybody wondered why they scrapped it to begin with. Then in Butta Bomma promotions in early 2023, Naga Vamsi said Pooja Hegde and Sreeleela are the heroine August 11th release or so we thought  New script and movie finally started filming on Jan 18th, 2023 in Saradhi Studios glimpse fight was filmed by PS Vinod and now Ram lakshman as fight masters.  Then as with any Trivikram movie, the huge house set you see in the movie was built by AS Prakash and they built it in Shankarapalli Telangana for a cost of 10 crores so they claimed. 2nd schedule started in Feb and ended in April. March 26th, 2023 first look poster released with Sankranthi release date on it Babu smoking beedi.  And then all the problems started. Filming stalled, people said the output wasnt good and they were gonna do reshoots. The only content they had were first look poster of Babu smoking beedi with chillies and then first fight so they released that in the glimpse on May 31st. Then filming never continued due to delays after delays.  Nobody knew what was happening. Pooja Hegde left and then Sreeleela took her role and then Meenakshi Chaudhury was cast in Sreeleela 2nd heroine role. Then due to more delays PS Vinod left the project and no DOP. Became like a big boss house set with elimination every week. Talk was also that Thaman was going to get replaced with GV Prakash Kumar but Naga Vamsi said no Thaman is our music director and they kept him. Filming continued on June 24th, 2023 but then a month later July 22nd, PS Vinod walked out of the movie.  Then Manoj Paramahamsa replaced PS Vinod and then filming continued. Somehow they were able to finish the entire film and shooting finished on December 28th, 2023. Movie did not release any actual content about the movie besides the glimpse in may and finally trailer came on Jan 7th, 2023.  First song Dum Masala on Nov 7th and then Oh my Baby on Dec 13th and then Kurchi Madhapetti on Dec 30th, 2023. Only Dum Masala got a good response but nowhere near AVPL range songs. So very disappointing stuff from Thaman. Negativity mainly from disappointing songs.
Best Movies - Top 10  Top Movies  Salaar - very good commercial movie after a long gap Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty - except first 25 mins, Naveen Polishetty comic timing and screen presence carried entire movie and made it funny  Hi Nanna - With pure emotion director tug your heartstrings along with amazing acting and awesome BGM and songs from Hesham. Shouryuv director to watch out for 35 crores share  Samajavaragamana - my favorite type of movie, switch of son helping his father getting a degree was hilarious along with rakhi scenes and whole Vennela Kishore track. Except last 15 mins, hilarious movie Need more movies like this. Clean family entertainers.  MAD - hilarious movie with funny one liners. Friendship, beautiful girls, catchy songs, what else do you want from a youth movie. Sangeeth Sobhan next big talent in Telugu cinema.  Bhagavanth Kesari - unexpected movie from Ravipudi and Balayya, 0 cringe with a good message about women empowerment along with presentation of Balayya and elevations and commercial elements, it was a refreshing movie to see Balayya play his age and design mass within that.   Balagam - comedy was great but lot of melodrama. However it showed culture in a great light  Writer Padmabushan - idgaf what anyone says, movie was great and I laughed a lot. Clean movie  Virupaksha - I didnt like it it was so weird but the sound design, cinematography, direction, BGM, and production design were all outstanding. A genre movie 100 crores range ante its huge.  Bedurulanka - interesting and funny movie about exploitation of society with village heads conning people  Worst 5  Skanda - rod, so much athi,  Veera Simha Reddy - worst writing and worst fights and worst story and flashback, such a fucking boring movie  Dasara - boring fucking movie except climax  Baby - Anand is a pussy, Vaishnavi is a bigger pussy, and Viraj is the biggest pussy  Adipurush - Watch Chota Bheem or Hanuman with Chiranjeevi, it’s way better  Special mention: Waltair Veerayya not Chiru range movie and acting was very artificial very overrated movie bad album and then Boss saying hey have 2.25 ratings but we did 2.25 million,   Rangabali, Kushi, Tiger Nageswara Rao, Bro, Mem Famous, Anni Manchi Sakunamule - Nanindi Reddy said my film will have a self life of 25 years despite the bad talk. Nobody will watch it again.  Top 10 Songs: Needhe Needhe - from Hi Nanna  Samayama - Hi Nanna  Ye Vaipukuki Saguthondi from Miss Shetty  Dum Masala from Guntur Kaaram Lady Luck from Guntur Kaaram  Swaasa Meeda Dyaasa - Keeda Cola  Ram Sita Ram from Adipurush  Priya Mithunam from Adipurush  Aradhya from Kushi  Adigaa from Hi Nanna  Worst Songs of the year: Poonakallu Loading from Waltair Veerayya, Cult Mama from Skanda, Ole Ole Pappayi from Extra Ordinary Man  Awards  Hero of the year: Prabhas two highest grossing movies but result wise Adipurush disaster and then Salaar TBA  Best film - Salaar  Best Director: Prashanth Neel for Salaar  Special mention: Ram Abbaraju for Samajavaragamana  Best Actor - Naveen Polishetty for MSMP  Special Mention: Nani for Dasara  Best Actress: Mrunal Thakur  Special Memtion - Samyuktha Menon for Virupaksha  Best Debut Male - Sangeeth Sobhan for MAD  Best Debut Actress - Vaishnavi Chaitanya for Baby  Song of the Year - Needhe Needhe from Hi Nanna  Singer of the year male - Karthik (Nachavule, Adipurush 2 songs, Anni Manchi Sakunumule title song, Adigaa Hi Nanna)  Singer of the year female - N/A  Best Supporting Actor: Naresh for Samajavaragamana, Raviteja for Waltair Veerayya  Best Supporting Actress: Rohini for Writer Padmabushan  Best Cinematography: Sathyan Sooryan for Dasara, Bhuvan Gowda for Salaar  Worst movie: Bhola Shankar, Agent and Veera Simha Reddy Worst Director: Meher Ramesh, Surender Reddy and Gopichand Malineli  2024 Preview  Guntur Kaaram  Saindhav  Devara  Pushpa 2  Kalki 2898  Game Changer  OG  Ustaad Bhagat Singh  Hari Hara Veera Mallu  Saripodha Sanivaaram  VD12 
Credits Banner: Homble Films  Cast: Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Hassan, Jagapathi Babu, Bobby Simha, Tinnu Anand, Easwari Rao, Sriya Reddy, Garuda Ram, Madhu Guruswamy, Brahmaji, Shafi, John Vijay, Devaraj, Saptagiri, Prudhvi Raj, Jhansi, Mime Gopi,  Music: Ravi Basrur Cinematography: Bhuvan Gowda Editor: Ujwal Kulkarni Production Design: T L Venkatachalapathi Costumes: Thota Vijay Bhaskar Action choreography: Anbariv Dialogues: Sandeep reddy bandla, Choudary Hanuman, Prashanth Neel, D.R. Suri  Story - Screenplay - direction: Prashanth Neel Producer: Vijay Kiragandur Interesting Facts: After KGF, Prabhas himself kept hearing from fans manodu KGF chest bagundedi and everybody was talking about KGF including people in his home but he hadn’t seen the movie until then. Then he watched it and said it was extradoinary then a producer in the industry said Prashanth wants to meet him. Initially Prabhas was hesitant because in Telugu industry they say hero wants tp meet director ula kaadhu so he asked for clarity does he really want me to meet me or producers trick so he said ok. They met and talked about what movies they like general talk it was not a meeting for a film. They liked each other after it. And Prasanth was surprised because they thought Baahubali actor was big egotistical guy loos attitude. Then Pramod who is prabhas cousin and owner of UV Creations got a call from Vijay Kirangandur and he had just signed Adipurush and Project K and said Prasanth wants to direct you. They never gave him a response and he thought there was some 100 heroes he could have chosen. Then one night at 12 AM, he and Pramod were deciding and and if they say yes Om Raut and Nag Ashwin will get angry, if he says no then he can ever work with Prashanth need again so they asked how many days Hombale needs. They said 45 days. He was like Prashanth need 45 days his last two movies took 6 years to make and we can lie to other producers. But he understood one thing, if he said to Prashanth Neel and fans found ut, they will kill me so he agreed to do it. All his projects took a long time, Project K took 3 years and finally it took 112 days to complete Salaar.  For Prithviraj, Neel narrated the story when he was filming a movie called Aadujeevitham in Dubai and then COVID happened and he has a huge physical transformation and then Prashanth need narrated Salaar. Initially he wanted to say no because generally pan India movie dont give Malayalam actors big roles but within 10 minutes he said yes. But now due to Aadujeevitham dates issue he called need and said I cant do it. Because he was the only choice for the role, Prashanth Neel spoke to Prabhas and said we will wait for you let us know your dates when you can make it and he ended up doing the movie.  For SHriya Reddy she made a comeback to Telugu cinema after 17 years, apparently she’s in Amma Cheppindi movie so its her first straight movie after 17 years. Of course we all remember her fro. Pogaru and its her first movie in a long time. Prashanth neel had her in ind for the role and called her monthly to keep in touch and let her know about the progress.  Godavarikhani, Italy, and Ramoji Film City entire shooting happened. Filming started on January 27th 2021 in Govadarikhani and ended up on December 1st, 2023 after 114 working days.  The movie is a reimaginging of Neel’s own Uggaram which starred his brother in law Srimurali,  Movie was shot on Alexa 35 with Signature Prime and Signature Zoom Lenses by Bhuvan Gowda. So why didnt they use Arri Alexa LF since its such a big scale film he tired it for about 2-3 days but the backgrounds were coming really into focus not the image and he wasnt getting the proper framing.  Finally teaser on July 6th, 1st trailer on December 1st and then 2nd trailer on December 18th finally movie release on December 22nd. Fans loved it, ok for general audience and running successfully.
Credits Banner: Niharika Entertainments  Cast: Nani, Sai Pallavi, Kriti Shetty, Madonna Sebastian, Rahul Ravindran, Jisshu Sengupta, Murali Sharma, Abhinav Gomatam, Manish Wadhwa, Leela Samson, Subhalekha Sudkahar, Sivaranayana, Anurag Kulkarni in Pravanyalaya song  Music: Mickey J Meyer  Cinematography: Sanu John Varughese Production Design: Avinash Kolla  Editing: Navin Nooli  Fights: Ravi Varma  Story: Satyadev Janga   Story Development - Dialogues - Screenplay - Direction: Rahul Sankrityan Producer: Venkat Boyanapalli  Release Date: December 24th, 2021  Interesting Facts: Writer Satyadev Janga worked on the story for 3 years and he knew Rahul Sankrityan from a long time.  The inception of Shyam Singha Roy happened in 2019 when the filmmaker met writer Satyadev Janga. The latter pitched a one-liner with the backdrop of Calcutta. The highlight of the movie is that Kalighat Temple Set in Hyderabad. It was The set costed them Rs 6.5 crores and the shoot of the film is currently happening in the set. The film is a periodic drama set in the backdrop of West Bengal. A 100-year-old Kali temple set was constructed using bricks and clay to bring the authentic feel of an old Bengali temple. Over 1200 workers took two months to construct the special set that is spread across 10 acres in the outskirts of Hyderabad. Even the workers for the set are flown down from West Bengal as the makers did not want to miss the unique style of the temples in their state. But the set was damaged by heavy rains and The makers spent close to Rs 2 crores and 10 days on the set work again.  Movie got average talk I think and was a hut but the weirdest movie. Budget was 4-60 crores but they undersold it for just like 20 or 25 crores and it made 27 crores share and was a hit at the box office. Its considered a success.  Writing/Direction: The big problem with this movie is actually the present portion. Any story of reincarnation needs conflict but here there is none. Vasu’s entire character has no point because his whole point is that he is Shyam Singha Roy reincarnated. Theres nothing else. The main villain Mahanth is already dead and if he wanted to take revenge, then Shyam’s brothers are also dead cobvienelty in a a car crash. So the entire present portion is useless. I still standby my comment that if the director had made the entire movie in 1970’s Kolkata with the same themes of caste, communism, and devadasi’s this movie would have been an all time classic. Because there’s so much to explore.  The directors efforts in writing are present in set up and payoffs which some of them work brilliantly.  Shyam first scene in the movie is fighting for a Lower caste person (intouchables) then he happens to marry someone of a Lower caste that leads to his death. So his first and last scenes are mirrors of each other  His ideologies were the reason for his downfall. His brothers have differences since they are a conservative family so he decides to leave  Used Navaratri as a way to establish the love track, they meet almost every night. And Shyam is an atheist.  Rosie tells him that she Ila okrka Amma vasya roju, nee vodilo padukunni, ninne choosthu, moham meeda chirunavvu tho chanipovali ani vundi, ache naa aakhari korika and in cliamx thats what happens when Vasu comes back  His right pinky finger is interlocked with her when they are married and when he dies the same finger shakes. And when she dies in Vasu’s arms, his pinky finger is with her  The story that Vasu directs happens to a butterfly that a little girl drew on a boat. This comes back in the climax.  2 Bells burn in opening scene and then Nani brings them to Rosie in climax and leaves them on a table before he meets her. Production Design by Avinash Kolla. MASTERPIECE. The Bengali architecture is perfect and the whole atmosphere created for the period setup, printing press, houses, village, etc is so good and authentic and realistic. Its the highlight technicality of the movie if you ask me. 
Credits  Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies  Cast: Nagarjuna, Soundarya, Raghuvaran, Shilpa Shetty, Banerjee, LB Sriram, Prakash raj, Brahmanandham, Sujitha, Nutan Prasad, Raghunatha Reddy, Tanikella Bharani, Dharmavarupu Subramanyam, Narsing Yadav  Music: Mani Sharma  Lyrics: Suddala Ashoka Teja, Veturi, Chandrabose, Sirivennela Cinematography: Chota K Naidu Art Director: Srinivasa Raju of Manmadhudhu, Sitaramaraju, and Rajakumarudu fame Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh Fights: Kanal Kannan, Thriller Manju  Screenplay Assistance: Feroz Bhagat, N Maharajan, Crazy Mohan, Bhupathi Raja, Yandamoori Veerendranath  Dialogues: Parachuri Brothers  Story - Screenplay - Direction: Thirupathi Swamy  Producer: Aswini Dutt  Release Date: September 29th, 2000  Context: Saw it on TV when I was like 8 years old in India but only from Chamma Chekka song and remember that song so well, asked what movie this is and they said Azad, wanted to watch it since it has Nagarjuna and I knew of him. Bought the VCD and watched it. Remember liking it and then downloaded the songs and used to listen to them a lot. Later on came to know that the movie was not a big success. Revisited the songs when making a Hariharan playlist and realized theyre very good. Decided to rewatch the movie and see how it is. It’s a good action movie with emotions. Its entertaining. You never feel bored. Should have been a success.  Interesting Facts:  This is director Thirputahi Samy’s next telugu movie after the super hit Ganesh with Venkatesh.  Tirupathi Samy Died In a Car Accident In Chennai In June 2001. Tirupathi Swamy, being a Journalist himself by profession has chosen a story that is based on a Journalist. He took Amitabh Bachchan’s’ Main Azad Hoon and Legend of Zorro movie as inspirations and wrote the story.  He must have approached Aswini Dutt after to make a movie and then they cast Nagarjuna as the hero and movie was launched. Vyjayanthi is known for making movies with high priodictwuon values with all the commercial elements and Azad is the same.  Casting they took Soundarya who dubbed for herself for the first time in Telugu for this film and then Shilpa Shetty who had done Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya and then Veedavadandi Babu starring Mohan Babu before this making it her 3rd Telugu film in her career. Her last one would be Bhalevadivi Basu.  Set evergreen villain Raghuvaran and remaining actors such as Prakash raj, Brahmanandhan, etc.  Filmed in Rajahmundry, Hyderabad, Pollachi mainly then songs in Switzerland.  Songs were released on Supreme Music audio label and it became a super hit. Since it was coming after Nuvvu Vasthavani huge hype for the movie and for Nagarjuna and finally it released and movie was declared above average or average I think.  Despite this movie ran for 50 days in 72 centers and 4 days in 100 centers. Movie also ran for 104 days in Sandhya 35MM and in Anakapalle Nagarjuna created a record: His three films ran for 100 days in a span of 6 months:  Nuvvu vasthavani - Raja theater  Ninne Premistha - Satyannarayana Azaad - Gopal krishna For singer Mahalakshkmi Iyer it was a breakthrough as she had sung just two songs in telugu before this in Okke Okkadu which was a dub and first straight movie was Ammo! Okato Tareekhu music by Vandemataram Srinivas.  Perhaps due to Nuvvu Vasthavani hype and then competition  from so many other movies.  List of movies released against it were Ninne Premistha 14th, Rayalaseema Ramanna Chowdhary 15th, Vamsi on Oct 4th, Jayam Manaderaa on October 7th, and then Nuvve Kavali on October 13th which would go onto to become industry hit and highest grossing movie of 2000.  Nagarjuna had 3 releases as said before and one of them was actually in competition with this movie Ninne Premistha in a edition to Jayam Manadera which released a week later and almost became industry hit range movie and stopped.  For Soundarya she had 3 released in 3 weeks in Ninne Premistha Sept 14th, Azad 29th, and then Jayam Manadera October 7th. 
Credits  Banner: Vyra Entertainments  Cast: Nani, Mrunal Thakur, Baby Kiara Khanna, Priyadarshi, Jayaram, Nassar, Angad Bedi, Viraj Ashwin, Shruti Haasan (cameo), Music: Hesham Abdul Wahab Cinematography: Sanu John Varughese ISC Editor: Praveen Anthony Production Design: Avinash Kolla Story - Screenplay - Direction: Shouryuv Producers: Mohan Cherukuri (CVM) and Dr Vijender Reddy Teegala Release Date: Dec 7th, 2023  Writing/Direction: So our podcast motto is if the writing is good, the way you make the movie will good as well. For Hi Nanna thats apt for the most part.  The story seems like a rom com between 3 characters but much like Jersey it actually does genre shifts and its purely a drama movie. The writing is actually very good for all the emotional scenes and director has written some good threads.  Good part first is that the movie is all about relationships and how it affects others. Nani daughter one, Nani Mrunal one, Nani mother in law, Mother and Jayaram and how it affects Mrunal, all of these bring conflict into he story. Also everybody wants something  Mahi wants to know who her mom is, Yashna wants just wants to be happy, Viraj wants to be free from his guilt of what happened to his wife, Jayaram doesnt want to fail as a parent.  The writing is very strong especially in emotional scenes. The hospital scene, pre climax, and climax are so strong that you will get tears from your eyes. If you got cry then you eyes definitely will get wet for sure. Its that strong and relatable. Through Yashna’s character, director has created a lot of relatability and actually her character is the best.  I felt this is the movie Kushi wanted to be in terms of husband wife conflict but failed miserably at. The brilliance of Hi Nanna actually is that the whole flashback sequence its not convincing their love story its just there and I’ll come back to that but their conflict after marriage is very convincing so you relate to their marriage and love story during that part,. Due to strong emotions, things work.  I felt the most emotional part is that Viraj is such a dedicated father that he attended every ceremony based on cystic fibrosis and lives his daughter so much hes willing to any extent and fight withe everybody to make sure that she lives. That part hit hard.  Also loved the thread between Pluto and Yashna. She doesn't like dogs but then the dog gave her confirm, she likes dogs and then that day Pluto still remembered her after all these years despite her not remembering him.  Interval twist was expected but accident scene was heartbreaking man. So crazy. Also liked the two mass warning scenes basically when Yashna’s mom tries to insult Viraj in the hotel and then at wedding party in 2nd half he also gives her warning. There was no fight.  Also the symbolism of doors closing. Idk if you guys noticed. Every time Mahi asks Nani to tell her about her mom, Viraj always shuts the door implying that chapter is closed and he doesnt want to talk about it. But Mahi does. And then in operation room, the door starts to close and last thing Mahi sees is her mom and dad outside the ER ward showing that this chapter has finally been opened and now its closed. She knows the truth.Very cool.  2nd half has a trope of bakra track and initially I thought why is Angad Bedi there. Greatest bakra ever asalu the level of class and respect was too good. We got whistles in our theater when he came in climax to do the operations.  Interestingly, the movie keeps going just based on emotion. Theres no traditional commercial elements or entertainment. I wish there was more because movie has inconsistent pacing. Towards the interval and then post interval movie really felt flat and slow but then last 30 mins is outstanding with emotion that you leave the theater with a feel good feeling. The two scenes are when they hide in the cabinet and Nai runs away and then their fight after they drunk in Odiyamma song, Wish more scenes were there like that. 
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