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Film: Mouna Raagam
Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Sri Saideva ProductionsCast: Tanish, Madhurima, Suhasini, Venu, Chandramohan, M S, Ali, Jeeva, AVS, Dharmavarapu, Hema, Madhavi and others
Music: S A Rajkumar
Cinematography: Shaman Mitru
Editing: Goutham Raju
Story, screenplay, direction: Vijay BalajiProducers: N V Prasad, S. Naga Ashok Kumar
Release date: 08/04/2010

The childhood actor turned hero Tanish and the stunningly beautiful Madhurima have paired up for this new romantic tale. How deep was it and whether it will appeal or not let us see.

Story:
Chandu (Tanish) is in deep love with his maradalu Kaveri (Suhasini) and does many sacrifices for her since childhood. She grows up, gets a job but dumps Chandu because of his poor status. In between this comes Sandhya (Madhurima) who has got a flashback of her own and she stays with Chandu due to unavoidable circumstances. When Chandu is shattered due to Kaveri’s words, Sandhya gives him strength and together they decide to beat the odds in life. Whether they are successful or not forms the rest of the story.

Performances:
Tanish has emoted well at many places and fits the role to gain sympathy but then he has to improvise on his dubbing. The voice still sounds childish; Tanish must modulate it and make it sound like a man’s voice.

Madhurima looks absolutely stunning and has a lot of oomph and appeal. Her comfort in front of the camera is also high. All she needs is a break with a big banner and she has bright future.

Suhasini has a very high dose of homely sex appeal and has made good use of her presence.

Venu tried his best to bring few  laughs, Ali was brief, Dharmavarapu had a serious role, M S Narayana was regular, Hema, Ramaprabha, Madhavi and others did their bit as required. The youngster doing the role of Gautam has good personality but not the right kind of looks. Jeeva was effective. Kasi Viswanath came and went.

Analysis:
There was a bike sentient in the movie ‘Ride’ that brought success for Tanish. Now there is bike concept in this movie’s script as well (with heroine Madurima’s character) and that might have inspired Tanish to some extent to sign on this film.

The film is more of a ‘pulisina perugu’ theme. The director realizes the importance of sentiment and heart feeling and refers it as Curd rice. Undoubtedly, he was right in that and he gets that on the screen through one of his character but then he must realize that the curd has to be fresh and not 3-4 days old.

Looking at the film, one gets a feeling of the late 90s. We have seen that in movies like ‘Raja’ and the other one with Srikanth and Soundarya. Secondly, the film was dragged at unwanted places due to which the feel at the right scene got missed.

For instance, the climax scene where the bike is launched, it looks like a sentimental skit of entertainment before the real program begins. It doesn’t fit the climax part and loses momentum.

Overall, the film was good at few places and had a message to convey but the depth was missing in it. Lyrics were good, cinematography was ok, dialogues were plain, screenplay was average. Commercially, the presence of Madhurima will pull some crowds and few sequences will touch few young hearts but overall, it will require a great deal of publicity to take it to the success mark.



Bottom line – Not exciting

Mahesh Babu pairing with Katrina for Lux Ad Film!.

Mahesh Babu Fans are eagerly waiting for the movie of this star, from the past two years. The last release of Mahesh was “Athidhi” which was in the year 2007. After that, due to several reasons, Mahesh did not come up on screen. His 18 months old project, which is being directed by Trivikram is now complete and will be a summer release for sure.

The movie has Andhra mirchi Anushka plying the lead and is likely titled as “ Khiladi”. Recently, a special song depicting Mahesh in the get up of his father super star Krishna was also filmed. For all those who relished super star Krishna’s “ Kirayi Kotigadu”, the latest Mahesh babu film will be a treat to them. The same get up donned by Krishna in that film; will be donned by Mahesh in a special song.

The photo stills of this song will be kept under wraps by the director and will be released in the last week of April. Meanwhile, there are rumors that Mahesh has signed an endorsement ad film for the popular soap brand LUX. There is news that he may feature opposite to Katrina Kaif in this soap ad film, which is exclusively filmed for AP audiences.

POLICE POLICE coming 2MOROW

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's on HELLO magazine APRIL edition

PRABHAS next with Sambho Siva Sambho director

Samuthikhani, who won accolades with the film Sambho Siva Sambho is right now busy in penning a story for Prabhas. He didn’t approach the hero till now but is confident that Prabhas will definitely be impressed with his script.

Samuthirakani wants this film to be a bilingual and he says that once he gets a positive nod from the star, he will make the film in Telugu and Tamil simultaneously. Well, if Samuthirakani’s confidence pays and Prabhas say ‘yes’ then this film will be the debut for the Tollywood hunk in Tamil.

Samuthirakani revealed that his story is based on popular Tamil novel Sivam.

NAG'S next film 2 B produced by his SISTER(HERO SUSANTH'S MOTHER)

Naga Susheela, elder sister of Nagarjuna and mother of Sushant is planning to do a film with Nagarjuna as her future venture. As per reliable sources this film will be directed by a new comer, who happens to be the associate of Mani Ratnam. Nagarjuna listened to the storyline and gave a go ahead too, says the source. Currently the script work is going on. Nagarjuna will be available for this film after his proposed venture under Veeru Potla’s direction wraps up. Stay glued for more details.

Manisha Koirala to marry Nepalese bizman on June 19

The 40-year-old actress, who is from political family in Nepal, entered Bollywood through director Subhash Ghai's Saudagar in 1991. She went on to act in many hit films like Dil Se, Khamoshi, 1942: A Love Story, Akele Hum Akele Tum and many others. She was one of the top heroines in 1990s.

In 2001, she broke off her engagement to the then Australian ambassador to Nepal, Crispin Conroy, saying she was not yet ready for marriage. Last year, she was to have tied the knot with American author, speaker and mental toughness trainer Christopher Dorris but the wedding bells did not ring. Now, Nepal's star in Bollywood, Manisha Koirala, is ready to return to her roots by taking the plunge with fellow Nepalese Samrat Dahal.

"We have fixed the wedding date on June 19," said Surendra Dahal, father of the groom and a businessman whose Leather Wings company does rolling business and has associates in Bentinck Street of Kolkata, famed for its leather shops, Chennai, New Delhi, Kanpur and Agra.

Samrat studied in US, but is now back in Nepal to set up his own bio-gas plant. The first plant will be started in tourist city Pokhara, incidentally the place where Manisha was down shooting for her upcoming Nepali film 'Dharma', returning to the Nepali film industry after nearly two decades.

Em Pillo Em Pillado coming this MAY

Eetaram Films’ launched MOVIE ‘Em Pillo Em Pillado’ featuring Tanish and Pranitha as lead pair on January 1st with A S Ravi Kumar Chowdary as director. Pokuri Babu Rao arranged a press meet today at Prasad Labs to brief about the film’s progress.PRESS meet was attended by A S RaviPokuri Babu Rao, Kumar Chowdary, Tanish, Praneetha, Gautham Raju, Ram Lakshman, C H Ramana Raju, Bhashasri, etc., participated. 

Speaking to the media producer Pokuri Babu Rao said, “This film is quite contrast to the ones that were made earlier under our banner. Except for 3 songs the shooting has almost been completed. We are planning to release the film in the month of May. We are introducing a Bangalore girl Praneeta as a heroine. Both Tanish and Praneeta performed at ease.” 

Cast: Tanish, Praneeta, Chandra Mohan, Charan Raj, Ahuti Prasad, Vijay Chander, Venkat, Surya, Rama Prabha, Dr Siva Prasad, Duvvasi Mohan, Ravi Shankar, Pragathi, Rajitha, Swathi, etc.

Crew: 

Story: Eetaram Unit, 

Dialogues: Bhashasri; 

Lyrics: Bhaskara Bhatla, Ramajogayya Sastry, Bhashasri; 

Music: Mani Sharma; 

Camera: C H Ramanaraju; 

Presented: Pokuri Rama Rao;

 Producer: Pokuri Babu Rao; 

Screenplay and direction: A S Ravi Kumar. 

MAHESH BABU on TWITTER

Twitter has been popular among Hollywood and Bollywood stars. It is nice to see Telugu actors joining the list. Mahesh Babu has recently stated using Twitter. He already got 2530 followers in a day. He said that his movie is going to release in August. 


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