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Arundhati Movie review

Cast: Anushka in a dual role, Sayaji Shinde, Sonu Sood, Manorama, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Annapoorna, Suhasini, Chalapathi rao, Ahuthi Prasad and others.

Music: Koti

Director: Kodi Ramakrishna

Arundhati which was canned from the past two years has finally released today. Anushka tagged as a glam doll of tollywood has transformed into a versatile actress in this film and with the thrilling storyline and graphics the movie relay rocks the whole theatre. Made on a budget of 13 crores and released with only 120 prints in 165 theatres this movie is expected to appeal to the female audiences the most.

Story

The film begins with the Arundhati (Anushka) delighted to come to her native place which is located in Gadwal. Her marriage is fixed and so she returns to her native place ahead of her marriage date. After coming to her native place, incidentally she learns about the whole story of her Grandmother named Jejamma (Anushka).

Then starts the story of Jejamma, who was courageous younger daughter of supreme ruler of Gadwal. But unfortunately she has a wicked brother in law named Pasupathy which is the character played by Sonu Sood of “Super” and “Athadu” fame. He is a un chaste man with all sorts of bad habits from drinking to sleeping with women. one unfortunate day, Jejamma’s dance teacher falls in the eyes of Pasupathy and he rapes her and kills her. d on discovering this fact, Pasupathy’s wife commits suicide as she is in a position of dismay.

Jejamma orders the village to kill Pasupathi in order to save the innocent. As a village head her words are kept and the villagers tie Pasupathi to a horse which drags him out of the village. All the villagers including Jejamma think that Pasupathi is dead, but he is rescued by a person called Aghoras.

Pasupathi learns the witch craft and desires to take revenge on Jejamma and her villagers. He practices some of his magical powers, but valor Jejamma defends the whole village and herself from Pasupathi’s evil deeds. He is caught is buried alive in the Gadwal Samasthan. The Samadhi of Pasupathi is sanctified with some religious symbols, threads in order to ward off the evil sprits spreading in the village.

Unfortunately, though Pasupathi is buried in the Samasthan, his evil magical powers grip the whole village. Suddenly, most of the villagers meet a sudden death and this is caused by the evil spirits of Pasupathi.

A religious head advises Jejamma to sacrifice herself in order to attain a new life after rebirth in order to destroy Pasupathi and his tantrik powers. Jejamma allows herself to be sacrificed in order to save the entire village.

After 80 years Arundhati is born and how she destroys the powers of Pasupathi in her rebirth forms the climax which is breath taking and thrilling.

Performances

Anushka looks awesome in the whole movie with her girl next door looks and Kumkum, saris, lavish jewellery in her neck. She looks totally different from her glam doll look and tries to imitate late soundarya in some scenes. With this movie, her acting skills have been exposed and she has a lot of future in the film industry.

Sonu Sood acts aptly according to his character. Though his lip moment lacks realism, his acting sills out shadow it.

Sayaji Shinde who has done only villain roles till date acts as a fakir in this movie and guides the movie a little bit.

Manorama, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Annapoorna, Suhasini, Chalapathi rao, Ahuthi Prasad and others need no introduction at all as they are already versatile actors.

Music by Koti is according to the movie’s storyline.

Direction by KODI is excellent, though some scenes mimic Soundarya’s previous Ammoru film. The graphics part and the horror look to some scenes is very much appluadable as a new look has been achieved in doing so by him. Screenplay is excellent and no words at all.

On the whole, this film is only for adults as children cannot digest this film. This movie will be a average hit with a 50 day run mileage. Women folks will throng to the theatres.

Cast: Ram, Hansika Motwani, Sheela, Sunil, Naresh, Jhansi, Mukesh Rishi and others

Music: Chakri

Director: B Gopal

Producer: MS Raju

This movie was released with a lot of hype and expectations for two reasons. First it was a movie directed by B. Gopal who had the previous hit as INDRA and the second reason is that it is produced and distributed by the hattrick Producer MS Raju.

Story

The story begins by showing Krishnakanth (Ram) who is a young and much talented fellow as a only brother of Naresh and has a sister in law which is the character played by Actress Jhansi. He takes his life easy and enjoys the passing time with his friends lead by Comedian Sunil.

Krish makes his future plan as he is in an aim to marry a girl who has a permanent Visa in USA. By doing so, he has an idea to fly to USA and settled won there permanently. Manju (Sheela) is a girl who fetches her USA Visa to pursue her higher studies in New Jersey and incidentally comes across Krishnakanth.

Krish starts his game plan and acts as if he is in love with Manju. He succeeds in winning her heart, but to his misfortune he meets Meenakshi (Hansika Motwani) who also enters the life of Krish.

Meanwhile, Krish is in a fix that he has two girls falling for her and Manju starts to reciprocate his love and wants him to marry. Incidentally Meenakshi discovers the truth that Krish is playing a double love game with her and moves away from his life.

Krish later on discovers that he is in love with Meenakshi and wants back her in his life. He gets to known that his love towards Manju is just infatuation and a need to fulfill his foreign desire. Krish finds Meenakshi back and tries to win her. But hold on, the story takes a twist here.

The political goons are after Meenakshi and they want her to die. The rest of the story is to why the villains are after Meenakshi? What happens to Manju’s love, and so on?

Performances

Ram plays the character of Krishnakanth well. His young looks and his dancing skills make him a true hero,. But in some scenes he does some over acting which is clearly visible.

Hansika Motwani looks great in this movie and her glam quotient is too hot in this movie. She acts according to her character and justifies her role.

Sheela who transformed in a glam doll with this film looks as a big surprise package. She looks hot and sizzling in modern dresses.

The comedy track is lead by Sunil and acts as a best friend to actor Ram. He succeeds in churning out some comedy along with his other comedian co-stars.

Mukesh Rishi and Pradeep Rawath add the villainous characters to the film and succeed in doing so.

Music looks dull as Chakri has composed some disastrous tunes for this film.

The director has concentrated on the action element of the film and has succeeded in giving a treat for the action lovers, comedy is also well treated in the film and holds good strength oh hard core action.

On the whole, the movie gives some treat to the audiences and is a price worthy entertainment this festive season. It may gallop to the 50 day mark and may end up there.

Villu Movie Review

Cast: Vijay, Nayantara, Vadivelu, Bijju Menon, Prakash Raj, Napolean and others

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Director: Prabhu Deva

Producer: Karuna Murthy and Arun Pandian

VILLU is a typical Ilayapathi Vijay’s story and is surely tailored to suit the tastes of Vijay Fans. The rest of the audiences feel that they are foxed by the promos and in the climax of the film; they conclude for themselves that they wasted the precious time as well as money.

Story

The movie opens highlighting Hero Pugazh (Vijay) who helps everyone who are in need and punishes those who get into some evil acts. The movie brings in the shades of Vijay’s previous hit Pokkiri in some frame or the other.

Pugazh gets appointed as a secret agent for the Police department and this offer is given to him by Police Officer Manoj Khan. He gives a new name to Pugazh and tags him as Villu (Arrow).

Police cop Manoj makes Villu (Vijay) reveal the underworld to a large extent and as a benevolent secret agent, Villu follows the path of truth to punish the people of the underworld. Villu prefers to reveal the deeds and faces of the underworld dons and wants to see them behind bars.

Meanwhile, the love quotient is added by the director. Villu (Vijay) falls in love with Jhanvi (Nayantara). She is young, beautiful and falls in love with the hero in no time. Villu later on finds that she is none other than the only daughter of the main dons which is the character played by actor Prakash Raj.

Then suddenly due to some incidents, Pugazh real back ground is revealed. He is a son of a military officer whose only aim is to protect his country from the traitors. But unfortunately he gets killed by Prakash raj and his co villains.

They prove that Vijay’s father is a traitor of the country and even does not allow the village to perform his last rites. Vijay’s Mother (Ranjani) is also called as a wife of a traitor and to ward off this tag, Vijay resolute to revel the truth and decides to prove his father as a perfect patriotic soldier of the country.

Then after some flow of the reel, the movie ends well on a happy note with the bad punished by the good.

Performances.

Vijay as usual has given his best and his acting, dancing and expressive skills are awesome. His previous hit Pokkiri stunts and expressions are mimicked in some frames to ignite the film with high voltage of action.

Nayntara is adds glam to the movie. But she looks awesome in churidhars and modern costumes.

Prakash Raj is the main villain in this film and leads the pack with his evil deeds. The previous combination of Vijay and Prakash Raj locking their horns was seen in Pokkiri and the same is seen in Villu.

Vadivellu adds zing to Villu and succeeds in churning out some comedy.

The music by Devi Sri Prasad is good and melodious. Mass and class crowds will be happy with the music outcome. But all the tunes are copied from tollywood.

Prabhu Deva needs a description. In order to add the action thrill to the film, he added the POKKIRI scenes and costumes which make some scenes bore some. But still his screen play is applaudable. Nothing much is there to reveal his story writing skills.

On the whole, this movie is strictly aimed for the sake of Vijay’s fans and so Villu may not appeal to the class of family crowds.