ye maya chesave (2010)

Punchline: it's a classic!
Genre: Romance
Type: Straight
Banner: Indira Productions

Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Samantha, Krishnudu, Sanjay Swaroop, Surekha Vani

Music

: AR Rahman
Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa
Editing: Anthony
Lyrics: Anant Sreeram
Dialogues: Anuradha
Story - screenplay - director: Gowtam Vasudev Menon
Producer: Sanjay Swaroop
Release date: 26 February 2010

Theater watched:jagadamba ,vizag

Story

Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) is an engineering graduate who wants to pursue his career as a film director. Samantha is his neighbour and he falls in love with her at the very first sight. But there are two catches. One is that she is elder to him and the bigger hitch is that she is a Malayali Christian. He proposes to her and she slowly falls for his guts and his perseverance. Her strict father comes to know about it and settles her marriage. She loves him, but can’t hurt her entire family by marrying him. The rest of the story is all about how Karthik achieves his passion to become a film director and tastes success at the personal front.

Artists Performance

Naga Chaitanya: Naga Chaitanya is extremely natural in the role of Karthik. It is basically a conversational film with too many tight close-ups. It takes real confidence and acting prowess to do such scenes in an authoritative manner. Naga Chaitanya proves that he is a brilliant actor with his performance in this movie. His dialogue delivery and body language is highly authentic. You are not going to believe that this is his second film after watching his performance. It’s a top notch effort from him and he will do wonders in the future.

Samantha: Samantha’s debut is one of the best heroine debuts in Telugu cinema. This dusky beauty is highly charming and she is cool in acting as well. The minute expressions she gave spoke volumes about her. Lots of credit should go to director for etching her beautiful characterization. I absolutely loved the voice of the artist who dubbed her. She is the same one who dubbed the voice of Sameera Reddy in ‘Surya s/o Krishnan’. It’s husky and contemporary.

Others: Krishnudu is very good as hero’s friend. Sanjay Swaroop (producer and husband of Manjula) did the role of hero’s father and he suited it well. Puri Jagan played as himself for a few scenes. Trisha and Simbhu (who acted in the Tamil version of the same) did a cameo. All other actors are cast appropriately. Surekha Vani is very good.

Technical departments

Story: Men are simple and women are complex. When it comes to love, man proposes to a woman with plain heart and with no complications. Women, on the other hand make simple things complicated with their complex behaviour. Gowtam Menon has beautifully explored that point and penned a wonderful story of a simple guy who would do anything for love and a complex girl who keeps vacillating about taking decisions.

screenplay - direction: Screenplay of the movie is very good. The movie could end at any point after interval. It needs tremendous narrative skills and screenplay to make people get interested in the second half because the movie can end at the moment hero/heroine converge upon on marriage. I loved the love episodes between Surya and Sameera Reddy (train scene) in Surya s/o of Krishnan and wondered when he is going to make such a story into a full-leangth feature film and Gowtam Menon answered my wish with his next movie by filling it full of magical moments and sweet nothings. It’s a astonishing work by Gowtam Menon. You can’t separate a moment from the movie to be the best. This movie is like a seamless flow of visual poetry.

Other departments: Music by AR Rehman is awesome. Songs are extremely good and background score, rerecording and mixing is perfectly done. All songs are picturized extremely well. Cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa breath-taking. The choice of locations and camera work blended seamlessly. Dialogues by Anuradha are extremely natural and contemporary. Art direction by Rajeevan is superb. Editing my Anthony is flawless. Production values by Indira Productions are impeccable.

Analysis: I had never seen such a wonderful movie that deals with the straightforward nature of a man and complex nature of a woman so perfectly. Everybody must have gone through these moments in their lives and you are sure to get nostalgic watching some moments in this movie. The entire movie is excellent and extremely engaging except for 10 minutes (in second half from the breakup to the scene where other female proposes him). It takes guts and tremendous conviction makes a movie like Ye Maya Chesave from the director, producer and hero (It was Naga Chaitanya who set this combination up). All three of them should be appreciated for making this movie happen. Ye Maya Chesave movie should do extremely well in multiplexes and A centers. I wish/hope/want this movie to do well in B/C centers as well. This film has all the ingredients for a movie to remain as a timeless classic. Go and watch it!!

Sambho Siva Sambho review

Bellamkonda Suresh, who made many blockbusters with top stars like Balakrishna happened to watch Nadodigal, a Tamil film, and was impressed with the subject. The film needs at least three heroes and contacted Ravi Teja who also liked it. Both of them had decided to go for a remake of the film and they asked the director of the original film Samudra Khani. They also chose to rope in music director Sundar C Babu of the original again for this film. The film had lots of emotions, entertainment, action and friendship in its backdrop. Once again it was proved that any film would be a hit, if it has a good subject and a director who could deal with the story with a gripping screenplay...

Karunakar (Ravi Teja), Chandu (Siva Balaji) and Malli (Allari Naresh) are good friends. Of them Chandu is a little more educated and wants to establish a computer institute. His father is an ex-serviceman and is very friendly with him. Karunakar, who completes his graduation with history is trying his best to secure a government job. The reason behind this is that his maternal uncle (Tanikella Bharani) wanted to give his daughter Manemma (Priyamani) to a government employee. Malli is the son of a handloom weaver (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who had plans to leave for abroad to earn money. His father is a hen-pecked husband as he opts a second marriage after the death of Malli’s mother. Chandu is in love with Karunakar’s sister. All the three friends had lots of faith on love and is ready to do anything for friendship and love. All of them belonging to Rajahmundry. In this backdrop, Karuna’s friend, who is the son of an MP (Roja) reaches their place from Hyderabad and makes an attempt to commit suicide. After he was saved, the friends come to know that he made suicide bid as the elders were against to their love. He fell in love with a girl from Kurnool. Despite knowing fully well that their lives are in risk in the faction-ridden Kurnool, the three friends take the boy with them to Kurnool and get him married with the girl. In the process Chandu loses his leg, while Malli turns deaf due to an attack by the factionists. Following a complaint by the MP that they kidnapped her son, the three are arrested. Meanwhile, the factionists in order to take revenge kill the grandmother (Radhakumari) of Karunakar. Learning that Karunakar was arrested, his uncle refuses to marry Manemma with Karunakar and looks for another alliance. Karunakar silently walks away from Manemma’s life. At this juncture, the friends trio comes to know from another friend (Rao Ramesh) who gave shelter to the lovers couple that they both got separated in no time. The friends go to both the boy’s house and the girl’s house for a patch up but to no avail. Then they kidnap both the boy and girl and tell them that they were dead as they lost faith in love and they ditched the love. True friends will unite lovers and help their friend to win in their love. They continue their journey with the same theme even afterwards. PERFORMANCE: Ravi Teja gave a brilliant performance all through the film. Being the lead actor among other heroes, Ravi Teja has a little more lengthy character when compared with other two heroes. Ravi Teja too played very well and showed his power in action scenes as well as scenes which has the shades of sentiment, romance and friendship. Next comes Allari Naresh. In fact, Naresh dominated in performance among the other heroes. He gave an extraordinary and brilliant performance. Nandi awards will not be given to the artistes for remake films. If they break this rule, Naresh would definitely get another Nandi award for best supporting actor on the lines of Gamyam. He performed above the audiences expectations. Siva Balaji also gave an equal bright performance but he has very little scope on the screen. Priyamani once again proved that there is a good artiste in her. Her character was chirpy and chivalrous in the first half, while she played an altogether different character in the second half in a complete deglamorous role. Other artistes including Roja, Mukesh Rushi, Tanikella Bharani, Ahuti Prasad did justice to their characters. Comedy by Krishna Bhagawan and Sunil tickled the funny bone of the audiences.

AVATAR review

Synopsis:
The story happens in 22nd century. Human scientists discover that there is another planet called Pandora which contains rich minerals which are quite valuable. The army takes up the mission on going to Pandora and rob the minerals. But there is a problem. There is a sect of na’vis, a humanoid race are inhabitants of Pandora. They are quite tall with blue skin, golden eyes and a supple tile. There is not enough oxygen over there and human beings can’t survive. The scientists invent a new process (kind of Matrix process) of Avatar which makes select human beings look-alike of na’vis and sends them across to Pandora to get more information so that their military attack would be immaculate. Jake (Sam Worthington) is a marine who lost his legs in a warfare. His identical twin brother was groomed to be an Avatar, but dies. The Colonel promises his legs back (an expensive operation) if he cooperates to be an Avatar. After going to Pandora as an Avatar, Jake realises that the sect of na’vis are kind-hearted people who co-exist with the nature. He falls in love with the local princess Neyitiri (Zoe Saldana). Jake has orders to follow, But, he learns that Colonel is destroying good people for the sake of minerals. He decides to save Pandora from humans. The rest of the story is all about how he achieves it!

It transports you into a dream world:
James Cameron adds his tremendous creativity into imaginative 3D and VFX technology and shows us how passion for movies can create path-breaking movies like Avatar. The 3D effect, visual effects and the colors transport you into a new dream world you had never imagined. Avatar is supposed to be an alien movie and aliens are supposed to be unfamiliar (that’s why they are called aliens). The na’vis in this movie are excellent and they are familiar despite of blue skin, golden eyes and long tail. The na’vis bond with various animals and co-exist with them. The Pandora world is pleasant with its colors and is easy on eyes. The night vision of Pandora is a visual feast with pleasing florescence colors. There are floating mountains, flying dragons with butterfly colors, flies that look like jelly-fishes etc. The big tree is amazing.

Story with humanity and lots of moral values:
We see the story taking backseat in most of the technical extravaganzas. But Cameron made sure that he gives equal preference to storytelling in Avatar.

This film shows the greed of certain human beings who stop at nothing to achieve money/power. This film also shows the humanity of certain human beings who are willing to sacrifice everything to stop the destruction. Avatar is an eco-friendly movie.

A beautiful love story:
Princess of Pandora falling in love with a stranger from another place is an age-old and commercially successful formula. James Cameron has taken the magnificent canvas of the universe to narrate this love story.

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Review
my blog rating: 4/5 (people rating)
Punchline: all izz well
Banner: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions
Genre: Social
Cast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani
Music: Shantanu Moitra
Cinematography: C.K. Muraleedharan
Editing: Ranjeet Bahadur & Rajkumar Hirani
Story - dialogues: Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijit Joshi
Screenplay: Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijit Joshi
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Release date: 25 December 2009
Story
Rancho (Amir Khan), Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman Joshi) are classmates in a premiere engineering college in India. They are from different backgrounds (one ultra rich, one middle class and another poor economic background). Dean Viru (Boman Irani) is a follows a strict regime and believes in putting peer pressure on students. Rancho is of opinion that students should never chase grades, but they should love what they are doing. The rest of the story is all about how Rancho makes a difference to his friends and proves that the dean is wrong.