Bandipotu Review

When it is someone like Indraganti Mohan Krishna who is the director, the least that you expect is no character is there without a reason.  Seemingly carried away by the social media-created ...

Paddanandi Premalo Mari Review

'Paddanandi Prema Lo Mari' is quite an inappropriate title.  For here we see the main leads, along with one or more other characters, keep on running because of their love or someone...

Temper Review

Nowadays, being an onscreen cop with grey shades is a fashion.  This is besides exuding anything from normal to abnormal arrogance at the drop of a hat.  Puri Jagannadh's Daya, the sub...

Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju Review

'Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju' is not a run-of-the-mill film, yes.  But before saying it is refreshing, one has to  qualify the verdict.  Kranthi Madhav of 'Onamalu' fame...

Gaddam Gang Review

Rajshekar's choices of movies for remakes have been gutsy, whatever be the results.  This time, he brings out the remake of Soodhu Kavvum, the 2013 Kollywood hit.  The characters and...

Ladies & Gentlemen Review

‘Ladies And Gentlemen’ tells three separate stories involving seven characters, between them.  They are not networked to each other; instead, what is common to them is a social...

Beeruva Review

Beeruva is a good marketing gimmick.  The unabashed trailers gave us an impression that there is something surreal in store.  Far from it.Sundeep Kishan is Sanju, the playfully mischievous...

Pataas Review

Pataas is an action-comedy entertainer that doesn't take itself too seriously.  So, we have everything from a firebrand senior cop who is waiting to be killed while in action to a quirky...

I Review

There is a reason why Shankar has always been seen as a Master - it's beyond the style and substance that his films eminently throw up.  There is a sensibility about his lead characters....

Gopala Gopala Review

Taking on blind faith is a lay man who is armed with common sense.  Ironically, the sceptic makes a living by selling the idols of the gods he doesn't believe in.  As if to become the...

Mana Kurralle Review

This one is yet another old-fashioned story that pits India against Bharat and parades the myth that all farmers irrespective of region, religion, caste and gender want to stay in farming.  Yet...

A Shyam Gopal Varma Film Review

There are two kinds of disasters.  Films that bare their follies and idiocies from the start especially because the director has no ability or will or both to (mis)lead the audience into...

Raghuvaran B.tech Review

Despite taking Kollywood by storm, Dhanush has somehow not been able to make a mark for himself in the Telugu States.  The much-hyped '3' disappeared without a whimper, save the...

Chinnadana Neekosam Review

The story-writer of ‘Chinadana Nee Kosam’ seems to have got inspired to write this film when sometime in high school, he heard his social studies teacher say that the vertically and...

Mukunda Review

'Mukunda' being a seemingly hero-centric title, one expected the Mega hero to be indulged like crazy.  What is in store, however, is an overdoing of Rao Ramesh, making us wonder if...

Chandrakala Review

There are a couple of references that you will make while watching the reasonably entertaining 'Chandrakala'.  If the idiom reminds one of 'Arundhati', some of the scenes put it...

O Manishi Katha Review

'O Manishi Katha' reminds one of Jagapathi Babu's 'Maa Nanna Chiranjeevi' in terms of its old-fashioned smell and patois.  This is yet another of Jagapathi's commendable...

Saheba Subrahmanyam Review

The way the first half is narrated, you can be forgiven for thinking that ‘Saheba.. Subrahmanyam’ is going to have a tragic end, or at least some ‘hatke’ dose in the run-up...

Lingaa Review

Rajinikanth plays Raja Lingeswara, the Collector of Kurnool who reveals himself to be the Maharaja of Gadwal!  Confused?  In real life a Chief Minister wanting to serve the poor by...

Lakshmi Raave Maa Intiki Review

'Lakshmi.. Rave Maa Intiki’ is a kind of film that is characters-based rather than an eventful story.   Sometimes, it seems to hold within it traces of this or that film (the...