"CHARMI" @ "BUSINESS MAN" AUDIO RELEASE FUNCTION
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Nagaram Nidra Pothunna Vela Review
The only names of Charmi and Jagapthi Babu along with an interest generating title are the pulling points for this movie. With this lead pair requiring a strong hit to come back, let us see how far this flick will help them?
Niharika (Charmi) is an enlightened citizen and a journalist working for C News Channel run by a selfish businessman cum managing director (Ahuti Prasad). This girl with self respect is treated with gender inferiority both by boss at office and father (Paruchuri Gopala Krishna) at home. By the idea of colleague Supraja (Supraja of I News Channel), Niharika goes out on a night searching for sensational news.
Accidentally she gets a video information on how a villain politician with in the ruling Government is planning a coupe against present Chief Minister. Trying to unravel the news, she is chased by goons of villain politician. Then arrives the bewars hero Shiva Ramprasad (Jagapathi Babu) saving Niharika from corrupt cops and dreadful goons. Soon they fall in love. What kind of situations did she face in this one night is one phase of the story.
On other side, the secret video picturized by Niharika is sold for Rs.100 Crores by the channel’s managing director directly to the villains. Times when Niharika plan to take this information to high level Government authorities, she faces troubles from politicians, media men and others. How Niharika with the help of college youth brought awakening change in the mind set of people? How common people reacted to Niharika’s call thus punishing the corrupt politicians form the climax.
As tag line of the film mentions, ‘Idi Janam Cinema,’ surely this is story of the present society. Deen Raj’s story is elaborative touching the current politics, corrupt officials, dishonest media, careless society and helpless people. Fortunately dialogues from Paruchuri Brothers are also satirical with information and enlightenment. Unluckily it is the script and direction of Prem Raj that made movie unimpressive. Direction hasn’t complimented to the efforts put by story and dialogues department. Cinematography of Rajiv Nair and editing by Marthand were also very weak. Music by Yasho Krishna was good for two songs while background was quite a big mismatch. Production values of Gurudeva Creations and Nandi Sreehari was absolutely low standards.
Performance wise characters like Niiharika are a cake walk for Charmi. She took the responsibility of shouldering the movie on her shoulders. Jagapathi Babu got a short span (can be called as guest role) and he is no different. He is just used for the sake of songs and love angle in the story with no proper ending for his character. Ahuti Prasad, Uttej, Paruchuri Gopalakrishna, Supraja, Satyaraj and others are just okay.
When our entire country and state are reeling under political irregularities, need of the hour is a change in mindset of people. A catalyst is needed to awaken the self respect of people. Director was totally confused and failed in igniting the brains of audience with this kind of powerful story in hand. He made the entire plot confusing with too many sub plots that where left inconclusive. Prem Raj even failed to extract the performances from lead artists except the villain politician (name unknown).
First half went on slowly showing the real time mid night scenarios in Hyderabad (inclusive of pub culture, drug sellers, prostitution, police mamools etc). Although chemistry between hero and heroine is not fine tuned, second half is still clumsy with speed and uninspiring explanation leading to an unconvincing climax.
If sufficient budget and significant performances were added to this kind of story line with Paruchuri Brothers dialogues, NNPV could have got a better output. For now, there is no chance for a BO success. Charmi and Jagapathi Babu are to still wait for a success.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Mangala - Anticlimax to stunning performances
Charming girl Charmee hasn't had a solo release for long now. Ever since Mantra which released in 2007, Charmee doesn't have a hit. She is relegated to item numbers, stage shows and store inaugurals. Perhaps in a desperate attempt to bounce back, Charmee worked again with Osho Tulasiram in a horror thriller 'Mangala' to recreate the magic of 'Mantra'. Here is what we think of Charmee's 'Mangala'.
Story
A witchcraft man(Pradeep Rawat) could go to any extent to earn money for the sake of his son Chinna. He even does witchcraft for rich only to get money for his son. Chinna takes that money and purchases a car for his favourite actress Mangala. He goes to Hyderabad to gift it to her.As he approaches her at her house, she mistakes someother fan's hand on her to be his' and slaps him. He is beaten severely by Mangala's friends. Humiliated, Chinna commits suicide. To avenge his son's death, witchcraft man(Pradeep Rawat) imposes Sakochi devil on Mangala. As she is possessed, she pukes blood, flies out of her dining room, becomes a status and screams on her movie sets. A Baba tries to find out her problem and asks Mangala's friends to plead for apology with the witchcraft man. The rest of the story is on whether the man forgives Mangala and how she overcomes the posession of Sakochi devil.
Performances
Charmee is iconic,uncontested and has no equals in South Indian cinema to do such roles.As a victim of witchcraft, she was vulnerable,scary,innocent,witchy and funny. She is as beautiful as ever and performed with ease. She delivers a lot of WoW moments to the audience with her hip moments while dancing, tongue twirling as a girl in captive of a ghost. Pradeep Rawat manages to scare and his action as a witchcrafts man brought in the necessary 'scary' element to the film. The scene where Charmee flies out of her dining table comes so suddenly that it leaves a great impact on the minds of the audience. Uttej, Anand Bharathi, Vijay Sai were decent. Priya as a Sadhvi looks out of place. Overall, the star cast for this horror genre was apt and they gave their best exponents of acting.
Clapworthy moments
Cinematography is clap worthy. The shots are in accordance with the genre of the movie. Shivendra the cinematographer is the maximum star of this film after Charmee. Background score by Viswa suited well. The yogis and sadhus looked authentic and the make up artiste has done a proper research on their look. Charmee's dance for 'Ice Teesuko' was the highlight of the film.The way she moved her hips was sensuous and aesthetically shot. The interval bang gives the audience goose bumps. Charmee oozes oomph factor even as a vulnerable victim. As she collapses and twirles due to posession of devil, she flaunts her cleavage several times unabashedly. The sadhus look real with ash smeared across body and barely any clothes.
Cringe worthy moments
The story is as old as horror films are. It is utterly predictable and cliched. Any regular movie goer can foresee the scenes. Though the background score is impressive, the music makes you cringe. It sounded like someone was talking fast with drums beating at the backdrop. There was no melody or recall value at all. The comedy scene with a pigmy sized man in the first half didn't have any meaning or relevance to the story. We are still wondering what it was. Let us know if you got that joke. The mantras and witch hymns in this film are overtly funny and take away the seriousness of the horror script. For instance, Charmee is asked to say 'Kilari Kicha Kicha Thu Thu Thu' by a baba who is try to help her. Why comedy with ghost stories? The scenes where Tamil director is belittling Telugu film stars and movie makers seems forced into the story. Perhaps the director wanted to give a 'Message' and hence inserted it into this horror thriller. The climax is hopeless and is sure to put you off. Even fairy tales have better logic than such a low key, wierd and senseless climax. Lord Shiva's water Lingam appearance and a splash of it on Charmee's face bringing her to normalcy is a great fall from the hype generated in the first half. The song in the climax had no meaning and we doubt if there was a choreographer at all while shooting that song.
Verdict
Career best performance by Charmee. Hilariously stupid climax and weak screenplay with a below average impact.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Charming lady aghora ready to attack on Maha Siva Ratri
Charmi’s unique flick ‘Mangala’ made with immense suspense and thrilling elements is to hit the screens on Maha Siva Ratri that is March 2. Director Osho Tulasi Ram trying to repeat the magical combination of ‘Mantra’ with Charmi has already started creating the tremors in Tollywood with first stills released.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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