Srikanths's 100th Film MAHATMA Review

Film: Mahatma

Banner: Golden Lion Films

Rating: 3/5

Cast: Srikanth, Bhavana, Jayaparakash Reddy, Jyothy, Uttej, Jagan, Brahmanandam, Paruchuri Venkateshwara Rao etc

Music: Vijay Anthony

Lyrics: Seetarama Sastry, Suddala Ashok Teja and Lakshmi Bhupal

Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers

Cinematography: Sarath

Director: Krishna Vamsi

Producer: C R Manohar

Released On: 9th October 2009



Story:

Dasanna (Srikanth) is a rugged youngster who lives in a ‘basthi area’ and his life style includes only fights, daily intake of alcohol and non-veg. His livelihood depends on rowdism. In the process he happens to encounter an advocate Krishnaveni (Bhavana) who keeps on bailing him out whenever he gets into police case.

On the other hand a political rivalry runs between ruling party leaders Dattanna (Jayaprakash Reddy) and Kalarani (Jyothy). In the flow of events, Dasanna happens to become a tool between Datthanna and Kalarani.

But Gandhism attracts Dasanna all of a sudden. He stops alcohol, non vegetarianism and also fights. He starts the process of accepting mistake. How that affected him? How that helped his area? That forms rest of the story.


Performances:

Srikanth:
He did his best with utmost care. His expressions worked really well for every scene. He also tried to show some expertise in dances as well although choreography is pretty poor. The shades of his portrayal in Shankaradada Zindabad are seen on some scenes.

Bhavana:
She is the biggest minus for the movie and there is nothing more speak about.

Jagan:
Although a trivial role, he deserves a paragraph here. He appears in various get ups- NTR, Tanguturi Prakasam. Pingala Vekayya, Alluri Seeta Rama Raju, Potti Sree Ramulu and Gandhiji. The song ‘Kontha mandi inti peru…’ was shot on him.

Brahmanandam appears in guest comedy and that is just ok. Jayaprakash Reddy aptly grooved in the role of Datthanna. Jyothy is ok as Kalarani. Uttej and Paruchuri Venkateshwara Rao have played as side kicks to protagonist.


Charmee spilled glamour in an item song and Navneeth Kaur also made her hot presence on screen although appeared for a few seconds.

Editing has suffered some problems (Gandhi’s statue looks shabby for some time and clean and neat for other time in the same scene). Cinematography is good. Story is fine and screenplay could have been better. On a whole it’s a laudable attempt by director but could have carried the subject with more intensity.

Highlights:
Title song ‘Talayetti jeevinchu..’
Song on Gandhiji ‘Kontha mandi inti peru kaadura Gandhi..’

Disappointments:
Heroine
Dialogues (except ‘kattana..kottana’ and ‘amma ..neeyamma’)
No proper comedy


Analysis:
The take-off of the movie is pretty hysterical with the title song ‘Talayetti jeevinchu Tammudaa..’ But the actual story wouldn’t start till the interval bang. The beginning of second half promises bigger things but that goes with various ups and downs. First 45 minutes of the movie goes in run of the mill style and that could have been confined to 20 minutes jumped into actual story.

The song ‘Indiramma inti peru kaadura Gandhi’ that raised controversy was changed to ‘Konthamandi inti peru kaadura Gandhi’. But Censor didn’t bother to cut down the word ‘f...k off’ used by artiste Jyothy for Kalarani character in first half.

Director seems to have ignored masses and that is evident through his selection of heroine and the get up given to her. Any other heroine would have aptly fitted in the requirement.

On a whole, the spirit of non violence, truth, accepting the mistake and perseverance are conveyed in this attempt through some scenes. But more homework should have done to make it a better product since the title is ‘Mahatma’!!!

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Mahatama Movie Postponed To October 9th

Krishnavamsi, who makes gritty films with topical social issues, has run into another trouble. His most ambitious film, Mahatama, is expectedly facing problems at Censor Board. The film was to release on Gandhi Jayanthi - October 2nd but CBFC refused to pass the movie unless the director and producer accept the cuts suggested by the board. It is learnt that the board objected on several scenes including the super hit song - Indiramma Inti Peru Kadura Gandhi.
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Mahatma - sheduled to release on October 2,

srikanth completing 100 films with this movie. krishna vamshi directing this movie. bhavana pairing with srikanth and charmi will sizzle in a special item song with srikanth. audio recently released to matket. CR Manohar producing the movie under golden lions films banner. dialogues are by paruchuri brothers . this films comes with a caption of "son of the nation". the last film from the combination of srikanth and Krishna Vamsi was Kadgam which was one the biggest hits in srikanth's career . krishna vamshi said it will his gift to srikanth on his 100th film.


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Ek Niranjan - sheduled to release on October 29th 2009,

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Aarya 2 - sheduled to release in October 2009,

aarya was the biggest hit in 2005 as well as biggest hit for allu arjun and sukumar. with the same director and hero aditya babu and b v n s prasad making the sequal of aarya. title of the movie was confirmed as aarya-2. devi sri prasad giving tunes for the songs of aarya-2. kajal agarwal is leading actress. while navadeep , shradha arya also doing key roles in the movie. this movie already creating buzz in internet. couple of months back 3 tunes of the movie were leaked over internet. recently in last week some few pictures were published every where in internet. to get control of the situation producers were released official wallpapers and stills of the movie. on occasioin producers said they planing to release aarya-2 in octobar 2nd week and music of aarya-2 in last week of sep or first week of oct.


Kurradu - sheduled to release in October 2009,

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Village Lo Vinayakudu - sheduled to release on October 2,

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Movie Name:GANESH
TeluguOne's Rating : 3.5/5
Banner:Sri Sravanti Movies
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Story
Ganesh (Ram) is an orphan. The young man is keen on helping others. His friend loves a girl but he fears to let that known to his father (Kasi Viswanath) . The idea of the father is to get his son married to his niece Divya (Kajal). Hence Ganesh plans to make Divya fall in his love so that line will be clear for his friend to marry his love interest. He implements the plan by becoming a tenant of the apartments where Divya resides along with her parents..
Her family stays at Express Towers Apartments, Kondapur. The apartment is famous for mischievous children and their playful acts. But somehow Ganesh becomes their favourite to deal with Divya, their tuition teacher. When Divya and Ganesh are about get really involved, Divya overhears a conversation. I t reveals that Ganesh is pretending love with her only to get way clear for his friend. This causes misunderstandings between the lovers. How he sees success in his plan and proves his sincerity in his love for his lady forms the rest of the story.

Analysis
Though this is a debut film as a director for Saravanan, he proved his directorial skills in this flick. The screenplay is neat and crisp. The director catered to the tastes of all categories of audience. The production values are really good. Sravanti Kishore's passion for film making is shown through the care he took for very minute shots like a cool drink fountain and a hill of ice creams in an ATM etc..

Action-: Ram's energetic performance is supported by the new element of emotion in various scenes. He did well as usual in his dance and action sequences. Kajal too gave her best. Poonam Kaur performed well as the heroine's friend. Ashish Vidyarthi and Brahmanandam's comedy is good. Kashi Vishwanath, Sudha, Sameer and others performed well. Music-: Excellent. Micky J.Meyer's music is melodious. Re-recording is good.Cinematography-: Senior cinematographer Hari Anumolu's work excelled in songs.Dialogues-: Well penned dialogues helped in maintaining the tempo of the story.Lyrics-: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry provided lyrics for only one song. All other songs were penned down by Ramajogayya Sastry. All are well written and enjoyable.Editing-: Neat and crisp.Choreography-: Well choreographed.Action-: Ram used a new weapon called San Set Sukon that helped to create interest in action scenes. Other action scenes too are well choreographed.
This is a feel good movie with a rare combination of kid element. Watchable with your near and dear ones.