Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum 

Movie review:-

Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: First Frame Entertainment
Cast: Rana, Nayantara, Milind Gunaji, Murali Sharma, Brahmanandam, Posani Krishnamurali and others
Dialogues: Burra Sai Madhav
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematographer: V S Gnanasekhar
Editor: Sravan Katikaneni
Story, screenplay, direction: Krish
Producers: Jagarlamudi Sai Babu, Y Rajeev Reddy
Release date: 30/11/2012

Director Krish who has been branded as an intellectual director is back and this time he has teamed up with Daggubati Rana for yet another social message. Let’s see how effective it is

Story
B. Tech Babu (Rana) is part of a drama troupe and unlike the elders in the troupe he is very practical and plans to go abroad for higher education. But the death of his grandfather (Kota) and the ritual of dumping his ashes in their native village brings Babu to a different world.

It is the mining mafia of Reddappa (Milind) who rules those areas and has wiped out all natural resources. In this process, Babu also meets Devika (Nayan) a daring journalist doing a documentary on the mining mafia. From a very self-centered person, Babu makes a self-discovery and how he has to play an important role in it.

What happens after that forms the rest of the story.

Performances
Rana is wooden faced as usual but he has definitely improved than the past. The efforts and hard work is seen. His physique is fabulous. If he can work on his diction and few expressions, he will rock.

Nayantara is a visual delight. Watching her even in action sequences sends a tingle to the spine. She is an effective performer, authentic beauty with natural seductive charms. Wonder what is that fixation she has for the nose stud, it doesn’t suit her at all.

Milind Gunaji has got a good screen presence but then his character was not really etched strongly. That power of a mining baron was missing in him.

Kota was brief, Brahmanandam was not that great, LB Sriram was excellent, Murali Sharma made his presence felt. Posani brought few smiles with his eccentricity. Raghu Babu, Hema, Sathyam Rajesh did their bit as required and contributed well. Sameera Reddy was a sizzler. Venky in his cameo is adequate.

Highlights

• First half
• Dialogues
• Nayanthara
• Storyline & concept

Drawbacks

• Songs Placement
• Emotional depth & intensity in climax
• Weak comedy

Thupaki movie review - Vijay, Kajal

Thupaki movie review :-

Movie: Thupaki
Rating: 3.5/5

Cast: Vijay, Kajal, Vidyut Jamwal, Satyan, Jayaram

Tag line: wisely play
Genre: Action
Banner: Gemini Film Circuit, SVR Media
Music: Harris Jayaraj
Editing: A.Sreekar Prasad
Camera: Santhosh Sivan
Story, Screeplay, Direction: AR Murugudoss

Producer: Sobha
Releasing Date: Nov 13, 2012

Story

Jagadish (Vijay) is a military man who comes to Mumbai on his one month vacation to spend time with his family. A simple search for a stolen purse in a city bus leads to a big terrorist plot. Jagadish realises that things will not be same if police involves in it. He takes the mission of averting bomb blasts in his own hands. He realises that only way to eradicate terrorism is to get to the boss of these sleeper cells and kill him. The rest of the story is all about how he achieves his goal.

Performances:

This film proved to be the best one for Vijay to show his talent for Telugu audience. He did a very subtle performance keeping his trade mark Tamil overaction away. He intelligently under played the intelligent Army officer's character. And his dances are meticulous and up to the standard to impress Telugu aidience.

Kajal has no importance in this film. She is just for heroine sake. Her scenes and songs put brakes to the flow of narration. She gained weight and there lies her new sex quotient.

Vidyut is perfect as negative lead. Jayaram's comedy is ok and Satyan also did his part well.

Harris Jayaraj's music is a dud for this film. No single song could catch the senses of audience. Santhosh Sivan's cinematography is the asset for this film. Editing is good and dubbing is ok.

This is a commendable product from Murugudoss who played the balance act by making the film to the tune of majority audience.

Highlights:

• Terrorist episodes
• Direction
• Cinematography

Drawbacks:

• Songs
• Heroine Track
• Weak Climax