Brothers Review

The question that is sure to linger on after you walk out of the theatre is this: Why on earth did the director need the 'conjoined twins' element?  Forget the sensitivity, realism and novelty...

Siva Thandavam Review

Shiva Thandavam is more about neat performances, pithy dialogues, technique than about a logical screenplay and a strong story.  The scenes are coherently connected, the BG score is superb, but...

Rebel Review

The first Rebel Star aka Krishnam Raju wants his son to be a Maryada Ramanna.  Sadly, he turns out to be a firebrand Puli Bidda.  He publicly beats the local MLA to pulp.  This...

Charulatha Review

If Vennela 1 1/2 was more loud and lewd than anything of the nature of `vennela' and Avunu was more lecherous than scary, Charulatha is more emotional than horrific.  The film begins...

Avunu Review

Unlike Anasuya and Amaravathi, Avunu is not a mixed baggage of suspense and macabriety.  However, there is the usual dose of perversion and lechery.  There is less gore and less of nail...

Vennela 1 1/2 Review

After watching the trailers, most of us did not expect anything more from Vennela 1 1/2 than low brow comedy.  What came as a surprise was that the film did not pack a sensible story that...

Life is Beautiful Review

We always trusted but only two directors to come up with thematic variety unfailingly every time - SS Rajamouli and Shekar Kammula.  By parodying Happy Days, the latter loses our trust....

Shiridi Sai Review

A film can be made for God or devotees, but a critique should not be written as if it were to be dedicated to a Devasthanam.  Thus, it is important not to be swayed by the surge of...

Mask Review

Mask has a different ambience, a ferocious hero, Kung Fu and a terrific BG score.  Sadly, the premise is not exciting. In a nutshell, Mask is a Chandamama folktale story told in the...

Ok Ok Review

Girls never know why and how they fall in love and with whom.  This is what Suhansini tries to explain to Prakash Raj in 'Nuvvu Naku Nacchav'.  Before you proceed to watch OKOK, do bear...

Srimannarayana Review

If you go to Srimannarayana expecting an intellectual side to our heroic journalist, you will be in for disappointment.  As the story moves forward, you will realise that the gutsy young chap ...

Sudigadu Review

Our director watched Thamizh Padam, threw the banana out and ate the peel. Seen in one sense, the film would have been nothing more than an art film had it been copied as it is.  The director...

Devudu Chesina Manushulu Review

Two lessons for us: 1. We should learn how to try to sell a movie from BVSN Prasad.  He said (believes) that there is an invisible story behind the no-story in DCM.  2.  We should...

Julayi Review

In Jalsa the hero loved the two daughters of the cop because of whom he (the hero) had joined the 'jana jeevana sravanthi'.  It required some sense of humour to enjoy the humour Trivikram had...

Mr 7 Review

First there is a pointless duet every time the heroine enters the scene.  This has been a feature of many good/bad films for long now, but Charan Reddy (director) seems to think that the only...

Onamalu Review

Onamalu has all the qualifications of a well-meaning film.  However, it is a drama sans the emotional crests and highs of a typical nostalgic film.  In Aa Naluguru (which has of late been...

Uu Kodatara Ulikki Padatara Review

It is neither 'Uu' nor 'Ulikki', it is hooting laughter that the film induces.  Even without talking about the patent mediocrity of the film, one can expose it by mere description.  It has...

Tuneega Tuneega Review

Tuneega Tuneega is a film in which there are more dances than there are facial expressions.  Besides, there are more songs than there are emotions, and there seem to be more lyrics than there...

David Billa Review

There is an illegal consignment which one crook has to deliver to another crook at the other end.  However, delivering it is fraught with risk for one's life.  David Billa senses...

Eega Review

At a time when logic is found to be amiss in supposedly serious dramas and potboilers, SS Rajamouli has achieved something remarkable.  He has made the impossible possible, without kissing...