Sathamanam Bhavathi Review

Movie : Sathamanam Bhavathi
Cast: Sharwanand, Anupama Parameswaran, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha, Naresh, Indraja, Raja Ravindra, Satish, Dil Raju and others.
Music director: Mickey J. Meyer
Cinematography Sameer Reddy
Editor:  Madhu
Production company Sri Venkateswara Creations
Release date: 14th January, 2017
Certificate: U
Run time: 133 minutes
Watched at Ravi Shankar Theater, Palasa

Behind the screens:
Young hero Sharwanand who is known for decent emotional entertainers is now coming to entertain with family entertainer Shatamanam Bhavati under Sri Venkateswara creations banner. Sharwanand is getting ready to repeat the magic he created last year by taking on top stars during pongal festival. Let us see what impact he created with on movie lovers.

story:
Raghavaraju (Prakash Raj) and his wife Janakamma (Jayasudha) along with their grandson Raghavaraju (Sharwanand) lives happily in a small village named Athreyapuram. Old couple are in a sad feeling that their sons and daughter who lives in abroad doesn’t visit them as they want to see them. Raghavaraju garu makes a plan to make them visit and makes it work. This plan makes his wife feel bad on knowing. There arises some problems within the family to create some disturbances added to the problem of his wife. How they solved the problems? What is the plan that Raghavaraju Garu made? What are the problems that crops up in the family? If you want to know answers for all these question you have to the movie in theatres .

Performances:
Sharwanand slipped into the role quite effortlessly. His dialogue delivery is attractive. Anupama Parameswaran impresses with her lovely looks and mesmerising expressions in her eyes. Prakash Raj attracts with his dialogue delivery, screen presence in a tailor made role. Prakash Raj and Jayasudha performances elevated the movie to new level highlighting the importance of love, affection, family bonding and family values. Naresh is perfect fit to his role. Others played their roles accordingly.

Analysis:
Director Satish Vegesna came with decent family emotional entertainer with routine scenes, dialogues, rich tradition, family values and emotions. Story is predictable but he erased all these monotony with his narration.

Technical values:
Music of Mickey J Meyer is attractive.  Songs shot in picturesque locations. Background score is good. Sameer Reddy beautified the film with his cinematography showing the beautiful locations of Godavari district. Editing of Madhu is okay but he could have chance to trim few cuts in both half's. Dialogues are good and more focussed on importance of family values. Production values of Sri Venkateswara creations are good.

Final verdict:
Shatamanam Bhavati movie is a family emotional entertainer with mix of family values, bonding and their importance in today’s fast paced life. This movie is a soulful journey with heart touching emotions and sentiments.
First half goes with good entertainment, emotions and dialogues between grand son, parents and grand parents. Second half slows down here and there. Director Satish made good impact with touching and thought provoking climax scenes. Overall the film is an out and out clean family emotional entertainer which connects all categories of people.


Bottom line: Bhandalaku anubhandalaku sasthamanam Bharath

Review by Manikick
Rating: 3/5

Khaidi No 150 Review

Movie: Khaidi No 150

Cast : Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Tarun Arora, Ali, Brahmanandam, Posani, Praveen, Jaya prakash Reddy, Paruchuri and others

Screenplay and  Direction: V.V. Vinayak

Producer: Surekha Konidela and Ram Charan

Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers, Sai Madhav Burra, Vema Reddy

Screenplay: Nithin Blaze

Story: A.R. Murugadoss

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Cinematography: R. Rathnavelu

Editer: Gowtham Raju

Production House: Konidela Production Company

Runtime: 147 minutes

Certificate: UA

Watched at Inox GVK one, Hyderabad

Story:

The story revolves around a common man and social activist (Chiranjeevi) who fights for a village. He is a post-graduate in hydrology and wants to help farmers in his village. As he is doing a dual role, another one is criminal (Chiranjeevi), who escapes from jail and plans to run away to a foreign country, but drops his plan after meeting a girl (Kajal Aggarwal) at the airport. One day, he comes across his look alike man (Chiranjeevi), who is being shot by a group of thugs. He admits him in a hospital and decides to impersonate him to escape from the police. After that, he came to know that that village is under threat of being occupied by an MNC, which owned by (Tarun Arora) to construct a factory. The remaining story forms how he fights for the villagers.

Performances:

After a long gap of 9-10 years, Megastar Chiranjeevi appeared on the screen and his looks more stunning than his last movie Shankar dada zindabad. His screen presence is one of the big assets to the movie. He showed once again his power in acting, dance and fights. He has taken the film on his own shoulders. He once again proved that he is the megastar of Tollywood. His intensity in coin fight is superb. For most of the scenes he is taking some time to settle to act. Kajal Aggarwal is limited to songs only. Though there is a huge age gap between the duo, they both look perfect together on-screen. Tarun Arora is okay as antagonist. Posani Murali, Ali, Brahmanandam are okay in their comedy scenes. The special cameo of Ram Charan in last song is impressive. Actress Rai Laxmi, who did a special song in the film is simply amazing. Rest of characters did their job well.

Analysis:

Director VV Vinayak has succeeded to show main theme (Flash back) but failed to mix comedy scenes to this story. He has packed the story with punch dialogues, emotional scenes, comedy and romance.

Technical values:

Music director Devi Sri Prasad gave music to chart buster songs. Singers for ‘ You and me’ song are apt. Lets do kummudu and neeru neeru are good. Dance movements are nice. Rathnavelu’s cinematography needs special mention and he showed the scenes beautifully with his lense. Coin fight composed by Ram Laxman is one of the best fight sequence in their career. The dialogues penned by Paruchuri brothers are good. Editor has chance to trim few comedy bits and first half scenes. Production values of Konidela production are rich.

Thumbs Up:

– Flashback

– Second half upto preclimax

– 3 songs

– Main plot

-Chiranjeevi

Thumbs down:- 

Commercial formula

– Few scenes in first half

– Forced Comedy bits

Final Verdict:

Khaidi No 150 is Paisa Vasool commercial film with mixing of social cause elemets.  V.V. Vinayak has made proper use of Chiranjeevi’s potential in all aspects.

First half is not so good but flash back episode is simply superb. Second half is good but climax is so routine.

One Time watchable film from Chiranjeevi as comeback film.

Review by Manikick

Rating: 3/5

Gautamiputra Satakarni Review

Movie :  Gautamiputra Satakarni
Cast: Balakrishna, Shriya Saran, Hema Malini, Kabir Bedi and Others
Writing: Sai Madhav Burra
Director: Krish
Producers: Y. Rajiv Reddy and Jagarlamudi Sai Babu
Production House: First Frame Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Music: Chirantan Bhatt
Cinematographer: VS Gnanashekar
Editing: Suraj Jagtap and Rama Krishna Arram
Runtime: 135 minutes
Certificate: UA
Release Date: 12th January 2016
Watched at Asian M Cube, Attapur

Behind the Screens:

Nandamuri Balakrishna has entered the pongal race with his landmark 100th film Gautamiputra Satakarni In association with director Krish. Balayya is attempting a historical film and bring an unsung hero to limelight with this movie. Let us see how the movie will entertain us.

Story:

It is the story of Satavahana Emperor, Satakarni who dreams of One Kingdom…One war for Akhanda Bharata Jathi. In the process, he conquers Kuntala, Kalyana Durgam and Saurashtra finally brings the entire North and South India under his rule. At the same time, Greek Emperor, Demetrius (Kabir Bedi) enters India to achieve the dream of Alexander conquering the entire globe. Rest of the story is all about the battle between them.

Performances:

Director Krish always maintained that he would not have made the film if not for Bala krishna. He justifies that with his one man show in the movie. He brings whole movie on his shoulders. Look wise he must should loose weight to maintain perfect fitness to show him as real warrior. He excelled in the action sequences perfectly. His dialogue delivery for this real Telugu warrior character is perfect. Shriya is good and apt as Vasishti Devi. Senior actress Hema Malini is good as mother Gautami. Kabir Bedi is okay in villain role. Rest of characters are okay in their roles.

Analysis:

Director Krish is always comes up with unique stories or those who haven't touched stories. Last time he came with Kanche and he stolen Telugu movie lovers hearts. May be his movies are not played commercially at box-office well but he has fans by coming with different social message films. The scenes of Satakarni taking his baby son to the battle and the scenes between Satakarni and Vasishti Devi before that will move the audience. The Rajasuya Yagam sequences are the heart of the film which says about the importance of mother. His story and screenplay are good. He made sure that the movie looks grand for the budget they spent.

Technical values:

Music director Chirantan Bhat has composed few good songs and the background score is excellent. Sounding system is good. Selection of Singers for songs is appreciated. As usual Sirivennela seetharamasasthri gave excellent lyrics for songs. The dialogues penned by Sai Madhav Burra are one of the biggest assets for the movie. War scenes are good but nothing special in it except very few.  Production Values are appropriate.

Thumbs up:
- First half
- Bala Krishna
- Epic Story
- BGM



Thumbs down:
- Post interval
- Balayya fitness

Final Verdict:

''Gautamiputra Satakarni'' is the story of a Telugu Warrior. The movie is mostly about of war sequences filled with perfect emotions.

The first half of the film is fully racy. The second half is a bit slow up to pre-climax war sequences.

Recommend to watch this movie in this festival season.

Worth watchable film from BalaKrishna.

Review by Manikick

Rating: 3.25/5 [3 for movie + 0.25 to encourage these type of epic stories(Less budget and with in 79 days of shooting period)]