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Sita Review: Boring Ramayana
After the success of “Nene Raju Nene Mantri”, director Teja is back in league. His latest movie “Sita” starring Bellamkonda Srinivas and Kajal Aggarwal has created good buzz thanks to its trailer.
Let’s analyze.
Story:
Sita (Kajal Aggarwal) is a business woman and is highly-money minded. When she lands in trouble over a property, she seeks the help of a local MLA Basavaraju (Sonu Sood). He helps her and in return seeks favour from her, to be his love partner for a month.
She denies and he starts creating obstacles to her financially and to her business. Suddenly, her father dies and he leaves his money which amounts to thousands of crores to Ram. She can only get that money if she marries him.
Sita now heads to Bhutan where Ram (Bellamkonda Sai) lives in a Buddhist monastery. He looks dimwit but is highly intelligent. Their journey begins.
What happens next is anybody’s guess.
Artistes’ Performances:
The film primarily revolves around Kajal Aggarwal. Her characterization of Sita is what makes the movie different from the regular stories. Kajal Aggarwal as money-minded woman has pulled it off with ease.
Bellamkonda Srinivas has played innocent guy’s role but he doesn’t have enough talent to pull this off. He is just okay. Sonu Sood has played typical villain’s role.
Bittiri Satti’s comedy generates some laughs. Tanikella as sidekick is okay.
Technical Excellence:
The first half of the film is narrated like a road journey and the cinematography is excellent here. Sirsha has captured the locations of ‘Bhutan episodes’ beautifully.
Music is mixed bag – only two songs are catchy. Dialogues are huge plus point. Editing is bad, the length is inexcusable.
Highlights:
Sonu Sodd and Tanikalla episodes
Drawback:
Never-ending second half
Illogical sequences
Predictable climax
Analysis
Unlike his regular style, director Teja has begun the story in a very interesting manner as the plot point looks quite different. He presents the character of Kajal Aggarwal as someone who is ruthless, money-minded and bold. In contrary her name is Sita.
She accepting to be lover to Sonu Sood for one month and later conning is quite a departure from the heroine’s characterizations of Telugu movies.
Such characterization is generally reserved for male protagonist but Teja has switched the genders and presented it in different way with lot of entertainment. There is not a single dull-moment in the first hour.
When everything is going smooth, director Teja applies breaks and starts narrating in his usual style. All the novelty factor suddenly goes off.
Forget worrying about novelty, even the normal proceedings have completely gone wrong from here. By interval, it is clear that Teja’s ‘new material’ is over.
The second half goes in predictable manner. The twists and turns put off. Ram aka Bellamkonda is introduced as a guy who is brought up in a monastery completely cut off from the real world.
He also has physical and mental issues, he can’t bear ‘yelling’, he gets palpitations if he doesn’t drink tea by 10.30 am morning. He has never stepped outside.
But the moment, he starts journey with Kajal Aggarwal, he knows how to talk with a police officer, how to beat people and do all the action stunts.
He even argues for Kajal Aggarwal in a court case when she’s facing cheque bounce charges. When did he learn law? He studied law book while sitting a lawyer’s office for one hour.
He has such an amazing grasping power that he can learn 26 languages, he can count 97 pins in seconds and a law book in an hour. This court drama turns silly and illogical.
The second half is typical Teja’s movie and with never-ending climax. All the good moments that it offered in the beginning go waste.
The plus points of the movie are the early sequences, Bittiri Satti’s comedy, and some entertaining dialogues. To an extent, Sonu Sood’s characterization is also fun. But, in the end, it becomes a tiresome watch.
Bottom-line: Never Ending Saga
Got Only 5 Votes from 9 of his Family, Punjab candidate cries
The election results has upset many big names and political parties. This time the people of the country have rejected the dynasty politics too. In Punjab a candidate has received a major shock and it was none other than his own family members who did not vote for him.
The candidate is identified as Neetu Shuttern Wala, who contested as an independent from Jalandhar. There are a total of nine in his family and shockingly Neetu received just five votes and lost deposit. When asked about his reaction on it, Neetu had tears in his eyes.
Neetu blamed his family members and EVMs for his defeat. The video of Neetu breaking down before the media is going viral in the social media.
However, this was during the initial rounds of counting. Neetu’s vote figures went up in the next rounds of counting. Finally he ended up getting 856 votes which was not enough for winning.
Pic Talk: Modi, Amit Shah meet LK Advani
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President Amit Shah met veteran BJP leader LK Advani at his residence in New Delhi. Modi and Shah briefed Advani about the election results. Then he took to his Twitter handle and hailed Advani for his efforts in building BJP for decades. Then Modi and Shah met senior leader Murali Manohar Joshi.
In this elections, the BJP has snubbed Advani and MM Joshi. Amit Shah contested from Gandhi Nagar which was Advani’s fort. He won with a majority of five lakhs which is a record.
After getting snubbed, LK Advani wrote in his blog that politics are fast changing and are becoming more commercial these days. But Advani did not mention any name although many thought he took pot shots at Modi and Shah who are dominant in BJP.
The Three Heroes of TDP
The three heroes of TDP are Kesineni Nani (Vijayawada), Ram Mohan Naidu (Srikakulam) and Galla Jayadev (Guntur) won for parliament constituencies on TDP. They are real heroes in fight against the centre in Special Category Status. It can be recalled that it was the trio who strongly voiced for the cause of Special Category Status and the gross injustice meted out to AP in the house of parliament. Nani, Ram Mohan Naidu and Jayadev had all spoken against Narendra Modi and dared Modi. They had taken up the fight against the centre strongly and this seems to have won people’s hearts.
Despite a strong YSRCP wave, Kesineni Nani, Ram Mohan Naidu and Galla Jayadev managed to win in parliament seats.While majority of the Assembly constituencies under these parliament segments were bagged by YCP, the winning of Nani, Ram Mohan and Jayadev is possible only with huge cross-voting. Hence, the victory of these three TDP MPs in this tough time is a phenomenal achievement.
All thanks to the “cross-voting”, while YCP has won in 151 seats, TDP is limited to 23 seats whereas Janasena won in single seat.
Why This Election Is Bad For Dynasties?
For the second time in a row, the Narendra Modi – Amit Shah duo chased a remarkable victory for Bharatiya Janata Party. While the BJP wave has crushed Gandhi’s dynasty in Amethi, the election didn’t allow many political scions, across the nation, to register a victory.
In a very first place, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s son and president of Congress party – Rahul Gandhi faced a defeat in Amethi. BJP’s Smriti Irani has emerged victorious with a decent margin. In another instance, Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot (Congress) too lost the battle to BJP leader Gajendra Shekhawat.
Madhya Pradesh leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, son of Madhavrao Scindia, too lost the election from Guna Constituency, Madhya Pradesh. The LS segment has been a stronghold of Scindia’s family since 1970’s. Jyotiraditya lost the battle by more than one lakh votes. Milind Murli Deora, son of Murli Deora, too lost from Mumbai South. Deora was defeated by a huge margin, though he was openly endorsed by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani.
While Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule won with a handsome majority, Parth Pawar – son of Ajith Pawar (nephew of Sharad Pawar and former deputy CM of Maharashtra) got crashed from Maval LS segment. Coming to Karnataka, CM HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Gowda was defeated by Independent candidate and yesteryear film actress Sumalatha in Mandya. Even Deve Gowda got defeated in Tumkur constituency by 13,000 votes.
Coming to Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu son and TDP’s Nara Lokesh was defeated by YCP in Mangalagiri assembly segment. Other political scions who faced a huge disappointment include Devineni Nehru’s son Devineni Avinash (Gudiwada), Paritala Ravi’s son Paritala Sriram (Raptadu) and Bhuma Nagi Reddy’s daughter Bhuma Akhila Priya (Allagadda). In Telangana, KCR faced an embarrassment as his daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha was defeated by BJP’s Arvind Dharmapuri.
However, former CM and late Rajasekhar Reddy son YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP emerged as the biggest gainer in the polls and is set to form the government soon. In fact, it is the first time in AP history that a former CM’s son is taking oath as Chief Minister.
Five Heroines And Here Is How Their Election Fared
Cinema celebs contesting in elections is not a new thing and even this time there are several people who did that. While the likes of Pawan Kalyan lost the election, Nandamuri Balakrishna has won in Andhra Pradesh.
If we look at popular heroines of the country, there are five notable names, none other than Hema Malini, Jayaprada, Sumalatha, Urmila and Roja.
Contesting on BJP ticket for the second time, Hema Malini kept her MP seat as she won from Mathura. Then we have Jayaprada aka Jayaprada Nahata who has contested on BJP ticket against her former mentor Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan and lost the election.
As an independent candidate in Mandya Loksabha segment in Karnataka, former heroine Sumalatha won big time. Her husband Ambareesh death led to the massive sympathy wave blowing towards her side.
And the next generation heroine Urmila Matondkar has lost big time as she contested from Mumbai North as MP on Congress ticket. In the BJP (read NDA) wave that happened in Maharashtra, it’s not that easy for the Rangeela girl.
In Andhra Pradesh we have Roja winning Nagari quite comfortably and going to assembly yet again on YSR Congress ticket, and this time she steps in as a member of a party in power. Also, she’s likely to get a ministry as well.
While NTR Was No.2, Jagan Is At No.3 or 4
Do you know, the number seats won by YS Jagan led YSR Congress in the 2019 general election are a sort of record as the party positioned itself at No.3 in the whole of the country. Yes, Jagan and his men have created all sorts of records, but they have missed out beating NTR’s record.
In the 1983 general election, NT Rama Rao led Telugudesam party won 30 Lok Sabha seats and became the main opposition in the country as Congress made a wave by winning 404 seats. And TDP is the No.2 party in the country when it comes to winning the most number of MPs.
Now in 2019, Jagan’s YSRC has clearly won in 22 seats and it is leading in two more. In case if it wins 24 seats, then the party is going to be No.3 party in India after BJP and Congress. And if it wins 22, then DMK is likely to snatch the 3rd position as it won 23 seats, thereby pushing Jagan’s party to 4th place.
Anyway, two South parties are the No 3 and No 4 after BJP and Congress in India. That’s a good sign for sure.
Pic Talk: Manchu Lady Looks Stunning
Actress Manchu Lakshmi never fails to share the lifestyle and updates of her life with her fans on social media. She has a huge following of nearly 891k on Instagram and 1.41M on Twitter. Known for her friendly attitude, she garnered a lot of affection from people in a short span.
This 41-year-old gorgeous lady has last impressed us with her film W/O Ram and now the actress shared a new picture on Instagram, with a caption – Be a sunflower.. find your light. Being blue. Lakshmi wore a denim shirt, leaving a top couple of buttons unbuttoned. She also flaunts her collarbone and a visible inner wear strap. The picture looks like a candid pose, with Lakshmi looking out of a window.
Not to mention, the lighting was perfect and kudos to the photographer for the perfect angle. She also wore minimal makeup with open hair. Looking all casual, Lakshmi Manchu still mesmerizes us with her intense look and beautiful features.
What If TDP Joined Hands With Janasena
If you look at the overall polling percentages, YSR Congress got 51%, Telugudesam carved 39% and Janasena got a mere 6.5% of votes. Though one might argue that even TDP and Janasena clubbed together, it can’t beat YSRC, this is not the math one should look at.
In many places, including Bhimavaram where Pawan Kalyan lost the mandate to YSRC candidate with a margin of 2700+ votes, the very first thought is that, support from TDP would have done miracles. While Grandhi Srinivas (YSRC) got 55700+ votes, Pawan fetched 53,000 votes and TDP’s Pulavarthi Ramanjaneyulu got 44,323 votes polled. Now imagine, if TDP and Pawan came up as a combine, even if one of them’s vote is split into two, definitely their combine would have won.
In other words, has Telugudesam party and Pawan Kalyan joined hands, then the result would have been different altogether. Neither Pawan Kalyan has seen to that, nor the veteran Chandrababu Naidu saw that coming. Telugudesam men have earlier made a mockery of Pawan over the Janasenani’s comments that TDP won in 2014 due to him. Now, TDP has lost due to him as many believed that there is a secret pact between them.
Had they made the pact openly, surely they would have won, is what analysts feel.
Exclusive: YS Jagan’s Biopic As Yatra 2
2019’s Yatra, the iconic movie on the legendary politician and ex-Chief Minister late Dr YS Rajasekhar Reddy is one of the finest inspirational leader’s stories and the film has succeeded in impressing the audience by bringing out the leader’s charisma to the world. Directed by Mahi V Raghav, he made sure to take meticulous care in portraying YSR’s padayatra period and his thumping win.
In fact, the film was critically acclaimed and garnered humongous number of positive reviews. After making people understand YSR’s compassion and generosity, the director has now announced Yatra 2. Yesterday, after Jagan’s massive victory at the elections, Mahi V Raghav took to his Twitter to convey his congratulations to the new Chief Miniter of Andhra, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Jagan will soon take an oath as the CM on May 30, at Vijayawada. On this, filmmaker Raghav hinted about Yatra 2 in his congratulatory tweet with a hashtag #Yatra2. However, the film will commence after one year as the director is planning for an action drama for his next project and then only put his complete focus on the final instalment of Yatra. Moreover, Raghav will also need to wait and see Jagan’s work as CM before gathering the story. The story will be all about Jagan’s life, his 10 years of struggles that lead to his victory and work in his tenure as the CM. We are also pretty excited to learn who would be playing Jagan’s role.
New CM Jagan gets new convoy
YSR Congress chief YS Jagan is set to become the new chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. On that note, the police department has made additional security arrangements for the new CM and deployed a new convoy. Six new cars are added to Jagan’s convoy and all of them are bullet proof and carry the same number plate i.e, AP 18P 3418.
Jagan will be meeting Governor ESL Narasimhan tomorrow in Hyderabad and then the swearing in ceremony is scheduled on May 30th in Vijayawada. Grand arrangements are being made for it.
Subsequently, the security for Chandrababu Naidu is partly reduced. However, he will continue to get Z plus security because of the threat factor as he is always under hit list of Maoists.
In Discussion: Razole’s Die Hard Kapu Community
With Kapu community being in large numbers in Andhra Pradesh, many expected that Janasena will have a massive swing. But none of such happened. Experts say that Kapus are divided between TDP and Janasena, while this led to BCs and other communities voting en masse YSR Congress to power.
But there is a singular exception and it is none other than Rapaka Varaprasad who has won from Razole (SC reserved) constituency as an MLA of Janasena. Of course, he’s the first ever MLA from the party founded by Pawan Kalyan. So what made this contestant made that difference?
In fact, Rapaka has won with 1167 votes majority and a total of 48740 votes, over his nearest rival, YSRC’s Bonthu Rajeswara Rao. Even the TDP candidate Gollapalli Suryarao also got 44515 indicating that the fight between these three is a close contest. However, die-hard Kapus are said to have worked quite hard to make all their community members vote for Rapaka.
We hear that, despite the fact that other candidates used their influence, money and many things, Kapu community has decided to showcase their unity and that made Rapaka get that ‘slight’ majority. Had all the Kapus been like this, then Pawan Kalyan would have won many places, says these Razole guys now.
