Vennela Review

The cross-cultural confusions added with romance are always interesting. Otherwise a book like Inscrutable Americans (by Anurag Mathur) wouldn't be a top-seller for several years now.Vennela, the...

Meenakshi Review

In cinema, the story is not everything. The script is. This vital difference is well underscored in Meenakshi. The story is infact one with very good emotional content. A good director, with a...

That is Pandu Review

A mass film need not necessarily be one without a story or substance. But many filmmakers in their hurry to pack the movie with formulaic ingredients ,generally forget the thing called a realistic...

Ghazini Review

Dubbed films are working in Telugu these days. And Ghajini, too, works big time.The film provides abject lesson in how to make gritty commercial entertainers that are intelligent and artistic, too....

Mazaa Review

Chandramukhi and Aparichitudu were dubbed and were clear winners. They were successful because the subject that was dealt was universal --- split personality and ghostly apparitions and multiple...

Moguds Pellams Review

A film must have something novel. Either the story or its telling. But when none of this is, what follows is a big, uncontrollable yawn.And that is what you end up with in Moguds Pellams as the...

Danger Review

Krishna Vamsi must have been a desperate man after back-to-back flops in Sri Anjaneyam and Chitram. He obviously needed something drastic to prove that he was not over the hill.But desperation does...

Modati Cinema Review

Modati Cinema is an intriguing title for a film. That itself kindles the imagination for the movie. But debutant director Kuchipudi Venkat, who has shown enough promise in the film itself, does not...

Bhageeratha Review

Bhageeradha, according to Hindu theology, stands for eternal try. Director Rasool Ellore has lived up to the name and has given an honest try in what is essentially a good commercial entertainer.The...

Premiste Review

Realism always works. Especially when it is told in endearing terms. For proof see Premiste. This Telugu version of Tamil hit Kadhal is a simple tale of a mechanic falling in love with a school.&...

Allari Pidugu Review

It is difficult being Balakrishna these days. On the one hand, his fans want a particular kind of cinema from him (loud dialogues and mass songs) while the urban audiences and the media is...

Chatrapathi Review

The thing about sentiments in films is that they work. Almost unfailingly.That is the reason why directors go for it. Rajamouli has done just that, even as he has sought to highlight the robust side...

Political Rowdy Review

Remakes are a tight-rope walk. The original would have been made keeping in my strengths of an actor in that language. So it is imperative on those handling the remake to come up with improvisations...

Good Boy Review

Which a title like Good Boy, corny or tacky puns in reviews are inevitable. But the truth matter is Good Boy is anything but that.  Not at all good. Of course, it is for boys with plenty...

James Review

There is only a certain amount that a mentor can do. It is for the protege to take up the cue and take it up further.Ram Gopal Verma may be a good teacher and mentor to his countless students. But...

Nayakudu Review

When you remake a successful movie in one language to another care has to be taken to localize or add contextual flavor to it. For instance, Nayakudu's original Runaway was about the travails of a...

Allari Bullodu Review

Most of us are prisoners to the cliches of our own creation. At any rate, K Raghavendra Rao sure is. The veteran director created a particular kind of filmmaking in the 80s, and what began as his...

Mogudu Pellam O Dongodu Review

There are two ways of looking at the film MPOD. You can blindly appreciate whatever the director has dished out in the name of experimentation. On the other hand, you can obviously criticize the...

Okkade Review

A Sri Hari film is a bit like mythological parables. You know the end --- after all the troubles, the good will triumph over the evil. The surprise or the charm is not in that. It is in the...

Muddula Koduku Review

Good intentions don't really win you any points at the box office. Muddula Koduku is a good example of that.The film, a reflection of director Radha Mohan's inclination to come up with an inspiring...