Monday, June 25, 2012

High expectations on Julayi

Release date : 13 July 2012
Gener : Action Romantic
Director : Trivikram Sreenivas Rao
Producer : S. Radha Krishna, D.V.V. Danayya
Editing : Prawin Pudi
Cinematography : Chota K. Naidu, Shyam K. Naidu
Music Director : Devi Sri Prasad
Music released : 9 June 2012
The film will be dubbed in Malayalam language and simultaneously released alongside Telugu version as Gajapokkiri. The film is scheduled to release worldwide on July 13, 2012.

Julayi is the most awaited flick for all mega fans ,it has huge expectations surrounded because of crazy first time combination of Stylish star Allu Arjun and punch dialouge writer Trivikram Sreenivas direction;Julayi comes with the promise of offering both style and humour in one film,Allu arjun looks ultra stylish with glorious costumes n peculiar hair style in the movie,Recently released Trailor got huge appreciation for Trivikram punch dialouges :" kodi kuda podunne lestundii Emm laabham chicken ondukunni teenestunam" Allu Arjun role has dark shades n his character does look interesting "Middle class life na valla kadu kodithe okate debba Life motham settle aipovali..." The makers have guarded against letting out the plot however these are the glimpses from trailor we hear.

Rajendra prasad plays a key role,Sonu sood as main villan ,Brahmanandam, Tanikella Bharani, MS Narayana, Dharmavarapu, Brahmaji and Rao Ramesh are playing other important roles.there is the sizzling Illeana, who is nimble-footed when it comes to scorching us under the spell of her oomph.And for the first time Illeana paring with Allu arjun will be a feast to watch on screen,If we go by Trivikram's earlier movies,Heroines has major part to play,It is learnt that the film has interesting scenes between Illeana and Brahmanandam.we have to wait n see how illiyana role is shaped out 

Another Crazy Combination of Arjun and Devi Sri is back after Delivering hit albums like Arya,Arya-2,bunny ,recently released audio got huge response and some of the songs like Ohh madhu ohh madhu, chakkini bike vundi are already chart busters,music is trendy n will reach  youth fast .Allu Arjun is the only dancer who can give full justice to Devi Sri fast tapping beats

Despite a flop like Khaleja, expectations from Trivikram Srinivas are high for obvious reasons,Even Arjun's comedy and characterization may surprise us.He himself need a hit after Badrinath  "The pairing of Arjun and Illeana is a feast to watch.  Trivikram's dialogues will be found catchy by everyone", the producer avers

Shakuni's rountine Act

Release date:22 June 2012
Gener : Political Drama
Banner : Green Studio,Sri sai ganesh movies
Director : Shankar Daya
Producer : Bellamkonda Suresh
Editing : A Sreekar Prasad
Cinematography: PG Muthaiah 
Music Director : G V Prakash Kumar 
Censor Certificate: U/A
Run Time : 158 Minutes 
Music released :  5th June
Cast : Karthi, Pranitha, Prakash Raj,Kota,Radhika,Santhanam,Roja,Nassar etc

Theather watched : Raghavendra 70mm,Malkajgiri
Rating 2.25/5 

On the surface Shakuni is Revenge political Sattire Scratch that surface and you’ll discover more than just a routine grim portrait ..it's Karthi's First Straight Release in Telugu, Earlier his movies are all dubbed in Telugu except Siruthai (Vikramarkudu re-make) n brought huge appreciation for him in Telugu audiences,now Lets see how This movie Standout 


Story : The very first scene in the movie revealed  how bad the movie is going to be,An honorable chief minister (Chandra mohan) killing himself with his whole family because of a small  false allegation raised by a woman(Kiran rathod) in public seems senseless , after his death Bhupathi (Prakash raj )becomes chief minister claiming sympathy.Kamal’s (Karthi) is Innocent guy From that same town Somarlakota, his ancestral property is forcibly taken by the government to construct a railway subway. He goes to Hyderabad to ask the help of politicians n then to Chief minister he knows.he stays in his Aunt's (Roja)house n fell in childish love with his Cousin SreeDevi (Praneetha) which later endup in total mess..later  He came to know that Bhupathi is fraud just for their electoral promises he showed affection on his family n to his town ..realizing his back wicked nature he decided to play political game with him for his downfall by Seeking help from an Auto driver Rajini a.k.a. Appalraju (Santhanam) he uses his cunning Shakuni mind on local money lender cum Don Ramanakka (Radhika) and Sanyasi B.D.Baba (Nassar) and political leader named Perumal (Kota Srinivasa Rao). who is the head of the Opposition Party in the state.Kamal manages all of them to play according to his tunes and succeeds.. The rest of the story is all about how he gets back his property.

Performance ; Karthi is extremely lovable with his cute looks and smile, he pulled out his character v.well though his own dubbing lacks clarity n diction, he performed with ease..pranitha got very less screen time ,she doesn't have expressions or a role to performance, she looked beautiful in 2 songs though, Radhika is commandable with her role and performance, Nassar suited in his swamiji avatar, Prakash raj plays his own routine villan character ,Kota is good as usual.Roja done a fine job in limited role,Santhanam is seen through out the movie,he entertaines.Kiran Rathod role is suprise element in this movie.


Plus Points  Shakuni Title is the huge plus which generated huge positive hype for this movie,Karthi's performance is good,2nd half runs soo fast which leave us nothing to feel bore, We can connect with the current political affairs in the state with political sattires in the movie,Lead Actress Anushka's fun police cop guest role entertains n Andrea Cameo's suprises
Minus Points The movies offers nothing new, we  seen such types of shakuni hero characters  in every telugu movie, the story line is abit similar to Raviteja's Bhageeradha movie,Anushka's n Andrea guest roles killed 10-15 mins of screentime intended just becoz for one comic dialouge " Neeku Anushka, Andrea le paddaruu afterall nee atta kutuuru padadda" .Heroine role has nothing to offer inaddition the romantic love sceens between them are handed poorly,Santannam comic parallel track in first half lacks pace n fun.1st half is bad ,Story doesnt move n struck between heroine n Santanam's not so good comedy track,Second half is clumsy about politics and how Kamal get his Shakuni acts in Corporation elections, then followed by General elections,too much happenings in v.short time

Technical Aspects : Direction by Shanker Dayal is adequate. Screenplay is slow in the first half, but becomes very predictable in the second half ,Editing during the first half was good as the sequences between Santhanam and Karthi were different and interesting. But at few places one could get a feeling that they got dragged.

Music by talented G.V.Prakash is huge disapointment, just four songs in the movie (5th song on election's got sensored i guess ) with a couple of tunes giving 'heard before' feeling,Even the background score is very dull and the poor re-recording fails to elevate the scenes,but one song is beautifully shot in awesome locations in Poland.Cinematography is good and consistent,Director made sure of cast that there are few familiar Telugu faces, like roja,radhika,kota sreenivas rao but still  Dubbing is really bad,no proper lip synchronizing in many scenes, giving u a feel u r watching a dubbing movie.There is only one fight in the movie,

Producer Bellam Konda Suresh whose always keen in buying re-make rights ,bought this movie and advertised v.well, but changing native to Hyderabad n showing Harbor in the very first song does create a false impact


Analysis 1st half is boring n weak, 2nd half is racy with political melodrama and entertain us in bits,climax is predictable as there is no proper conflict between hero and villain.Hero achieves things so easily, This film heavily suffers from simple story, predictable narration and casual direction.on the whole Shakuni is a disappointment and You may watch it if you have nothing better to do.It can sustain just 2 week run at box office as there will be flood of releases at Telugu box-office, 


Final words Shakuni wasn't exciting enough to watch despite aggressive marketing. Even good Title would be enough to draw crowds as it is proved with 3 days collections over 15Crores in both Telugu n Tamil
bottom line This Shakuni’s dice is very weak…