Sambho Siva Sambho Review..

Sambho Siva Sambho is the last film released in Sankranti releases and is the real Sankranti winner of all.

Here is my review….

My Rating: 3.75/5

Story: Three friends (Ravi Teja, Naresh, Siva Balaji) would die for each other’s friendships and each of them have their own goals. Ravi Teja puts his time in quest of Government job to marry his uncle’s daughter (Priyamani). Allari Naresh puts efforts to go abroad for reasons untold. Siva Balaji tries for bank loan to start an own business and settle down.

However, the arrival of Ravi Teja’s friend who is keen on marrying the daughter of a factionist (Mukesh Rishi) gets the trio together and they help the love birds get married. In this process, their lives suffer a lot. Things get worse when they discover that the love birds are now on the verge of divorce and getting married elsewhere. What happens after that forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Ravi Teja: As usual he had done the role in the film with an ease. Though he looks deglamourized, he did it very convincingly in all ways like a friend and like a son.

Allari Naresh: After Gamyam it is another Award winning performance for him.

His performance is exceptionally well. His performance in second half is really great especially in climax and with Sunil when he say to him as He is their Gang Leader.

Siva Balaji: He did justice to the role given to him. He is apt as a decent person and a good friend.

Priyamani: there is nothing much to talk about her. Just a small character only in first half and did as required.

Others: Sunil did the role of Ravi Teja’s friend and did a good job. The other character to be talked about is of Rao Ramesh’s another splendid performance from him in the pre-climax scene. Krishna Bhagavan also did a decent job and evokes few laughs. All the remaining characters are adequate.

Technical Aspects:

Story-Direction-Screenplay: Story by Samudrakani is just a normal one just like Parugu but was a it different at the last 30 mins. Direction by him is really great and should be applauded. Screenplay is also good. But, in second half there is a lot of Tamil flavour which might have a little impact on the movie. But, on a whole it is a good job done by the director.

Other departments: Music is just an average fare with couple of racy numbers. BGM is really good but the songs could have been much more better. Camera work is really good. Editing could have been much better.

Finally…. This is a movie that is with a good message for youth and especially for lovers. It gives a strong message for youth. Plus points are Allari Naresh and Ravi teja’s performances, comedy in first half and climax. On the flip side, it is the Music, Editing, and a little Tamil Flavour. On a Whole a good movie and is the Sankranti’s best movie this year. Finally, this is a MUST WATCH movie. Sambho Siva Sambho is a different kind of film and it will appeal to all those who love novelty and experimentation in film

Namo Venkatesa Review..

Victory Venaktesh's latest flick Namo Venkatesa is an another Ready kind flick from Seenu Vytla.This is an average fare from Seenu Vytla.Coming to Review..

My Rating: 3.25/5

Story: Venkata Ramana (Venkatesh) is a ventriloquist. He goes along with the troop of artists to perform for a local Telugu association in Europe. Paris Prasad (Brahmanandam) is a tour organizer in Europe. He enjoys making people around bakras. Pooja (Trisha) is the niece of Prasad. Venkata Ramana falls in love with her. Prasad realises that only way to make Ramana bakra is to tell him that Pooja loves him too. Pooja is the daughter of a rich factionist in Rayalaseema and she is forced to return back in the middle. Her marriage is fixed with a guy she doesn’t like. The rest of the story is all about how Prasad conspires with Ramana to rescue Pooja

Performances:

Venkatesh: It’s a cake walk for Venkatesh to do such roles. His comedy timing is really a great one. He looks good and performs very well in emotional scenes. He got many new mannerisms like Praying Lord Venkateswara and his Laugh.

Trisha: Trisha is nice and adequate.

Brahmanandam: Brahmanandam is pretty good as a guy who loves fooling around with the people.

Others: Ali is entertaining in a brief role. MS Narayana’s jyotishyam episode is nice. It’s a routine role for Subbaraju. Jaya Prakash Reddy, Dharmavarapu, Kota and Telangana Sakuntala are adequate. Master Bharath’s character is not hilarious as it is supposed to be a positive character helping hero.

Technical Departments:

Story: There is no freshness in the story and entire story runs on deja vu. We have seen innumerous movies (Sankham, Jayeebhava, Saleem to name a few in the last few months) in the past where the half of the film happens in the abroad and the other half shifts to Rayalaseema. Our story writers are still stuck in DDLJ hangover where hero comes from abroad to stay in heroine’s place. The idea of hero planning to start a factory by partnering with the family of heroine is also inspired by DDLJ. Venkatesh has done similar climaxes in three films after year 2000 (Nuvvu Naku Nachav, Vasantham, Adavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule) where heroine who is about to get married to another guy changes her heart in the last minute.

Screenplay - direction: Screenplay of the movie is good in parts. Seenu Vytla who mastered the art of entertainment made sure that he had lots of entertaining scene in the movie. However, most of them are already done by him in movies like Dhee and Ready. Irrespective of how many number of times he directs drinking scenes in his movies, Seenu Vytla makes sure that he entertains each of the time in a refreshing way. The way Venkatesh dances to tunes of other heroes and beats Brahmanandam up by remembering his enemies is good. I also like the creative idea of changing the tunes in the background when Venkatesh and Ali aim for Trisha (Emaindi Ee vela and aashique banaya). We expect a lot from Brahmanandam character in Seenu Vytla movies. In the earlier movies of Seenu Vytla, heroes make Brahmanandam a bakra and audiences loved it. However, in this movie Brahmanandam makes hero bakra most of the times. Hence the desired effect is missing on the Brahmanandam character in this movie compared to earlier Seenu Vytla’s movies. Screenplay of the movie becomes disengaged towards latter part of the second half.

Other departments: Music by Devi Sri Prasad is adequate with the title song being peppy. Picturization of the songs is very good. Cinematography by Prasad Murella deserves a special applause as the visuals are shot beautifully. The virgin locations chosen for shooting of songs are excellent. Diaogues by Ramana Chintapally are nice. Production values by the new production house ’14 Reels Entertainment’ are very good. A lot of care is taking in postproduction activities as well.

Finally…

The first half of the film is slow at the start. The film starts picking up pace from the scene at which Venky dances for Mr.perfect and Ringa Ringa. Second half is good but climax is weak and much predictable. The plus points of the movie are Venkatesh’s performance and Seenu Vytla’s entertainment orientation. On the flipside, a novel screenplay (as most of the screenplay resembles that of Ready and Dhee) in the second half would have given fresh feel to the movie. We have to wait and see how it works at box office.

Adurs Review...

Jr.NTR's latest flick Adur's released amidst the T-fight.But the film couldn't make up to the expectations.It's just an "Old Wine In a New Bottle" .

Coming to My Review:

My Rating: 3/5

Story: This is a Story of twins who separated at birth. Narasimha (NTR) who becomes an undercover agent for a top cop.Chari (NTR) is brought up by a family of Hindu Priests.A gang of Don (Ashish Vidhyarthi,Mahesh Manjrekar) are in search of the family of a top scientist.The rest of the story is about the relation between Twins and Scientist.

Performances:

Jr.NTR: Jr.NTR did well in both roles he played. His action in the role of Chari is exceptionally good.His comedy timing along with Brahmanandam has worked out very well.Also,his diction as a Brahmin is really good.His performance as Narsimha is OK.But, his dances are not upto the expectations.

Heroines: Both the Heroines Nayanatara and Sheila are just as a formality and are adequate.

Others: Brahmanandam steals the show again for VVV after Krishna.His comedy along with NTR produces a lot laughter.Mahesh Manjrekar, the actual villan of the movie was good,but his character was made a lot funny at the end.

The remaining cast are adequate.

Technical Departments:

Direction: Story given by Kona Venkat is an old story and Vinayak couldn't make it up well. There were shades of many films like Hello Brother, Billa, Don etc.Vinayak couldn't do justice to the role of Narasimha.He could have concentrated much more on that role. But, coming to his comedy timing it's brilliant. He has created much laughter in the movie as expected and it worked well and maintained all the comedians as required.

Others: Music by DSP is an Average fare. BGM is good. Editing could have been done better.The Producer kept alot money for the movie but couldn't make it finally a good product.The camera Handled by Chota.K.Naidu is awesome.

Finally:

Adurs is just an average fare. The first half of the film is good with good Comedy between NTR(Chari) and Brahmanandam. The second half comes down a lot except the scenes of Chari and Brahmanandam. The plus points of the film are Chari,Brahmi. In the minus, we have, the Old Story, Directors failure in protraying role of Narasimha, Showing all the Serious Villains as Comedy VIllains and all Expected Twists.Thank God there are no Lengthy dialouges and Blasting scenes in the movie.

So,Vinayak could have a taken alot more care in these aspects. Over all an Average fare. The fate of film all depends on the up coming releases Namo Venaktesa and Shambo Shiva Shambo.