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‘Young Indians’ group of Indian Business School organized a two day National Conference 2009 which commenced on 14th February, Saturday. The inaugural day witnessed a big list of experts and celebrities from different areas including Social rights forum, TV, Cinema, Civil Services, Sports, and so on… The prominent people addressed the young crowd and expressed their views about the changes which are mandatory to take place within 15 years for a brighter future.

On behalf of cinema industry, Ram Charan Tej, during the function addressed the congregation. The young star during the inspiring speech said, “In present days, talented persons are getting recognized in film industry. Music composer AR Rahman has now attained a global recognition and is making India proud. Albeit our films are made for entertainment, audiences have embraced creative and motivating films like ‘Chak De India’ and ‘Tare Zameen Par’ which has no star promotion nor commercialism. It reflects audiences matured taste for entertainment and with the 15 years to come, our talents will sure shine bright going places worldwide.”

‘Young Indians’ group of Indian Business School organized a two day National Conference 2009 which commenced on 14th February, Saturday. The inaugural day witnessed a big list of experts and celebrities from different areas including Social rights forum, TV, Cinema, Civil Services, Sports, and so on… The prominent people addressed the young crowd and expressed their views about the changes which are mandatory to take place within 15 years for a brighter future.

On behalf of cinema industry, Ram Charan Tej, during the function addressed the congregation. The young star during the inspiring speech said, “In present days, talented persons are getting recognized in film industry. Music composer AR Rahman has now attained a global recognition and is making India proud. Albeit our films are made for entertainment, audiences have embraced creative and motivating films like ‘Chak De India’ and ‘Tare Zameen Par’ which has no star promotion nor commercialism. It reflects audiences matured taste for entertainment and with the 15 years to come, our talents will sure shine bright going places worldwide.”

Starring Varun Sandesh of ‘Kotha Bangaru Lokam’ and Vimala Raman in the lead cast, ‘Evaraina Epudaina’ directed by Marthand K Shankar has completed filming the talkie portions and songs are now being canned. Producers M. Saravanan and MS Guhan of the prestigious production house AVM Productions are making the film.

The crux of the film is based on an interesting plot that will be a treat for the youngsters. It will be a sensible entertainer sans any masala elements. On the whole, the film is made to cater to the family audience in entirety, according to producer Saravanan.

The think-tank behind AVM Productions being in the production industry for over 75 years is now planning to make many more films in Telugu following ‘Evaraina Epudaina’. The film is slated for a release in the month of March.

Mani Sharma has composed the music for the lyrics penned by Veturi, Vennelakanti, Bhaskar Bhatla, Rehman and Krishna Chaithanya.

Puri Jagannath, after completing 'Neninthe', which received mixed reviews starring Ravi Teja, is working for a new film starring Prabhas in the lead. 'Bujjigadu' (2007) was the last film in Prabhas – Puri combination and this will be the duo's comeback movie. The film is a part of the film factory initiated by Adithya Ram on Aditya Movies banner and presented by Puri Jagannath.

Kangana Ranaut, the budding bollywood star and size zero girl, will be playing the heroine for the first time in Telugu. She stepped into Hindi with 'Gangster' directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The critically acclaimed film gave her a big break in her career also winning her the Filmfare award for Best Female Debutante. She enacted in some of the best scripted films like 'Woh Lamhe', 'Life in a Metro' and 'Fashion'.

She forayed into Tamil cinema with 'Dhaam Dhoom' directed by late Jeeva. Now, its time for the riveting actress to adorn Telugu screens and Jagannath had taken up the job of bringing her to Tollywood.

Ramcharan Teja on the verge of completing his ongoing project has signed for a new film to be directed by Bhaskar. Nagababu will produce the film on Anjana Productions which will go to the floors on 15th March.

Ramcharan is now working for SS Rajamouli's 'Magadheera' starring Kajal Agarwal as heroine. After rendering a blockbuster hit 'Ghajini', Allu Arvind is making this project on a high budget on Geetha Arts banner. Production work for this film is nearing completion and is slated for a summer release this year.

He will start for his latest film once the makers finalize the cast and crew. Further details about the film are awaited.

Mahesh Babu, the prince of Tollywood is gearing up to entertain his ardent fans with the upcoming ‘Varudu’. Trivikram Srinivas’s ‘Athadu’ was a super hit for Mahesh which was a slick, action entertainer in pure prince style. Followed by the outstanding technical wonder, the duo is all set to ‘GO’ after a long wait, on 18th with this new film.

Singanamala Ramesh will be producing the film on a high caliber to cope up with Mahesh Babu’s image on Kanakarathna Movies banner. The shooting is being said to kick on from Hyderabad and later move on to Rajasthan for a lengthy schedule.

Well acquainted news is Parvathi Melton shares screen space with Mahesh. Trivial scoop is Mahesh Babu’s wife Namratha will design the costumes for the heroine and look after the make-up for the artists. As it has been officially confirmed now, everyone eagerly awaits ‘Varudu’ to begin shooting and arrive in time to appease the starved fans of Mahesh Babu

Punchline: superstar meets humble barber Banner: Red Chillies Entertainment Genre: Drama Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Irfan Khan & Lara Dutta Music: Pritam Background music: Sandeep Chowta Cinematography: V Manikanandan Editor: Arun Kumar Dialogues: Manisha Korde Screenplay: Priyadarshan & Mushtaq Sheikh Direction: Priyadarshan Producers: Gauri Khan Release date: 13 Feb 2009

Review

Story Billu (Irfan Khan) is a humble barber from a remote village in Northern India. Sahir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) is a bollywood superstar. The unit of Sahir Khan's latest film visits the village of Billu for a long schedule. The village men find out that Sahir Khan is the childhood friend of Billu and go to Billu to take them to meet Sahir. Being a shy and honest guy, Billu fears that Sahir might have become materialistic and forgot all the good times they had together as youth. The rest of the story is all about whether Sahir remembers Billu or not. Actors: Irfan Khan is excellent as Billu – an honest human being. Shahrukh Khan plays a role that is close to his real life and he brings in much desired glamour. Lara Dutta is adequate as poor housewife. However, her sophisticated looks do dominate the simplicity and naivety needed for such a role. Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone did item songs in this film. Deepika Padukone is absolutely hot. The regulars of Priyadarshan movies – Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Om Puri, Manoj Joshi are also present. Technical departments: Story: Billu Barber is a remake of Malayalam blockbuster which was remade into Telugu (Kathanayakudu) and Tamil (Kuselan). The story is based on the relationship of Lord Srikrishna and his poor friend Kuchela. Direction of the film is just average. Screenplay should have been better. The moment Billoo communicates with Sahir, the movie would be over. The entire film is woven using a screenplay that avoids the meeting of these two people till climax. The events used for that purpose should have been more gripping. Another disturbing thing about the film is the unnecessary scenes and songs involving Shahrukh Khan. Priyadarshan criticized the screenplay of Kuselan saying that too much of importance is given to Rajnikant in Telugu/Tamil versions. But Priyadardhan too didn't do any better in Hindi version. The trademark Priyadarshan comedy is missing in this film. The only honest moment I saw in this movie was Irfan Khan's reaction when his wife doubts him if he knows the superstar. Other technical departments: Music by Pritam is mediocre with heard-before tunes. Dialogues are adequate. Photography of the film is excellent. The locations used for this film are extraordinary with water falls, hills and lots of greenery. Art direction is very good. Dialogues are neat. Editing should have been crisper. Analysis: This movie belongs to Irfan Khan. Being a star and the producer Shahrukh Khan, he took more footage than necessary in the film. All the scenes involving Irfan Khan look natural and scenes of Shahrukh Khan are artificial. The climax of the film is heart-touching as it deals with humanity and friendship. It is becoming routine to have 3-4 heroines to come and dance in Sharukh Khan movies (Om Shanti Om, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Billu Barber). On a whole, Billu Barber disappoints as it is neither a commercial film nor an art film.

Ramcharan Teja after Chirutha coming as Magadheera in the direction of Rajamouli . Kajal Agarwal is the female lead.Ace producer Allu Arvind who got huge money with jalsa and Ghazini with aamir khan is making this film on his Geetha Arts banner. The story will be based on re-birth. How the love between lead pair gets succeed in the present life whose love gets fail in the previous life is the basic plot.The audio of the film is planned to be released in the first week of March. Supreme Music acquired the audio and distribution rights for this film.

Movie: Siddham
My Rating: 3/5
Banner: Shreya Productions
Music: Amar Mohale
Cinematography: Bharani K Dharan
Screenplay, Stunts $ Direction: JD Chakri
Editing: Bhanodaya
Producer: Kiran Kumar Koneru
Cast: Jagapati Babu, Sindhu Menon, Kota Prasad, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Subbaraju, Narsing Yadav, Siva Prasad etc
Release Date: 12th Feb 2009

Review

Story

Daya (Jagapati Babu) is a sincere cop and an encounter specialist. He handles his job professionally and does not hold anything personal. Salim (Kota Prasad) is his assistant who is greedy about increasing the encounters count so that he could get more publicity from the media. The city commissioner (Kota) is retired and a new commissioner takes the charge. The new commissioner has his own agenda and he discourages Daya from performing his duty in fair manner. The rest of the story is all about how Daya takes law into his hands and cleans up the mafia gang in his own indomitable style.

Artists Performance:

Jagapati Babu: Though this character is donned by Nana Patekar in Hindi, Jagapati Babu made sure that he interprets the character well enough to give it his own shape with subtle yet strong body language. You will see a new Jagapati Babu in this film and these kinds of characters give actors immense job satisfaction.

Kota Prasad (son of Kota Sreenivasa Rao) did a fine role in this film and he has it in him to become a fine actor if he chooses the roles well. His work in this film is very good. Sindhu Menon is adequate as the housewife. Kota Srinivasa Rao is perfect as a retired commissioner who supports hero. It is a different role for Narsing Yadav. The guy who did the role of Akhil is competent. Subbaraju did a small yet significant role. Mukul Dev did the role of Dubai based mafia don.

Technical Departments:

This film is a remake of Hindi film 'Ab Tak Chappan'. Hence the story and screenplay is adapted from the original. Most of shot compositions are also similar. But it is very difficult to create a soul in such a serious film without any commercial padding. As a director JD Chakri succeeded in narrating the film in an interesting way. He created a constant tone to the film and did not miss it throughout the film. Though he handled the film efficiently, we could see the tempo of the film going down for 15 minutes before the climax and 15 minutes before the interval. He did not show the scene of hero being captured by cops in a proper way towards climax.

Background music is nice and it is mostly taken from the tracks of Ab Tak Chappan background music. Cinematography by Bharani K Dharan is good. However, the director has used some footage from Ab Tak Chappan film for Mumbai dock episode. Dialogues of the film are realistic. But you need to carefully follow the dialogues because the there is no cinematic dramatization in the modulation and delivery of dialogues. Like in Hindi mafia flicks, this film too has many curse words. Editing is adequate. Producer Kiran should be appreciated for making such a serious film sans any commercial elements.

Final Analysis:

Siddham is a remake of Hindi film Ab Tak Chappan. The commercial elements in this film are subtle. It is like the story of Ankusam film told in a much realistic way. If Ankusam film had intense histrionics and compelling cinematic drama, Siddham film has subtlety and finesse to it. These kinds of films were never made in Telugu. Hence the common movie lovers of AP are not used to such kind of films. It is a decent effort by JD Chakravarthy and Jagapati Babu to make a film like Siddham. We have to wait and see how the regular movie lovers take this film.


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The promos of the film KIKK have a very obsessed Sidharth planting a passionate kiss on a very raunchy Tamannaah, for some reason this picture has been widely publicized by the producers.

Usually for a coochy-coochy film with romantic elements such blatant pictures are not used publicity, such films usually have a sweet romantic scenes of the lead pair holding hands or looking coyly into each others eyes, but then why the use of such a passionate picture to promote this film?

No one has the answer to this question, but the kiss sure is sexiting and inviting, sure it has the young audiences lured into the theaters.

Come on go and watch that in theaters.

The Kannada super hit film ‘Bindas’ starring Puneeth Rajkumar and Hansika of ‘Maska’, is being dubbed in Telugu under the title ‘Pandugadu’. Rajendra Babu has directed the film produced by J. Balaraju on Santhosh Productions banner and presented by Smt. J. Bhavani.

The audio launch function was held on 9th February evening at Film Nagar Cultural Club. Supreme Music distributes and holds the music rights. Dr. D. Ramanaidu unveiled the CD and presented it to DVS Raju. KS Rama Rao inaugurated the cassettes and Kaja Suryanarayana received the same.

After the function, producer Balaraju spoke to the press about the film.

Based on a gripping plot, the story is about the encounter between the police and a mafia gang. Popular Kannada star and son of superstar Rajkumar, Puneeth plays the lead role and this film will bring him recognition among Telugu audience. Hansika is a known hero in Tollywood and her glamour will woo the youngsters. All the songs were canned in international locations. Suma Raganath is in a prominent character and the climax filmed for 20 days at Golconda Fort in Hyderabad will be enthralling.

Music director Guru Kiran has set the tunes for the lyrics penned by Ananth Sriram, Rajendra and RamMurthy. Ravi Varma, Praveen, Vandematharam Srinivas and Said Sivani have voiced the songs. DTS mixing has been carried out in Rama Naidu Studios. Once we complete the censor works, the film will get released by the end of February.

Other important cast of the film includes Suman, Nazar, Rahul Dev, Vanitha, Suma Ranganath and others

Vaishnavi Cinema is producing a high budget film starring Balarkrishna and Priyamani in the main cast. Debutant director Mahadev, an erstwhile associate of SS Rajamouli is directing the film produced by Sivalenka Krishna Prasad of 'Adithya 369' and 'Vamshanikokkadu'.

Balakrishna was busy on a tour campaigning for TDP all over Andhra Pradesh. Recently, he completed the road show and resumed shooting on Monday. Important scenes were filmed in sets constructed at Annapurna Studios. The lead cast of the film along with other important artists was featured in the scenes.

In this current ongoing schedule, the end scenes will also be canned before the end date of 28th February. With the sequential portions done, songs will be filmed in March in abroad locations

The maker of blockbusters hits with Chiranjeevi, popular director A. Kodandarami Reddy is presently making the film ‘Punnami Nagu’. Starring Rajiv Kanakala and Mumaith Khan, G.Vijaykumar Goud is producing the film which is in postproduction.

Although the title 'Punnami Nagu' reminds us of earlier Chiranjeevi's film, this film is a new plot different from the classic movie. Riveting actress Mumaith Khan’s dance and looks will bring in the audience, according to the makers.

Other important cast includes MS Narayana, Nalini, Suhasini, Vinod Kumar, Nilalgal Ravi and Adithya Om. Yendamuri Veerendranath has written the story and G. Maheshwar Reddy presents the film. Dialogues are by Veligonda Srinivas and music is composed by SA Rajkumar.

At present, the dubbing along with editing and re-recording is being carried out in the studio. Audio will be launched soon and the movie will be released in the month of March.

The maker of ‘Ghajini’, Allu Arvind is elated by the blockbuster hit of his Bollywood venture and is keen to make a change in South Indian Cinema. He also said that the rules here should be recreated to favor a global reach.

In the first step, Geetha Arts production ‘Magadheera’ starring Ram Charan Teja and Kajal Agarwal will be dubbed and released in both Tamil and Malayalam. Made on a high budget, the film is an action entertainer to suit audience of all classes. Even though Ram Charan is a new entrant into the languages, he is determined to take a dip and find out how far his lucky charm might work out.

The gigantic sets erected at Ramoji Film City for ‘Magadheera’ is the hot topic in tinsel town. The distributors are betting high even before the first copy is ready. Based on the plot of re-incarnation, director SS Rajamouli is churning out one more entertaining package which is slated for summer release this April. Music composed by MM Keeravani will most probably be released in the first week of March.

Starring Nithin and Ileana in the lead cast, the yet to be named film is directed by Paruchuri Murali. G. Venkata Ramana is producing the film on Sri Spectra Media Creations banner. The shooting is undergoing in a rapid pace and about forty percent has been completed so far.

The upcoming schedule beings on 1st March and will be continued till 3rd April, in the locales of Tunisia and Dubai. Reportedly, about ninety percent of the film will be done during this schedule.

Director Murali sharing his views, said, “Nithin has been taking special care and working hard for every scene of this film. Nithin and Ileana share a good rapport which is evident on screen in the romantic scenes. The cast and crew working for this film fit the need perfectly. They are working together to bring out a quality product. This film will be on a different stage set from my earlier ‘Nee Sneham’, ‘Pedababu’, ‘Andhrudu’ and will be more entertainment oriented.”

Producer G. Venkata Ramana is confident that the Nithin and Ileana’s first time on screen will sure be a successful outing.

Mani Sharma has composed the musical score and cinematography is handled by Surendar Reddy. Ramesh-Gopi have written the dialogues and G. Sundaramayya presents the film.