Shivaji – The Boss

A Movie that was awaited like anything by not only the whole south India, but also some major parts of the world. Just can’t imagine the fame Rajnikanth has. His presence over 30 years in movie industry has gained him fame in countries like Japan!!!Coming to the movie…Shivaji – The Boss. An amazing combination of Super Star RajniKanth, Shanker, AR Rehman. What else can any fan ask for?

The movie starts off well, with the introduction of the Superstar, not much hyped but effective. As most of the reviews are now out the story line is well known to everyone.

Rajni’s trademark mannerisms are indeed appreciable in the movie. The way he has his chewing gum and also the flip of the coin style are notable mannerisms in the movie.

Manish Malhotra has done a great job by giving Rajni awesome look and totally different looks in the movie, his age is not at all prominent in the movie. The kind of attire worn and also new hair styles caught eye of the audience.

Shanker, did an ok job, the story line is not as gripping as it was in his other movies but add Rajni to it, anything to everything looks special. The Shaker touch with Lavish Sets in songs was clearly seen and it’s his brilliance in making songs much beautiful than they are.

Suman, it was refreshing to see this actor come along so well, the body language, the style, his dressing, goggles everything was just perfect for this role and Suman did a great job, executed the role very well and did justice with his good performance.

Rehman did a good job with good background score and also two numbers are catchy.

Shriya, as in Shaker movies the female lead role is for glamour, she was cute and good looking.

Vivek (comedian) next to Rajni did a good job and added lot of humor with spontenity.

The translation of the movie from Tamil to telugu for the first time, I guess, worked really well as the comedy scenes carried the humor and were not disturbed by the dubbing.

Overall, it’s an ok movie, but if you are a Rajnikanth fan it’s a treat. Wonderful movie to watch for a Rajni’s fan.

MayaaBazaar

Release Date: March 27, 1957

Color: Black & White - 35MM

Photography: Marcus Bartley

Direction By: K.V. Reddy

Story: K.V. Reddy (Film adaptation) and Pingali Nagendra Rao

Editor: C.P Jambulingam, Bhaktavatsalam

Screenplay, lyrics and dialogues: Pingali Nagendra Rao

Choreography: Pasumarti Krishnamurthi, Gopinath

Art: Madhavapeddi Gokhale, Kaladhar

Makeup: Pitambaram, Bhaktavatsalam

Playback: Madhavapeddi Satyam, P. Suseela, Ghantashala, P. Leela, Jikki Krishnaveni, M.L Vasantakumaari

This movie is one of the all time telugu industry hits and every movie lover knows this movie.

I was just wondering how this movie could take over the industry? And I finally could find out one of the answers.

The reason is the ground work that has been done before the movie making began. The story has been beautifully written and lot of improvisations was made before they concluded on the story.

Once the story was concluded then the characters of the movie were chalked out and then the script penned beautifully.

Every character in the movie had importance and each character was justified.

I would like to share an incident from this movie, which is what according to me makes it a beautiful movie that is fresh even after 50 years.

One of the comedians in the movie was given the script to study and understand before hand. The comedian was good at improvisations on the sets and was have amazing spontaneity. Now this spontaneous actor knew what his strength was and he requested the director asking him whether he can improvise on the sets to add more value to the scene.

Then the director of the movie Mr.K.V.Reddy, without any hesitation requested the comedian to read the script again and then asked him to make improvisations in the script. Also said very clearly, once the script is concluded it has to be blindly followed on the sets.

This comedian goes back re reads the script and then comes back to the director and says that it was perfect and just saluted the director.

This incident shows how this movie was planned beautifully and also executed perfectly.

There are lots of things that contributed to the movie’s success apart from the star cast.

It was so well planned and organized. Everything was ready before the team went on to the sets and no compromise on the quality. This reminds me of the camera man of the movie, who was a foreigner, a specialist in his field and the lighting effects and the quality of the work I just can’t express how beautifully it was done.

The story behind the scenes shows us that to get a product out which can live for more than 50 years, that too in entertainment industry where people tastes change is quite difficult and it was truly done with great discipline and I proudly salute to each and every one who has contributed to this success.

Pokiri

Pokiri

Starring: Mahesh, Ileana, Prakash Raj

Director: Puri Jagannadh

The first that this movie offered, during the promo days was I should say the beauty of Ileana. The posters and the wallpapers released were very attractive and this has been I should say, the art of good commercial photography and good way to advertise the movie coming up.

The craze for the movie already had a head start with a wonderful star cast with Mahesh in the lead role, with a hit ‘Athadu’ and Ileana shown up beautifully.

The movie had lot of promise and I’m glad to say that its not disappointing.

The character of Pandu played by Mahesh was simply superb and the way he acted in the movie was I should say the best of Mahesh. The way he carried himself through out the movie was excellent.

The character of Shruthi, played by Ileana, sadly did not have anything to offer except for her beauty and to attract the masses.

The comic role played by Bramhandam and Ali was stretched too much, which in the end did not turn out as expected. Also it was not a part of the story line it appeared as if it were just an attachment wherever some place was found.

The role of the police played by the bollywood actors is justified and the way the media was made fun was very good, today media does exactly what has been sarcastically told in the movie.

The character Ali Bhai, played by Prakash Raj, lost the hype and the strength which it had in the first half. It was just too much of experimentation with that character.

The movie was basically a one man show. The dialogs in the movie were excellently written and also the delivery was very good. Few scenes were screen played very well especially criticizing the media was shown very well.

The twist in the story is the key to the movie, but it was just like any typical old Indian movies. But that made audience stick to their seats till the end.

The songs were picturized very well attracting all the cults of audience, the first song of the movie did not make any sense, it was there just for the heck of it I guess so. The other songs of the movie were above average but the way heroine was shown, added up to make them good enough.

Overall I would say that the effort of Puri Jagannadh was fruitful in making this a good movie to watch and in the current scenario where no movies are up to the mark, this is obviously a super hit.

Rating: 3.5/5