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...

All The Best Review

All The Best has released at a time when people are caught up in the fever of watching larger-than-life entertainers, be it extraordinary heroism of the kind seen in Gabbar Singh or incredible stuff...

Mem Vayasuku Vacham Review

A failed love story is a stepping stone to a glorious love story.  Mem Vayasuku Vaccham seems to be saying this.  In a long time here we have a genuine, full-on love film, where emotions...

Sakuni Review

If you are someone who likes escapist fare, go watch Sakuni.  Depending upon your taste, you may like the scenes involving Karthi and Santhanam or the unrealistic portrayal of daffy/...

Endukante.. Premanta Review

Before we watch a movie, we are usually aware of the kind of cinema we are going to watch.  Whatever we had thought about Endukante Premanta is turned upside down when we watch a romance...

Adhinayakudu Review

Adhinayakudu is more a family drama than a political pot-boiler.  Minus hyperbole, ridiculous stunts and over-the-top melodrama, Adhinayakudu is watchable once, with the proceedings pepped up...

Daruvu Review

Some people make films for themselves, and some others for juveniles.  Daruvu is a film made for the low brow.  Even those given to mean enjoyment in an inebriated condition in the most...

Gabbar Singh Review

When Gabbar Singh enters the lawless village of Kondaveedu, the villain stops his criminal activities and instead starts living in perpetual terror.  It is because our hero turns a self-styled...

Premalo Padithe Review

The strength of Premalo Padithe lies in the climax: Here suspense is neatly unravelled and a love story develops into an immortal affair.  This is a film where two underdogs are at the...

Dammu Review

If you are a die-hard fan of NTR, Dammu is the film you should watch at least twice.  It is because NTR's intense performance in the second half raises the roof, he wins the war with his frown...

Neeku Naaku Dash Dash Review

There was a defining moment in Nuvvu-Nenu when Uday Kiran detested the tyranny of elders like a puerile, saying "Chi chi mee peddolu unnare.."  Watching Neeka Naku Dash Dash one feels that...

Racha Review

  Racha is a film where the heroine's Mission Dammu culminates in finding a hero with the strength of one thousand men and intelligence of one lakh people (!), and the hero comes to know who is...

3 Review

3 is two films rolled into one.  The first half packs a realistic love track, full of the elements like love at first sight, slapping by parents, the girl showing more guts than her boy, et, ...

Lovely Review

Lovely is a film where the hero has to deal with a difficult father before he could marry his girl and the father happens to love his daughter so much so that he cannot think of letting his...

Eerojullo Review

Eerojullo is sensitivity-meets-realism.  Like a Ravi Babu film it packs the elements of quirkiness, innocence and depth at once.  For a film made on a shoestring budget (just a crore,...

Naa Istam Review

Naa Istam is a film that gets curioser and curioser in the first half, more and more predictable in the second half and hackneyed in the climax.  Rana plays Ganesh, a self-centered guy who...