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Banner: DownTown Films
Cast: Anushka Shetty, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Bhumika Chawla, Cochin Haneefa, M.S.Narayana, Waheeda, Eva Ellis, Aditi Chengappa, Vijay Samrat, Haripriya,
Harsh Vardhan Rane and others.
Music: BoBo Sasi
Producer: Bharat Thakur
Director: Srihari Nanu

Takita Takita movie stars are newcomers. Bharat Thakur and Bhumika Chawla, producer of the Takita Takita movie have done a great deal of the promotional activities to elevate the movie. lets find out Takita Takita review, to see whether those promotional activities will pay off or not.

Story:

Thakita Thakita movie is about 8 college going youngsters aspiring to build their careers – Nandini, Kishore, Mahesh, Scud, Bhakti, Jessica, Chandana and Sridhar.

Nandini and Kishore fell in love, but Nandini’s parents are against their love, while Scud and Kishore don not talk to each other since 5 years. Jessica is a foreign student interested in fashion and Sridhar loves Chandana, but never express. These youngsters face several hurdles in the process of fostering their career. And the plot unveils when how they try and resolve them

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Gaayam 2 Review

Banner: Sri Keerthi Creations
Cast: Jagapati Babu, Vimala Raman, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Ajay, Tanikella bharani, Tarzan, Kota Prasad and Others
Music: Ilayaraja
Cinematography: Anil Bandari
Producer: Dharma Kartha
Director: Praveen Sri

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We Are Family
Director: Siddharth P Malhotra
Actors: Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal

It’s this thing about soppy chick flicks, or afternoon soppy soap operas, if you will. The male character
related stories is destined to severe step-mom treatment. If he’s present at all, he usually has no say in his own destiny. He quietly follows nature’s will. Humour is generally scarce. This fits in well with the female worldview, perhaps (okay, that’s a joke!). It doesn’t help include varied audiences.
Arjun Rampal plays that muted, pointless gent in this movie adapted from Chris Columbus’s Stepmom (1998). To be fair, Rampal gets better playtime in the Indian adaptation. And he also looks suitably dishy for his target audience, as We Are Familyagainst a bald, old, divorced, charmless Ed Harris, who’s in with a girl (Julia Roberts) hotter than his vintage, in the Hollywood version.

Rampal’s the “strong, silent types”, who tells his girlfriend (Kareena), “Never say, I love you. It (the love) goes away.” The scene appears early on in the film. It’s a sweet promise of subtlety, hardly met by the movie thereafter. Unfortunately.

The leading man also has an alternate family: a divorced wife (Kajol), two daughters, and a son, who seems pretty low on the brat-quotient, ‘feminised’ perhaps in the company of women. Their mother is terminally ill. The kids are introduced to the dad’s young, sassy girlfriend they’re unlikely to accept, given the obvious circumstances. They call her D, short for daayan (witch), rather rustic nickname from children born and raised in Australia!

The setting is the sanitised First World. Spaghetti’s ready for supper. Aesthetics of modern, good housekeeping is established. As it is, for most urban Hindi films by now. The women (Kajol, Kareena) the film centres on, arguably make for the brightest big screen Bollywood talents. The shots are tightly clean.

It’s just the idea that binds all these together, which is entirely outsourced from the West. So is an Elvis hit, with lyrical Hindi additions that go: “Main toh bhool gayi kya wordings thi (I forgot what the words were), something something, Jailhouse Rock!” Jesus knows this Indian poverty (of imagination) is not new. This film is merely its rare, official acknowledgement. The producers have suitably paid for the copyrights. They’re not sneakily thieving this time! There may be hundreds of original local writers waiting for a medium to express something of their own, through the nation’s top leading ladies, no less. But then, creative laziness is not a moviegoer’s concern. The film is. English movie-rental, or Indian readymade remake: who cares?

A warm, doting single mother, losing before her eyes, her life and her sweet children to fatal cancer, you can tell, is something that’ll weep any woman off her feet. The premise is stuff dry tissues are made for. Yet, the pathos here is produced not from moments, but from performances alone: a stunning Kajol’s in particular. She appears superior to Susan Sarandon, I suspect, because the corny background score here, unlike the quietness of the original, rarely allows for sheer drama to take over. She also cannot quite place her family in the fakeness around, which can’t be concealed in candyfloss anymore. This ain’t Archie Andrews.

This is an Indian family drama over a dying single mom. Most such families would have a support stream of parents, uncles, aunties, many other relatives, pooling in at this tragedy. The mom’s hip, self-sufficient, in control, alone; despite an ex, and his hot girlfriend. The children look lost. This cultivated suaveness is but suddenly forgone as everybody begins to simultaneously weep from the screen. The heroine morphs into the image of the desi mother, in a saree, hoping the best for her daughter’s grand wedding after her death. Bollywood dhol beats hit the crescendo. Filmmakers hope you’ll hear the lady behind you go, sob sob sob… Hmmm.

Columbus discovered America in the 15th century. But he mistook it for India. Over 500 years later, in a film originally directed by Columbus, the confusion between the two cultures (and countries) still persist. Huh. It’s only fair!
Rating: **

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Director Kamaraj has tried his hand at serving a strong message in ‘Vilai’, which is about innocent women being exploited and pushed to flesh trade. Thankfully the film maker doesn’t stretch for effort here showing the dark sides, but he has tried to narrate a sequence of events to convey the theme.

The movie has some familiar names like Saravanan, Udhayathara and ‘Nadodigal’ fame Barani. What begins as a docu-drama suddenly changes gears to become a routine clichéd affair. The intention of the director seems to be right, but he falters at its execution. Events unfold at quick pace and at places defy logic, taking away all sheen.

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Starring: Javed Jaffrey, Gul Panag, Celina Jaitely, Eesha Koppikar, Divya Dutta and Chunky Pandey

Director: Manish Tiwari

August 27, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): A blatant copy of Hollywood film of the 80s, Nine To Five, Hello Darling is for those who enjoyed comedies like Kya Kool Hain Hum and Apna Sapna Money Money.

Sat (Eesha) comes to Mumbai for a job from Haryana. She joins a fashion house headed by Harddick Vasu (Javed Jaffrey), a lecherous boss who leaves no chance in sexually harassing his employees. Though married to a devoted wife Purvi (Divya Dutta) Vasu is philandering and harassing his female employees. Also, working in his office are Candy (Celina) as his personal secretary and Manasi (Gul Panag) as a senior manager. They two are fed up of his constant passes. Sat joins Manasi and Candy to teach him a lesson. Circumstances lead to Manasi accidentally pouring rat kill powder instead of coffee meant for Vasu. Vasu collapses but it is because of his chair falling down. But the three ladies mistook him for dead and the chaos that follows leads them to stealing a wrong dead body from the hospital thinking its Vasu’s. Meanwhile Vasu captures this all on his mobile video camera and blackmails them into spending a week with him at a hill station. The three ladies have no option but to say yes to him but with a condition that he will spend the seven days in Manasi’s house instead. What plan do the three ladies have in store for Vasu and what all it leads to forms the rest of the film.

The film is full of double intender jokes and one-liners that amuse you at times but don’t really entertain. While the first half is quiet pacy and hilarious at places, the pace drops considerably after Vasu’s visit to Manasi’s house. Nothing much happens in the second half and it simply drags. The climax too is unnecessarily stretched and the entry of Sunny Deol (in a cameo) doesn’t add much. One wonders why his voice appears dubbed by a mimicry artist. The whole section of Chunky Pandey being mistaken as Divya Dutta’s hubby and kidnapped by Seema Biswas’s hench men is howlarious at first but then gets repetitive.

While Javed Jaffrey enacts his part well he doesn’t appear lecherous from any angle. He however gets his comic timing perfect. Gul Panag, Eesha and Celina all three have managed to do their job well. Eesha especially displays a better comic timing than the rest two. Chunky Pandey as Celina’s unfortunate boy friend in a desi Elvis avatar is first rate. Divya Dutta is endearing.

Music by Pritam is nothing worth to rave about and the only passable song being the redoux version of yesteryears super hit track Aa Jaane Jaa.

Hello Darling seems to be aimed completely at the front benchers. Watch it if you like corny humour.

Rating: 1.5 out of 5*

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Ramar, with a slew of newcomers, a fast, action packed movie, is getting released this Friday. The audio release of this movie was held at Satyam Cinemas recently. Almost everyone, including the director, is making their debut in this movie which has some mind-blowing action sequences.

The director of the movie is Aathiraja who was a former assistant for director Dorai. Starring Vinay Datha and Anumol, this movie will be the perfect launching pad for the debutants.Vinay Datha is a very promising talent, revealed director Sivasakthi Pandian in the audio release function of Ramar. Anumol, a new face from Kerala, is the heroine.

The cinematographer is Kasi V Nathan, who has earlier worked in the unreleased movie Ayyan. Charles Melvin, a former keyboard player has scored the music while Ilayakamban and Andal Priyadarshini have penned the lyrics. Suresh Urs, well known face in the industry, will take care of the editing department.

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Give away millions to anyone who’d promise to find a single bright spot in the supposedly happy film ‘Happy Happy Ga’. Varun Sandesh is on a talkathon`right from the word go. If you wish for a break from his tiring smiles and monologues, you are treated to a endless nonsense from Ali..to put it in short it’s like jumping from frying pan into the fire. The hero Santosh leads a team called the Cartoon Guys who are into a business of making people Happy but sadly the story is such that it would make the most gregarious of cartoons sad. Santosh has a habit of flirting but when he seriously falls for Pooja, he’s in for a shock. She prefers to be just friends. The lady who’s returned from the US has nothing better to do so, she takes up the onus of finding the dream woman in Santosh’s life. Santosh points out at a lady and says that she’s the person he’s in love with and there moves the story.

Pooja carries all his love letters to Priya, the stranger and she has fallen in love with him almost immediately. The rest of the film is how Pooja plays a glorified broker’s job and in the process begins to feel love for the hero. The hero is in a role conflict, to reveal all. Another angle to this love story is the Priya’s brother is a baddie and he wants to see his sister happy so compels the hero to love her (sic) as she will soon die (she suffers from an ailment). Now to know if Priya dies or not, if she gets Santosh or Pooja does..one has to sit through the second part of the film.

The director Priya Saran has handled the film in an absolutely juvenile manner. Shabby cinematography, the plot and treatment gives it a third grade look. Varun Sandesh’s non stop prattle is not amusing especially when he pronounces Taj Mahal as Taj Mahaal. The entire film has him smile constantly and when the situation demands that he needs to look sad, in the last scene, he fails to deliver the right expression making a mockery of the entire story. Is Vega blinded by too much light or is she opening or closing her eyes is something that needs to be unraveled. Saranya Mohan does a convincing job. About Rajitha, MS Naryana..the less said the better. An excruciating experience this!

Cast & Crew:

Banner: Ocean Films

Cast: Varun Sandesh, Vega, Saranya Mohan and others

Direction: Priyasaran

Production: Vadlamudi Durga Prasad

Music: Manisharma

Source: Cinegoer

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Prakash Raj’s journey as a producer has been considerably successful for his aesthetic sense of churning out quality movies. Starting off with an unusual thriller titled ‘Naam’; he continued fetching more feathers to his hat with ‘Azhagiya Theeye’, ‘Mozhi’ and ‘Abhiyum Naanum’. But this time, he seems to have literally got away from his usual lane. The reason lies beneath filmmaker’s carelessness over modifying certain changes from original version. However, it proves as a passable entertainer for its unique story and lifelike pictorial of college days.

What strikes your mind when it’s a film based on college life? A memory down the lane of stepping into college for first time, ragging mania, group of friends that includes – couple of brilliant top scorers, a boy from poor family background, a rich guy with no concern towards studies, hostilities between two groups, friendship that blossoms into love, betrayals in friendships, reconciliations and walking out a completion with Sayonara.

These clichés persistently prevail in such flicks. Needless to mention, ‘Inidhu Inidhu’ doesn’t make an exception as it goes inclusive of such attributes. But, a different panorama is established through K.V. Guhan’s narration. In other words, K.V. Guhan’s act of replicating Shekar Kammula’s screenplay makes it a pleasant show. Ambiguities are often found in remakes as audiences’ psychologies in context with regions. Munching burgers and sipping cold coffees in your college campus – that’s an existing lifestyle in Hyderabad colleges, but it can’t be the same here (elite colleges are rare and merely such students can strike the similarities). Again, these are minutest blatant flaws that don’t affect the script.

Nothing special to mark about synopsis as it focalizes on a group of friends with 4 boys and girls. These new entrants of graduation course become friends and their journey of next few years are brimmed with love, friendship, sacrifices, and betrayals, confessing for disloyalties, reconciliations and finally stepping out of college campus with your beloved ones.

Roping in a league of newcomers should have obviously helped K.V. Guhan of bringing the best of actors. Everyone has been at their best with their realistic performance. The professor’s minimal role is appreciable while the student’s crush for woman lecturer for English touches the grounds of realistic humor.

Mickey J Meyer’s songs don’t stand out as best ones as it were in his original version. However, reestablishing background score adds more to the visual enhancements. Cinematography by K.V. Guhan is extraordinary, rich and colorful and editing with simple transitions suits well for the slow drama.

On the whole, ‘Inidhu Inidhu’ can be watched for a time pass. It’s sure to strike your attention at few parts while it turns to be quite sluggish on narration, which may obviously make the ‘C’ centre audiences restless before intermission.

Cast & Crew:

Banner: Duet Movies

Production: Prakash Raj

Direction: K.V. Guhan

Star-casts: Narayan, Adith, Vimal, Shravan, Reshmi Menon

Music: Mickey J Meyer

Verdict: Good attempt, but could’ve been better

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