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Though the Telugu industry has always been infested with hot beauties like Ileana, Trisha, Nayantara and others, there has been a special place reserved for the voluptuous beauty Anushka. Dearly known as 'Sweety' to many, Anushka has been one of the most glamorous heroines on the Telugu screens.

So this babe has got some really enigmatic power that has stolen the hearts of many young men and it is heard that the Madhuranagar men's hostels, SV University hostel in Tirupathi, Nagarjuna University and even bachelor rooms are filled with hot Anushka posters on walls. Anushka has been the dream queen for many bachelors and with her oomph and appeal, she has surely walked into their hearts and has been giving them sleepless nights mercilessly. That's the power of Anushka and it looks like it will be a real long time before her impact actually fades down. Earlier, this slot was filled by Simran, but now Anushka took over

The hot and sexy beauty who is known for her sizzling performances on screen, Sangeeta finally married her long time beau singer Krish. The marriage was held at Tiruvannamalai and it was a simple affair.

Sangeetha and Krish were in love for a long time but they waited for approval from both sides and tied the knot finally on Sunday.

Sangeeta had cut down on her film assignments in the past one year. She is now currently acting in the Telugu film ‘Srimathi Kalyanam’.

The marriage was attended by Sridevi, Maheshwari, Prabhu, Bala, Prithvi Raj, Lakshmi Rai, Aishwarya, Mumtaz and others.

Movie: Srisailam
My Rating: 1.5/5
Banner: Image communications
Music: Sai
Cinematography: Adusumilli Vijay
Editing: Gautham Raju
Producer: Tadivaka Ramesh Naidu
Direction: K S Nageswar Rao
Cast: Srihari, Krishnamraju, Sajitha, Suhani, Ram Kiran, Yashpal Sharma, Dharmavarapu, Venu Madhav, Raksha, Chitram Sreenu, Naga Babu etc
Release Date: 31st Jan 2009

Movie Review:
The essence of patriotism and love for country has always stood the best bet when it comes to the audience so here is one man who is trying to weed out the problems of terrorism in his own style. A form of reverse engineering is being adopted here, so let us see how he does that.

Story:

Srisailam (Srihari) happens to be the bus driver of a college. But the real truth is, he is there to assassinate the vice chairman of the college, retired army man Krishnadevaraya (Krishnamraju) and he is sent by the dreaded terrorist Ashfaq Khan (Yashpal Sharma) from Kashmir. There is also a love track going on between Krishnadevaraya's son (Ram Kiran) and the pretty girl Likitha (Suhani) and she takes the help of Srisailam in winning the heart of the hero. On the onset, while this seems to be the plot, the real truth is Srisailam is no ordinary bus driver but an army major with the Indian army who has got a more deeper mission than just to kill the retired army man. What is that truth? Why Srisailam wants to bring about a change? All this forms the rest of the story.

Artists Performance:
Real Star Srihari who has come back as the lead hero could have looked at a better script and though his role had a lot of significance, it was not etched out well. Despite that, he has given a very good performance and came out with impressive effect.

Krishnamraju looked mature and elegant, Sajitha was there for the glamour, Suhani was a face in the crowd.

New face Ram Kiran brought disgust with his hair style although looked well in presenting a step in dance. He needs lot of grooming if he is serious to play lead roles. Right now, he has just a junior artiste look. Yashpal was not used to his complete caliber.

Venu Madhav was alright, Dharmavarapu's imitation of yesteryears actor Nagabhushanam failed to impress and also brought frustration. Raksha was regular. The others need no mention here.

Coming to other faculties, the director came up with a weak narration and poor presentation. The script had many loose ends and the sequence arrangement was horrendous leading to a lot of confusion and disarray of the story. The music is poor and the cinematography could not capture the locales of Kashmir to the extent required.

On a whole it is a vain attempt by the director who made several mistakes. How can Srihari's death be programmed in tune with the functioning of a bomb? How can a major kill a group of Pakistani army soldiers just by spitting liquor on them and firing? There are many faulty situations which cannot be explained here.

Final Analysis:
Though the cast had full ammunition in the form of Srihari, Yashpal Sharma, Krishnamraju on the serious front and Venu Madhav, Dharmavarapu on the lighter front, the film failed to capture any attention. There were no gripping scenes and the depth and gravity of the plot were missing.

On the other hand, the length of the movie made things more difficult for the audience along with the unwanted songs. Srihari has been riding high with his special character roles and he should have taken care in choosing the right kind of script since it was his movie as a lead and it has been quite a while since he scored hits as a successful actor in recent times. The film has got poor technical aspects, poor storyline and direction.

Movie: Bank
My Rating: 1/5
Music: Chinni Charan
Fights: Ram-Laxman
Dialogues: Arun Kumar
Story, screenplay & Direction: Arun Kumar
Producer: Amrutha Arun Kumar
Cast: Raghuvaran, Abbas, Jackie Shroff, Rahul Dev, Veda, Pooja Bharathi, Baby Bhavana, Sreedhar Rao etc
Release Date: 30 Jan 2009

Movie Review:

The title 'Bank' has been snuggling in film news from about 2-3 years. At last it's released today. The film received some attention due to Jackie Shroff and Raghuvaran in main star cast. The film was intended to make with the essence 'where there is money there is crime' (as told by director in the beginning of this movie). Let us see how it worked on the heads of audiences.

Story
The story runs around the robbery of a bank by the team of four men and a lady (Rahul Dev, Raghuvaran, Jackie Shroff, Abbas and Veda). They conspire and go successful in pilfering money from a bank but at the running-away point it happens that only Jackie Shroff takes the bag that contains Rs 100 Cr (!!! Denomination not known!!! Even though Rs 1000, it comes to 10000 bundles-in a small bag!!!). He gets hurt by the bullet of a security guard and hence he makes a successful attempt to run away from that place and throw the currency bag in a well. He also makes a map of that place writing on a paper with his blood. He takes the help of a chaiwala to handover that paper to his friends and escapes. Chaiwala does that and the team knows the whereabouts of that money after coming out from jail after 4 years. They go in search of that with the help of map, and find that a house got constructed on the Well. They attack the people in that house and dig the place where the Well was there earlier and takes out their bag. But who gets that bag at last, is the climax.

Artists Performance:
Everybody appeared to have done over action. Especially the histrionics of Raghuvaran are over dosed. The dubbing sounded for Jackie Shroff is louder and overboard. Veda's role as lady robber recalls Jyothi Rana in Pokiri. Abbas made an insipid presence but there is no other go for him. Pooja Bharathi acted in so-called action/thrill sequence in second half. Baby Bhavana has nothing big to act than crying. Model Sreedhar Rao appeared in guest role and a song.

Technically, the movie is very weak. The director failed to understand the degree of intensity to be shown while canning every scene. Even RR and BGS (Back Ground Score) didn't match the requirement.

Director should be blamed for entire dull-show. He has taken almost all the key departments story, dialogues and screenplay. Finally, the film appeared to have done by an amateur. It's a funny torture for audiences to watch this movie. Audiences find relief as the characters in the film die one by one. That was the disgust developed in this 2 hrs show.

The climax is so vague and weak that the film gets erased from the minds of people within a day, but the hangover of pain continues for another day.

Final Analysis:
This erratic story line tests the patience of audiences. It's almost made like a child-play but not as suspense thriller. There are many blunders in the movie that made people laugh. The director seems to have got inspired by a few Hollywood flicks and attempted this dreaming bigger thing. But it ended up as a dud. How the biggies like Jackie Shroff, Raghuvaran or Rahul Dev could agree to work for this film? That becomes a big question all together.

The film lacked in basic common sense. The terminology and the presentation of scenes are also disgusting for audiences viz: hijacking software (!!!), narco analysis injection (!!!). How a man can dig a Well with a small spade? How come the so-called narco-analysis injections make security guards unconscious but walk? There are myriad things that made people laugh at the movie. It goes without saying that the film got 'bank'rupted.

Sayameva Jayathe on 13 February
The release of Rajasekhar’s Satyameva Jayathe is shifted from 6 February to 13 February due to lack of availability of theaters. Since King film is completed 50 days on 12th February, lots of theaters will be available for screening other films from 13 February onwards. Siri Media is distributing Satyameva Jayathe.



NEW POST
Jayant’s film shoots in New Zealand
Director Jayant Paranji’s latest film Love 4 Ever is was extensively shot in New Zealand for 34 days. 75% of the shooting is complete so far. This film introduces Ranadeep and Mridula in the main leads. Jayanan Vencent is handling cinematography. Jayanth also produces this film on Laughing Waters Entertainment banner. Love 4 Ever is likely to release on 9 April.

Prabhas’s Darling
Prabhas’s next film in the direction of Karunakaran is titled as Darling. This film will be produced by Bhogavalli Prasad who produced Chatrapati in the past. The muhurat will be done in March and movie will go to floors from April onwards. It will be a different commercial film with love feel.


New POst
Good publicity for KIKK film
Nallamalupu Bujji is leaving no stone unturned for the publicity of his 5 February release KIKK. He got 300 RTC buses painted on three sides with KIKK publicity material. He has also printed hundreds of standees of KIKK and sent them across to prospective theaters. The four minute promo song shot exclusively for the film promotion is being aired in national music

channels like MTV and Channel V.

NTR’s future projects
NTR is currently doing a film in the direction of VV Vinayak and it is likely to release in summer of 2009. His next film will be produced by Nallamalupu Bujji and directed by Harish Shankar (Shock fame). NTR will be doing another film with Dil Raju as producer. This film will be directed by Vamsi Paidipalli (Munna fame)