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Ghajini - Aamir's 'mementoes' to Bollywood

And at the end of this year, there's a bedazing blockbuster in Indian Box office. Here comes our maestro of perfection swaying on with a different genre from his previous ventures. Merely, producers wouldn't have considered Ghajini as an 'Empaling Speculation' for enormous reasons. Well, when you've South India's top-charting Director, Bollywood's superstar, Musical Maestro and versatile technicians teaming up, undoubtedly results are off grandeur. On the buttons, 'Ghajini' is so tremendous on all panoramas of narration and technical aspects. The film had raised had everyone's expectations across far-flung corners as Tamil and its Telugu dubbed version had walloping critical acclaims.

So, what's special about Aamir's Ghajini? Thank God! It isn't a copycat of Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' and carries more divergence from Tamil version in latter half. Well, even for those who had soundly watched Tamil version, they're gonna experience an enhanced spirit on emotions. Of course, tho' it's an action-packed thriller, emotions are boundless….

Perhaps, Murugadoss's gripping motif, script and polished screenplay shores on corking grounds with Aamir's more have-to doe with on all vistas. Fine! Let's pretermit Direction and Music, just pick out editing… Mr. Perfectionist's touch is more revealing on Antony's editing. It's more illustrious with each and every cut in 'Bekha'.

Tales centering on amnesias aren't something new in Bollywood, but a unique of its type 'Short Term Memory Loss – An individual losing out his memory for every 15mins' surmounted everyone's expectations. And what else? Aamir's eight-packs had its turn of grabbing everyone's outlooks prior to film's release.

The film isn't as complicated as Memento. Ghajini is a head-spinning venture of Sanjay Sanghania (Aamir Khan) who has determined to avenge for his girlfriend Kalpana's (Asin) death. Protagonist seeking revenge for his ladylove's death; its so clichéd, isn't? Nevertheless, his greatest stumbling block is that his memory loses every bit of details for every 15mins. And what doesn't get bleached from his deep memory is death of Kalpana and the name 'Ghajini' (Pradeep Rawat) who murdered her. Again, the biggest obstruction is that Sanjay doesn't remember antagonist's identity.

With a Polaroid camera, a cell phone in his hands and alarms beeping on every 15th minute, Sanjay has to tread settling his scores.

Screenplay is narrated on two separate chronicles; present life and flashback sequences of Sanjay. It's so gripping that you would ne'er feel restless or look at your watches throughout the complete show of 180mins. Except, 45mins of next-to-last sequences, there isn't any slight changes from original version and characterizations have been marvelously depicted.

'Wordlessly stupendous' – Aamir Khan or Mr. Perfectionist, whatever you like to call him, he is simply brilliant. Just note this down, unlike his previous flicks 'Rang De Basanthi', 'Fanaa' and 'Taare Zameen Par'; he has nothing do with dialogues. Perhaps, it's Asin, Jiah Khan and Pradeep Rawat who jump on uttering more words. For everyone, who were fond of this line 'Actions Speaks More than Words', you'll witness it with Aamir Khan. He emotes spectacularly with his facial expressions and gestures. For instances, watch him out in 'Bekha' where he spells the most minute expressions with brightness. While taking revenge, it's not the furiousness that's disclosed on his face, but the outburst of emotions for his lost love.

Of course, Asin deliver an over-the-top performance on every scene. She doesn't strain a lot but creates a deep impact on everyone with her role. She's got a great time here in Bollywood and she will rock with her well-brought-up show.

Don't expect a lot from Jiah Khan, if you were spellbound with her performance in 'Nishabd'. It's about doing justice to her role and her well-enhanced show is evident in penultimate scenes. She has to thank Murugadoss for depicting her so exquisitely.

Pradeep Rawat takes on with a decent role and his portrayal is as powerful as his characterization is so powerful than Aamir.

A.R. Murugadoss – He crowns each of his films with 'Success' and his debut directorial in Bollywood isn't an elision. With a trenchant script and screenplay, he reveals of a detailed work on every frame and shot. Working with Aamir Khan, should've made him fine-tuning his before-now version that yields his laurels from universal audiences. A hunky-dory of its kind, you'll witness a vivid groundwork put forth by the auteur, especially a fine-ending unlike Tamil version. As you out step out of theatres, it's all about good shades of protagonist arresting your senses and not about hero's act of vengeance filled with bloodsheds.

A.R. Rahman with his tranfixing tunes steals the show. In particular, as everyone starts heeding to Mandolin's interlude on 'Guzarish', its claps, hails and whistles. Scenarios persist with 'Bekha' and getting to watch Aamir's acts and 6 get-ups, it's an appreciably innovative. 'Kaisa Mujhe' is sure to remain along with these two numbers on the charts of evergreen tunes.

Ravi K Chandran's cinematography requires special mention. Don't miss his stylish shots on exotic locations of 'Guzarish'. A grand round of applause for Location Manager for zeroing down an unforeseen never-never land. Costumes are so convincing and it's so nice to see Asin on finest looks in 'Aye Bachu'.

A matured touch of 'cuts' by Antony brightens up visual quality. Be it exposing Aamir's physiques or catching up for the mood of 'fast running notes in Bekha', he deserves best credits.

The film has whole lot 'A-FACTORS' of Aamir, A.R. Murugadoss, A.R. Rahman and Allu Aravind. Naturally, it's A-ONE quality rendered on their roles.

On the whole, Ghajini ends this year with a great Dhamaka for all universal audiences. For those who watched this year's releases with tentative thoughts, can head for Ghajini to witness 'The best film of this year'. For sure, all Khans, Chopras and Kumars should be eyeing on Murugadoss now while rest of the cast-crew would witness a great new dawn in Bollywood for this New Year.

Verdict: Remember this – It's a blockbuster

Rating : ****

Film: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

Cast: Imran Khan, Genelia D’Souza, Abbas Tyrewala, Naseruddin Shah, Sohail Khan, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal

Director: Abbas Tyrewala

There is a girl and there is a boy. Both are extremely different yet are extremely close to each other. Girl is rich, tongue-in-cheek, dominant and aggressive while the boy has had a middle class upbringing and is submissive, soft-spoken and calm. Opposites attract and so do they but not as lovers, as friends! So when do they realize its love?

Abbas Tyrewala definitely comes up with a winner in the form of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. He tells us an ordinary love story, whose theme is Pyaar Dosti Hai (Love is friendship)… a la Kuch Kuch Hota Hai… however presents it in a much mature fashion than its glorious predecessor. He tackles this confused romantic comedy with élan and impresses you with his subtlety in terms of direction. Not a single scene, actor is overly dramatic. The characters are real, identifiable and extremely cute!

Jai (Imran) and Aditi (Genelia) are ‘best friends’ and are extremely possessive of each other but are definitely not in love. They long for each other’s company and still wonder why close friends and parents believe that they are in love! After giving a deep thought both realize its high time they find themselves a special someone too since one cant spend a lifetime with a best friend! However when they do find their respective ‘special someone’ they realize love is not about finding a perfect someone, it’s about feeling perfectly happy with an imperfect partner.

The film is definitely not flawless. There are rough cuts here and there, especially in terms of editing. The film doesn’t have a great beginning but it picks up as it nears the interval, however again slows down in the climax! The pace keeps fluctuating, which at times distracts you, and makes you fidget in your seat. The story too has nothing new to offer.
It is the casting of the film that saves it from being an average just another youth film.
Abbas’s wife Pakhi deserves a standing ovation for her fantastic casting, as it is the choice of actors in the film that makes it so likeable! All the youngsters are understated, thus highly effective. Rotlu, Bombs, Jiggy, Mau (Genelia) and Ratz (Imran)… the nicknames of the characters make you doubt their likeability initially but as the film progresses, each character grows on you and you start becoming a part of the chirpy cute – just out of college gang!

Imran gets a tailor made role for him, as his petite personality and casual attitude makes him fit the bill of Jai perfectly. He struggles with his expressions initially as gets stuck with one ‘surprised raised eye brows’ expression but gets better later on. Genelia overshadows Imran big time. She looks extremely fresh and lights up the screen with her presence. Prateik Babbar, Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak come up with brilliant performances and provide you with all the light moments in the film. Sohail and Arbaaz Khan too tickle your funny bone with their cameos. Imran’s girlfriend Avantika too makes a special appearance in the film. Watch out for her in a disco sitting next to Imran.

Fashion designer Ashley Rebello deserves a special mention as he dresses Imran and Genelia as per their age and makes them look flawless.

Performances:
Coming to acting, every character has performed well enough.
Debutant Imran looks cool and acting is admirable.
I am not too much in favour of genelia but still she was good in the movie...
It's a love story we all have seen earlier as well. But Abbas Tyrewala made it in such a way that movie looks fresh and touching.

Music: was as expected and well picturized. Thanks to Rehman. Imran would surely notch up a hit with this debut. The movie will surely have a decent opening.

JTYJN definitely deserves a watch… and not just for Imran.

Rating : 8/10
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Story:

Chandu (Ram) is studying his final year engineering at Bellary. He is son of Tanikella Bharani who is brother of Nazar. Nazar is the head of united family having 3 brothers and a sister Rajitha. Chandu helps to elope his cousin who is daughter of Chandramohan and Rajitha. This irritates Nazar's family and they don't want to see his face. Chandu returns back to Bellary and finishes his engineering. One of Chandu's friend fall in love and the lover's father arranges her marriage with another person. This friend asks Chandu to help him in his marriage.Chandu decides to bring the bridegroom from the marriage hall but Chandu's gang mistakenly went to another marriage hall and helps Genelia to escape out of that marriage.

Genelia is a daughter of factionist and doesn't want to have marriage. After some interesting chases and action sequences Chandu helps her from out of danger and asks her to enter into his family as an orphan sent by their family friend. There she wins the heart of the family and the family decides to accept her as their family member and want to tie her knot with Chandu. Here the story enters into an interesting situation. Genelia is identified by her father's gang and they took her to their place. We need to watch the rest of the movie to know how Chandu wins over these action groups and wins the heart of Genelia.


Artists Performance:

Ready has perfect casting. Ram is very natural, charming and elegant. He did both action sequences and the comedy scenes very well. Genelia steals the show with her excellent performance. She is like an angel with lot of purity. Nazar is at his best in this role that demands extraordinary performance. Sunil has done a superb comedy role. His expressions as mada type character is so hillareous. Kota is very good in his role. Comedy by M.S.Narayana and Brhmanandam is extraordinary.


Technical Departments:

Srinu Vytla proved him self that he can handle both action and comedy very well. Dailogues by Gopi-Mohan and Kona Venkat are funny and catchy. There is lot of freshness in the film. Screenplay of the film is tight. Direction is exceptionally good. Music by Devisri Prasad is very good and the picturization of the second song "Ayyo ayyo daanayya" is very good. Production values by Sravanthi movies is so rich. Sravanthi Ravi Kishore did a marvellous job in delivering the movie on time by coordinating many charactor artists and we can expect this film can be another Nuvve Kavali for Sravanthi Banner. Camera by Hari Anumolu and Editing by Srikar Prasad are commendable.


Highlights of the movie:

Comedy scene by M S Narayana when he comes to Nazar House.
Chasing scenes in the forest.
When Genelia tells Nazar that she broke his momento.

First half of the film is excellent. Second half is even better. The assets of this film are director Srinu Vytla, Ram, Brahmanandam and Genelia. It is a full length entertainer and a family can watch the film with kids happily.

Rating: 3.8/5
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The story starts with an incident taking place in 12th century during the rule of the Chozha dynasty when Hindus were divided into Saivites and Vaishnavites. Rangarajan Nambi (Avatar No.1) is a loyal disciple of Ramanuja Azhwar. King Kulothunga (Napolean - what a fantastic performance!), a follower of Lord Siva, compels Nambi to change his religious beliefs and worship Lord Siva instead of Lord Vishnu but Nambi refuses. The king then orders for the immersion of the statue of Lord Ranganatha along with Nambi into the sea.

After this meaningless first avatar, the movie shifts to the present scientific world. Govind (Avatar No.2), an American scientist invents a dangerous bio weapon in his lab but wants to destroy the same after realizing its dangerous consequences. But the US Govt and scientists don't allow him to do that. One fine day, Govind runs away from the lab with the bio weapon but Fletcher (Avatar No.3), a former CIA officer turned villian, chases him to get the weapon back to destroy other countries.

The weapon is mistakenly sent to an Indian address by courier where a 95 year old lady (Avatar No.4) receives the parcel. Govind immediately rushes to India and traces down the address. He is followed by Fletcher who is accompanied by his prostitute cum translator (Mallika Sherawat). The old lady refuses to give the weapon to them without understanding the danger it could cause and puts it inside a statue of Lord Vishnu.

The scientist captures the statue and starts running with it pulling Asin close relative of the old lady, along with him. Fletcher chases him till the end of the film. A foolish police officer Balram Naidu (Avatar No.5) too is in the race always chasing both these characters.

In between a Punjabi singer (Avatar No.5), US President George Bush ( Avatar No.6), a tall Muslim ( Avatar No.7), a martial arts trainer ( Avatar No.8) and a Southern district resident Annachi ( Avatar No.9) comes, does something and disappears.

Finally the tsunami comes to the rescue of the Scientist and destroys the weapon along with drowning Fletcher . The statue of Lord Rangaraja which was immersed in the sea in 12th century also appears on the shore after the tsunami.

What did Kamal Hassan really want to convey? Lord Ranganatha, the almighty who is sleeping inside the sea for centuries, finally sends a tsunami to destroy the bio weapon along with the bad guy. No doubt, Dasavatharam is really an average movie with a poor plot and characterization that fails in most of the departments and fails to attract the viewers.

What is the necessity or compulsion of portraying Kamal in 10 different get ups?To create some mindless hype or register it as a record in the Industry? Highly idiotic! Particularly the role of Punjabi Singer, Muslim tall man Kalifullah Khan, Annachi and Japanese martial arts trainer unnecessarily intervene in the flow of story.

Apart from Kamal, Asin plays dual roles for the first time but nothing is special in any of her get ups. Her performance is also not par excellence. Jayapradha appears in few scenes and does well in them. Nothing is special in Himesh Reshammiya's songs or Devi Sri Prasad's background score. Ravi Varman unnecessarily lifts the camera to top angle and shakes even inside a house.

Technically the film is far superior to any other Tamil movie in some scenes, particularly in the tsunami climax. The special effects of Jennie in the last 15 minutes simply rocks. Also the body language of Japanese Kamal is simply excellent. Watch this movie to see Kamal in 10 different avatars. But is it really enough to make a fan to watch a film? This is a big question stand before Kamal fans those known as the lovers of good movies like sensational Mahanadhi or Kuruthipunal!

Film: SARKAR RAJ
Rating: 3/5
Banner: K Sera Sera & Adlabs Films Ltd
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Govind Namdeo, Tanisha Mukherjee, Victor Banerjee, Supriya Pathak, Sayaji Shinde, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Upyendra Limaye, Rajesh Shringapure and others
Art: Sunil Nigvekar
Action: Allan Ameen
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Editor: Amit Parmar & Nipun Ashok Gupta
Written By: Prashanth Pandey
Background Score: Amar Mohile
Music: Bappi-Tutul
Producers: Ram Gopal Varma & Praveen Nischol
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
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Story:

An excellent tale, the story continues from the Nagre household with the only difference that Shankar Nagre (Abhishek Bachchan) has taken the reins of power but always under the watchful eye of Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan). Things change when Anita (Aishwarya Rai) enters the scene, she happens to be the CEO of Sheppard Power plant and comes up with a proposal of a power plant for which she requires the support of the masses. The deep thinking Shankar sees a lot of promise and growth opportunities for the people around and is impressed with the idea but it is not the same opinion expressed from Subhash. However, Shankar manages to convince Sarkar and both Shankar, Anita set out on a mission visiting various villages in Maharashtra to gain mass support. They find their share of opposition from Somji (Rajesh Shringapure) one of the local lads in the village. However, in his quest for the welfare of his people what Shankar fails to realize is that all this is actually a snare which is getting deeper and deeper as the movement thickens. Is he in a position to wriggle out of the situation before it is too late? Does Sarkar come to the rescue of Shankar? All this forms the rest of the story.

Presentation:

Ramgopal Varma has come back with a vengeance, it is without doubt that his handling of the subject and the powerful presentation of the story is par excellence. Even the narration aspect takes you to a real high and with some mind blowing background score added with some deftly handled editing, the technical part of the film has surpassed even the prequel. The script was written with a tight grip and it has blended very well with some master screenplay. The cinematography has been able to capture the emotions at its best intensity and the locations were captured very well and so was the presentation of the characters. Amitabh has yet again proved that he is still the ruling icon to portray enigmatic roles and has come up with a powerhouse performance. Equally good was Abhishek who competed with his dad at every frame and gave a good show. Aishwarya has overshadowed her pretty looks with some classy performance and her peak performance comes while performing the sentimental scenes. The supporting cast were not to be left behind as they gave a tough opposition to the lead cast, Sayaji Shinde was superb, Govind Namdeo was too good, Rajesh was excellent, Upyendra Limaye was a show stealer, Dilip Prabhawalkar was a revelation. Tanishaa looked apt in the household role and Supriya Pathak gave a memorable performance. The others were good in their own aspects.


Conclusion:

The movie has been made with such precision that those who have not seen the prequel can also connect to the sequel. This is not just a political thriller but also an equally emotional tale of feelings and relationships. Both the first and second half of the film was spaced out with equal pace and inertia and there is not a single dull moment throughout its running. Though the story line was simple and straight, the way it has been carried from start to finish was highly mastered and the film could well be joining the league of super hits in the time to come. The pace of the movie might come across as mild but it sets you in the right mood to go through the various emotions.

Pandurangadu is a Telugu film, starring Balakrishna, Sneha, Tabu and others , directed by K Raghavendra Rao. Produced by ---, and music composed by M M Keeravani. This film released on Summer 2008.

Punchline: Pandurangadu's redemption
Genre: Devotional
Type: Remake (Panduranga Mahatyam)
Banner: RK Film Associates

Cast: Bala Krishna, Mohan Babu, Tabu, Sneha, Suhasini, Archana, Viswanath, Balayya, LB Sreeram, Dharmavarapu, Sunil, Ali, Brahmanandam, Meghana Naidu, Anant, Y Vijaya

Music: MM Keeravani
Dialogues: JK Bharavi
Cinematography: Jayaram
Editing: Srikar Prasad
Art: Bhaskara Raju
Producer: K Krishnamohana Rao
Screenplay & Direction: K Raghavendra Rao
Release date: 30 May 2008

Story:

Kundarika ( Balakrishna ) is a follower of Lord Krishna but for the wrong reasons. He does all the mischievous things that Lord Krishna did in his reign. Once when his family members ask him to marry he leaves his village and runs away. After his family members perform a yagnam he comes back to his village. In the neighboring village Lakshmi ( Sneha ) is a big devotee of Lord Krishna. One night Lord Krishna appears in her dreams and asks her to marry Kundarika. So Lakshmi's father approaches Bala Krishna but he refuses. Later after some persuasion from Lakshmim, Kundarika accepts the marriage.

In the mean time Amrutha ( Tabu ) a dancer comes to their village. Kundarika is mesmerized by her beauty and goes into a relationship with her. He offers all the gold in the house to her. But after the marriage he stops visiting Amrutha. Knowing this Amrutha's mother calls Kundarika for a meal and serves poison to him and grabs all his wealth. The rest of the movie is how Kundarika turns to Lord Krishna's devotee and get backs to his family....


Highlights:
Nandamuri Balakrishna's action in the movie is the top notch. He managed the dual roles of Lord Krishna and Kundarika very well. He adjusted from the woman's man role to devotee role very well. Balakrishna as Lord Krishna made the audience think of Sr.NTR . Sneha's acting has done a good job as wife of Balakrishna. K.Vishwanth as always stealed the show with his acting. Mohan Babu's guest role is brief but brilliant. Raghavendra Rao's direction showed in the songs. Also he succeeded in showing the movie differently when compared to his previous movies. The taking second half of the film is simply awesome. Second Half of the movie dominates. Kiravani's tunes added to the movie.

Story - screenplay - direction:
This film is a remake of NTR’s classic Panduranga Mahatyam. The story is about the redemption of a flirt and of an irresponsible son. The writer of the film had lot of limitations because of the original. The characterization and exposing of Tabu character is gone beyond the limits though her character is supposed to be that of a prostitute. Direction by K Raghavendra Rao is adequate. But he could not get the emotions work in this film the way he has done for Annamayya and Sri Ramadasu (that is probably because all Telugus are fond of those historic characters). Screenplay of the film should have been better.
Other departments:
The music scored by MM Keeravani is good. Cinematography by Jayaram is neat. Dialogues by JK Bharavi are nice. He used rhyme (prasa) to get a couple of good one-lines like pelli kala vachindi (kala refers to dream, but not glow) and ‘meeru aadu (aada) vaaru. Memu aadinchu vaaramu’. Editing is alright.
Sidelights:
L.B. Sri Ram as Narada did not fit the role. Bharavi's story is not as effective as his previous ones. The graphic work in the movie is too weak to handle. The story is the first half seems a little bit dragged. There is no much comedy in the movie. The comedy scenes involving Sunil, Ali and Dharmavaram Subramanyam pertained to a few giggles in the audience. Raghavendra Rao's selection of character artists for Lord Krishna's wives did not please the audience.


Verdict: Movie is a 100% hit and works out very well at the box office.
Rating : 7/10

And Balakrishna fan's will be well satisfied.
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Movie: Bujjigadu
Director:Purijaganath
Music: Sandeep Chowtha
Cast: Prabhas,Trisha
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Bujjigadu is a Telugu film, starring Prabhas, Trisha, Mohan Babu, and others, directed by Puri Jagannath. Produced by KS Rama Rao. This film has been released on May 22, 2008.

Story:
Lingaraju aka Bujji (Prabhas) is adopted son of Prabhas Raju (M.S Narayana) living in Vizag. Young Bujji & Little Chitti are neighbours and best friends in vizag.One day Chitti was deeply hurt 'coz Bujjgadu spoiled her sand temple.She asks him not to talk to her for 12 years & also says she will marry him if he can live up to her challenge.Bujjigadu runs away from home shifts base to Chennai keeping no touch with his parents.


After 12yrs:
Bujji grows up to be a hard core Rajnikanth fan and his only aim is to finish the 12 year wait and return to Vizag for Chitti.Chittiis studying in London and her family is living in Hyderabad.She sends her sister(Sanjana) to contact Bujji.Bujjigadu also lands in a tempting deal, with Machireddy & sons(Kota Srinivasarao gang)for Rs.1Crore to kill Sivanna (Mohan babu),as he needs money to live happily after marrying Chitti.He comes to Hyderabad to find Chitti & to kill Sivanna.There he comes to know Chitti is the only sister of Sivanna.What he will do next forms rest of the story.

Highlights :
Prabhas looks macho.Prabhas performed very well as a Puri mark funny.it's a totally different charecter for prabhas.1st and 3rd fights are highlight's of the movie,last song dance is awesome. Nothing special to say about Trisha.Her makeup is awkward. Music by Sandeep Chowta is not good.There are some enjoyable witty one liners and overall comedy isn't upto the mark compared to Puri's earlier films.Sunil did well,Ali appears in 3 different roles .

Sidelights:
It's a Lazy screenplay by Puri Jagannadh.Though no one expect a novel storyline for a mass film atleast people expects an entertaining film with a fluid screenplay from him.he failed to deliver so.it's a routine mass flick. Mohan babu is casted in a pretty routine don cum brother character.His terrific acting abilities were absolutely wasted. amma-abba,munda-randa kind of telugu thitlu are used very casually for comedy( often uttered by heroines )

Public Talk : Below Average

Industry Talk : Cinema lo Vishayam thakkuva, mass masala ekkuva.

Overall Rating : 6/10
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IDLEBRAIN rating - 3/5

Cast: Allu Arjun, Prakash Raj, Sheela, Jayasudha (guest role), Poonam Bajwa (guest role), Sunil and many others.
Music: Mani Sharma
Producer: Raju
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Bhaskar
Tagline: Parugu - run away as fast as possible
Strengths: Allu Arjun and Prakash Raj
Weaknesses: Weak story and dragging screenplay
Must see scenes:
1. All the comedy scenes
2. Prakash Raj drunken scene with Allu Arjun expressing his agony for his eloped daughter
Analysis: Parugu movie is the second movie for Bhaskar after Bommarillu and as the trend follows it will not be a phenomenol hit (second movie of most of the recent directors is not a hit). It is all about how a father feels when his daughter elopes with her lover. Bhaskar showed the father’s love from son’s point of view in Bommarillu where as he showed father’s love from the father’s point of view in Parugu.
Bhaskar wanted to prove that he is not wrong in both the movies. One can find the complete reverse side of Bommariilu movie. I agree that Parugu is a complete different story but it lags the effective on-screen discription ie screenplay. The movie dragged a lot in both first half as well as the second half.
Note: After seeing Parugu movie, one can easily relate it to the recent mis-hap which shook entire Chiranjeevi family. This obvious relation will be because it has Allu Arjun in it who comes from the same family. Seeing this movie, one will surely feel the pain and agony what Chiranjeevi felt when his daughter went away. The audience will surely sympathasize Chiranjeevi after watching Parugu movie. (is this one kind of political entry stunt by Chiranjeevi ???? Who Knows….)
Performances: Allu Arjun is as usual cool in this movie too. His action and his dance sequences doesn’t show much difference from his earlier movies like Happy, Arya and Bunny.
Heroine Sheela is sweet and beautiful as a village girl. Poonam Bajwa who did a guest performance in Parugu has nothing to mention about. Jayasudha as Allu Arjun’s mother has no role to perform.
Special mention about Prakash Raj should be done here. He, as an agonizing father gave splendid performance. He stole the entire show in the movie.
Sunil and his friends are good and gave rib-tickling comedy with proper timing and proper punch dialogues.
Music by Mani Sharma is average. Even the picturization of these songs couldn’t add much to the music.
Story by Bhaskar is different and good. It highlighted the recent bad incident which took place in Megastar family. But this will not help much to the success of the movie because the screen play is not upto the mark. The entire movie dragged. The viewer gets bored after certain point of time.
Direction, again by Bhaskar is good but is not highlighted because of the bad screenplay.
Story: Krishna (Allu Arjun) is a happy go lucky guy who gets trapped in the family of Prakash Raj who is searching for the latter’s eloped first daughter Subba Lakshmi (Poonam Bajwa). In the mean time Krishna falls in love with Prakash Raj second daughter Meena (Sheela) and plans to elope with her. After seeing the agony and pain of an eloped daughter’s father, Allu Arjun decides to leave Meena. What happens next should be seen on big screen only.

Film	:	Jalsa
Rating	:
Casting	:	Pawan Kalyan, Ileana, Prakash Raj
Theatrical Release	:	April 2, 2008
Banner : Geetha Arts Camera : Guhan Editing : Antony Music : Devisree prasad Producer : Allu Arvind Story : Trivikram Srinivas Screenplay : Trivikram Srinivas Dialogues : Trivikram Srinivas Direction : Trivikram Srinivas An hour after watching Pawan Kalyan-Trivakram’s Jalsa, there is a severe feeling of dissatisfaction, a feel of a huge void somewhere in the story that promised many great things at the beginning The First Half | Rating 4/5 The movie starts off with the voice over of Mahesh Babu, he calls himself a friend of Sanjay[Pawan Kalyan] PAWAN KALYAN is introduced as an alcoholic and a person obsessed with education. Kamalini Mukherjee is introduced as PAWAN KALYAN’s lover, we are showed a brief scene with Prakash Raj, who is Kamalani Mukherjee’s father. In an almost unbelievable and comical fashion, the scene is carried forward into PAWAN KALYAN attending Kamalani Mukherjee’s wedding with another person. 52 weeks later, Ileana and Parvathi Melton enter his life in the form of an introduction fight to establish PAWAN KALYAN’s skills. Fun and frolic follow for the next few minutes; Ileana wins PAWAN KALYAN over with the help of hilarious Sunil. In the mean while we are introduced to Mukesh Rushi and his trusted ally Tanikela Bharani. A notorious factionist that lives on settlements is Mukesh Rishi. MUKESH RISHI runs all his operations from within the Jail. He is further established in a beautifully choreographed land takeover fight scene. Comedy works well between PAWAN KALYAN and Ileana, Mukesh Rishi is established in the side track, songs work well and everything seems to be going amazingly well, the anticipation of something big looming between PAWAN KALYAN and MUKESH RISHI builds expectation. Mukesh Rishi spots Pawan Kalyan for the first time in the movie; he wants to grab him but fails. Pawan Kalyan is totally unaware of all this happening around him. Mukesh Rishi plots an execution but calls it off at the last moment stating, PAWAN KALYAN needs to suffer before this death. From here on it’s a cat and mouse game, or should we just say it’s a cat’s game as Pawan Kalyan is forced to encounter near misses of death. In one such encounter, Ali is grabbed from the group of PAWAN KALYAN’s friends and a fight follows, this is where PAWAN KALYAN reveals in an emotional state that he has had a hard childhood, which included poverty. However this is where Pawan Kalyan is unable to do justice to the dialogues, his histrionics do not suit these kind of emotional dialogues, also the build up to the scene being a very weak one does not help. This in turn leaves us at a very weak interval, which if not for the last five minutes of the first half was an amazing first part of the movie. Second Half | Rating 3.25/5 Second half starts off with PAWAN KALYAN narrating a flashback about his miserable childhood and young life. This includes a brief stint with the naxalites, this is where the story starts falling off one bit at a time. The reason for PAWAN KALYAN joining the naxals is justified, but the reason why he leaves them is totally illogical, what with Mahesh Babu’s voice over telling us that he had been promoted to a higher cadre in the group. Groups of fighters start mobbing PAWAN KALYAN from nowhere and he just dismisses them, In the meanwhile the love drama takes a few twists, Ileana’s father being Prakash Raj the police officer who changed (assumed) PAWAN KALYAN. When the Villain of the movie is showed in a massive powerful position, you would assume an excellent scene or two will follow between them. But nothing like that happens in the entirety of the movie, including the climax. Songs You and I, My heart is beating and Gallo Telinattundhe are amazingly picturised, the title track, Jennifer Lopez and Chalore Chalore are pitifully picturised with no build up to the songs at all. They just seem they popped out of nowhere. Pawan Kalyan Pawan Kalyan is first rate and his comedy worked amazingly well, his fights have been choreographed well and his dance is crisp, but I must say we wanted Pawan Kalyan to dance for the song “Jalsa”rather than walk or beat up the villains. Trivikram Sreenivas Trivikram Srenivas is confused, the story made me wonder if this was a love story, a factionist story or a Naxalite story. A bit more clarity would have been better received by the audience. Trivikram has absolutely wonderful songs and an amazingly talented star cast which were at this disposal. Parvathi Melton was wasted. Comedy worked well, including Brahmanandam. Overall Overall Jalsa is ok, definitely your money’s worth, with amazing care taken to every detail but don’t think too hard about logic or story. Just take it as it comes. Once you start thinking about the story it’s an absolute no brainer from Trivikram.