Story

The story revolves around two brothers Siva Rama Krishna (Sunil), a timid guy becomes a cop with the force of Karthik (Naga Chaitanya), a tough guy. Sivarama Krishna is assigned to take on Bagga (Ashutosh Rana), an evil smuggler. With the support of Karthik, Siva Rama Krishna earns the trust of department bashing up the goons taking on Bagga.

Nandu (Andrea Jeremiah) and Pallavi (Tamanna) two sisters also live on the same town, while the former gets married to Siva Rama Krishna the latter falls in love with Karthik. In this situation, Bagga gets to know that Karthik is behind Shiva Rama Krishna and what does the latter do in the situation? How does Karthik help his brother forms the crux.

Performances

Naga Chaitanya has showed quite a lot of improvement and this time he does his role with much ease and subtle expressions. He is stylish and impressive in the action episodes and romantic scenes.

Sunil is perfect fit for the role of cop who later transforms into powerful cop with the support of his brother. His comic timing works in the first half and at the same time he does well in the fight scenes in the latter half.

Tamanna oozes oomph and sizzles in her glamorous role. She doesn’t have much to do performance wise but makes her presence felt. However, she shares a good chemistry with Chaitanya and their combo scenes are a visual treat.

Andrea Jeremiah is good looking and does her role well. Ashutosh Rana as dreadful villain is impressive, Srinivas Reddy, Jaya Prakash Reddy and Brahmanandam are there to bring few laughs.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography by Arthur Wilson is first-class and the film looked quite colorful, Thaman’s music is good and the background score has required essence. Dolly (Kishore Kumar Pardasani) direction is good while the screenplay is taut packed with racy entertainment. Editing is crisp and neat. Production values of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions are standard.

Analysis

Tadakha being the remake of Vettai follows the same script and screenplay without many changes. Both Sunil and Naga Chaitanya have equally good and challenging roles and they have done quite well. The first half of the film is racy and entertaining while the second half lacks the pace at times. The comedy could have been high in the second half as well. Scenes between the Naga Chaitanya and Tamanna are entertaining likewise the emotional bonding between the two brothers have been captured nicely. Climax is effective and had the solid punch.

Thadaka has all the right commercial elements including action, humor, romance, glamour with good technical values, also sticks to the Telugu audiences nativity factor. The film has all the needed elements to set the cash registers ringing at the Box-Office.

Final Verdict

Racy fun-filled action entertainer that doesn’t disappoint!!!

Story

Sukumar (Aadi) is a NRI working for a US company who gives much preference to money and is selfish by nature. To start his own firm, he needs hefty amount and at this point of time, he comes to know that his family who lives in a village has a property worth 150Crores. He immediately flies to the village on a plan to sell the property and invest in the bank to commence his dream project. He meets his grandmother Vandanamma (Sharada) uncle Rao Ramesh and falls in love with Sankari (Nisha Aggarwal). Will Sukumar succeed in his plan or changes his nature forms the rest of the story.

Performances

Aadi once again proves that he is a great dancer and he is good at action sequences but he needs to work on emotional scenes and comic timing.

Nisha Agarwal is beautiful especially in the songs, but her pairing with Aadi misses the mark in the film.

Super Star Krishna is brief but delivers a decent performance and actress Sharada is an asset for the movie. The film had many artists like MS Narayana, Raghu Babu, Dhanraj, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Thagubothu Ramesh but the comedy didn’t work much and they are wasted in poor roles.

Technical Analyis

Cinematography is fine while Anup Rubens musical scores are a decent. The background score is loud at times. Editing is pathetic with no consistency. Dialogues hardly impress. Ashok Kumar’s direction is bad and screenplay looked illogical. Production values are not upto the mark.

Analysis

Director Ashok has come up with a routine story, it could have been quite different had the director incorporated gripping screenplay, instead it was terrible. Logic has gone for toss big time and the flow is inconsistent with few scenes appearing from nowhere. With too many supporting actors neither of them had interesting roles and poor writing clearly plays the spoilsport. Even the romantic scenes between the leads never worked and misplaced songs irritate even more. The interval twist is a bit interesting and makes the audiences look for some entertainment in store but the same predictable and too many melodrama scenes make the proceedings worse. The run length is almost 3 hours with none of the interesting scenes in the scenes, the viewers go restless. Besides very few scenes, Sukumarudu looked dull.

Final Verdict

Routine story and poor executions makes Sukumarudu a painful watch!!!

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Story

Chandu (Nagarjuna), an event manager in US doesn’t believe in relationships and commitments. Maaya (Meera Chopra) his assistant betrays him in business and as a result Chandu gets stuck in financial troubles fined with a hefty price. His close pals fail to help at the needed time and meanwhile he gets to know about his family and his grandfather (K.Vishwanath) from India. Chandu flies to India hoping to get his property share by acting well among his family members for his own reasons. He gets to meet Sandhya (Nayantara), who works for the ‘Make a Wish’ foundation and later falls in love with her. The rest forms the crux of the story.

Performances

Nagarjuna makes a cool entry and he is stylish and classy in the film. It is not erroneous to say Nag beats many young heroes in terms of style and handsomeness. He entertains with his comic timing, dances, romance and gets us connect to the emotional scenes.

Nayanatara is beautiful and as usual she scores in glamour and performance equally. A special mention to her costumes, and her scenes with Nagarjuna have come out well.

Meera Chopra in a brief role is good, Brahmanandham brings laughs in the second half, Thagubothu Ramesh is brief, K.Vishwanth is impressive, Sudha does a neat job, Ashish Vidyardhi and Kota Srinivasa Rao are regular.

Technical Analysis

Thaman’s musical scores are pleasing and melodious while the background score is impressive and an asset for the film. The songs I hate Love Stories.., Osi Naa Bangaram are shot well. Anil Bhandari’s cinematography is fine. CG and DI works are very poor; Production values are not up to the standard.

Analysis

Greeku Veerudu is a neat family entertainer just like Dasaradh’s earlier films.

The first half of the film has few feel good scenes. All the scenes between Nag and K.Viswanath are a good watch and remind you of Dasaradh’s trademark family scenes. The emotional scenes are well-shot but the problem is the pace of the film, which is quite slow. Screenplay is not up to the mark and logic goes for a toss at times. The interval is neat and the second half was again clean with good entertainment provided if u bear some silly comedy scenes. Poor CG shots adding to inconsistent screenplay spoils the experience of a feel good movie. Nevertheless, Nagarjuna, Nayanathara and K.Vishwanadh give their best performances making it a worth watch once.

Final Verdict

Greeku Veerudu -- A treat to family audiences, barring the slow pace and poor CG shots…

Story

Raghuram (Naga Babu) is undercover investigative journo who makes a document against mafia don Nana Bhai(Aditya Pancholi) regarding his illegal activities. The report reaches Nana Bhai who in turn kills the former but Rajaram (Venkatesh), Raghuram’s son sees his father’s death and he vows to take revenge in the name of Shadow. Will he succeed in killing Nana Bhai and his gang forms the rest of Shadow.

Performances

Venkatesh looked quite different and has experimented with his looks. As per the film, Venky has trusted the director and followed his instructions mechanically despite his good experience in films. He has performed his part well dealing emotional scenes, action sequences but couldn’t rescue the film.

Tapsee is gorgeous but is confined to songs. Her characterization is poorly etched but she impresses with her dance moves.

Srikanth as a cop delivers a routine performance and Madhurima is natural. MS Narayana as Psycho Sreenivas and Jaya Prakash Reddy brings few laughs while Krishna Bhagawan is okay, Rahul Dev is usual, Naga Babu as journalist is brief, Aditya Pancholi is impressive and he might bag some good roles hereafter.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography by Prasad Murella is good and the major part was shot in lavish locales. Thaman’s songs are catchy but the songs placement like naughty Girl..’ is poor. Background score is loud. The title song has wonderful choreography and shot very stylishly. Dialogues are senseless with meaningless Rhyming words, editing is inconsistent and jerky. Meher Ramesh direction is bad. Production values by United Movies are bad.

Analysis

Shadow focuses on Style and rich locales rather than the content like any other Meher Ramesh film. The story is a regular revenge saga, yet it would have been a safe bet if the film is packed with gripping screenplay and good entertainment considering the fact that producers have spent lot of budget on the style.

Director Meher Ramesh failed totally in engaging the audiences in the proceedings and stuck with style concentrating on lavish locales, designer outfits, Choppers for dons’ et al. Venkatesh proved to be director’s actor believing in Meher Ramesh and following his instructions mechanically. Even the emotional scenes which are Venkatesh’s forte lacked the needed depth and impact. On the comedy front, the Gabbar Singh Antyakshari scenes including Venkatesh and MS Narayana might be a relief to few, while scenes showcasing Venky as a child, calling Tapsee as Aunty didn’t work at all, in fact they are terrible.

While the first half runs on a boring note with routine stuff, the second half totally tests your patience and the climax fight leaves you disappointed.

Final Verdict

Even Venkatesh couldn’t salvage ‘Shadow’.

Story

Prabhu (Siddharth) is a Telugu guy who studies engineering in Bangalore along with Rithika (Ashritha Shetty). One day Rithika gets kidnapped by Prabhu and his friends. Rithika’s father who is a Chief Minister of Karnataka appoints a special officer, encounter specialist Manoj Menon (Kay Kay Menon) to trace his daughter and to kill the kidnappers. In the quest of finding the kidnappers, Manoj Menon will go through many tough challenges and few unexpected series forms the crux.

Performances

Siddharth delivers sufficient performance as Prabhu. He has left his lover boy image and sported a rugged look for the movie and delivers a restrained performance as needed.

Debutant Ashritha performed quite well and impresses with her chubby looks and her onscreen pairing with Siddharth is most-promising.

Kay Kay Menon performed well as brutal encounter specialist who is both arrogant and intelligent also adding humor to the scenes. His romantic backdrop is quite interesting.

Karthik as Siddharth’s friend impresses with one-liners. Other casts were adequate.

Technical Analysis

Velraj has done a great job in capturing chasing scenes and all songs are beautifully captured. G.V.Prakash music is an added advantage while the background score is promising for the plot. Editing by Kishore Te has been very impressive. Manimaran as a first timer impresses with his unique screenplay and neat presentation. But the screenplay falters at times and the basic plot line is quite simple. Dialogues are crisp and entertaining. Production values are standard.

Analysis

Manimaran should get the credits for implementing simple story into an action thriller with unique screenplay. But the screenplay turns predictable in the second half. The first half of the film is very entertaining with Siddharth’s friend Karthik’s comedy liners and romance between the leads. Second half of the movie has got some immense pace but the climax falls flat. Unlike several action thrillers, this one misses the good twists and thrills and instead focuses on the pace with ordinary action scenes. The romantic scenes and good comedy makes  NH4 watchable.

Final Verdict

Despite entertaining first half, too many action sequences in second half makes NH4 an average fare.

Story

Arjun (Allu Sirish), a rich guy moves on an expedition to find his missing friend Shankar. When he reaches Shankar’s village he finds out that his friend eloped with a girl who is of higher caste than his and is also village head Pasupati’s (Prakash Raj) daughter, who goes missing for six months. Now, Arjun finds it very tough in finding his missing friend and with the help of a trainee lawyer Yamini (Yami Gautam) he will come across many unpleasant facts. Now, dealing with all these consequences forms the crux.

Performances

Allu Sirish hasn’t chosen the same old action entertainer or a love genre on his debut. As a debutant, he did an okay job but he needs to get polished in his dances, and expressions to prove his talent.

Yami Gautam opted for a spotless and careful script. She holds some weighted role in this film which is very hard find yet she performed well and impresses as trainee lawyer.

Prakash Raj suits himself in showing various grey shades. He performed well as a father who is in deep pain and as a village head who struggles to get back the lost admiration in the society.

Technical Analysis

Just like every Radha Mohan’s film, Gouravam is also technically sound film. Cinematographer Preetha has done a fine job in capturing locales of a village. S.S.Thaman musical scores are pleasing while the background score is impressive. Alen’s editing is quite decent as this kind of movies will have nothing more to offer. Director Radha Mohan should be appreciated for taking such a gentle issue.

Analysis

Allu Sirish chooses a thought provoking story for his debut and this is in fact a good choice. Director Radha Mohan and producer Prakash Raj should get the credits for choosing such a highly sensible script. As said earlier, this kind of script should be handled logically and with gripping narration but Gouravam falters with slow paced narration. Gouravam has got more sentiment, action and the climax becomes preachy. First half of the movie is extremely slow paced and second half is decent but the lack of commercial elements might not appeal Telugu audiences.

Final Verdict

Thought provoking story, but slow-paced narration plays spoilsport

Story

Karthik (Nithin) is a happy go lucky guy, who works as an analyst in a software company enjoying his life. Karthik comes across Shruthi (Isha Talwar) in a wedding party and instantly falls for her. With the help of his friend Pandu (Ali), he gets her mobile number but Pandu who is drunk gives him a wrong number and this miscommunication leads to several confusions with Karthik ending up calling Sravani (Nithya Menen) thinking that he is speaking to Shruti. Karthik and Sravani fall in love after their several conversations but what happens when the duo comes to know about the confused wrong number. Who will Karthik marry forms the rest of the story.

Performances

Nithin looked handsome sporting cool outfits. He has brought ease to his performance and danced extremely well in the remix song of Tholi Prema. Nithin has also tried out comedy and his comic timing is quite impressive at spontaneity.

Nithya Menen is natural and expressive at her acting and her characterization has multiple shades, which she acts brilliantly. Her chemistry with Nithin is appealing to watch.

Isha Talwar looks hot but her role is limited, Ali did a good job while Thagubothu Ramesh brings laughs, Madhu is good, Jwala Gutta's much hyped isn’t that effective on-screens.

Technical Analysis

Anup Rubens music is too good and songs are well captured. Cinematography by Andrew is visually rich. Vijay Kumar Konda impresses with his directorial debut film. Screenplay is engaging and gripping, dialogues are effective, Editing is crisp.

Analysis

Nithin and Nithya Menon entertained with the film Ishq which ended up as grand success and since then, the expectations on Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde were high and now, the film managed to reach the audiences expectations and in fact GJG has good dosage of entertainment than Ishq. Nithin and Nithya Menon’s crackling chemistry works for this film and audiences connect to the emotional bonding. Despite the second half moving at a slightly slow pace, it never fails to entertain. The emotions are handled with a touch of humor. Director Vijay Kumar Konda comes up with simple storyline, but he packed it with the gripping screenplay and fast paced narration. The songs are well-captured and the Pawan Kalyan’s remix song need a special mention for Nithin showcasing his brilliant dance moves. Also, the interval scene of Kushi is neatly incorporated.

More than all, Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde is a clean entertainer with no violence or double entendres besides a couple of gay jokes, and a refreshing watch for the family audiences.

Final Verdict

Nithin & Nithya repeats the magic of Ishq… Go watch it!!!

Story

Baadshah aka Rama Rao (NTR) is the son of Ranjan (Mukesh Rishi), who works for mafia don Sadhu Bhai (Kelly Dorji) operating in Macau. However, Baadshah’s aggression and brilliance puts him in clash with Saadhu Bhai, who decides to finish off the former and his family with the help of Crazy Robert (Ashish Vidyardhi) and Violent Victor (Pradeep Rawat). Also Saadhu Bhai plans few attacks on major cities in India and Baadshah in order to halt the happenings takes the help of Janaki (Kajal), daughter of Police commissioner Jai Krishna Simha (Nasser). In this process, other twists of Baadshah get unfolded, which is to be watched on big-screens.

Performances

NTR looked quite distinct and stylish in the film. He has essayed different shades in the character inclusing action, romance, comedy and family bonding scenes. NTR dances are amazing in Sairo Sairo and Rangoli Rangoli while he has some cool moves in Diamond girl. His comic timing is awesome and Baadshah would be a feast to his fans as he steps into Justice Chowdary role and he also shakes leg for medley of Sr.NTR’s songs.

Kajal Agarwal is glamorous sporting cool outfits as Janaki entertaining with her distinct one-liners on society. Her scenes with NTR in the first half are refreshing and she looked too good in Banthi Poola Janaki, Diamond girl songs.

Among the other cast Brahmanandam steals the show in the second half as Inspector Padmanabha Simha and he along with NTR and rocked the screens, Nasser gets another hilarious role. MS Narayana and Vennela Kishore bring laughs in the first half.

Jaya Prakash Reddy, Thagubothu Ramesh are wasted, Kelly Dorjee is okay while Navadeep is impressive and Siddharth does a crucial cameo. Mahesh’s voiceover needs a special mention. Others did their bit required.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography is lavish and the entire film looked colorful. Songs are beautifully captured in the foreign locations. Thaman provided tunes are ear-pleasing and has the scope for NTR’s dances while the background score is loud at times. Dialogues are punchy and hilarious and screenplay is racy in the second half. Editing could have been crisp in the first half. Srinu Vytla yet again scores with entertainment. Parameswara Arts production values are lavish.

Analysis

The story isn’t new to Tollywood audiences also it has references to Srinu Vytla’s earlier movies. But just like Srinu Vytla’s films, Baadshah is also packed with loads of entertainment.

One-liners like ‘Pitch Needaina match nadi’, ‘Bhayapade Vaadu Baanisa Bhayapette Vaadu Baadshah’ are entertaining in the film and strikes chords, and Kajal dialogues on society and converting lazy people to achievers are hilarious.

The first half of the film moves with characters introductions and refreshing NTR-Kajal’s scenes along with MS Narayana, Vennela Kishore comedy, but the flashback scenes drops the pace. The second half initially gets slow, but with Brahmanandam’s entry the movie picks the momentum and the entertainment quotient impresses you. Brahmanandam steals the show with his antics and Inception backdrop. On the flip side, the emotional scenes could have been gripping and the long fights could have been reduced for the fast pace during interval.

NTR has rocked the screens in Justice Chowdary getup and Sangeet scenes dancing for Sr.NTR super hit tracks which would be a feast to all Tarak’s fans. Like all Srinu Vytla’s films, Baadshah has numerous casts, and delivers loads of laughs with clean entertainment.

Final Verdict

Baadshah – Paisa Vasool Entertainer… & A Good treat for family audiences!!!

Story

Jasmine Falguda aka Jaffa (Brahmanandam) lands in Jail with unfortunate events. He is a software engineer and due to his sadistic boss (Melkoti) and colleague he ends up in Jail. Jaffa is intelligent and his ideas make him popular. Jailer Nikki (Vennela Kishore) takes help of Jaffa to get out of his personal problems. Nikki falls in trouble due to an incident and Jaffa tries to help him out by escaping from Jail. The rest forms the story of Jaffa.

Performances

It is known fact that Brahmanandam is a great actor and he is best in doing comedy. In this, he carried out the role on his shoulders playing the title role but his timing and dialogue delivery couldn’t help at times due to the bad writing.

Vennela Kishore as an actor scored good. Ali is just okay while Thagubothu Ramesh and Dhanraj are hilarious. Melkoti, Venu are decent, Ahuti Prasad was wasted. There isn’t much scope for rest of the cast.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography is not upto the mark and the film carried no songs. Vennela Kishore has penned the dialogues as well for the film which are okay. Direction is bad and screenplay is pretty average.

Analysis

Vennela Kishore scores as an actor and in dialogues but fails in direction department for Jaffa. He has come up with a new thought process but the inconsistent screenplay and slow pace fails in keeping audiences glued to the screens.

The film had few good comedy sequences and with Brahmi’s comic timing and dialogue delivery, they work well here and there. But the film had quite a lot of illogical sequences and logic has gone for a toss big time. First half of the film is crisp, thanks to the editor and is passable but the second half is terrible with dragged narration, even Brahmanandam couldn’t help due to the jerky screenplay which ultimately leads to boredom. The climax fizzles out after a while. The film will have good openings due to Brahmanandam but it’s hard to click at the Box-Office.

Final Verdict

Except very few comic scenes, Jaffa fails to keep you hooked!!!

Story

A Lord Ganesh antique idol of value 10 crores from Padmanabhaswamy temple, Kerala gets stolen and transported to AP. Through Surya (Nikhil), a pick pocketer along with his couple of other friends the idol gets to Jeeva, a smuggling don. Meanwhile, Surya robs Journalist Swathi (Colors Swathi) new Vespa scooty and when she tries to identify it, he bluffs her and tries to impress. a goon Durga Prasad (Ravi Babu), from a Nigerian batch also tries to get hold of Ganesh idol by hook or crook and unknowingly, Swathi gets into the trap and Surya to get hold of the same idol sorts out things and this forms the crux.

Performances

Nikhil is energetic and performed well. Unlike his earlier films he gives a restrained performance which strikes chord and he improvised in the dialogue delivery.

Swathi looked cute and she delivers a neat performance. The lead pairs chemistry is a good watch.

Pooja Ramachandran is impressive. Ravi Babu, Jeeva suited their roles, Jogi Brothers shines in the initial scenes. Bhanu Avirineni cameo is quite good.

Technical Analysis

Musical scores by Sunny are ear-pleasing and refreshing while the background score is too good. Music composer Sunny proves that he is here to stay. Richard Prasad’s camera work is on top-class. Screenplay is gripping and stylish. Sudheer Varma direction is decent considering it’s his debut film. SR Sekhar's editing could have been crispier while the dialogues are neat. Production values are standard.

Analysis

The plot is interesting and debutant Sudheer Varma strikes with his taking, but due to the thin storyline, the film looking dragging at most parts with 125 minutes of runtime. He could have packaged it with few more aspects.

The first half runs with gripping screenplay and interesting narration despite few predictable scenes. With a decent first half with refreshing scenes and impressive visuals, the audience would expect more from the second half. However, the pace drops drastically in the latter half and drags a lot while the climax fizzles out. Despite being a medium budget film, Swamy Ra Ra is technically sound with much stylishness and music by Sunny is one of the assets of the film. The filmmakers have put in good efforts but Swamy Ra Ra could have been more appealing with a good pace.

Final Verdict

Swamy Ra Ra is decent crime-thriller with riveting first hour and a slow-paced second half. Commendable debut by Sudheer Varma.