Hare Krishna -- English Play Review

So this is a movie review blog and I m putting review about a play and I cant complain people thinking that 'does it make some sense' ....Yeah it makes....For that you need to watch the play.So I will be coming to that...I never missed some show like this because in 2011 when the play is played in Chennai , I was about to book the tickets and later missed it and then I came to know that was one of the very costly miss I have ever made.I kept in mind that next time anywhere if the play is been showed then I will be there but by gods grace, in this Sreekrishana Navami Shobhana decided to play it again in Chennai and without any doubt I just logged into bookmyshow and searched for tickets. I saw that Rs500 tickets are over and only 1000,2000,3000 range tickets are only available. With a bit of reluctance I booked a Rs 1000 ticket and constantly thought of it that whether it worth that much and later on the day of play I somehow managed to take a half day leave then drive to Naradha Sabha in Chennai to view the play. Here goes my review


Hare Krishna ---- Worth a billion bucks

As the name suggests, it's the story of Krishna,an epic character from Mahabharatha. When you are making a movie or a play about such a character you need to very careful as every simple scene and dialogue will be watchfully taken care by the audience and the reaction can be disastrous as well as fantastic.Here without any doubt I will say it was fantastic perhaps the most excellent and brilliant show I have ever seen in my life.Yeah I m a person who watches modern as well as old plays which are performed in Chennai. Ok again I m coming to the play. I would say this was great....simply great...When perfection became a habit for all characters and all scenes then obviously it needs to end up in a great product and that happened with Hare Krishna too...I  am not telling any storylines as almost all is aware of that. The play showcases Krishna's different perspectives , the lover,the philosopher,the teacher etc ....This makes the audience easily comes into  the play and really enjoy it ....The blend of songs like Dhoom Machale and other hindi songs also gives a special feel when we are watching it.Starting from the birth the play showcases the entire life of Krishna till he leaves earth. Here there can be a problem for people who doesn't know any track of Krishna's story earlier may find a little difficult to catch up ....but I dont know is there anyone like that.....But for them also the visual treat is magical .... entertaining and giving goosebumps across the play


So coming to acting part of the play....I dont have words to describe....Shobhana was literally rocking on the stage....great....great...great...I have felt I have seen Krishna in real....Other characters like the girl who played the childhood of Krishna and the one who played Radha were brilliant.....Every actress is so great...and I m amused by the way they blended it with dance moves...and each move have some realtions with the story line ...I m not the person to say that because I dont have much about dance moves but from a layman view I have experienced it ....the magical visual extravaganza.......Once again Shobhana was really an eyetreat and one of fantastic performances I have ever seen either in live or silver screen.


.A play when it goes for nearly 3 hours , it can really go bad if you dont give proper care of it the script.....You need to put a greater effort in the every nook and corner and also needs to include some catchy dialogues....otherwise people will not show much interest into that....In this script was at its highest point....giving one of the most catchy dialogues I have seen in my lifetime...One dialogue which Krishna says to Radha..." I m drunk with the love to you" .....there is a hell lot of dialogues in the play which will stand back in your mind even after you leave the hall....Voices which were rendered where also superb...Surya for Arjun ,Prabhu for Bhima  especially Shabhana Azmi for Ghandari are really fantastic as the voices very well showcased the feel of the characters and situations.

On the technical side,the name itself will speak...Resool Pookutty was the sound engineer I think I dont have tell much about that then...One of the song is choreographed by Prabhu Deva.. again my reviewer in mute. Rest of the play is directed and choreographed by Shobhana herself and I have no words to explain as I have used fantastic, great, exemplary,brilliant a  lot of times across the review......Amazingly great with wonderful perfection...Light arrangement also needs a very special mention here .....It was really great such that the mood is conveyed superbly to the audiences....Nothing much to describe as I have used all of my words........

I m going to take a Rs3000/- ticket next time



My rating --100/100 ........Worth a billion bucks  and if you miss then you are missing one of the best 

Dark Knight Rises - English Movie review

So here comes the most awaited movie in this year.....yes I said it as the most awaited movie.....The teasers and trailers of the movie which have given it's fans goosebumps....the movie which got much hype and media attention because of its wonderful first part.....The first part which the audience watched for villain than the super hero.....for its wonderful screenplay and at a time it came as first best movie in the world yeah in the IMDB over taking even the supremo Godfather.....Anyway when an another part for such a kind of movie comes that too from the same crew and from the same director who casted a magic spell with his direction ventures like Dark Knight,Inception etc....And the movie got media attention  when it said "The Legend Ends" as its tag line...So lets go the movie review....perhaps this one is the first premiere movie review on my blog.....Right out of the first show in the world.... :)

Dark Knight Rises - Not a great swansong but well done

I don't know whether I can use the term swansong here because I don't really know whether the series ends here or not....may be it can go on .....Anyway lets go into the movie.....As in the first part...its the powershooted entry of the villain is the first main point of the movie.....but I would this time it was bad not as good as the Joker's entry....I felt the scenes were really dump when they introduced Bane-The villain ..but there is a dialogue from him ;;"No matter what we are ...what matters is what we do"....You should keep your logic aside....Then the movie starts off from there...slowly...a pace which can make audiences little bit bored....As usual I wont tell anything about the story line.....They should have made the first half little bit racy.....Screenplay lags here and there...sometimes like during Batman's entry and all you will be thrilled but that adrenalin is not well carried across the first half......But this lag is well corrected by some wonderful dialogues which can really make international audiences interested to the subject......I am not saying the first half is way too bad or not at all interesting but I m just saying dont expect a race rushed first half then you will be disappointed


Coming to the second half of the movie,this is really holding the movie up. They made it really superb such that audince will really be going along with the story line and that is where perfect movies take birth.Some good action sequences ...perfect stunt scenes everything was there in the second half and the last twenty minutes of the second half is really thrilling such that at the end of the movie you will stand and clap.There are really interesting twists in the movie.....Watch out the same for that.....Second really scores because the screenplay was pretty tightly packed and there no lag....Also some dialogues were really interesting...

Into the technical side of the movie,animation and VFX works were as usual ..top class.....There is a scope for a good improvement in the screenplay but still its good....its like a first ranker of the class still can score much more as he/she has the capacity for that :P .......Stunt sequences are really good especially the bike stunt using Batman's bike ( " You got a wrong Animal here sir ?").........The powerful part I felt is the dialogues ,they are really in class with the Dark Knight.....The tempo is really well maintained....

From the acting side.....Villain was a biggest let down for me......No facial expressions....but sound and cruelty he portrayed was really superb and may be that will keep the audience engaged.Bruce Wayne was usual did a great job and also the cat woman.....Nothing can be called as a brilliant performance from the acting crew as we had Heth Ledger in the Dark Knight and that is really a worry part for me in this one.......Anyway I dont think most of the audience will look into these kind of things.....

Overall it is a good movie...Stunts...powerful villain....Batman..Batwoman....Robin..and so on.....As a package it delivers what it is intended to be....and Nolan can be happy....another hit is in his kitty.....This movie may not become as great as Dark Knight has become but I am sure this will be rated as one of the nice movies made and also will set the box office ringing.......


My rating is 8/10--Watch it for the good swansong and a perfect entertainer ...AND TO KNOW  WHETHER  THE LEGEND ENDS OR NOT????????.


Note : Watch it carefully,sometimes you can get the climax twist in the first 30-45 minutes itself....I have found out the same :P :P

And I still loves " what happens when an unstoppable forces meets an immovable object " than "No matter who we are...what matters is what we do"

Naan Ee/Eega/Eecha ---Terribly Fantastic

Its almost some three months since I have written my last review.Its not because I have stopped watching movies but because my home has become so isolated such that not even mobile internet will give me short term range to post my reviews. In these span of time I have watched some really good movies like spirit,grandmaster,Man on a Ledge etc.....But except spirit none of them was not on my list of much expected movies of the year....One of movie I was eagerly awaiting was the Naan Ee....only because the director is my ever time favorite....Rajamouli sir.....He is really exceptional .....perhaps one in the range of Hollywood folks......and so I just booked the tickets for Naan Ee with a hell lot of expectations.....and here goes my review


Naan Eee----Must watch and terribly fantastic

The movie's storyline is just a bedtime story for a young child from his/her grandma or grandpa or even from the parents as most of children these days misses the old story telling grandma and grandpa.....Anyway the story line is simple...a bad boy....loves a cute girl....kills her lover....and then the lover coming back as an Ee(eecha)...thats it....storyboard over....but I m still getting goosebumps when I remember the scenes of the movie.....all salute to the director who conceived the story in an international fashion with a great support of brilliant animation....Ra One and all needs to learn from these kind of movies.....Animation truly in an international level....Not even a single second of boring.....Movie just flows.....When you are showing an Ee's as movie'e central character, you need to be very careful because the story always needs to movie in a hero's view point.....Rajamouli and the script writer made a real magic here....the entire story is perceived from the eyes for the fly....even the camera work is done in such a way.....I dont have words to describe.....

In the acting side, Sudeep as the villain did a superb job....He needs to act many scenes as a fly was there in the scene eventhough in reality it will not be there...he did s tremendous job....Nanni have nothing much to do ,did his scenes well...Samanatha on the other hand also a did a good job....she had some presence throughout the story line along with the Ee...Kudos to the director there because he just didnt sidelined the female character.....Santhanam also did some nice one lines which was really interesting in the movie's end.....The climax dance from fly was really good .....All over it was the result of a brilliant team work....Hats off to all of them

Technically, the movie is just exceptional and a masterpiece in Indian cinema.....Editing and Animation at its best...When lot of things combines and all of them are it's best then it gives birth to a great product...and that happened in the case of Naan Ee....Camera work also deserves mention as the angles are really good and made in the way of the fly's view....Background score is also really good which makes audience go off their seats and clap for the fly.....Music is just ok with only one song.....Eeeedaa Eeeedaa song was really foot tapping.......Thats it from technical side

My rating is 9/10-----Terribly Fantastic

Yes I used terribly with fantastic like Shakespeare used Most with unwanted.... :)

Avengers--English Movie Review

So after a long time,again I decided to go on with my blogging. The gap was not because I didn't watched any movies in the time gap but really got stuck up with my work schedule.In between I watched Safehouse,Hatestory and lastly 'The Avengers and the as we all know the last one was most expected that too in this year of 2012 along with Dark Knight Rises....Again I need to find time to watch this movie...So while sitting in the office I just browsed through the bookmyshow site and saw the movie at AGS, which is nearby multiplex for me and the showtime at night 10 30....then decided and directly shooted up to AGS....and here goes my review


Avengers--Goose bumping National Meet of superheroes.....

There is no wonder that a movie becomes so expected one when all the most expected super humans comes and joins hands in that and the same happened here.We have seen the same many times before say in Fantastic Four, League of Extraordinary man but I would say this one is way above all those movies made till now( I mean movies which has multiple super heroes).....The movie simply above all the expectations...There is huge plus as well as a huge minus point in the screenplay of the movie.....The plus is that all the heroes have equal screen space and also the editing part of the movie is done very well so that the viewers will feel that equality which is there in the screenplay....Overall credit of this goes to the director and the individual credits goes to the persons behind screenplay n editing....The biggest minus of the same script is it has nothing in it.....It seems like all the Hollywood movies are now behind some energy cube which is the source of some abnormal thing....I m seeing it in a hell lot of movies....The screenplay might have improved on that side...but still it doesn't strike to much people rather people who watches movies looking where to criticise :P...kidding......Anyway the technical part of the movie stands really good but not awesome....We have seen the same sequences many times.....but the way the movie packaged is really good n awesome :P and that made it a huge hit....BO collections shows how strong the movie is even though it got a stiff competition.....Computer graphics work really deserved to be mentioned as some of the works I felt like nicely attempted and came out superbly....The top shots of Manhattan is an example of that...Camera work deserves a appreciation by that way.....So its like every part of the movie scores well and don't feel the audience bored.....and that is what actually intended from an English movie of this kind......


If you ask me which is the superhero you liked in this movie.....I would say its Iron man and also Robert Downy really scored well over all other actors as he presented the character with a charm while other actors where just super heroes....Each character was apt for the role but I felt Loki, the villain was not so powerful but his acts where.....He should have been little more powerful......that makes still  'Magneto' from X-Men  my every time favourite.....


My rating is 8/10-----Watch out n enjoy

RACHA---Telugu movie review

Yeah again this one is a first in my blog,yeah the first telugu movie review.Eventhough I m a huge fan of telugu movies,it took this much to put a review for a telugu movie in my blog.It might have 'Dookudu' of Mahesh babu obtained this position , but it went to Ram charan's ' Racha'.Anyway  as always filled with lot of expectations which Maghadheera delivered(eventhough Orange is a flop from Ram charan people still want to remember him for MD), I entered into the theater. Here goes my review


RACHA----Usual formala,might hit the lotto

So the movie was actually a decider for Ram charan, since after MD none of his movies made a mark in the boxoffice.That's why this movie is such a decider for him.For that reason only the directo or may be the producer included almost all comedy actors from tollywood and included enough skin show from Tamnnah too....but will it became fruitful.....its see into the detail

We have seen these types of sequences a hell lot of times in Tamil and Telugu movies itself but the fact which make the difference is how they present it out to the audience.Telugu movie makers are masters in this and Racha is also with no difference from that. The director made a 100 percent effort to pull this as a pakka masala entertainer and also to showcase the superhuman stuffs from Ram charan. I would say director has almost succedded in that and the perfection in the action sequences shows that. The intro scene of Ram was good and superb.The script spoiled the entire show here. The movie sometimes tried to take a turn but the low level script made it to fumble up and make it end as nothing for the audience. As usual the stunt master deserves a special mention here....High voltage stunts are nicely made.The songs department is ok but not exceptional and also the locations , nothing big in that sort. Editing can be improved and also you cant see a brilliant editing as u have seen in Magadheera or recent Dookudu....Then BGM....it is one of the most plus point of the movie....it induces a masala goosebump feeling and that will help the movie a lot .So I think I have covered the so called technical aspects of the movie which is an above average stuff but cant be termed as brilliant...

Coming to the actors/actresses part, the movie contains almost all second level artists from telugu movie industry,dont know all the names,but still it contains almost all. The villian was good and was also shown to be powerful on the screen.But the entire show was from Ram charan, for whom the script was made and tuned up. He looks cool n charm but still not near to Mahesh Babu in the cool looks......but still Ram tried his best....the script always tried to link with the megastar chiranjeevi....which is quit obvious.....But the easiness of Ram in performing action sequences were missing , we have seen he is doing the same thing superbly in MG....Anyway the 'betting Raja' character might have been improved,hope he will care for that in the next. Next comes Tamannah, as usual charming like a diamond.....beautiful...but the skin show is less...she has done her part well...but I would advise her to try something different as anushka because that would be great for her career which is very high pitch now.Ajmal also performed good nothing to much to mentioned about him as we did it for Ko.....

Anyways the movie contains all the masala stuffs which can make a superhit but the audience might get bored by the same storylines and that can make this movie end up as a dud.....but still I came to know that the first week collections of this one is terrific and in range of Dookudu....so I think a hit is on Ram charan's way

My rating is 6/10----Watch it with no expectations

The King and The Commissioner--- Malayalam Movie Review

So this review needs a hell lot of introductions....perhaps the most among all the movies I have reviewed in my blog...It happened way back when I m studying my plus two..I just told my friend that a second part of King is coming up and it is named as "Thevaliparambil Joseph Alex" and also another second part of Narasimham is coming titled " Paramidhikaram " where Mammotty will play the master role and Mohanlal will come as Induchoodan....MY friends laughed at me saying that is the buzz I made myself but now my comment came true after a long gap of 5-6 years and still no words abour Paramadhikaram from the makers....Lets hope that will also materialise in one day...Then coming to the movie.. I have no problems in saying that I m a Mammotty fan...Yeah once I was a so hardcore fan but eventually turned up to be a movie lover....And also this is the first Mammotty movie I m reviewing right over here...in my blog...and also that one turned out to the most expected movie in the recent times....So when the movie I just booked my seats at Escape Cinemas Chennai...Truly a wonderful watching experience...So going into the movie


The King and The Commissioner - A Verbal Extravaganza



Just entered into the theater with no expectations at all because I heard a lot of mixed/negative responses about the movie even in the releasing day itself...yeah postive reviews were also there....So no expectations.....also I watched a movie with high expectations recently and it turned out to be a nightmare for me...So for this one I just wanted to hear some good dialogues...thats it...

The movie started and the introduction of the King(Mammotty) was the first one..welcomed with claps eventhough its a multiplex with high profile or family audiences...The second intro was of the Commissioner(Suresh Gopi0 and that too was welcomed with nice claps...then movie started to go on...Eventhough the movie doesnt have a strong storyline as everytime I wont go for the single slice of story line...The technical part of the movie...Coming to the major part ..Editing...the editor deserves 50 percent appreciation and other 50 percent scolding(:P)....becuase there is a hell lot of scenes which can be trimmed and that would have made the movie much more better(not means current version is bad) ....he should have used some gimmicks also(dont know whether the same needs to be done in the camera side or editing side) but still he had a done a nice job because the director has the last say on the scenes to be included...So there I would like to say movie needs a trimming atleast by 15-20 minutes and that can be easily done.Camera work as usual happens in a Shaji sytle but with some enchancements on various sides...but 90 percent the same we have seen in previous Shaji Kailas movies...The other part of these kind of movies is the BGM....I heard several people telling BGM was so superb...I too accept it was good but it should have used with little more thinking so that the punch can be delivered more perfectly many times I felt BGM was not used in the places it is needed....Then coming to the most important parts...Script and Direction...Script was as usual filled with racy dialogues...I wont know why people say there is no story line in the script ....In a Renji Paniker script I dont know who is expecting a class storyline...Except Dr Pashupathi which movie from him has a classy storyline....I my knowledge no movie was there...It would the sequences by which hero reaches and traps the villain...Still I wont say this script is in par with the orginals but still not failed to maintain the standards...he should have made it little more better but this one proves he still have the fire within him...And finally about the direction...Shaji Kailas was way good compare to his recent flicks....even then he is not at his best...and he can be good if he gets some more stronger stuff and this movie proves that...Normally I look my watch while watching the movie and number of times I look my watch counts how much boring is the movie...For this one I looked only 2 times...One at the interval and other while the movie entered into the climax and this makes me feel that eventhough the movie lasted for 3hrs 10 minutes it was taken in a racy way which will keep you watch ...Again dont expect a pakka out n out new substance in this one..you can see traces from the yester year hits like King,Commissioner and Ekalavyan.


OK...So the major part acting.....I heard my friends saying Mammotty cant do this again and he is already weak...Ohh dear friends...go n watch..look at easynes he is delivering his stuff....Every fan of Mammotty can be proud of that...At this age he maintain his class and standard....Dialogue delivery is supreme.....I m not saying he is having an exceptional performance in this one but he still remains the same King as we have seen him 17 years back....But the only sad part I felt about him in this movie was the dialogues were not so punchy as in the older ones...He has delivered watever is given to him...bt dialogues should have been made little more powerful and memorable...Renji if u are making a movie on Mammotty again...please aware of this face...Then the Commissioner...Suresh Gopi as usual terriffc....Phaa Pulee still strikes...He did his role very well and the dialogues were also powerful and punchy...still no dialogue which will keep in yur memory...Wonderful performance from  both the stars and also they share equal screenspace....Rest of the actors I dont felt anyone to be mentioned except the Assistant Biju pappan...he did his part well....Saikumar's role was a terrible failure ....Never ever near Narendra Prasad...Rest all of roles were ok and nothing special to mention....The movie is full n full Mammotty and Suresh Gopi and that will make you watch this one ....Scenes of Samvrtha and Janadharnan needs to be trimmed which can increase the pace of the movie...Hoping that will happen soon...


3 hours and 10 minutes is one of the bad things about this movie and that needs to be reduced and the best thing is this is the one I felt is maintaining the same standards with the orginals eventhough it is not in par with them....Scripting needs little more tight ....Hope Renji will take care of that next time...I m sure this will set the cash registers ringing as it has enough content for that...May be it wont run into the blockbuster levels that the makers have expected it will run to a sureshot hit...and due to the wide release collection will also be good as I said earlier....



My Rating : 6.5/10 ---Watch it ..You will have your money worth and have some master dialogues........


Note : Mammokkaa....People watch out for his shirts....Superbbbb and simply superbb....This is what we call executive...I have noted and started my search for them....Wonderful costumes....



One more thing I want to mention here...I have seen a hell lot of negatives promotions for this movie even before the first show got over...Yeah we can assume its the Mohanlal fans..but they are not wrong at all...because Mammotty fans have done the same stuff for Casanova some time back....simple saying works for both of them "Koduthal Kollathum Kitum" but why ...do we really need this...Poster tampering and negative promo with the help of social media....The only result that will happen is the so called superstars will die eventually....and nothing will be left over for these fans to tamper at all...And for those who say " Mohanlal and Mammotty should stop acting " I would like to ask them " Who the hell acts better than them in Indian Cinema"...Yeah I do accept there is Kamalhassan and Nasarudden Shah but leave them out and think ....Infact no actors are there in the whole Indian cinema which boasts out of the second in the world to Hollywood.....By considering this...My dear Mohanlal and Mammotty fans " Dont kill our stars ....you will not have another one to celebrate".......Let their movies come and go ...It it is good it will be a hit otherwise a flop....I understand next time a Lal movie comes...mostly Grandmaster...Mammotty fans will do the same...But please refrain from it and think....

Kahani --Hindi Movie Review

Kahani -- A Perfect watch

So this time no introductions, directly pepping into the review.The only factor which made me watch this movie was Vidya,perhaps for the first time in Bollywood I m seeing some heroism in a heroine....:) ...So just decided to watch this out

The movie starts with some terror attack and then Vidya Bagtchi coming out of the Airport  and then it  like a stiched shirt from a branded company ....yeah every scene is perfectly matched up...Infact the life in the characters are very good. You can watch this at the very starting itself, in the taxi driver who picks Vidya from the airport and from there every small character has a life which will keep the audience very much interested in the movie.....Apart from Vidya I liked the little boy called Vishnu....wonderful feeling when I watched him on the screen eventhough the screenspace is very much less...I prays that he will become a superstar one day...And another thing I felt is , the locations , they even add more charm to the story line,this happens only in a very less number of movies, and in Kahani it happened in a very perfect way...Kudos goes to the camera man and the editor...Coming again to the movie in detail....I dont think Vidya have made an exemplary performance as in Ishqiya or DP....she is good, very well acted but not extraordinary ....The plot is actually very well made and the script is so strong that the actors and actresses in the movie is strongly binded together which will automatically takes a wonderful acting performance from them....I think most of the guys are theater artists....and that can been seen in the easyness of their acting....The Professional Killer guy was seriously superb...I felt in love with the character....The outlook, the way he behaves everything was so fresh....Again salute goes to director and the script writer....In this way if you take each part of this movie, you can see a wonderful work which can be associated with a nice crew behind the movie.....So shots of the movie is so good such a way that it you will feel love with Kolkata.....

So all over, this is one of the movies which made me feel my money is worth and also made me think that bollywood is going way high than the usual choco love stories...Big thanks to Vidya for selecting these kind of roles and delivering it perfectly and also to the entire team behind this movie......All the best for that Vishnu too.....

My rating is 7/10 -- A Perfect Watch