21 Sept 2012 ~ MIRCHI NEWS

Charulatha Movie Review & Rating

Cast: Priyamani, Skanda, Saranya Ponvannan, Seetha Parthiepan
Banner: Global One Studios
Producer: Dwarakesh, Ramesh Krishna Murthy
Dialogues : Mythili Kiran
Director : Pon Kumaran
Music : Sundar C Babu
Cinematography : Panner Selvam
Release Date : September 21, 2012

Charulatha Movie Review Story:

‘Charulatha’ is the story of two conjoined twins named Charu & Latha -both played by Priyamani. One day, Charu and Latha goes to music classes to learn violin but was rejected by the master as he feels that they can’t play tough tunes as it may injure them. Both Charu and Latha prove their mettle and impress the master and starts learning violin. In the mean time, Charu slowly gets attracted to her classmate Ravi and eventually falls in love with him. This didn’t go well with Latha who also loves Ravi and as a result, troubles slowly start developing between them. Suddenly, Latha dies under mysterious circumstances and becomes a ghost thus threatening Charu. What happens next? Can Charu get rid of the ghost of Latha and will she be able to marry Ravi has to be watched on screen.

Charulatha Review Analysis:

Charulatha is inspired from Thai movie ‘Alone’. The movie turns interesting and the story was established only from the pre-interval scene itself. However, director Pon Kumaran has come up with right blend of comedy, emotions and suspense in the first half with brisk narration. The sister relationship and sentiment scenes are heart touching and few scenes like the ghost of Latha threatening Charu by hanging herself to the ceiling fan, the scene where Charu was shocked when the ghost tries to kill her while bathing are fantastic.

The second half is the soul of the movie. Priyamani has delivered a wonderful performance and kudos to her for showcasing lot of variations as a timid girl and as a ghost. Especially, the climax episode is exhilarating and director Pon Kumaran has extracted the best out of her. He has given right kind of treatment and the way he adapted the movie to the Indian sensibilities needs a round of applause.

Charulatha Movie Review TeluguOne Perspective:

The movie is the official remake of Thai film ‘Alone’ which is again inspired from ‘Sisters Tale’. Right from the word go, director Pon Kumaran has made the film with engaging screenplay and gripping narration. What happens when two conjoined twins love the same guy and how will they emote and what kind of pain they undergo in the process and how they develop jealousy on each other has been etched brilliantly in a convincing way. The tag line ‘Never Break a Promise’ is apt and the director balanced it with a beautiful twist to the tale in the climax and made it even more thrilling. On the flip side, the climax is a bit cliched but there is nothing much to complain as Priyamani has one again proved her acting prowess here! Overall, Charulatha surely grabs the attention for Priyamani’s amazing performance and Pon Kumaran’s excellent direction.

Charulatha Review Performances:

Priyamani as Charu and Latha delivered amazing award winning performance and she has carried the movie on her shoulders. She showed lot of variations in both the roles and especially her performance in the climax is outstanding. Priyamani is apparently one of the finest actresses of the present era. Saranya has delivered a decent performance and Seetha played the vital role of a Psychiatrist. Sai Sasi is good as priest and others played their part well.

Charulatha Review Technicalities:

Dialogues by Mythili Kiran are good. Editing by Donmax is crisp. Cinematography by Panner Selvam is wonderful. Direction by Pon Kumaran is excellent. Back ground score of Sundar C Babu is an asset. Production values by Global One Studios are grand.

Charulatha Review Positives:
Priyamani’s brilliant performance
Screenplay
Background score

Charulatha Review Negatives:
Cliched climax

Final Word: Go and watch Charulatha for Priyamani’s spectacular performance!

a2zmirchi Rating: 3.25/5

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Heroine Movie Review & Rating

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Movie:Heroine
Banners: UTV Motion Pictures, Bhandarkar Entertainment
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Pooja Chopra and others
Music: Salim-Sulaiman
Cinematographer: Mahesh Limaye
Editor: Devendra Murdeshwar
Story, screenplay, direction: Madhur Bhandarkar
Producers: Ronnie Screwvala, Madhur Bhandarkar, Siddharth Roy Kapur
Release date: 21/09/2012

Madhur Bhandarkar, the protégé of RGV, has been known for his gritty dramas and this time he has come up with yet another inside story on the entertainment industry. Let us see how this is..

Story:
Starting with a flashback mode, the story begins with Mahie Arora (Kareena Kapoor) a top league heroine who is going through a phase of emotional rupture.

The reason for that is, her fading career and at the same time her insecurity about the relationship with the married superstar Aryan Khanna (Arjun Rampal) who is yet to get his divorce.

An impulsive and highly volatile being that she is, Mahie’s streak of eccentricity tends to push Mahie to do some rash gestures. But the arrival of a new PR Guru Pallavi (Divya) starts another innings for Mahie but in the process of limelight and publicity, Mahie gets lonelier and lonelier as she climbs. What happens after that forms the rest of the story.

Performances:
Kareena Kapoor has given a committed performance. She may not be as versatile as Vidya Balan or graceful as Aishwarya but she sure has that attitude to carry herself. She has portrayed the various facets convincingly.

Arjun Rampal looks quite weary. Unlike his previous flicks where he had that freshness, this film shows him in a rather old and starved look taking away his stud charms. Performance-wise, he was nice.

Randeep Hooda had a brief role but he did his bit well. This is a different side to his characterization which is usually raw and rustic.

Divya Dutta was apt for the role of a PRO. She has portrayed her character in the most realistic way possible and added value to the scenes that she did.

Govind Namdeo was perfect, Helen was useful, Ranvir Shorey was excellent as Dada, Pooja Chopra was okay, Mugdha Godse was brief, Lilette Dubey was standard, Shahana Goswami was seductive. The others did their bit as required.

Highlights:

Kareena’s performance
Storyline
Background score

Drawbacks:

First half
Dialogues
Weak pace

Analysis:
The life of entertainment industry is all about glitz and glamour and that’s why the audience love to watch films because it is a dream world. From a distance, the film industry is quite flashy and even the lifestyles the stars lead are quite flamboyant. But here is the truth.

It isn’t so rosy as it is perceived to be. And that is what Madhur Bhandarkar has tried to show with this attempt. Usually it is the heroines who have a plush lifestyle but the fact is that beneath all that beauty, glamour and craze, there lies a girl who is confused, misguided, ambitious but without clarity of thought. Unfortunately, they cover it up with something called ‘Attitude’ and ‘I know everything and I am never at fault’.

Well, that doesn’t really work for long and the price has to be paid. Though dialogues are totally spineless, one line from actress Helen in the film sums it up. The essence of her words meant “In the craving for glamour and glory, what we don’t realize is we have lost a lot in the bargain. And by the time we realize, it is too late.” And that is the life of a heroine in a nutshell.

Madhur has always shown interest in dealing with reality issues and he must be appreciated for choosing his own line of work to show the dark side as it may rub his colleagues on the wrong side. But this time, he didn’t have that grit or intensity that he usually has. This was more sober. Of course it had its deep moments but due to the length of the film and stale dialogues, the fizz was missing. Overall, this is a film which many heroines would connect and would work as an eye opener for those aspiring to be one.

On the flip side, this may not work with the masses who expect some glamour feast due to the reality dose. At the box office, the film has a good potential of scoring profits.

Bottomline: Watch it for knowing her life and not her beauty…

a2zmirchi Rating:3.5/5

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Vennela 1 1/2 Movie Review & Rating

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Film: Vennela 1.5
Banner: Gr8 Films
Cast: Chaitanya Krishna, Monal Gajjar, Vennela Kishore, Brahmanandam, Raghubabu, Harish, Tagubothu Ramesh etc
Music: Sunil Kashyap
Camera: Suresh
Producers: Vasu, Varma
Story, Direction: Vennela Kishore
Released on: Sep 21, 2012

Vennala Kishore, the upcoming comedian emerged as director with this film. He called it is sequel to Deva Katta's 'Vennela' but holds no connection with that other than finding some artistes in common. Let us see how it worked.

Story:
Krishna Krishna (Chaitanya Krishna) loves Vennela (Monal Gajjar) who was already engaged to a software engineer (Sravan).

Not knowing the reason, she too falls in the love of Krishna Krishna.

But she discovers that she got betrayed by him and moves to a far away place. Krishna Krishna and his friends go in search of her. What happens from there, leads to climax.

Performances:
Chaitanya Krishna is a good dancer but he was not fully exploited. There are no complaints from him and did what he is supposed to do.

Monal Gajjar is photogenic and looks good in some frames. On a whole, she wasn't used for glamor side. She needs to groom a lot with respect to expressions.

Vennela Kishore's part is impressive on screen and Tagubothu Ramesh added fuel to humor. Harish is reasonably hilarious in many places, but proved ‘over’ in some parts. Brahmanandam got wasted. Raghu Babu's comedy is very artificial and forcible. Master Bharat is pitiful.

Though there is no logic, as said by the director on poster as 'love+laugh" square minus logic, entertainment lacked a lot especially in second half.

Highlights:

Some comedy parts

Drawbacks:

Lags
Boring tracks

Analysis:
Tagubothu Ramesh, just before the interval says 'What is this film? Audience walks out for sure". To this Kishore says, "No, second half will be lolli lolli with many comedians".

That raises expectations. But that ended up in chaos. Many feel first half is better than second at the end. Suddenly, the melodrama with Vennela's father character didn't gel with the genre of the film. Even the climax part was not grippingly entertaining.

Kishore made this film with an idea to bring out a narration that is out of the imagination for Telugu audience. The influence of many comedy films made in last 30 years in Hollywood was seen on this.

The screenplay is incompetent, we have to strain our brain to understand what's happening in the movie.

Making an out and out comedy entertainer needs lot of dynamics to keen audience engaged. Even the disconnect of 10 minutes mars the prospects of the film. It is needless to say that entertaining narration is a must though there is no logic.

No one knows why the film was titled ‘Vennela 1.5’. Is that to target the rating of 1.5? But it could score only half of it.

Bottomline: Erratic Comedy

a2zmirchi Movie Rating: 1.75/5

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