Ever since Badminton beauty Jwala Gutta made her intentions clear on making her Tollywood debut, rumors started spreading about her. She recently sizzled in a item number with Nitin in Gunde Jaari Gallantayyinde. Now even before the release of the film the song and her sensuous poses became the talking point along with her affair with another actor Harshvardhan Rana.

They are spotted together in film circles more often than not but both maintain that they are just close friends. Lately, there have been no public appearances of one without the other.

From store inaugurations to audio launches, they walk in together and are always seated next to each other. It has to be seen who will blink first.

Hot babe Hansika who is continuing her success march in Kollywood says her mother was behind her success run. She recollected how her mother encouraged her saying she should forget she is Hansika when she is doing a role. She says her mom advised her that people should see only her role and not her. She many people are questioning her on wedding time as she is entering 22yrs this year by August. She says still it has got some time.

Hansika says she stays away from parties and pubs and will go to temples sometimes. During shooting prior she will think about her scene and once shooting is completed she will run for her house. She says only with social awareness, atrocities on women will reduce.

 

Vennela Kishore is a man of brimming ideas. He has come up with two versions of Jaffa. One is leaner (straight narration) and another one if non-linear (back and forth narration). By keeping the set of audiences in mind, the producer is releasing non-liner version in USA and linear version in India. For Vennela 1 ½ film, Vennela Kishore has come up with crazy publicity plans. This film is shot in shoestring budget in two locations (Bramhanandam’s own house and RFC). And the entire film is shot in 5D camera.

Ali and Venu Madhav will be seen in other prominent roles in the film. Anup Rubens is composing the music for this film. Cinematography is by Naveen. Ramesh Varma is producing the film under Kiran Studios Pvt Ltd banner.

 

Bhale Tammudu was the original choice. Later Chinnodu Peddodu was considered. Some other titles are also thrown in. Akkineni fans felt the title in which both the heroes are treated equally may  become a damage to Naga Chaitanya’s career and pushed the makers for change.  After much mulling over, it is learnt that the team has zeroed on in – Thadaka.

Thadaka is the title chosen for Naga Chaitanya and Sunil starrer, sources informed us. Remake of Tamil hit, Vettai, the film stars Tamannah as heroine opposite Naga Chaitanya and Andrea for Sunil. It is being directed by Dolly and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh. The film is expected to hit the marquee in June.

 

Chilkur Balaji temple near Hyderabad has a strange tradition. During a visit the devotee goes through the usual rituals of prayer, including 11 pradhakshinas (rounds) of the inner shrine, and makes a vow. Once the wish is fulfilled devotees then walk 108 times around the temple. Daily 1000s of people come there and this list also comprises of the film celebrities.

Today, the visitors at the temple were surprised to see a beautiful girl. She is none other than Shruti Haasan. It is heard that Shruti visited the Chilkur Balaji temple and some are saying she also followed the 108 rounds pattern. Usually that happens when someone has an oath to fulfill.  This got some of them discussing as to what could be Shruti’s wish.

 

Nagarjuna’s films run very well in Vizag area. So the star wanted to release the audio albums of his current film, Greekuveerudu, in Vizag city but police refused to give permission. Then he planned a big event in Hyderabad, same problems cropped up due to the death of a fan at Baadshah audio function. 

And finally, they opted for a regular venue of Shilpa Kala Vedika, which is safer and easily manageable. So Hyderabad police gave permission and the audio launch date has now been fixed. The event will be held on April 3rd.

The final days shoot of the movie is going on at Rama Naidu cine village. Nagarjuna romances Nayanathara in the film. The romantic entertainer is directed by Dasaradh. S S Taman has given the music.

 

Another young gun, Krishna Madhav with a successful film pedigree is all set to scorch the Tollyland. The genZ actor is the relative of Prince Mahesh Babu and also the nephew of Galla Aruna Kumari. This handsome new talent has a strong theatre experience in the United States and is leaving no stone unturned in his maiden movie.

The movie has two lead ladies, Samskruthi Shenoy, the noted actor in Malayalam blockbuster “Black Butterfly” and Anusha, a budding actor from Sandalwood.
 

V.I. Anand, who earlier worked as an associate director for A.R. Murugudoss is directing Hrudayam Ekkadunnadhi, while the music is being scored by Vishal Chandrasekhar, a protégé of A.R. Rahman. Sanjay and Pavan are producing the movie under Kirthi Media and Hima Creations banner. Ahuthi Prasad, Prasad Babu, Harsha Vardhan, Dhanraj, Prudhvi, etc are the other cast of this movie.

Rating – 1.75/5
Film: Jaffa
Starring: Brahmanandam,Ali,Dhanraj,Tagubothu Ramesh
Director: Vennela Kishore
Producer: Ramesh Varma
Banner: Multi Dimensions Entertainments
Music: Sunil Kashyap

Story

Jasmine Falguda aka Jaffa (Brahmanandam) lands in Jail with unfortunate events. He is a software engineer and due to his sadistic boss (Melkoti) and colleague he ends up in Jail. Jaffa is intelligent and his ideas make him popular. Jailer Nikki (Vennela Kishore) takes help of Jaffa to get out of his personal problems. Nikki falls in trouble due to an incident and Jaffa tries to help him out by escaping from Jail. The rest forms the story of Jaffa.

Performances

It is known fact that Brahmanandam is a great actor and he is best in doing comedy. In this, he carried out the role on his shoulders playing the title role but his timing and dialogue delivery couldn’t help at times due to the bad writing.

Vennela Kishore as an actor scored good. Ali is just okay while Thagubothu Ramesh and Dhanraj are hilarious. Melkoti, Venu are decent, Ahuti Prasad was wasted. There isn’t much scope for rest of the cast.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography is not upto the mark and the film carried no songs. Vennela Kishore has penned the dialogues as well for the film which are okay. Direction is bad and screenplay is pretty average.

Analysis

Vennela Kishore scores as an actor and in dialogues but fails in direction department for Jaffa. He has come up with a new thought process but the inconsistent screenplay and slow pace fails in keeping audiences glued to the screens.

The film had few good comedy sequences and with Brahmi’s comic timing and dialogue delivery, they work well here and there. But the film had quite a lot of illogical sequences and logic has gone for a toss big time. First half of the film is crisp, thanks to the editor and is passable but the second half is terrible with dragged narration, even Brahmanandam couldn’t help due to the jerky screenplay which ultimately leads to boredom. The climax fizzles out after a while. The film will have good openings due to Brahmanandam but it’s hard to click at the Box-Office.

Final Verdict

Except very few comic scenes, Jaffa fails to keep you hooked!!!