Dasavataram Movie - Not up to the expectations …

A very good base script, good songs,annoying background music, lot of junk animation, totally sloppy screenplay, literally zero choreo, jokes that will make you cry, ear blasting sounds, unwanted and totally Hollywood-copied stunts, mediocre make-up, unbelievable pre-launch marketing and one man’s idiosyncrasy – Well that the movie in short.

Dasavataram is Dr.Kamal Hassan’s much hyped up latest movie, in which he does 10 different characters. The movie had so much hype and media attention that even personalities like M.Karunanidhi, Amitabh Bachan and Jackie Chan were brought in for the audio release. But we should have easily predicted about the content when the movie’s release date was postponed due to a trivial thing like IPL.
He portrayed 10 different roles in the film as:
Rangaraj Nambi, the Vaishnav Brahmin Govind, the US Scientist Fletcher, American Terrorist Balaram Nadar, the Security Officer A Japanese Fighter Kamakshi, the Old Woman Avatar Singh, the Sikh Singer Punyakoti, the Dalit leader Bush, the American President and Khareemulla, the Tall Man

The movie starts with a verbose speech by Kamal Hasan in scientist's get up. He says that there is relation for every calamity in this universe quoting 'Chaos Theory' and takes the story to 12th century AD where Rangaraj Nambi, a Vaishvaite Brahmin was drowned alive in sea by the Saivaite rule 2nd Kulothunga Chola. (Idea to establish would be-People used to fight with differences of Vaishnav and Shaiva theories. And now people are fighting for supremacy!!!-but that was not established with clarity). The story comes to the present from then. Govind, a scientist discovers a bio-virus and the terrorists plan to grab that from him for supremacy. He keeps on escaping from them taking the virus in a vial. He loses that in a dramatic situation and moves till Chidambaram in Tamilnadu in search of that. He meets a girl Lakshmi there and runs along with her escaping from terrorists and also from police those assume him to be a terrorist. Finally what happens to the virus and how it gets deactivated is the theme.

And as everything ends fine, the viewer is left at his own mercy pondering whether he got all the 10 Kamal’s – or oops!! did He miss one ??

My final verdict : Well the movie has a solid theme and some very good acting but lacks the hyped up class and doesn’t deliver as per expectations. The animations and graphics are a total waste of money and play detrimental role but again some of the special effects like multiple Kamal’s in the same scene fighting with each other are really good. So finally I would say - Do watch the movie , but with less expectations.

GAMYAM - Review

The film Gamyam comes as a breath of fresh air. The year 2008 has seen a series of flop films .
The biggest strength of the film is Allari Naresh. Allari Naresh’s character and dominates the show with his comedy and energy . Sharwanand too looks better in the role of a rich brat. Kamlinee as always is a bankable actress. She has lesser character but gives what is required of.

Story :
Gamyam is the story of a rich and spoilt young boy Abhiram (Saravanand).He is the son of a rich industrialist. As is the case with many rich people, Abhiram too is of the notion that the poor and the middle class people are bad.He never mingles with people who are not as rich as him. At this time, he comes across a beautiful girl Janaki (Kamalini Mukherjee). Janaki is an orphan who comes up in life the hard way. She is a doctor by profession and she serves the poor and the less privileged.The two become close but Abhiram does not like her modest background and her social service. Janaki also hates his attitude of looking down upon the poor people. Janaki leaves Abhiram and goes away. Abhiram is now desperately looking for her.
Enter Seenu (Allari Naresh) who is a petty thief. Abhiram comes in contact with him and with his help, tries to trace Janaki. Abhiram and Seenu go in search of Janaki on a bike. Abhiram finally manages to trace Janaki at a small village where she is serving the poor. Abhiram learns a lot bout life during his long journey in search of Janaki.
Finally, Abhiram is also a changed man. With this, the film ends on a happy note.

Parugu Review ... I know its too late :)

After a long time i found time to watch Parugu movie.
Did not blog as well for some time so thought of writing its review for my international friends who can only watch this on a DVD when it is released later..

The Story :
Neelakantam (Prakash Raj) is a rich person who lives in a village. His elder daughter (Poonam Bajwa) runs away with her boyfriend just before her marriage. Neelakantam catches all the friends of her boyfriend to find the couple. Krishna (Allu Arjun) is one of her boyfriend's friend. Once Krishna comes across Meena (Sheela) and falls in love with her. He does not know at that time that Meena is none other than Neelakantam's younger daughter. She is an innocent girl who was blamed by all for her sister's mistake. Neelakantam is very careful now as he does not want the same incidence to happen with his younger daughter. How Krishna wins his love is the remaining story.

The major let down of this movie is its thin story line. I had to walk out of the theater completely confused. 'Bommarillu' Bhaskar concluded this movie with a lot of confusion in his mind. The heroine, Sheila is one of the other lowlights of the movie. She failed to bring life to the character. .

Overall a watchable movie if you are a Allu Arjun Fan