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Friday, April 1, 2011
Teenmaar Music Review
Pawan Kalyan who scored a dud with his last movie ‘Puli’ is now arriving with a remake of sorts as this is meant to be inspired from the Bollywood hit ‘Love Aaj Kal’. He is joined by Trisha and Kriti Kharbanda and the music is by Mani Sharma, let us see how the songs are
Aale Bale
This is more of a title song and one can see the traces of the Hindi song ‘Chor Bazari’ from Love Aaj Kal. But then, Mani Sharma has used a good mix of violin, mouth organ, guitar and he maintains the beat very smoothly. The duet has been rendered by Hemachandra and Shravana Bhargavi who seem to have enjoyed crooning.
Vayyarala
This is more like a vintage song and there is tinge of Tamil flavor in the beats and tone. Mani Sharma has used simple beats and topped it up with melodious linings wherever required. As usual, the pace of the song is good and Karunya has given a very good impact to it with his involved singing.
Chiguru Bhoniya
A foot tapping song, Mani Sharma opens the note with nice mix of instruments and there is a stirring tune to it. it like a western cowboy song. The usage of various names and creating a rhyme effect is nice.
Sri Ganga
This is a highlight song and is a trademark number of Mani Sharma. One can see his strong presence in composing the beats,
Barbi Bommaki
This one opens with the tune from the Hindi song “leke pehla pehla pyar…’ and it continues like that for a while before Mani Sharma chips in with his mixes and flavors. This is more like a remix song and has a decent beat. Benny Dayal and Shravana Bhargavi toned up their voices and gave a western touch to the number.
Gelupu Thalupule
This is another highlight song and it is filled with good emotion and feel. Mani Sharma takes a subdued approach and gives the front seat to vocals. He chips in with good piano, flute, tabla and gives a soul stirring effect. The key credit goes to Sreeram Chandra for his voice filled with a rather unusual depth.
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Shakthi movie review
The costliest film ever made in Tollywood has finally arrived and this also marks the starting of the summer bonanzas. Let us see if it has enough heat.
Story:
Mahadevarayalu (Prabhu) is the central home minister. He hails from royal family. His family is entrusted to protect the most powerful divine weapon Rudrashoolam and divine diamond Jwalamukhi. But Mahadevarayulu’s father (SP Balu) loses Rudrashoolam to the sinister minded deewanjee Jackie (Jackie Shroff). Since a pooja has to be performed on a particular eclipse day, the holy man (Nazar) asks Mahadevarylu to get Jwalamukhi.
On the other hand, Mahadevarayalu has got his daughter Iswarya (Ileana). She wants to live a free life without any security so she escapes to have a holiday with her friends (Ali and others). Accidentally, jwalamukhi drops into Ishwarya’s travel bag. Ish fails to recognize that.
While the story goes like this, Fakhtoom (Pooja), an evil queen from Egypt has also got her eyes on Rudrashoolam as she wants to conquer the world and avenge the death of her husband (Sonu Sood).
Ishwarya is targeted by the group of Fakhtoom but here comes Shakti (NTR) as Iswarya’s tourist guide. He protects her from time to time. However, Shakti has got a flashback and a connection with the Rudrashoolam. What is that connection? Who gets to win in the end forms the rest of the story.
Performances
NTR Junior does his bit as required. Though he is lacking those high energy levels and powerful dialogue delivery, he carries off his role in a matured way. However, the etching of his warrior character was poor.
Ileana looks sexy and appeals in the songs. Though her costumes were not upto the mark, she contributes in the glamour department.
Sonu Sood was okay, though his role was very limited he manages to make his presence felt.
Pooja Bedi was artificial, Nasser looks powerful, Jackie Shroff ended up as a joker with his weak characterization, the actor who did the role of Raaka was brawny, Prabhu was okay, Ali was average, Brahmanandam came and went, Krishna Bhagawan brought few smiles, S P Balu was standard, Manjari was ok. The others didn’t have much to offer
A good film with high budgets requires a strong team of technicians and effective execution of the plot. Here, the concept of the Sakti Peethams was appealing but then it takes material to execute the plot in the right way and bring conviction.
The responsibility of the director is to bring depth and feel into such storylines. For instance, the flashback episode dates back only 27 years back which means 1984. How can one expect people to come from Egypt with horses, have sword-fights etc during that year.
Another place where the Sakti Peethams are portrayed through library shots, what was the director thinking of? Saving some money? Well, that looked poor. There are many scenes where dramatism and high voltage of emotions is required but that was missing completely.
Except for one or two scenes, there is not a single scene which strikes a chord. Cinematic liberties are accepted but the director must concentrate on getting the audience to connect with his story first. After that, even if he shows something illogical, the audience won’t mind it. But right from the first scene, things have been stale and lacked any emotion.
At the box office, the openings might be good due to the star power and the hype about the budget but apart from that, the film is sure to fizzle out due to weak content.
Bottomline: Shakti appeals to the director but peels the skin of the audience
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