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Thadaka Movie Review

• Director : Kishore Kumar Pardasani
• Producer : Bellamkonda Ganesh
• Music Director : S.Thaman
• Starring : Naga Chaitanya, Sunil, Tamannaah, Andrea Jeremiah
• Rating : 3.25/5

Story:

Nagababu a cop passes away on duty and his two kids are transformed into Siva Rama Krishna (Sunil) a timid natured guy who takes up his father’s job as police officer and Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) turns into a hard nut. Sivarama Krishna happens to get married to Nandu(Andrea Jeremiah). Pallavi (Tamanna) is her sister and she falls in love with Karthik.

Siva Rama takes help of Kathika to punish the villain Bagga(Ashutosh Rana) group, Siva Rama loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How Bagga reacts ? How these brothers tackle him? …. forms the story

Performances

Naga Chaitanya emerges as an action hero, his intensity , body language , his comedy timing has improved to be a complete star.

Sunil as an actor always gives his best in any kind of role , Here as sensitive and timid natured person ,audience could feel his earlier comedy touch and later he becomes a touch guy , this variation in his character is felt.

Tammana is a treat to watch , she looked very glamorous especially in beach song in transparent dresses. Andrea Jeremiah confined to songs.

Ashutosh Rana as a powerful villain , showed heights in villain-ism , Brahmandam Rama Prabha, Jaya Prakash Reddy managed laughs. Vennela Kishore comes NRI who comes to marry Pallavi is good.

Technical

Thanman’ music is good , could be better. BGM is very good and effective to elevate the scenes. Wilson’s cinematography is good. Goutham Raju’s editing could have been better. Screenplay is week in second half. Kanal Kannan’s fights are good

Analysis

Thadaka is a comeback film for Chaitu who is suffering with flops all these years, Director Dolly made his sincere efforts to add more commercial elements and the brother’s bonding makes it a complete commercial package for family audience. On screen chemistry between Thamana and Naga Chaitanya is really superb, The first 30 minutes of Brami’s comedy made audience to giggle in theatre. The major flaw is predictable story with  too much Violence, makes audience  bit uneasy to watch these action sequences and some extras like Naga Chaitanya runs and overtakes a speeding train. The first half is entertains, second half is just good with pace falling down a bit. Overall, Thadaka is a mass film with all commercial elements to be a hit film.

Verdict

Chaitu’s comeback film.

Review : Sukumarudu

Release date : 10 May 2013

Rating : 1.75/5

Director : G. Ashok

Producer : K. Venugopal

Music Director :Anoop Rubens

Starring : Aadi, Nisha Aggarwal, Ghattamaneni Krishna

Dialogue King Sai Kumar’s son ‘Aadi’ is all set to hit the screens with ‘Sukumarudu’. The movie is releasing today across the world and it has Nisha Aggarwal as the female lead opposite Aadi. Superstar Krishna and veteran actress Sharada will be seen in crucial roles in this movie. G.Ashok has directed this film and Venugopal is the producer. Let us see how this movie is.

Story :

The story of this film is similar to the recently released ‘Greeku Veerudu’. A selfish NRI who does not care about his relatives back in India, suddenly decides to come and seek their blessings once property comes into the equation.

Sukumar (Aadi) is a selfish and extremely money minded young fellow who is very successful in life. He however needs some urgent cash to kickstart his dream project. At precisely this point, he comes to know that an inheritance worth 150Crores is waiting for him in his village.

He decides to travel to the village and meet his grandmother Vandanamma (Sharada), a slightly cranky old lady who is revered by the villagers. Sukumar tries to emotionally blackmail her for the property.

But his plans keep getting thwarted by history, his uncle Rao Ramesh and others. A romantic track with Sankari (Nisha Aggarwal) also comes in during this time.

Will Sukumar succeed in his plans or will his evil schemes be detected by the villagers? That forms the story.

Plus Points:

Superstar Krishna garu has a neat and dignified presence, even if it is only for a few minutes. Veteran actress Sharada has done a nice job.

Rao Ramesh has tried his best to make things interesting. Aadi is ok in the dances and fights department, but he needs to really improve fast in portraying emotions.

Minus Points :

Screenplay of this movie is terrible. There is no logical flow in the proceedings and the whole film has a very jerky feel to it. The director has attempted to tackle various themes in the film – father and son sentiment, grandmother and grandson sentiment, a clever NRI coming back to reform his village etc. The problem is, none of the themes have been tackled properly.

There are gaping loopholes in the plot and many sequences have absolutely no logic. There is excessive melodrama and needless over action in emotional scenes.

The film is way too long. At a few minutes less than 3 hours, the length becomes unbearable when there is basically no story to narrate.

The comedy tracks fail to work as the writing is cliched and very poor. Despite the presence of so many talented comedy actors, the loud sequences end up irritating viewers.

The romantic track between Aadi and Nisha Aggarwal is very superficial and incomplete. Their screen chemistry is not very good.

The placement of songs is very poor and they act as major speed breakers.

Technical Aspects:

Cinematography of the film is quite mediocre. Editing is atrocious and as I said before, the film has a very jerky feel to it. Dialogues are very average.

Ashok Kumar’s direction is quite poor and leaves a lot to be desired. Production values are mediocre.

Anoop Rubens has provided ok music but the background score is too loud, like the rest of the film.

Verdict:

Sukumarudu is a film that is painfully long and poorly made. You can safely avoid the film.

Rating – 1.75/5

Greeku veerudu Movie Review

Cast: Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nayanatara, K. Vishwanath, Geetanjali, Meera Chopra, Kota Srinivas Rao, Brahmanandam, Sharath Babu, Naga Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Benarjee, Kovai Sarala, Sudha, M.S. Narayana, Ali, Venu Madhav, Srinivas Reddy, Raghu Babu, Kasinathuni Vishwanath, Giri, Vennela Kishore, Nagineedu, Bharath Reddy, Thagubothu Ramesh and others

Music: S.S. Thaman

Cinematography: Anil Bhandari

Art: S. Ravinder

Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh

Additional Writers: Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan

ScreenPlay: Hari

Dialogues: Dasaradh, Praveen Verma

Producer: D. Shiva Prasad Reddy

Story & Direction: Dasaradh

movie Rating: 2.75/5

Story:
Chandu(Nagarjuna) is an NRI and owns an event management company at USA. He is a practical, materialistic guy, who does not believe in love or relations. On the other hand Sandhya(Nayanatara) is a US based medico and a full time volunteer at Make A Wish organization. She is exactly opposite in nature to Chandu. Business wise, Chandu has a clash with P.R (Aashish Vidhyarthi) and that lands him in to legal, financial issues. These consequences and a few other developments lead Chandu to visit India and meet his grand father (K. Vishwanath). At the same time Sandhya, who is visiting India for social welfare work, befriends Chandu during the journey and they both get acquainted. At his native village the good and the bad with in Chandu begin to conflict with one another, because of various situations and also certain twists, in the plot, occur.
The process in which Chandu repents and understands the value of human relations in the companionship of Sandhya, his grand father and other family members forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Nagarjuna tried his best to contribute to the movie, but his inconsistent characterization caused a major damage. He looked very energetic in the introduction song and in terms of fitness and glamour he was no way inferior to the present day young heroes. It seems, at times Nag himself was confused of what to perform because of the director's amateurish narration. Nagarjuna tried a negative character too, this time, but was not up to the mark.
Nayanatara emoted well yet again and the pair of Nag - Nayan looked good on the screen. But her potential was not utilized properly.
'Kala Tapaswi' K. Vishwanath was the third most important character in the movie and he brought authenticity and grace to many scenes with his performance. Heroine Meera Chopra was seen as a friend of the protagonist, in a small yet important role. 
Among the comedy tracks only a few scenes involving Nagarjuna- Brahmanandam- M.S. Narayana generated laughs. All the remaining comedy scenes by Kovai Sarala, Jaya Prakash reddy, Brahmanandam and M.S. Narayana were not at all impressive. 
Senior actress Geetanjali, Kota Srinivas Rao, Naga Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Sharath Babu, Aashish Vidhyarthi, Sudha, Benarjee, Mahesh Babu's brother in law Sanjay, Supreeth, Giri, Venu Madhav, Srinivas Reddy, Vennela Kishore, Bharath Reddy, Thaagubothu Ramesh and many others were seen in minor roles. But after watching the movie except for Nagarjuna, Nayanatara and K Vishwanath, none of the other characters strike to the mind.

Technical Aspects:
Dasaradh, who made good family entertainers like Santosham and Mr Perfect before, failed completely as a director this time. He had no proper control on the movie's narration, despite of having multi- star cast and high budget. His direction was old fashioned and inconsistent.There's no proper story, screen play was ineffective and even by the end of second half one doesn't understand about what the director wants to convey. The influences of movies like Prematho Raa, Kalisundhaam Raa, Mr perfect, Old Missamma, Athadu, etc were clearly seen. The main conflict point was very weak and there was no proper reason, for the entire drama which was followed.

The way he handled the America, NRI related episodes were awkward and reflected the half knowledge of the director. His canning of the scenes, which dealt with the motives of the Hero, his repentance and reformation were unconvincing and this is a half cooked product from Dasaradh. The additional writing by Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan could not help and over all Greeku Veerudu appears like a late 1990s' verbose, 'moral preaching' kind of movie. But still the dialogues by Dasaradh and Pravin Verma were impressive and thought provoking. 

Music by Thaman was a big relief and he tried different melodious tunes with Greeku Veerudu. The BGM was very pleasant. The cinematography by Anil Bhandari was OK and the songs were picturised well. Marthand K. Venkatesh's editing could have been better, as it was obvious to the audience that Green Mat technology was used for many scenes, in the movie. Art work was routine and the budget given by the producer was wasted.

Bottom Line: Greeku Veerudu is about the realisation of a non- emotional person and his matured love story based in the family back drop. It may appeal to the Akkineni fans and family audience especially ladies and makes a one time watch for them. But to be frank it is better to avoid the movie and save some money and time.

movie Rating: 2.75/5