Cast: Krishnudu, Sraddha arya, Brahamandham, Jaya Prakash reddy, Ali, MS Narayana, Venu madhav, Raghu babu, Kovai sarala, Hema, kalpana, Chitti babu, Uttej, Harshvardhan, jeeva, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Kondavalusa, Ramjagan, Gundu Sudarshan and others.

Music: Mani Sharma

Director: AVS

Producer: Venkat Jagadeesh

Release date: July 30^th, 2010

‘Kothi Mooka’ is a comedy based movie, with all the top comedians from the Telugu film industry. AVS after getting through a health trauma is back and has directed this movie.

Story

Ramana (krishnudu) fails in the exams of his degree and remains in the same class for years. Ramana’s father (Jaya Prakash) is an EX MLA, who is corrupted and earns money through different channels of corruption. He had a desire, to marry his son, to a rich politician, who has loads of money in his closet.

Ramana , during his college days, falls in love with his classmate Lavanya (Sharddha) and after some years, he remains in the same college and his Lavanya returns as a lecturer to the college. Ramana opens his love, in front of Lavanya, who is a daughter of a beggar (Avs). But Lavanya thinks that the relationship is impossible and so the reel flows for sometime.

Ramana learns about the background of lavanya, but is determined to marry her at any cost. H has a plan to teach his father a lesson and so hatches a typical plan.

The plan and the lesson form the remaining story, which has to be seen on the big screen.

Performances

Krishnudu, the fatty hero of Tollywood, has given his best to the character in “ Kothi Mooka”. His performance is impeccable, but it looks as if he has overacted in some scenes.

Shraddha Arya is good looking in the movie, but has done a plain Jane act and this is said to be turn off for the mass crowds.

Other characters like venu, Brhmi, Ali, AVS, Raghubabu, act well in their respective characters, but their roles are minuscule and are overloaded.

The music of the film is decent and is apt for the storyline. But nothing much is available, for the music lovers in this movie “ Kothi Mooka”.

Story is a bit confusing and is jumbled up. The director AVS tried his best to carve a hilarious movie. But his overloading of characters and timing of screen play miss matches and so the movie takes a ridiculous turn in the second half.

Some audiences were even annoyed with the cheap comedy and left the seats.

On the whole, “ Kothi Mooka” will have only few days to breath at the box office and will sink after a fort night.

Cast: Rajendra Prasad, Sivaji, Sonia, venu madhav, arti Agarwal, Pragati, Kalyani, Laya, Jaya Prakash, AVS, Raghu Babu, Ashok Kumar, Siva Prasad, Jyothi, Telnagana Shakuntala, kausha, MS and others

Music: MM Srilekha

Director: Gollapati Nageshwar Rao

Producers: Rupesh Govil, Bekkam Venu

Release date: July 29^th, 2010

‘Brahma Lokam to Yamalokam via Bhulokam’ is an entertaining movie, which has been well executed by the director. However, certain screen play glitches make the movie disappointing in the last hour.

Story

Lord Brahma(Rajendra Prasad) is in a conversation with his wife goddess Sarasawati (Kalyani) very soon the conversation turned into a petty quarrel and misunderstanding develops in between Lord Brahma and his wife saraswati.

Sreenu(Sivaji) is interested in getting married. But the poor guy is not having a degree and so he is hesitant to go for a marriage. But Swetha(sonia) is a young and smart girl, who meets Sreenu incidentally. Sreenu falls in love with her and decides to propose to her.

Meahwile, Shoban babu(Venu Madhav) is interested in seeking the blessings of LORD Brahma and so in order to get his attention, he starts penance and manages to get the attention from the lord.

Shobana Babu asks for a boon and Lord Braham against him. Shoban babu demands for a boon, of knowing the fate of others. Lord Brahma accepts his demand and gives him a pot of liquid which when consumed will instigate a power to know the fate of the others.

In a miss time –Up, the liquid in the pot is consumed by Sreenu and then the story takes a turn.

What happens next is a twist in the movie ad must be seen on the big screen.

Performances

Actor Shivaji need no explanation about his performance in ‘Brahma Lokam to Yamalokam Via Bhulokam’ he has given his full acting skills to the movie.

Nata Kireeti Rajendra Prasad has also acted well in the movie as Brahma and has lived the character.

Sonia, after a long time, appeared on silver screen. She has given a decent performance. But her isolation from glam roles has disappointed the mass crowds, who are eager to see what the female lead shows to them.

The rest of the star cast has performed well and the movie is filled with a lot of experienced artists.

MM Srilekha Music was apt to the storyline line of Brahma Lokam to Yamalokam Via Bhulokam.

Direction by Nageshwar rao was good , but certain technical snags in the screenplay will fetch some remarks for the director as well.

On the whole, the movie is a comedy entertainer, with some well carved narration. It is wholesome family entertainer and will be living a decent life at the box office.

Cast: Jayam Ravi, Shyaam, Tamannah Bhatia, Prabhu Ganeshan, Livingstone, Vadivelu, Suhasini Maniratnam, Santhanam, Sathyan, Radha Ravi, Mansoor Ali Khan, and others

Rating : 3.5/5

Music: Yuvan Shanker Raja

Cinematography: B Rajshekar

Editing: L. Sasi Kumar

Director: M Raja

Producer: Mohan

‘Thillalangadi’ is a movie remake of a Telugu movie titled KICK. Director Raja made some minute changes in the script and has presented the movie for the Tamil movie audiences.

Story

Krishna (Jayam Ravi) is always a fun and thrill loving guy in life. He is always in search of ecstasy in his day to day life and keeps on changing his job. Krishna has a good background as he has a father (Prabhu) and mother (Suhasini) who keep on supporting him in every aspect.

Krishna is well educated and talented and so easily fetches a job. But the problem with this intellectual mind is that he needs craze amusement in the job, which he finds lacking in every job he does. As a result of it, he keeps on going for a job change over.

Meera (Tamannah) is also a fun loving young girl, who is a rich and is in a look out for a suitable guy as a life partner. She incidentally meets Krishna and soon both fall in love. But Krishna displays his love to Meera openly, but Meera hides her love from Krishna, for a reason.

Unfortunately, Krishna’s job change over and his parent’s support, make Meera irritated and she goes to Malaysia. Meanwhile, meera elders arrange, meera’s engagement with a guy named Veer (Shaam) who is a handsome police officer. Initially Meera discloses her past love story and accepts for the marriage with veer. But all off a sudden Krishna again enters her life, with a motive to get back his love and also for a patriotic purpose.

What happens next is a big suspense in the movie.

Performances

Actor Jayam Ravi has done superb acting in this movie ‘Thillalangadi”. The movie will remain as a highlight in the career of Ravi, as it will be a hit of this year.

Actor Shaam repeats his slightly negative character in the Tamil version as well. Shaam was also seen in the Telugu version and now the same is seen in the Tamil version. But he gets into the character of a special police officer and will be a highlight in the movie.

Tamannah’s character in ‘Thillalangadi” needs her to play a glam doll role in the film, as well as she needs to display her acting skills. Tamannah had one her character very well and her male fans will have a delight to see her.

The rest of the star cast like Prabhu, Suhasini, and Vadivelu play apt to their characters.

Music element of the film is composed by Yuvan Shanker Raja in association with music director Thaman. The music element will be a highlight in ‘Thillalangadi”.

Direction by M. Raja is excellent as this movie requires more screen play and apt direction intellects. Raja has made the movie into a perfect entertainer, which will appeal to the mass and the class crowds.

On the whole, ‘Thillalangadi” is a good movie to watch once and so will have a good season at the box office.

Cast: Nani, Saranya Mohan, Kishore, kirthana, Dhanraj, Vinay, Koutilya, Santsh, Ramesh, Shiva, Vikki, Upendra, Rakhi, Kotesh Manasa, YS Krishneshwara Rao and others

Music: Selva ganesh.

Director: Satya Tatineni

Producer: NV Prasad and Paras Jain.

Release date: July 9^th, 2010.

‘Bheemili-Kabaddi Jattu’ is a movie, which is based on a sports backdrop. This movie deals with a sweet love story which happens in between a young girl and a kabaddi game player.

Story

Suri (Nani) looses his parents in his childhood and so he resides in the house of his landlord and grows up there. Suri is a kabaddi player in the childhood, but after he looses his parents, he says a goodbye to the game and becomes busy in working for the landlord.

Suri has a group of friends, who have diverse backgrounds, but are good kabaddi players. Suri has his friends practice the game and are labeled as Bheemili kabaddi jattu. The team is criticized, for oozing crucial matches against other villages during big tournaments.

Bheemili team witnesses a new entrant into the team and is also backed by a kabaddi coach. Then the team rises to a new level and improvises in playing the kabaddi game. Will the Bheemili kabaddi jattu win the trophy and if incase, how forms the rest of the story. The climax is surprising and hard to digest.

Performances

Actor Nani has given his 100% to his film role and looks apt for the character of suri. The movie has a village backdrop and the dialect and Nani carries his character with easiness.

Saranya Mohan is has hardly any dialogues in the movie and has nothing to show. Ironically speaking, saranya has n shapes and sizes to tempt the males and is and will always be like a scare crow in her films.

The rest of the stars cast, mostly new faces have done well, in playing their characters.

The music by Selva ganesh is average and perhaps, it can tagged as a below average music score.

The director Tatineni Satya has done a blunder in the Telugu remake of the Tamil film. There is no rule to exactly copy the subject as it is like in tamil. If it is done, then there is no use of the director as well. But who will explain it to Satya, as he has depicted the Tamil film totally as it is into Telugu.  The Telugu audiences will kick out this film from its roots within one week and this is for sure.

On the whole, let’s convey our best wishes to Nani and Saranya for their next project, as this movie has hardly anything to offer to their film careers.