Tuniga Tuniga

Tuniga Tuniga is debut movie of producer turned director M S Raju's son Sumanth Ashwin. As a producer M S Raju gave memorable hits to Mahesh Babu ( Okkadu), Prabhas ( Varsham) and Siddharth ( Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana), so when he launches his son under his direction with this movie, we surely expected modest firework, if not a big bang. But Tuniga Tuniga is a wet cracker that never fails even to catch fire forget the dhamaka.

The film's story (written by M S Raju and assisted by Bhupathi Raja, who is infamous for writing most slapdash scripts) is as old as Himalayas and scenes are taken from several old Hindi movies includingMaine Pyaar Kiya, Barsaat, etc.

Two great pals (Prabhu, Nagababu) stay together. As expected they have kids, one boy (Sumanth) and the other has a girl (Rhea). Both can’t stand each other. Some silly pranks to make you laugh follows. Cut. Girl sent abroad and comes after 12 long years. Love at first sight for the boy. He hides his identity. The girl who is oblivious to this later realizes this but by then is hopelessly in love with the boy. With the identity problem solved, what next? Girl’s family has someone else in mind to be her life partner. Huh! like we have not seen this problem before. Like a breeze our hero solves the problem. The end.

What was novel about this film? Nada (nothing). Other than good cinematography, even the presentation and narration offers nothing new. Sample this dialogue written by Parachuri Brothers: "Ugadi Pachadi Lo Uppu Undadu, Maa Manavadi Lo Tappu Undadu". The film has plenty of such outdated dialogues and scenes. But there are some chota mota things that did catch our fancy like beautiful cinematography (S.Gopal Reddy).

Sumanth Ashwin is a good dancer. He has potential to be a good actor. Rhea reminded us of Genelia. Second heroine (newcomer) lacks total appeal. Karthika Raja's composed title song is pleasing, other than that all songs lack fizz. Nagaabu, Prabu, Sayaji Shinde do justice to their roles. Rest are okey dokey.

M S Raju has not compromised on production values for his son’s debut. But that’s pointless, he should have given equal importance to the story. This middling storyline is definitely not the right launch vehicle for Sumanth Ashwin. 




Cast: Sumanth Ashwin, Rhea, Prabhu, Nagababu, M S Narayana, Seetha, Gita, and others
Dialogues: Parachuri Brothers 
Script assistance: Bhupathi Raja
Music: Karthik Raja 
Cinematography: S Gopal Reddy
Editing: K V Krishna Reddy
Produced by: Maganti Ramchandran
Banner: Padmini Arts
Story, screenplay and directed by: M S Raju 
Rating: 2/5 

Eega Review – Rajamouli Movie

Story:

Nani (Nani) and Bindu (Samantha) are lovers. Sudeep (Sudeep) a rich brat comes in between them and he kills Nani to get his hands on Bindu. Nani reincarnates as a housefly and avenges his death. He gets help from Samantha and how they execute their plan to kill Sudeep is what Eega is about.

Analysis:
Rajamouli told the story of Eega on the day of launch and people had expectations over how this film is going to be. Rajamouli exceeded all those expectations with his wonderful visual sense and executing his idea to the perfection.

Eega is an event. It can’t be put into words. It should be experienced to know the greatness of it. There are some mind blowing thrills and sequences that will sweep you off your feet. Housefly’s birth and the scenes that follow will arrest you with the detailing and wonderful research done.

First half breezes off with good romantic episodes and Sudeep’s powerful performance. Second half is dominated by housefly scenes. There are many clap worthy scenes in the film. One would can’t help but fall in love with Rajamouli’s visualization and his terrific narration. As the film has not much story the pace tends to fall a bit at times, but there are ample scenes to make it up for it.

Performances: 

Nani was good in his limited role. Sudeep was terrific as the bad guy. His stellar performance was one of the major plus points of the film. His screen presence will make you feel that there is no better option than him for this role. Samantha was a treat to watch. She has given a convincing performance. All others didn’t have much role to play, but everyone did fine in their respective roles. Watch out for Tagubothu Ramesh’s cameo!

Technicalities:

Dialogues were apt. Cinematography was excellent. Editing was up to the mark. Music by Keeravani is the major asset for this film. His background score stands out as one of his best works ever. There are few good melody songs too. CGI work was superb. Visual Effects will definitely rank among the best on Indian screen. Eega’s movements, dances and everything were done to the best possible levels. There was lot of time and hard work put into the film and the results are seen.

Eega is a technically well made film. Production values were top notch. Rajamouli has done a terrific job. His ideas and execution were superb in the film. There were many scenes where one would admire Rajamouli. He is undoubtedly the best director in Tollywood now.

Final Word:

Eega is one of the best films in recent times. It will be liked by kids. If you keep the logics aside, the movie will entertain you to the core. One of the rare films that has to be seen on big screen only. Go watch it!

Eega Movie Rating: 3.5/5

Banner: Varahi Chalana Chitram
Casting: Sudeep, Samantha, Nani
Producer: Sai Korrapati
Music: M.M.Keeravani
Direction: SS Rajamouli