Konchem Istam Kochem Kastam updates

Konchem Istam Kochem Kastam starring Siddarth and Tamanna is a family entertaining movie. Being a family subject the story mainly revolves around Siddarth, Tamanna,Prakash Raj- playing Siddu’s father,Ramya Krishna- playing Siddu’s mother & Nazar- playing Tamanna’s father.Fifty percent of the shooting has been completed successfully. A rain song is being canned at Saradhi Studios on Siddarth, Tamanna and other dancers. The next schedule is most likely to be in Ramoji Film City.

Kishore Pardhasani alias Dolly is Directing this film .Successful producer Nallamalupu Bujji is producing this film under his banner Lakshmi Narasimha Productions. Apparently Bujji is planning the audio function with live concert of the music directors of the film Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy in the coming December and the film will be a 2009 Sankranti Gift to the Telugu audience. It’s needless to mention cinematographer Vijay Chakravarthy’s camera work, as it has already been noted in the block buster Bommarillu. Comedy emperors Brahmanandam and Venu Madhav are among the prominent cast who are going to make the audience burst out laughter.

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Nachavule - Different teenage love story

Ushakiron Movies is known for bringing excellent subjects on the screen. Producer Ramoji Rao had touched several aspects in producing the films including action, family and message-oriented subjects, besides some love stories. Likewise, Ravibabu is known for directing novel subjects. He had his own typical style of moulding the scenes, with a different taking and special treatment. Instead of keeping a separate comedy track, he makes the audiences to laugh instantaneously by creating certain scenes and typical situations. The combination of this successful producer and director brought out a different love story on the screen, which came the 81st film on Ushakiron Movies' banner. As the story demanded, the director chose all new faces for the film.

Lava Kumar is the son of a middle-class man. His birth itself is a speciality his father hails from north Andhra while his mother is from north India. Lav's father always grumbles for everything. He is quite strict and appears very impatient. However, his mother is very kind and gentle. Once Lav's father gets a verbal thrashing for his son's act and he stops talking with Lav from then onwards. Lav gets a brother when he was eight-year-old. The latter has a penchant to steal small articles and sell it away for chocolates and ice creams. Lav grows up and completes his Intermediate.

Like many teenage boys Lav also wants to move with girl friends and he makes trials from 9 am to 7 pm but could not catch the eye of any girl. He then decides not to follow many girls and instead concentrate on one girl. With the help of his friend Sreenu, he manages to get in touch with a girl called Anu. Though Anu does not care Lav in the beginning, he helps her by saving her father when he suffers a stroke. After getting acquaintance, he pleads with her to be his girl friend. On condition that Lav should not touch, embrace or kiss her, she agrees to be his girl friend for just 10 days. Being a disciplined girl, Anu invites Lav to her house, only to let her father know where she is going and with whom. However, Lav is quite innocent and his idea is only to show others that he too had a girlfriend. This innocence makes Anu herself to cross the limits and breaks the conditions.

On one occasion, Lav shoots Anu with his mobile phone when she was angry and accidentally, Anu kisses him and he shoots it with his mobile unknowingly. She changes his style and makes him very attractive. So every girl starts liking Lav and he continues to date with everyone and move freely. Incidentally, Anu falls in love with Lav, but the latter has no such idea. After the purpose is served, Lav starts ignoring Anu. Lav's brother steals the mobile and sells it off to a mobile shop. Noticing the kissing scene in the mobile, the shop owner passes it to his friend's mobile through MMS. Like this, all the mobiles which have the MMS facility gets the video. This embarrasses Anu and her father. The same video boomerangs and all the girls who moved freely with Lav start refusing him.

At this juncture, Lav's mother falls sick. Then Lav's father realises his folly and changes his attitude. However, she dies of illness. Lav starts repenting but it is of no use. When Anu and her father decide to leave the city. A youth, who is after Anu for quite sometime, bores grudge against Lav and stabs him. He also threatens to kill Anu. Lav wants to save her despite he is nearing to death. Anu believes that Lav is playing a prank but notices someone stabbing him and realises how sincerely he loved her. The film ends on a happy note with the union of Lav and Anu.

PLUS: The entire first half of the film was devoted to portray the feelings of teenage youth, their interest towards girls and the pranks they play to capture the attention of girls, the enjoyment of moving with a girlfriend and other such things. Ravibabu gave excellent situational comedy all through the first half and the one-liners evoked tremendous response and laugh from the audiences. The second half, however, was completely devoted to serious love, family drama and sentiment and turns out to be a complete Ushakiron Movies genre film. The hero, heroine and the villain, hero's parents, heroine's father and a man in the neighbourhood of the heroine — every character lived to the expectations of the audiences. Action by Kanal Kannan is simple and the camera work by Sudhakar Reddy is okay. Music by Sekhar Chandra is good in parts.

MINUS: Though the director tried to portray the feelings of the teenage boy, he ignored how he could manage the girls, maintaining a mobile phone and bike, moving to costly pubs and coffee shops. Though in a couple of scenes, the hero is seen taking money from the heroine, it failed to establish the financial support for the hero, as his father always used to grumble against him. Likewise, it was not shown what the boy's brother is doing with the money by selling the stolen articles. How anyone could purchase stolen articles from a child instead of complaining it to his parents. Several scenes have no logic and the director conveniently ignored them as he concentrated on portraying a different love story.

REMARKS: The segregation of the film for a complete entertainment in the first half and complete serious scenes in the second half made the film losing balance. The first song in black and white and the title song were choreographed excellently. One could justify that the price of the ticket could be given to the first half and to the canning of these two songs. As a whole, it is a complete Ravibabu's film in the first half and the Ushakiron Movies' film in the second half.

Cast: All new faces

Credits: Storyline – Satyanand, Action – Kanal Kannan, Art – Narayana Reddy, Lyrics – Bhaskarabhatla, Choreography – Nixon, Editing – Marthand K Venkatesh, Director of Photography – N Sudhakar Reddy, Music – Sekhar Chandra, Producer – Ramoji Rao, Script, screenplay, dialogues and direction – Ravibabu

Banner: Ushakiron Movies

Released on: December 19, 2008

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Fitting Master sermonises

The title of the Telugu film Fitting Master is intriguing. It is to do with the protagonist Sampath who is a master at fitting things. Producer-director E V V Satyanarayana, who also scripts the film, has given his son 'Allari' Naresh a huge role to play. Unlike a typical E V V film, the humour is negligible. He also laces the film with a message.

The first half of the film shows Sampath ('Allari' Naresh), an instructor at a gym as a good guy with values. Meghana (Madalasa Sharma) falls for Sampath. He however does not return the favour. In fact he does not believe in love.

The first half is full of songs and moves at a slow pace. The unfolding of the story leaves the audience thinking about Sampath's behaviour. Obviously he is disturbed by something which is unclear. And this is known only in the second half.

E V V manages to arrest the attention of the audience by not revealing the truth behind Sampath's life. It is only post-interval that we learn of the horrific incidents in his life -- about how he loses his parents and sister, all because of three men. And so the hunt for these three men begins.

At one level, Sampath argues for showing respect to parents as they nurture the children and at another, he does not hesitate to resort to violence. There is quite a bit of sermonising and parents would perhaps even think twice before buying a mobile phone for their daughter if they go by what is shown in the movie. The movie also shows the all-pervading 'interference' of the media (particularly the television channels) in people's lives.

Naresh is the soul of the movie. He carries it on his shoulders and is impressive as the good guy as well as the angry action man. Madalasa Sharma keeps him good company though she can improve on her performance a bit. Sayaji Shinde [Images] looks and sounds a bit ridiculous as a cop mouthing lyrics of Telugu film songs. Ali too is not his usual self.

In a nutshell, movies that sermonise do not generally fare well. It would be interesting to see how this one turns out.

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Indhumathi - Designed to thrill

Shivaji, Swetha Bharadwaj, Harsha Vardhan and Bharath Reddy feature in lead roles of 'Indumathi' which has been directed by Harsha P Reddy for Geo Media Arts.

Plenty of thrillers and suspense filled storylines are in vogue these days and given the fact that technology is rollicking, many of these films work at the box office. 'Indumathi' released on New Year's day has indeed lived up to expectations and comes across as a good entertainer.

Story

Honey (Swetha Bharadwaj) works for a company. The MD of the company has loads of faith in her work. Raj (Bharath Reddy) who works for a BPO (call centre) is in love with her. Both of them feel that money is vital in order to get married and settle down peacefully.

One fine day the MD hands her 2 Crores of rupees in cash which has to be deposited in the company's bank account. Taking her boyfriend Raj with her she flees with the money to Hyderabad. They rent out a house there- Ananda Nilayam, in Gachibowli and begin to live together. Soon Raj gets murdered and Honey goes missing from the place.

Four friends Rajesh, Banti, Kishore, Sheshi rent out the same house, which is owned by Anand (Harsha Vardhan). Later Chandu (Shivaji) a friend of Sheshi joins them. From then onwards one after another the inmates of Ananda Nilayam begin to die.

Who is the killer in Ananda Nilayam? Who is Indumathi? Why did Chandu, who was supposed to go to America, come here? What happens at the end? To unravel the mystery watch 'Indumathi'.

Performance of Artists

'Manthra' features Shivaji in a unique role with an unusual characterization. Now in 'Indumathi' he is seen in a deglamorised character as a psycho, which he has performed excellently. His portrayal of a psycho killer has stood out as the main attraction for the film. Earlier Shivaji did a similar role in 'Shradhanjali' and in a film made by Ushakiran Movies.

Swetha Bharadwaj did a good job although this is her first film. Her glam quotient is an additional attraction for the film.

Kishore, who was introduced through the character of Bharath in 'Vennela', VijaySai, Srinivas Reddy have sufficiently entertained the audience with their comedy acts. Rajesh has done well within the limits of his character.

The performance of Harsha Vardhan and Tulasi is okay. Though Raghubabu appears in a single scene, he has been successful in tickling the audience.

Technicians Work

It is well know that music plays an important part in suspense thrillers. Anand who debuted with 'Manthra', has composed excellent re-recording for this film.

Photography by Vasu is equally matching. The sequences filmed with night effects and those that show the building under water have come out in brilliant fashion. The lighting has been apt.

Art director Narayana Reddy's work, especially the house set is good. Shankar's editing and Nandu's fights are ok.

Directors Work

Harsha Reddy stepped into films as a producer with 'Andharu Dongale' and turned into director with 'Indumathi'. Although this is his first project the story is also an acquainted one, the screenplay is good. Harsha Reddy was successful in maintaining the tempo of the story and most importantly in horrifying the audience with the story.

Analysis

'Indumathi', is targeted for the audience who like to watch suspense thrillers. The film did succeed in entertainment with the horror element going. Though there are a few pits in the story and screenplay department, 'Indumathi' undisputedly has the potential to thrill audiences.

Released on: January 01, २००९

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