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CM’s Biopic Started With No Hype
Without any hype, the shooting for Telangana Chief Minsiter K Chandrasekhar Rao’s biopic has been launched at Annapurna studios in Hyderabad. Titled as ‘Udyama Simham’, senior film actor Nassar is playing the role of KCR.
The film is directed by Alluri Krishnam Raju and produced by Kalvakuntla Nageswara rao under the banner of Padmanayaka productions. The regular schedule for the shooting of the film will be taken off soon.
KCR’s struggle for Telangana by floating TRS in 2002 and his fight to fulfill thje aspirations of Telangana people will be shown in the film in detail. His efforts in promoting the Telangana as Golden Telangana by taking up several schemes will also be given importance in the script of the biopic.
Shankar Cries Foul Over His Remuneration
We are talking about comedian Shakalaka Shankar who has now pinned hopes on becoming a hero in Tollywood with the film “Shambo Shankara”. Other day this films released amidst hype but amassed only a flop talk.Many felt that Shankar left his true talent of ‘comedy’ aside and tried to project himself as mass masala hero, which made the movie quite uninteresting. But anyway, there is a rumour that he amassed hefty money by duping a new producer with his false promises that it will collect 10+ crores at the box office. What’s the truth?
Even during the pre-release event, Shankar revealed that he marketed the idea that the film will easily make 10 crores at the box office and the producers will end up in profits if they invest 2 crores. In the first place how much money he made through this project? “Actually I’m getting paid around 30-40K per day for doing those comedy roles. But for this film, I’ve worked for more than 50 days and took an average of Rs 13,000 / day. If I must say, I have lost my pay pack” said Shankar.
Well, it looks like Shankar is good ‘maths lecturer’ but the fact is that his zeal to project himself as a hero might have hit him hard. Otherwise, with that much clarity, how come he keeps comedy aside and tries a hand at a super-hero kind of role? Hope the result is teaching him science and social already, as he knows maths anyway.
Is Ram Charan Real Owner Of That Land??
At the moment, Ram Charan’s production venture “Sye Raa” is getting shot at a place near Kokapet, Hyderabad where some special sets are erected in a 25-acre land. And now, rumours related to this land and Charan’s future plans have taken Film Nagar by a storm.
A buzz started in Tollywood that Ram Charan’s owns that land and he wants to construct a film studio there. In reality, there is no clarity over this and the rumours of “Mega Film Studio” are not new to audiences as they are surfacing for a long time.
Actually, Chiranjeevi has desired to construct such studio in Vizag but somehow his plans haven’t materialised. And then, he’s rumoured to coming up with one near Nellore, but that too ended up like a rumour only. And now, with Charan finding huge space to construct a set in Kokapet, people are feeling that they might have bought this land for the same purpose.
Some say that the land belongs to someone else and Chiranjeevi family hasn’t owned it yet. While the landowner himself has come up with the proposal of setting up something there in regard to films, there is no decision made from Mega family’s side yet.
Let’s see what happens.
Trivia: Renu’s Marriages In The Presence Of Kids
The woman in the discussion from the last couple of days is none other than Renu Desai as she’s getting married yet again. With Pawan Kalyan’s fans and some fans in the name of PK fans, trolling her big time, the news is all over from newspapers to digital editions, TVs to Radio stations.
An interesting observation is that like how this new marriage of Renu Desai is happening in the presence of her kids, even her previous marriage also happened the same way. Actually both Pawan Kalyan and Renu were in a live-in relation back then until the former got cleared of a divorce from his first marriage to one Nandini of Vizag. And just before he took charge in Prajarajyam Party, Pawan married Renu in 2009 at a low key ceremony. By that time, the couple already had a 5-year old son.
And now, Renu has 14-year-old Akira and 8-year-old Aadhya, who will be bearing witness to her second marriage to a businessman from Pune. Surprisingly both the times, her marriages are happening in presence of kids only. This is a regular sighting in western countries, where couple bears children early, but get married only after they could afford a big fat wedding at a church, at least a costly wedding gown.
Poonam Kaur Revealed The Reason For That Attack?
Indirectly hinting that she’s talking about the wizard of words, heroine Poonam Kaur is lately tweeting a lot about him from her ‘unverified’ twitter account. And then, when someone interprets more about the fiasco even without writing her name, she’s busy giving a clarification.
Apparently, a website mentioned that ‘this heroine actually tried to get close to a star hero and the director has prevented that from happening. And in no time, the actress came back on the article and blasted the website, the director for his Agnyaathavasam and for giving chance to an NRI heroine.
Poonam tweeted, “Hey http://Xxxxa@#$%a.com …. hello … I know ur paid by the director media head to write everything he wants to express…. I never went asking for anything to this evil man …. u guys need to shut up n stop putting women down to glorify such evil asshol** … guru my foot” (sic).
She further added: “I will not let him write him script of my life … let him lick some ministers n actors foot …. he has written very great article about me spread it in a community before hearing my interview … I held on to my dignity … stop encouraging Harvey Weinsteins n their whoever … U fans need to know he the main reason for some ones agnyathavaasam …. don’t even try this with me mr.director …. suck onto your NRIs who give u great jobs n have zero talent..” (sic).
By the above tweets, one could read that, maybe the role played by that NRI heroine was supposedly Poonam’s, but later she might have got replaced. It looks like she’s expressing her anguish for the same through this twitter attack. Of course, these days doing some veiled attacks became a new talent for Telugu celebs starting with Sri Reddy and gang. Let’s see what more Poonam will say!
‘Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi’ Review
‘Pelli Choopulu’ brought laurels to director Tharun Bhascker. The young director’s movie also won Best Regional Telugu film award at National Awards.
Tharun has unique style and his second film has generated huge buzz with its title and fun teasers.
Let’s find out whether he lives up to all the expectations this time.
Story:
Vivek (Vishwaksen), Karthik (Sushanth Reddy), Upendra (Venkatesh Kakamanu) and Kaushik (Abhinav Gomatam) are four childhood buddies. The story begins with one accident while four of them travelling and goes back to their stories.
Vivek, a short filmmaker, is nursing heartbreak (his beautiful girlfriend broke up with him due to his easily irascible attitude). Karthik on the other hand is all set to get engaged to a USA girl. Upendra is settled as wedding photographer.
Kaushik is trying his luck in TV serials as actor. They all head to Goa for a short filmmaking contest. They booze, have fun and patch their relations.
Artistes’ Performances:
Except for Anisha Ambrose (who has done many films), the cast consists of newcomers. The lead actors Vishwaksen Naidu, Sushanth Reddy, Abhinav Gomatam and Venkatesh Kakumanu are fitted in their youthful, fun roles.
Abhinav Gomatam is actually the scene-stealer with his natural flair for comedy and ease in acting. Many scenes are saved by his comic acting.
Anisha Ambrose and Simran Chowdhary as the female lead are good.
Technical Excellence:
Music by Vivek Sagar is a mixed bag. It is no match to the previous “Pelli Choopulu” or his recent “Sammohanam” but has two catchy songs.
Cinematography is good, some shots are top class. The production design (art work) and production values are perfect. The movie’s pace is dead slow. Even at short runtime, it gives the feel of lengthy movie.
Highlights:
Some funny episodes
Natural dialogues
Abhinav Gomatam’s comedy act
Drawback:
Lacks emotion
Autobiographical sequences
Excessive indulgence
Superfluous booze scenes
Analysis:
The concept of buddy flicks is not entirely new to Telugu audiences, but this genre is not popular unlike in Bollywood or Hollywood.
“Ee Nagarikini Emaindhi” is a true buddy flick with all the regular features of the genre – gang of friends, a place for booze and enjoyment (Goa), friends trying to overcome small differences among them or recovering from heartbreak, funny dialogues and a comedian like buddy.
Films like “Dil Chahta Hai”, “Rock On” and Hollywood flick “Hangover” have popularized these features.
After making his debut movie “Pelli Choopulu” with universal story line, director Tharun Bhascker has chosen this buddy flick genre and mixed episodes from his life, his days of short film-making.
What Tharun has done here is replicating those buddy flicks, but has not entirely succeeded in bringing out the same emotions.
Added to this, the film looks more autobiographical (Tharun Bhascker’s) as it would not be easy to connect to everyone unless you share same lifestyle. That is why the fun and the dialogues evoke mixed reactions here. Some jokes are really hilarious, which can be enjoyed by anyone; some are like inside jokes that can only be enjoyed by their own gang.
After treading aimlessly most part, the director hangs the emotional anchor in the final act. Only at the end of the movie we realize that it is actually about two friends Vivek and Karthik, the buddies from 5th or 6th standard who have gone different directions when they have become adults.
Vivek fears losing his friends and Karthik wants to ‘grow in life’ at any cost. How they bond again much like Akash (Aamir Khan) and Siddharth (Akshaye Khanna) did in “Dil Chahta Hai” is shown in the final parts. But before this, it goes in all directions. Even the emotional factor has not worked well.
What has worked in this film: the initial portions, the dialogues, some comedy episodes (the highlight of this is when Abhinav Gomatam turns bakra in drunk scene in Goa sequence).
On the other hand, the protagonist here comes across as a guy with serious psychological problems than an angry youngman.
Don’t know why some directors feel it is fashionable to turn protagonists like Vivek into heroes when they behave like a misogynist with their girlfriends. One can empathize with an Arjun Reddy, but not with this guy(!?).
The film has many serious problems on thin plotline, but what it achieves is presenting a new-age buddy flick (sparsely though), again gives the glimpse of Tharun Bhascker’s natural dialogue writing strength, and gives us another comedian.
It is fun sure, but not entirely entertaining. All in all, “Ee Nagarikini Emaindi” with its slow pace and overindulgent scenes doesn’t appeal to all, it is primarily targeted at the urban youth. Those who have not seen better buddy movies like “Dil Chahta Hai” may find this fresh, but for others, it is tedious watch.
Bottom-line: Buddy flick!
