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Yamudiki Mogudu Movie Review – 3/5

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Rating: 3.0/5.0
Banner: Friendly Movies
Cast: Allari Naresh, Richa Panai, Shayaji Shinde, Ramya Krishna, Naresh, Krishna Bhagwan, Tanikella Bharani, Chandra Mohan, AVS, Hema, Satya Krishnan, Chalapathi Rao, Bharath
Story: Jaya siddu
Written by: Kranti Reddy Nakinaala
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry, Potula Ravi Kiran
Art: Chanti Addala
Editing: Gowtham Raju
Cinematography: Ravindra Babu
Music: Koti
Producer: Chanti Addala
Screenplay- Direction: E. Satti Babu
CBFC Rating: ‘U/A’
Release Date: 27-12-2012

Story: Naresh(Allari Naresh) is interested more in dramas rather than studies, he has been attempting to pass his Intermediate from past 10 years. Once Naresh and his friends get ready to perform a drama “Seetha Swayamvaram”, the girl who has to perform the role of Seetha leaves the Stage. Narada(Naresh) comes to Bhoolokam and sets Yamaja(Richa Panai)[ daughter of Yamadharma Raju] to play the heroine role. After Seetha Swayamvaram Yamaja follows Naresh where ever he goes. How Naresh gets rid of her, What happens after that is what the movie is about?

Performances: Naresh is very comfortable and is at complete ease when it comes to comedy roles. His comedy timing is very good. Richa panai is passable but her dubbing is not convincing. Ramya Krishna is good. Shayaji Shinde is okay, even though his personality didn’t suit to Yama’s role. Bharath is okay. The remaining artists fitted to their roles. Music by Koti is Average. The Art work and VFX effects are good. The Cinematography is good. The editing is okay. The story and screenplay are convincing. The direction is good in parts.

Analysis: The Title “Yamudiki Mogudu” is taken from the 1988 super Hit Socio- fantasy film of Chiranjeevi which was based on Yamalokam Backdrop. This movie too has a similar concept and backdrop so it’s convincing and well justified. Here also the hero travels all the way to Yamalokam and returns back and how that happened forms the plot. The movie is rich in production values. The art work(sets) looked colorful (even though most of the colors used are red and pink). The VFX effects are okay and believable to most extent.

‘Allari’ Naresh has taken huge gap after his recent flick “Sudigadu”, he returned back with yet another entertainer. This time he has come up with a socio-fantasy film in the backdrop of Yamalokam. The story is similar to any other Yamalokam based movie and even the climax has nothing new to offer. The dialogues are good and entertaining(even though they have gone overboard at times). The movie has some funny moments entertained by Raghu Babu, Krishna bhagwan, Bharath.

‘Allari’ Naresh is good in the role of Naresh, his scenes(family) in the first half even though appear routine, he engages us with his impeccable comedy timing and dialogues.
Richa panai is okay, her performance is good in couple of places and she has done okay job as debutant. Her dubbing is poor. Ramya Krishna is okay and she danced well in the song. Naresh suited to the role of Narada. Sayaji Shinde could not bring the heaviness to the role but he is okay. Krishna Bhagwan as usually brings some laughs with his punches.
Bharath entertains in a few scenes. The remaining cast is okay.

Koti has given Average music, a couple of songs are okay. The remix song “Attho Athhamma Kuthuro” from Alluda Mazaka movie(It was composed by Koti only) got huge response in the theater. The lyrics were changed to suit the situation. The background score is passable. Art Director and Producer Chanti Addala has tried to give a rich look to the movie with the lavish sets and visual effects. Cinematography is good. editing is okay. The Screenplay is good even though it’s predictable. Satti Babu tried the dialogues(satirical) in the same format as of EVV. The Direction is good at some places. He is still stuck up with old fashioned direction in many scenes. The movie can be enjoyed more by keeping the logic aside.

The movie fares well in B, C Centers for the entertainment(double meaning dialogues). We have to wait and see for the response in the ‘A’ centers.

Plus: ‘Allari’ Naresh, Entertainment
Minus: Some routine boring scene, Heroine dubbing

Verdict: Average flick, can be watched once for entertainment.

NTR back in College!

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Young Tiger NTR is currently busy with the shooting of his upcoming movie, Badshah and will shift to the shooting of his other movie with Harish Shankar from January 3rd. NTR is reportedly going to play a college student, a role which he had not portrayed since the days of Student No.1 and Subbu. Fans are going to see a brand new NTR with different personality and body language in this movie. The makers are aiming to finish and release the movie on July 9th, the date on which NTR’s blockbuster movie Simhadri released.

Samantha will be pairing up with NTR in this movie. The other beauty is yet to be decided. Harish Shankar who delievered a blockbuster this year in the form of Gabbar Singh is wielding megaphone for this movie. Bandla Ganesh is producing the movie under his Parameswara Arts banner.

MS Narayana’s hilarious role in Badshah

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Be it House owner in Anandham or firestar Solomon Raju in Don Seenu or Film aspirant in Dookudu, MS Narayana always have a special role in Srinu Vaitla’s movies. Also he takes care to make the role sensational in the movie. It is no exagerration to say MS Narayana’s roles were the major assets in Vaitla’s movies. And now in Badshah, MS Narayana is reportedly playing the role of film director which involves hilariouscomedy. The movie is currently being shot in and around Hyderabad and is aiming for March 27th release.

Kajal is pairing up with NTR once again in this movie after Brindavanam.The movie will be produced by Bandla Ganesh Babu under Parameswara Arts banner. Thaman who worked for  Srinu Vaitla’s earlier movie Dookudu is also tuning for this movie.

Nayak is fine and raring to go

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The rumours spreading all over the internet about Ram Charan’s nose injury is not true. The actor is safe and sound. Few days ago he had suffered a sinus related problem but is completely cured now. He had already began the dubbing of Nayak too. So now, there can not be any confusion regarding the release date of Nayak. For the past few days, Few websites  have been spreading rumours that Charan was injured while performing an action sequence for Nayak and the injury is so serious that it may cause delay in the release of the movie. This has caused panic among fans and distributors of the movie. Nayak’s shooting is currently progressing fast towards the end.

Naayak which has generated tremendous buzz with it’s promos, song and leaked video is all set to release on 9 January as Sankranthi special. Kajal Agarwal and Amala Paul play female leads. Charmme did an item song. VV Vinayak directed Naayak and DVV Danayya is producing this film on Universal Media banner.

Yamudiki Mogudu Hindi dubbing rights sold

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The makers of Allari Naresh’s first socio fantasy movie, Yamudiki Mogudu are making a merry . The movie had fetched record prices in all the areas way higher than Naresh’s best. And now we hear that the Hindi dubbing rights of the movie were picked up for 23 Lakhs. Manish of Gold Mines who earlier bagged Hindi dubbing rights of Rebel and Badshah had laid hands on this movie too.

The makers of the movie have used the title of Megastar Chiranjeevi’s 1988 blockbuster movie, Yamudiki Mogudu for their movie. Chiranjeevi’s super hit song ‘Aththo aththamma koothuro’ is being remixed for this movie. Richa Panay is playing the female lead. Ramyakrishna will be seen as her mother.  E.Saththibabu is directing this movie while it is being produced by Chanti Addala.

Shakeela turns Sensuous Director?

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South Indian favorite sexy star after Silk smitha is none other than Shakeela. Now she is going to handle the mega phone and say ‘Action and cut’ as she is directing a film in Malayalam.
 
Shakeela took some time off from the screen these days and now came back with an idea of acting and directing a film. She has finished the scripting. How is the situation of a woman who lost her husband after having a baby with him? What are the consequences she will face from society? What are the hardships she has to go through in bringing up her child alone? The story runs discussing all these questions in the film for which the shooting is in progress.
 
As Shakeela felt the script by heart and was moved by the character that made her direct the film even being the lead role. Let us wish her good luck and hope for a good film rather than just a B-grade oomph one like her earlier ones.

ACB ride on YSR’s shadow

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In the times of YSR being the Chief Minister of AP, there used to be a person with white hair always behind YSR. He is Sureedu. Everybody knows that KCP was the soul to YSR and Sureedu was like his shadow. After the demise of YSR, both of them lost their glory. Jagan didn’t give much importance to Sureedu like his father did. Sureedu was once a key suspect in Jagan’s illegal properties case and was hot topic at that time and then everything went normal and Sureedu was out of limelight.
 
Now this name is foreground again. The ACB raid on his house is the reason behind this. ACB has raid on APPSC member Rivunjaya Reddy, who has close association with Sureedu, which leads to a raid on Sureedu’s house as well. There were accusations on Sureedu, that he made many self-helping activities in the time YSR.
 
There is a talk in political circles that in order to get hold of Sureedu, government has planned this raid. There was news some time back that Sureedu has turned as an approver in the case of Jagan’s illegal properties.

Trisha following VijayaShanthi

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Trisha is playing a lead role in M.S.Raju’s “Ramba, Urvasi, Menaka (RUM)” as Ramba. Rest two title roles are being played by Poorna and Archana. Reportedly, this film is going to be a new trend setter in Heroine oriented films in Tollywood breaking all the routine formats. This film is going to be an out and out action flick. Like Charles Angels, these three girls are going to kick the villains their balls out. Trisha said that Vijayan master is going to compose the fights and will work throughout the film. “I haven’t acted in a heroine oriented film in my career so far and I am very excited about this project” said Trisha. This film is going to release in Telugu, Tamil and Kanada.
 
From this film, Trisha is going to get the image of VijayaShanthi, like she had in 90s as lady boss and lady Amitabh through her action oriented films.

Amala threatening Kajal!

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There is no trouble in near future to Kajal’s career but there are warning bells bothering her. The depreciation in her glamour day by day is really diluting the impression on Kajal. At this time, a strong competition from her co-star would really terrify her. There would be no bigger problem than this to a star heroine like Kajal. 
Kajal has the experience of working in multi heroine films, where it was a walk on cake to her to dominate others. Samantha in Brindavanam and Tapsee in Mr.Perfect were drifted off by Kajal with her beauty and performance. But this is history; she lost her grace and charm in her face now. ‘Nayak’ is going to release, in which Kajal along with Amala paul paired opposite to Charan. There are all positive talks about Amala Paul around the film unit. Even Amala dominated Kajal in the audio function of Nayak. If Amala continues the same on screen, dominating Kajal, Kajal has to lose her Numero Uno status.Kajal really has to worry about the feedback on her in ‘Nayak’.

Samantha in love ?

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Tollywood heartthrob Samantha is no single anymore. She is in a relationship. Samantha in an interview given to Times of India revealed that she has a boyfriend and she is very happy in that relationship. But she felt that it is not the right time to reveal her beau’s name.
 
Her latest film ‘Yeto Vellipoyindi Manasu’ brought her good acclaims for her performance as a teenager, college goer and a woman. Multi starrer ‘Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’ is also going to hit the screens next month, in which Samantha paired opposite to Mahesh babu. She has signed for two bigger budget movies with Jr. NTR.
 
Hope her relationship won’t affect her career which was common in the careers of many heroines. But this news is surely going to disappoint many youngsters in Andhra Pradesh.

Power Star to show Prince’s charms?

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It is a fact that no one can match the power of Power Star Pawan Kalyan in Tollywood and similarly none can come anywhere near the magical charms of Prince Mahesh Babu. According to latest information,, Mahesh babu is going to be seen along with Pawan Kalyan on screen soon. There are chances that Mahesh might do a guest role in Trivikram, Pawan Kalyan’s next film. Mahesh has a lot of respect for Trivikram as he is the one who extracted the hidden talent in Mahesh in new characterizations through the films like ‘Atadu’ and ‘Kaleja’. Even Mahesh respects and likes Pawan Kalyan a lot. That is why Mahesh babu might have accepted Trivikram’s request for his latest film.
 
This is going to be another feast to the fans of both Mahesh Babu and Pawan Kalyan as two top heroes of Tollywood together on screen is no joke for fans. Mahesh earlier gave his voice over for the movie ‘Jalsa’.

Ramcharan Injured in Janzeer Shooting ?

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There seems to be no end to the troubles facing the remake of Zanjeer featuring Telugu superstar Ramcharan Teja, Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt in the roles played originally by Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri and Pran.

In the latest setback, and what could be regarded as a crippling blow to the film’s next schedule, Ramcharan Teja has injured his nose on the set of his new Telugu film Naayak, thereby throwing the next schedule of Zanjeer featuring him with Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt, completely off-course.

Says a source from Hyderabad, “Ramcharan who is fiercely focused on his Hindi career at the moment is dismayed by the turn of events. But these things can’t be helped. He got hit on the nose while doing an action scene for his Telugu film Naayak and is being treated in his wife’s hospital in Hyderabad.  The current schedule of Zanjeer in Mumbai from December 20-28  has been cancelled.”

Apparently Ramcharan’s sudden unavailability entails  an indefinite delay in the next schedule of Zanjeer,as Priyanka and Sanjay Dutt’s co-ordinated dates are not available until February 2013.

Says the source from Hyderabad, “Ramcharan has taken the blow very badly. He  even tried to shoot with his injured nose since Mr Dutt and Ms Chopra’s dates were going to waste. But it was impossible to shoot in his condition.”

Sonia angry on Botsa’s rape comments

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi has reportedly expressed anger at the remarks of the PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana on the Delhi gang rape.

According to sources, she has asked her adviser Ahmed Patel to obtain an explanation from Botsa on the remarks. It is learnt that Botsa has given a letter explaining his comments and his later statement condemning media reports to the AICC general secretary and state party in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad.

It was reported that Botsa has faulted the girl for moving about at midnight. He has reportedly said that we cannot move about during midnight simply because we got freedom at midnight. He is reported to have described the rape as a minor incident and praised Sonia Gandhi for talking to student leaders though it was a small incident.

Stunned by the anger of women organizations and opposition parties, Botsa alleged that he was misquoted. He said he only said that the government should provide security for women to move about freely even at midnight. He has also apologized.

When Simha got scared !

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Balakrishna is known for his extremely powerful roles in films and many of his fans adore him for his powerful dialogues with which he scares away villains. Many feel that he will be the same in reel life also but things seems to be different altogether. He tried to be like that showing his power, indulging in thigh slapping during election campaigning. However all those resulted in wide spread criticism from political analysts.

Natasimha is getting ready for his grand political entry. But it seems even before he could make one, he is getting scared. This is due to the bomb put by TDP’s old friend BJP. Buzz is that TDP is in a fix as to who should attend the swearing in ceremony of Gujarat CM Modi. Modi surprised TDP sources sending invitation to Chandra Babu and Balakrishna.

Now sources say Natasimha Balakrishna is getting scared of meeting Modi as it will antagonise muslims. He is now not attending the swearing in ceremony. It has to be seen what explanations he will offer.

NTR’s new movie titled ‘Rabasa’

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If the buzz from the Film Nagar scuttlebutt machinery is to be believed, NTR’s upcoming movie under the direction of Santosh Srinivas is titled ‘NTR Rabasa’. Santosh had earlier directed Super hit movie Kandireega and is now busy penning the final version of the script. The movie will be shot simultaneously with Harish Shankar movie.

NTR will be seen romancing two heroines in the movie. Samantha is one of them and the other heroine is yet to be confirmed. Bellamkonda Suresh will be producing this movie under his Sri Sai Ganesh movies banner.  More details of this project are expected very soon.

Ram Charan’s Big Time in Tamil

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The Tamil version of Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s Nayak, Saravedi had created enough buzz in Kollywood and the Tamil version was picked up for a record price. And now the efforts are on to make sure the movie gets grand release there. They are planning to release the movie on January 9th along with the Telugu version. This is the first time both the versions of a movie are releasing together.

On the other side, Orange, directed by Bhaskar of Bommarillu fame, will be dubbed in Tamil and released as Ram Charan on December 28. Ram Charan’s Magadheera was earlier dubbed and released in Tamil as Maveeran and raked a moolah there.

Nagarjuna is Greeku Veerudu!

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As the shooting of the movie nears completion, the makers of Akkineni Nagarjuna’s upcoming movie directed by Dasarath are looking for an apt title for their movie. Greeku Veerudu, Premikudu and Chandrudu are the titles in consideration for the movie. The movie had recently completed a major schedule in Bangkok.

Nagarjuna will be seen as an NRI who comes to India for the first time. Nayantara is pairing up with Nagarjuna in this movie. Second time after Boss. Dasarath is directing Love Story and D Sivaprasad Reddy is producing the film on Kamakshi Kala Movies banner. Thaman is composing the music.

Mani Ratnam’s Kadal Release date

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Ace film maker Mani Ratnam’s upcoming movie Kadal had completed its shooting formalities and is in post production phase. The film is set in the backdrop of the lives of fishermen and is shot in some tough conditions including torrential rains and exotic locales in South Tamil Nadu and Andaman & Nicobar islands.The movie is all set to release on February 1st.

The film features debutant Gautham Karthik, son of actor Karthik and debutant Thulasi Nair, daughter of Radha in the lead roles. Arvind Swami and Lakshmi Manchu will be seen in important roles. The film will be dubbed and released simultaneously in Telugu as Kadali.

Small Music director gets Big opportunity from Balayya

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JB, this name may be an unknown entity till today. But it will all be different from now. JB is the music director for a small movie,Bus Stop  and now he will  be scoring music for Balayya next movie directed by Chinni Krishna. JB’s music for Bus Stop had earned him good name and that good work had earned him this chance. A song had been already recorded for the movie and it turned out very well according to the sources. Balayya will be seen as strict Police officer in the movie which will go on to sets in January.

Chinni Krishna earlier worked as VV Vinayak assistant for many of his block buster movies.This project will be produced by Bellamkonda Suresh on his Sri Sai Ganesh movies banner. More details of this project are awaited.

Heroine Rejects Romantic Torture From Hero

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Ravishing red hot Bengali beauty Richa Gangopadhyaya who romanced Rana in Leader went on to mesmerise Mass Maharaja in Mirapakaya. She even sizzled on Kollywood silver screen with films like Mayakkam Enna and Osthe.

Recently she once again teamed with Ravi Teja in Sarocharu. Though the film is not doing up to expectations she is pinning all her hopes on top entertainers in 2013. Her confidence is from the fact that she is romancing macho man Prabhas in Mirchi and King Nagarjuna in Bhai.

In the midst of all this she is experiencing romantic tortures with Kollywood hero Sundar with whom she did many films. There were lot of rumors that both of them are in love and since there is no word from them many took the reports as truth. However buzz is Richa rejected Sundar’s love proposal and even took class to him asking how could he mistake her closeness as love.

With his male ego hurt he went on to threaten Richa with suicide calls. However Richa did not care him. Richa’s personal manager revealed that they were not in touch since longtime. However Kollywood sources say Sundar is innocent.

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