Srirastu Subhamastu Review

At a time when clean, family-oriented entertainers are not seen often, Parusuram's directorial style is a relief.  The fact that 'Solo' is one of the loved moves on satellite ...

Jakkanna Review

It's that season in Tollywood when not coming up with and forcing rhymes down the audience's throats could be crimes.  We for one just came with one.  Take one more.  Without...

Pelli Choopulu Review

'Pelli Choopulu' is one rare, clean rom-com where youngsters are as important as elders.  Here, for every youngster who dares to dream, there is an elder who is stuck in a time warp....

Kabali Review

In a gangster film, it's a bit curious (or may be not) that the best moment (subjectively speaking or otherwise) is an emotional moment.  The long, agonizing wait of the gangster is over....

Nayaki Review

When, even in the climax, the screenplay obsesses itself about parody (here, Brahmanandam is introduced as a Takkaridonga, making sure to appease Mahesh Babu's fans), you know the narrator is...

Selfie Raja Review

Director G Eshwar Reddy had a checklist to be exhausted with a proud tick every time he followed a pedestrian template.  Having a parody of Pawan Kalyan, Baahubali, Balayya babu, NTR –...

Memu Review

'Memu' (dubbed version of the Tamil film 'Pasanga-2') is 'Taare Zameen Par' baptized in the Kollywoodian tradition. That's why director Pandiraj is not content with...

Antham Review

For a film coming with a loaded title like 'Antham', everything about the proceedings is glib and lacking of seriousness.  Half-way through the film, it's easy to discover what the...

Rojulu Marayi Review

'Rojulu Marayi' is a feminist's nightmare and a misogynist's delight.  Generic statements apart, Maruthi's screenplaying becomes curioser and curioser here. In this film,...

JacksonDurai Review

‘Dora’, directed by one film old Dharaneedharan, is yet another addition to the long list of horror-comedy films released in recent times.  The difference is that patriotism and...

Ardhanaari Review

Guys, what's wrong?  A fiery youngster walks into the Chief Minister's room in a 'jholawala' get-up, reveals his Five Sutras which he claims will change the fate of India and...

Kundanapu Bomma Review

'Kundanapu Bommba' has a major disqualification: an old-fashioned elder who decides the fate of everything in the family.  The crux lied in how this character was used inventively to...

Oka Manasu Review

Rama Raju's first film ('Mallela Theeram Lo Sirimalle Puvvu') and second film (the present one) have certain striking similarities.  They both are conversational love stories. ...

Meeku Meere Maaku Meme Review

Meeku Meere Maaku Meeme, starring Tarun Shetty and Avantika Mishra in lead roles, is directed by Hussain Sha Kiran.  Hussain is better known as the one who triggered off the idea of Nannaku...

Gentleman Review

It seems to be a season of the unusual suspects winning the game.  After Kshanam and Terror, it's the turn of Gentleman to steal a march over others.  Mohankrishna Indraganti, a fine...

Guppedantha Prema Review

Debutante director Vinod Lingala aptly described 'Guppedantha Prema' as all about the purity and beauty of first love.  While the avowed theme is conveyed through the film, the...

Right Right Review

Have we reached a stage where someone thinks the 2012 Malayalam movie 'Ordinary' has something in it to be remade into a movie for the Telugu audience?  Is the Telugu film industry so...

Okka Ammayi Thappa Review

Our filmmakers' obsession with so-called commercial ingredients (in every interview, they say, "Our movie has romance, comedy, action, family sentiment and commercial elements", making...

Sri Sri Review

'Sri Sri' is touted to be an official remake of a Marathi film.  This makes us ask a curious question: Has director Muppalaneni Shiva here adapted into a Telugu film a story written by...

A Aa Review

There is this Trivikram knack that makes a film look entertaining in silos, whether or not the whole is as much entertaining.  'A Aa', based on Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani's novel &...