Dikkulu Choodaku Ramayya Review

Dikkulu Choodaku Ramayya is not avant-garde.  For all the efforts to package old wine in fresh bottle, it fails to pack the punch.  True, emotions are mostly under-played, melodrama doesn&...

Govindudu Andarivadele Review

A nice blend of sentiment and comedy apart, 'Govindudu Andarivadele' packs the punch by presenting a different Ram Charan.  Krishna Vamsi shows yet again that a director with a knack...

Pawanism Review

E.K.Chaitanya's directorial debut,'Pawanism', has been released. Madhu, Sudheer, Isha and Jayanthi acted in the lead roles in this movie. Posani Krishna Murali and Ali play crucial roles...

Loukyam Review

A reason why Brahmanandam has so forcefully endeared himself to the audience, of late, is that he gives vent to the latter’s feelings/frustrations like no other character.  At one point...

Aagadu Review

'Aagadu' is a film where the intensity of heroism that Mahesh Babu shows towards the minions (who are comedians) is the same as that shown towards the villain.  As for the villain, the...

Anukshanam Review

When it is RGV making a crime thriller, the expectations are bound to be reasonably strong, never mind his recent terrible record.  In a year when 'Rowdy' received accolades from some...

Power Review

Mass Maharaja has just been powered by 'Vikramarkudu' with an extra 'Balupu'.  High on energy, he delivers a powerhouse performance.  There is cop element, crusade against...

Kirak Review

If our filmmakers don’t understand what the genre ‘horror comedy’ is, they better don’t get into making a film in it.  Those who know nothing more than vulgarity,, ...

Weekend Love Review

So a clean 'nari' who doesn't give a handshake with her bare hands to a guy agrees to a live-in?  That's creative liberty at its imaginative worst.  But if we cast aside...

Boochamma Boochodu Review

Barely before a month of dishing out the improperly funny horror comedy 'Anjali', Tollywood turns out another horror comedy (whether stated or not).  In 'Boochamma Boochadu',...

Rabhasa Review

The 'rabhasa', whatever it means, is made by a Mirchi dude with the naughtiness of a Kandireega at some household that needs the apostle's Midas Touch to become a Brindavanam. '...

Nee Jathaga Nenundali Review

After a long hiatus, Sachin Joshi has acted in the film, 'Nee Jathaga Nenudali', in Telugu. This film is a remake of 'Aashiqui 2', the film which has set the cash registers ringing...

Sikinder Review

Why on earth does a hero being a mafia crook make him a "good person" when an anti-hero being one makes him (the anti-hero) a rascal?  Are such twisted themes to be lapped up...

Lovers Review

'Lovers' proves, for the nth time, that a vacuous interval bang is suggestive of a wafer-thin story line. It's nothing less than a jolt that a story-screenplay written by Maruthi has got...

Geethanjali Review

Imagine the famous TV shows host Suma in the role of a devil.  Watching Anjali in such a role feels like the same.  Except saying ‘Emo.. Naku artham aipothayi anthe’ with a-...

Gaalipatam Review

Our films have this knack for finishing any film on marriage, family system and every system under the sun with a moral lecture.  Suddenly, characters at the receiving end of the moral rocket...

Nuvvala Nenila Review

Of late, Telugu cinema is trying to churn out coming-of-age stories.  After ‘Second Hand’, ‘Prema Ishq Kadal’, ‘Routine Love Story’, it’s the turn of...

Run Raja Run Review

Almost everything about 'Run Raja Run' is as it should be.  When it is Sharwanand who is the hero, making a fast-paced movie with so much mind games involved should not come with stunts...

Maaya Review

Neelakanta's forte has been unusual storylines.  He rose like a meteor in popularity with his very first film but has since failed to live up to that high standard of his own.  For a...

Adavi Kaachina Vennela Review

Count the number of times every other character in the movie, be it the ever-failing young man or the failed athelete who has had to be a honey trap working for a businessman, uses the idiom '...