Keratam Movie Review

Keratam Review – Keratam Telugu Movie Review, Rating: Siddharth Raj Kumar, who belongs to Rebelstar Krishnam Raju family, made debut as an actor with Keratam film. This is produced by SV Babu on SV Productions banner. Gowtham Patnaik is the director. This film is a remake of Kannada hit Josh. How did SRK’s first attempt fare? Let’s get into the details…

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Story:

Siddharth (Siddharth Raj Kumar) is a middle class student who leads his life in a jolly way. He doesn’t care about the future and doesn’t have dreams about tomorrow. He and Geetha (Aishwarya) fall in love and she sacrifices her medicine seat to study along with him.

Geetha’s parents comes to know about their love and her father will be left hurt by knowing that his daughter gave her ambition away for the sake of studying with Siddharth. Geetha understands her father pain and leaves Siddharth for studying medicine. After this Siddharth ignores his studies and stops going to college. He falls in love with Sangeetha (Rakul Preeth Singh), but she rejects him as he is not well educated.

Everyone around him settles down in life but Siddharth remains good for nothing and then he realizes his mistakes.

Analysis:

This film gives a strong message to youth to study well and don’t give up education for the sake of enjoyment. This point is touched many a director but is still evergreen as there are students who don’t realize the responsibility even in this super fast system.

Hero’s realization forms the climax of this film. Therefore the hero is seen in joshful mood until the penultimate scenes. Despite having a promising premise at hands, the director didn’t make good use of it. Screenplay is loose and the scenes are too flat. There is no single scene that arrests the attention of audience

 

 

Performances:
Siddharth did well in his very first film. He has loads of confidence and can challenge his competitors if given a good script. He also needs the push from his family for the audience to recognize him. If you want us to give single reason to watch this film, we will say watch it for this youngster who is brimming with confidence.

Rakul Preeth Singh gets very less screen time. Aishwarya is Okay. She resembled Madhavi Latha of Nachavule fame. Bheemaneni Srinivasa Rao excelled in his role. Venu Madhav’s comedy is routine yet entertaining. Rest of the cast is apt.

Technicalities:

Joshua Sridhar’s music is fine with two good songs. Background score is neat. Cinematography and Editing are among the positives of this film. This film is technically good and director Gowtham Patnaik has proved that he has command on all the crafts. He got the best out of his technical team. But the script which was borrowed from a Kannada film has let him down.

Final Word: This wave is weak!

Keratam Movie Rating: 2/5
Banner: SV productions
Cast: Rakul Preet Singh, Siddharth Raj Kumar
Music: Joshua Sridhar
Producer: S.V. Rajendra Singh Babu
Direction: Gautam Patnaik

Mugguru Telugu Movie Review

Mugguru Review – Mugguru Telugu Movie Review, Rating: Mugguru is the latest film from the production of legendary producer D. Rama Naidu, who is making low budget entertainers these days. Director V.N. Aditya has altered his name as Nagendra V. Aditya as per numerology to get back to his hay days. Here is the review of Mugguru…

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Story:

Pavan (Navadeep), Maruti (Rahul) and Anji (Srinivas Avasarala) are three friends, who don’t have good educational or financial background. They hope to settle big in life by doing anything. They plan to kidnap JP (Ahuti Prasad), but in turn help him out of danger.

JP gets impressed by them and offers them jobs in his Malaysian company and also promises to get them married to his three daughters (Shradha Das, Sanjana and Sowmya). These three goes to Malaysia and impresses JP’s daughter and when things seems a cake walk for them in comes ‘trouble’ in the form of Bala Tripura Sundari (Reema Sen).

Analysis:

Mugguru is a desperate attempt to make an enjoyable comedy. The director tried his best to make audience laugh right from the start. Unfortunately none of the scenes or tricks carried the ‘punch’ and ‘power’ to make audiences smile. Almost every scene fell flat or annoyed audience, who might laugh at the director’s helplessness.

First half is completely dedicated to establish the plot and few foolish tricks of the three lead men to trap their three girls. Although the interval twist did raise some expectations, the reason given for it right after the interval looked cheap and unfunny. That flashback part was dragged and dragged to eat out enough time to get into the climax.

Climax depends completely on Brahmanandam who makes desperate attempt to make this film look like a comedy, but he too fails due to the very bad writing and unimaginative direction.

Performances:

Navadeep is good and is the standout performer among the three heroes. Rahul is weak in every department and hardly an actor material. Avasarala Srinivas didn’t have scope to exhibit his skills.

Shradha Das looked hot, Sanjana is mildly hot and Sowmya is anything but hot. All the three didn’t have much screen time except for dancing in a couple of songs and showing off their curves in few titillating scenes.

Reema Sen didn’t look as bad as in this film in the past. Shivaji did an extended guest role which doesn’t make any impact. Brahmanandam did his best to save this film from being a disaster and Ali’s comedy hardly works. Ahuti Prasad and others are just there to fill in few characters.

 

Technicalities:

Music by Koti is as loud as the comedy in this film. Background score is bad. Cinematography and editing reminds you of masala films that were made in the late eighties. V.N. Aditya once again fails as a director. His attempt at comedy proves a fact that he can’t handle comedy.

Final Word: It will be hard to find at least “Mugguru” who will say ‘three’ good things about this film.

Box office verdict: Making on a shoestring budget is the only plus point for this film to survive at the box office.

Mugguru Movie Rating: 1.75/5
Banner: Suresh Productions
Cast: Rahul, Soumya, Avasarala Srinivas, Reema Sen , Navadeep, Sanjana, Venu Madhav, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Brahmanandam, Ali
Music: Koti
Producer: D Ramanaidu
Director: V.N.Aditya

Dhada Movie Review

Dhada Movie Review: Naga Chaitanya's latest film Dhada is out in theaters now. After delivering back to back hits with two soft love stories, Chaitanya groomed himself into a mass hero with a time tested formula movie Dhada. Ajay Bhuyan directed this movie on Shri Kamakshi enterprises banner. Shiva Prasad Reddy who produced numerous movies with Nagarjuna till now has made this film with Nag's son. Dhada raised many expectations and has been carrying positive buzz prior to release. Did it live up to the expectations? Check out Dhada review...

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Story:

Vishwa (Naga Chaitanya) and Rajeev (Sriram) are brothers who love each other very much. Vishwa who is an adventurous guy falls for a multi millionaire's daughter Rhea (Kajal). Rhea's father (Mukesh Rushi) fixes her marriage with a billionaire. Meanwhile, Vishwa saves a girl from a gang of thugs which in turn affects the multi crore business of human trafficking run by RD (Rahuil Dev) and Kelly (Kelly Dorjee). RD starts to hunt for Vishwa and then the movie ends on an expected noted after the director throws in few twists and turns.

Analysis:

Dhada has the style, grandeur, capable star cast and excellent technical crew, but what it lacks is a solid script. The plot itself is a very familiar and uninteresting one. Even the screenplay isn't engaging at all. Right from the word go, the movie tests the audience patience and turns torturous with each passing minute. Director has gone for all style little substance kind of film, which doesn't appeal to any section of audience.

The richness in the film and the exotic visuals are the only saving grace. Even the characters are under developed and due to that an able star cast gone wasted. The film drags and drags on in the second hour that few audiences in the auditorium lost patience and started booing. The last half an hour is extremely unbearable as the director tried his level best to make things interesting. Dialogue writer's inefficiency added to the woes.

Music is not bad and not good either. None of the songs were picturized well too. Awful makeup of Kajal didn't help the proceedings. On a whole, Dhada is a pretty badly made film with crores of money spent by the producer on absolutely nothing.

 

 

 

Performances:

Naga Chaitanya tried to prove himself as a good mass hero. But he needs to wait for some more time to look old enough to take up such roles. His diction is so bad in few scenes in alright at times. He can't pronounce few Telugu words perfectly and that is not a welcome sign for a Telugu hero. He worked a bit on his dances and fights. He is just okay with them.

Kajal's role looked like as if it was written after Titanic heroine's role. She did fine as a damsel in distress. But the makeup and styling of her not at all good. She looked awkward with that barbie doll kind of hairstyle.

Rahul Dev's character is not properly etched. Kelly Dorjee is typecast yet again. Sriram looked weak and uninterested throughout the film. Sameeksha switched to character roles with this film. Brahmanandam did everything possible to make the audience laugh but hardly succeeded. Ali too is wasted and so are the comedians who did few cameo appearances.

Tehnicalities:

Dialogues by Abburi Ravi didn't have the necessary zing. His work ranged from ordinary to hopeless in this film.
Music by Devi Sri Prasad is standard. None of the songs have the repeat value. Background score is not so great. Cinematography is slick and probably the best of the technical departments. Editing is not up to the mark. Production values are rich.

Director Ajay Bhuyan can make a film stylishly and that is what the impression you get on him after watching Dhada. He needs to work on various departments to call himself a director.

Plus Points:

- Richness and visuals
- Slick cinematography

Minus points:

- Weak script
- Poor direction

Final Word: Dhada for audience and also the buyers!

Box office predictions: It should open good due to lack of watchable Telugu films in the recent past. But the film didn't have a single plus to survive at the box office. Lot will depend on tomorrow's release Kandireega.

Dhada Review rating: 2/5

Banner: Sri Kamakshi Enterprises
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Kajal Aggarwal, Brahmanandam, Samiksha
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Producer: D. Siva Prasad Reddy
Story, Director: Ajay Bhuyan