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  1. `Samar’ is an unusual chase

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    / January 28, 2013 /
    “Vetaadu Ventaadu” (Hunt, Chase) in Telugu (“Samar” in Tamil) is quite an unusual movie even though it mixes up many genres in one film. It must be Vishal’s best film to date even though his character is flaky. Directed by Thiru, it starts off with a chase sequence and then...

  2. A feel good entertainer with Venkatesh and Mahesh

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    / January 11, 2013 / 2 Comments
    “Seethamma Vaakitlo SiriMalle Chettu” is a clean and supergood U-certificate blockbuster from the house of Dil Raju who made some of the finest DVD value catalog of family films over the last several years. “SVSC” is a culmination of many people who are proven talents in their own areas of...

  3. `Nayak’ gets its place under the `Sun’kranti

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    / January 11, 2013 / 3 Comments
    “Nayak” starring RamCharan is a sensational winner and a film worthy of duel under the “Sun”kranti. Sankranti is the grand-mother of Tollywood movies and is not for the faint-hearted. Even the best of stars don’t take a shy at the stumps for Sankranti because of the weight of expectations and...

  4. `Life is Beautiful’ but only 50 %

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    / September 15, 2012 /
    “Life is Beautiful” is now not just an Oscar-winning foreign film but also a Telugu film from a much-acclaimed director Shekhar Kammula, an Engineer-turned sophomore director who takes baby leaps with every film and carries youth and family audiences with him. Shekhar’s films are usually titled with English names, words...

  5. Power on with reforms

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    / August 1, 2012 /
    Talk about the power situation in Andhra Pradesh or power outage in North India, it’s a tale of professional mismanagement and weak policy response. A bird tells me that AP has the best power statistics. National average is 26% losses from power transmission, generation and distribution. AP is better @18%....

  6. Eega, a special effects extravaganza

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    / July 8, 2012 / 1 Comment
    ‎”Eega” means housefly in Telugu. That’s the name of SS Rajamouli’s latest and most ambitious film till date. To make a movie on a housefly is itself audacious and insane, nobody has done it ever in Indian Films. In the west, there have been many superhero films and maybe movies...
    Posted in Andhra Pradesh, Films
    Tagged eega, keeravani, nani, rajamouli, samantha, special effects, sudeep

  7. The Amazing Spider-man

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    / June 30, 2012 / 1 Comment
    “The Amazing Spider-man” comes back with an unfamiliar bang and unhurried charm. Andrew Garfield (remember the skinny guy who played the CFO in Faceboook “The Social Network”?) replaces the effable Tobey Maguire, and Emmy Stone replaces Kirsten Dunst. Director Mark Webb seems to love his surname so much that he...

  8. `Shakuni’ makes all the right moves

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    / June 23, 2012 /
    “Shakuni” is an interesting title of Karthi Sivakumar’s new film, named after the most interesting character in Mahabharata. Despite being a dubbed film (“Saguni” in Tamil), it was marketed well by Telugu producer Bellamkonda Suresh and generated quite a buzz before other big releases lined up like “Eega” and “Julai”....

  9. Tamanna sparkles in `Endukante Premante’

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    / June 9, 2012 /
    “Endukante Premante” (Because it is Love) is the new film on the block. Stars a twinkling Diva Tamanna. And energetic star Ram – who carries himself like a miniature Pawan Kalyan-cum-Mahesh Babu-cum-Ravi Teja. Produced by his Chartered Accountant uncle “Sravanti” Ravi Kishore whose family consists of CPAs and CAs and...

  10. Gabbar Singh is `Dabangg’ in Tollywood

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    / June 5, 2012 /
    According to `Business Standard’, as on June 1, `Gabbar Singh’ (Telugu remake of Dabangg) grossed Rs.128 crores in box office collections taking it closer to Dabangg’s Rs.173 crores. This makes the remake catapult into the all-time five grossers. That’s the power of mass-masala fares and box-office magic which eludes realistic...

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