Vijay's Anna Movie review
Anna Telugu Movie Review
Rating: 2/5 stars
Star cast: Vijay, Amala Paul
Producer: Chandra Prakash Jain, Director: A. L. Vijay
What Is Good: Vijay's performances, Beautiful cinematography, Santhanam comedy
What Is Bad: Story line, Screenplay, Music, Editing, Second half
Boring Scenes: Dragged second half
Watch It or Not?: Only for Hardcore Vijay Fans
Anna Review: StarPerformances
Vijay does full justice to his character. His screen presence, dialogues, histrionics and his mannerism are striking. Amala Paul fails to make any impact despite of looking beautiful in the first half. Veteran actor Suresh looked theatrical and stiff. Ponvannan played important character in the movie does his part with grace.
TV actress Ragini Nandwani looked good, but her track does not gel with the film. Abhimayu Singh is adequate in a pivotal role. Santhanam provides good punchlines and tickles the funny bones. Ravi Prakash, Rajeevi Govinda Pillai, Nassar and Manobala failed to create an impact.
Anna Review: Direction, Music & Technical Aspects
With predictable tale to hold on, director A.L. Vijay drags on focusing on filmsy scenes between Vishwa group and Bheema. Though first half of the film is okay with nice build up just before the interval and post interval movie drags on with decent twist and turns around. A.L. Vijay who directed Shivathandavam with Vikram earlier has faltered with routine storyline. Camera work and the backdrop of Mumbai are remarkable. But all the scenes involving the special lighting effects, are tacky. Music by G.V. Prakash is not good and backgroundscore of the movie is loud, it reminds you of The Corrs in parts. Telugu version lyrics are just horrible. G.V Prakash should have reworked on sound mixing of the film. Editing was highly required in many portions, especially in the second half which looked like a never ending story.
Anna Review: Analysis
As you walk out of the cinema hall having watched 'Anna', you feel sorry for the film, since this was one that probably had tremendous potentials, but which failed to evolve into an exciting film on screen. Everything feels mediocre barring the acting, and for once, even the twists seem uninspiring. Story has some similarities with films like "Andhrawala", "Sarkar", "Shankam" and "Rebel" over the basic storyline. The entire script is devised to cater mass and class audiences.
However, clinched orientation in the second half vitiates the tone of the movie with its prolonged climax. The biggest problem with the film is that there is no strong villain for Vijay to fight with and also the conflict in the story is lackluster. There is no interesting conflict in the film to make audience glued nor has interesting drama to sit and enjoy. Anna is very formulaic. Second half is very dragged. With wafer thin storyline director drags on the movie with two commendable twists for more than 3 hours. Vijay, Interval bang and Santhanam are the only saving grace.
Bottom Line : Only for Hardcore Vijay Fans
Courtesy: www.apherald.com
Chennai Express Review
Rating: * * *
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sathyaraj
Direction: Rohit Shetty
Genre: Action
Duration: 2 hours 23 minutes
Story: A 40-year-old Punjabi man is on a mission to immerse his grandfather's ashes down South. Enroute he meets a young Tamilian girl who has eloped. Their lives entwine and his journey takes an altogether different route.
Review: In an ode to his own cinema—read Golmaal series, Bol Bachchan, Rohit Shetty ishstyle, the director, who has grossers in Bollywood's 100-crore club, ups the scale for his Eid offering.
Chennai Express (CE) is a magnificently mounted film. Never having been strong in the story department, CE too has a guillible plot line. Rahul ( Shah Rukh Khan) is asked by his dadi (Kamini Kaushal) to drop his granddad's ashes in Rameswaram, the southern-most tip of India. He boards theChennai Express to hoodwink granny but has secretly planned a getaway with his guy friends to Goa. Alas, in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge fashion, a damsel in distress, Meena ( Deepika Padukone) asks for his outstretched hand as he stands on the footboard. And his Samaritan act changes his destiny.
He discovers she's the daughter of a Don from a South-side village and her accompanying cousins (hulks in pony tails) want her to return home. Her father wants Meena to marry another hulk (Niketan Dheer) from a nearby village, so he can then rule two villages. Meena resists and insists to her father (Sathyaraj) that it is Rahul who has her fancy. The father relents but the other hulks resist.
From here on, Rahul constantly tries to outsmart the South Indian mob. And as expected in Indian mainstream cinema, he breaks into song-and-dance, gets drunk, blows up jeeps and does a Jim Carryish over-the-top act to get guffaws from a captive audience.
For what is primarily a Hindi film, there's too much spoken Tamil. There are cleverly written lines that ask you not to underestimate the south because it even plays a crucial role in the coalition government, but for the rest of India, a lot of the dialogue is lost in translation. Subtitles would be in order.
After Cocktail and Yeh Jaawani Hai Deeewani, Deepika is once again in superlative form. Shah Rukh's attempts at comedy go from convincing to convoluted. But, for the most part, he lights up the screen with his effervescence.
Note: You may not like the film if Bollywood potboilers leave you cold.
Courtesy: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Special Show of Atharintiki Daredi held at Ramanaidu Studio yesterday
Review follows
Coming soon review of Chenai Express on 09 Aug 2013
Anna Telugu Movie Review
Rating: 2/5 stars
Star cast: Vijay, Amala Paul
Producer: Chandra Prakash Jain, Director: A. L. Vijay
What Is Good: Vijay's performances, Beautiful cinematography, Santhanam comedy
What Is Bad: Story line, Screenplay, Music, Editing, Second half
Boring Scenes: Dragged second half
Watch It or Not?: Only for Hardcore Vijay Fans
Anna Review: StarPerformances
Vijay does full justice to his character. His screen presence, dialogues, histrionics and his mannerism are striking. Amala Paul fails to make any impact despite of looking beautiful in the first half. Veteran actor Suresh looked theatrical and stiff. Ponvannan played important character in the movie does his part with grace.
TV actress Ragini Nandwani looked good, but her track does not gel with the film. Abhimayu Singh is adequate in a pivotal role. Santhanam provides good punchlines and tickles the funny bones. Ravi Prakash, Rajeevi Govinda Pillai, Nassar and Manobala failed to create an impact.
Anna Review: Direction, Music & Technical Aspects
With predictable tale to hold on, director A.L. Vijay drags on focusing on filmsy scenes between Vishwa group and Bheema. Though first half of the film is okay with nice build up just before the interval and post interval movie drags on with decent twist and turns around. A.L. Vijay who directed Shivathandavam with Vikram earlier has faltered with routine storyline. Camera work and the backdrop of Mumbai are remarkable. But all the scenes involving the special lighting effects, are tacky. Music by G.V. Prakash is not good and backgroundscore of the movie is loud, it reminds you of The Corrs in parts. Telugu version lyrics are just horrible. G.V Prakash should have reworked on sound mixing of the film. Editing was highly required in many portions, especially in the second half which looked like a never ending story.
Anna Review: Analysis
As you walk out of the cinema hall having watched 'Anna', you feel sorry for the film, since this was one that probably had tremendous potentials, but which failed to evolve into an exciting film on screen. Everything feels mediocre barring the acting, and for once, even the twists seem uninspiring. Story has some similarities with films like "Andhrawala", "Sarkar", "Shankam" and "Rebel" over the basic storyline. The entire script is devised to cater mass and class audiences.
However, clinched orientation in the second half vitiates the tone of the movie with its prolonged climax. The biggest problem with the film is that there is no strong villain for Vijay to fight with and also the conflict in the story is lackluster. There is no interesting conflict in the film to make audience glued nor has interesting drama to sit and enjoy. Anna is very formulaic. Second half is very dragged. With wafer thin storyline director drags on the movie with two commendable twists for more than 3 hours. Vijay, Interval bang and Santhanam are the only saving grace.
Bottom Line : Only for Hardcore Vijay Fans
Courtesy: www.apherald.com
Chennai Express Review
Rating: * * *
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sathyaraj
Direction: Rohit Shetty
Genre: Action
Duration: 2 hours 23 minutes
Story: A 40-year-old Punjabi man is on a mission to immerse his grandfather's ashes down South. Enroute he meets a young Tamilian girl who has eloped. Their lives entwine and his journey takes an altogether different route.
Review: In an ode to his own cinema—read Golmaal series, Bol Bachchan, Rohit Shetty ishstyle, the director, who has grossers in Bollywood's 100-crore club, ups the scale for his Eid offering.
Chennai Express (CE) is a magnificently mounted film. Never having been strong in the story department, CE too has a guillible plot line. Rahul ( Shah Rukh Khan) is asked by his dadi (Kamini Kaushal) to drop his granddad's ashes in Rameswaram, the southern-most tip of India. He boards theChennai Express to hoodwink granny but has secretly planned a getaway with his guy friends to Goa. Alas, in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge fashion, a damsel in distress, Meena ( Deepika Padukone) asks for his outstretched hand as he stands on the footboard. And his Samaritan act changes his destiny.
He discovers she's the daughter of a Don from a South-side village and her accompanying cousins (hulks in pony tails) want her to return home. Her father wants Meena to marry another hulk (Niketan Dheer) from a nearby village, so he can then rule two villages. Meena resists and insists to her father (Sathyaraj) that it is Rahul who has her fancy. The father relents but the other hulks resist.
From here on, Rahul constantly tries to outsmart the South Indian mob. And as expected in Indian mainstream cinema, he breaks into song-and-dance, gets drunk, blows up jeeps and does a Jim Carryish over-the-top act to get guffaws from a captive audience.
For what is primarily a Hindi film, there's too much spoken Tamil. There are cleverly written lines that ask you not to underestimate the south because it even plays a crucial role in the coalition government, but for the rest of India, a lot of the dialogue is lost in translation. Subtitles would be in order.
After Cocktail and Yeh Jaawani Hai Deeewani, Deepika is once again in superlative form. Shah Rukh's attempts at comedy go from convincing to convoluted. But, for the most part, he lights up the screen with his effervescence.
Note: You may not like the film if Bollywood potboilers leave you cold.
Courtesy: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Special Show of Atharintiki Daredi held at Ramanaidu Studio yesterday
Review follows
Attarintiki Daredi is postponed due to political issues but
there was a special show held at Rama Naidu studios previous night and as per
sources we are bringing out you the details and review of this special show
report.
Pawan kalyan style and punch lines are major Highlights of
film
Complete Family entertainer
Samantha looks gorgeous
Brahmanandham is a big asset to this film
Non stop entertainment through out film
Pranitha looks hot in songs
Trivikram again proves himself with his direction and
dialogues
All departments executed well and output from all
departments worked perfect
Entertainment is main base of the film
Overall Attarintiki Daredi is a treat to Powerstar Pawan Kalyan fans
Attarintiki Daredi is directed by Trivikram srinivas ,
Produced by BVSN Prasad , Music by Devi sri Prasad, Pawan kalyan , Samantha ,
Pranitha are main lead roles of film. Attarintiki Daredi is planned to release
in October due to political issues.
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