Anjaneyulu

How many times have you stood zapped by the sheer energy levels displayed by Ravi Teja. There are a lot of producers who think of him to be a minimum guarantee hero and he does disappoint them a wee bit. Movie after movie we see him chasing the heroine in a fashion that would certainly inspire the youth(!)

In his movies the female protagonist is portrayed as a character who is hard to crack but then she ultimately cracks under the pressure applied by the hero and this movie is no different at all as Nayantara acts pricey but then starts buckling under the pressure. His movies also have a fair share of fights and this movie has got them too and as an added bonus there are, according to the well known critics gory fights but I did not find them too gory to deplore them as I have seem far worse fights than them. Case in point being climax fight in Athadu where bone-crunching is shown and a fight in Chatrapati where the antagonist bludgeons a person to death with a sledge-hammer

Coming back to this movie it has some very good dialogues written by the director himself and they appear at the right times. A sampler of it is"Notiki vachina muddha ni, kalu degariki vachina moguduni vadhu anokudadhu" and when the protagonist says "naa body lo parts ki individuality ekkuva, okka sari pani modhaledthe vati panilu ave chesuku pothayi"

What can be held against the movie is that it is unviewable at times and not worth listening to at all as there is a lot of double entendre, which makes you scowl at the proceedings. What has been proved with this movie is that producers are depending on Ravi Teja to carry the movie on his shoulders and he is enjoying the new found responsibility to the core as Nayantara appears only five minutes before a song sequence and all the other characters except Brahmanandam are relegated to the background

Overall, like other Ravi Teja movies it makes for an entertaining watch and you would consider your money well spent

Kaminey

Into the movie, in the beginning Shahid Kapoor, the one with the lisp utters a dialogue “Aif(s)e Aif(s)e, Kaif(s)e Kaif(s)e” and that’s the apt description for the movie considering it has been directed by a genius called Vishal Bhardwaj. People have been saying that it has been inspired by the Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino school of film-making but for me it has been inspired by “Cajetan Boy” and this is known because Vishal rightfully credits it in the title and one more thing that I was looking forward to, in the titles was the name of the Cinematographer. Right from the time I saw the trailer I was particularly impressed and it answered to the name, Tassaduq Hussain

Made in the alleys of Mumbai, the film captured the essence of the city very well. The scenes where the rain is captured, which pretty much is the movie in itself is amazing. Particularly amazing from a taking point of view is the scene which has the nation drooling- Shahid running along with the horses, showing off his bod- and rightly so. Coming to the cast, each one them seems tailor-made for the character, which is the case with a well made movie. Particularly impressive are Shahid Kapoor, Amol Gupte, Tenzing Nima, Shivkumar Subramaniam, Hrishikesh Joshi and Chandan Roy Sanyal

Coming to the plot of the movie, it has twins who suffer from speech impediments as is shown in the trailers. One with a lisp and the other with a stammer. They are living life independent of each other after skirmishes. One wants to grow up to have a betting counter of his own and the other has his life-path charted. But fate has other plans for them as they cross each other’s path again. Both face problems because of unforeseen circumstances, Charlie because of the inner greed and Guddu because of Priyanka Chopra(Sweety). With a huge cast in the movie and a whole lot of grey shades attached to them, it takes some time in establishing the characters and once it’s done the movie rushes forward to the climax

Without giving away the story, all the characters that stay alive till that point converge and the movie ends on a predictable note. Suffice to say that it’s a movie worth watching till that point. Amol Gupte plays the self-obsessed Maharashtra fanatic, who changes his personal contours once too often and comes out with a superb portrayal. A word for Chandan Roy Sanyal as Michael. It’s been a long time since a character that grabs your attention in a very less span of time. His role is one such

It’s being propagated as a pulp-fiction movie, which is beyond my understanding but my little brainie says that it’s a comic movie if you pay attention to what the characters say and at the same time you feel introspective

PS: Don’t go by the ‘A’ rating given by the censors. It can be viewed with the entire family

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