Jyothi Lakshmi Review

Jyothi Lakshmi is Tammareddy Bharadwaj-meets-incomplete Puri Jagannadh.  When Charmi is seen fighting over using condom on first night, you would hardly be prepared to see a 'Prathighatana&...

Singam 123 Review

If there is anything that Tollywood has to be cured of anon, it is its lazy idea of parody.  ‘Singham 123’ is about spoofs on everything, including Sampoornesh Babu himself. ...

Andhra Pori Review

'Andhra Pori' is a faithful remake of Ravi Jadhav's Marathi blockbuster 'Time Pass' (2014).  Less generally speaking, just as the title has 'Andhra' in it, the...

Asura Review

When a film that starts off like a hero-oriented film and moves on to acquire the shade of a crime thriller rested on the strength of the hero's characterization, it is natural to expect more...

Pandaga Chesko Review

It is formulas galore in Tollywood of late.  Ram, an under-rated actor failed to strike gold with his character of a gay person in ‘Masala’ and here he plays a conventional one to...

Rakshasudu Review

One can't tell it for sure whether it is the same film which inspired both the makers of the recent Telugu film 'Vaaradhi' and this one, 'Rakshasudu'.  'Vaaradhi'...

Yentha Vaadu Gaani Review

There is a particular reason why a Gautham Menon is loved for his style.  Years ago when "DCP sir" of 'Gharshana' fame bared his heart in the face of death, not many fell in...

365 Days Review

As a narrator Ram Gopal Varma interrupts now and then to tell us what happened on some Nth day in the lives of Apoorv (Nandu) and Shreya (Anaika Soti).  He says what Apoorv said to Shreya on...

Mosagallaku Mosagadu Review

When the male lead behaves in a way that is glib at best with his girl, who has just done something which has the potential to put his future at risk, you know you are watching superficial stuff....

NBK Lion Review

'Lion' is Balakrishna-isms galore.  You never know when Balakrishna will be projected as Lord Krishna himself and seen breaking the earthen pot to the panegyric of Hare Rama Hare...

Dagudumootha Dandakor Review

If the trailers suggested that ‘Dagudumootha Dandakor’ is yet another melodrama involving a human’s (a little girl’s, to be precise) affection for a hen, the film turns out...

Naalo Okadu Review

Those who have even a faint idea of the Kannada blockbuster 'Lucia' will want to watch 'Naalo Okadu' with reasonably good expectations.  For those who expected a Dhanush to...

Dongata Review

'Dongata' threatens to end up as a mediocre crime comedy with a smattering of old-style melodrama thrown in but the ending is satisfying because the plot thickens to become a tricky &lsquo...

Uttama Villain Review

Watching a Kamal Hassan film can be a literary experience, a cinematic experience, a social experience and a psychological experience - all rolled into one.  His acting style comes with a...

Ganga Review

In making Ganga, so-called as Kanchana-2/Muni-3, Raghava Lawrence lets loose his imagination.  It is crazy directorial vision that he had profusely betrayed in Kanchana, that makes this film...

Dohchay Review

The 'Swamy Ra Ra' director-musician duo are back.  Sudheer Varma and Sunny MR try their best to make the proceedings look slick and snazzy.  As in their first outing together, the...

Kaai Raja Kaai Review

There is this MLA daughter who has to hide her face from onlookers because she is on a run and is with three youngsters, one of whom is her lover boy.  The three youngsters have accidentally...

Vaaradhi Review

'Vaaradhi' in a nutshell is the transformation of a self-centered, perverse personality into a meaningful human being.  The crux lies in who initiates the change.  The directorial...

Ok Bangaram Review

Mani Ratnam has this knack for introducing to the audience his main leads' thinking without wasting time.  Just a few minutes into the film, you find Aadi and Tara scripting the marriage...

Budugu Review

It's a camouflage designed to make the audience think that something spooky is around the corner.  The unseen force called 'Diya akka' scares the daylights out of the mother, even...