Arjun Reddy

Its one movie I would go back to watch.. its unlikely of any contemporary movies that it drives cinema goers again and again towards it.

The movie is about Arjun who is a mbbs intern. He is the best out going student impeccable record. He is expelled from college for having tantrum with neighbouring college. At this time he falls in love with a fresher at his college. 

The love story continues and due to a small confusion the lovers get seperated. The girl gets married within her caste when Arjun is deep in his mental mayhem. Hero gets mad, depressed and alcoholic. 

He performs a surgery when he is drunk and passes out. There is legal medical enquiry on him. His family tries to help him but Arjun confesses to have been drunk when performing surgery. His license is cancelled for a year. 

He loses his mind and everything else that he possessed. He falls in to the streets when he hears the news of his granny passing away. 

He goes back to his home to support his family. They accept him and ask him to go on vacation. He gets to see his girl friend on his way who would be full term pregnant. He comes back and meets her. He wins her confidence and brings her home. She reveals that she is pregnant with the baby of Arjun. 

They all live happily ever after.

The story is very simple and common. But the way its depicted is very sweet. Arjun for sure wins the viewers hearts with his amazing acting. 

Bharath Stores - Kannada Movie

This is also one of the great movies I happened to watch on the Chandana series at home. It was in my wishlist for a long time.

Its a movie about how India is taking the heat of foreign direct investment against traditional retailers. It has Dattatreya donning the role of Govind shetty, owner of one of the famous retail shops in south Bangalore. One of the bus stops in the route would be named after this and such is the popularity of it.

Govinda Shetty is a typical business man of nineties who by nature is a gentleman, taking interest in the good being of the society and people. He looks after his staff well and respects them. He makes good money also which he returns to the society in various forms.

He is faced with first hand disapproval from his son who is keen on taking up employment at a mall than managing the father's Bharath Stores. Govind Shetty loses all his customers day by day to the goods sold at the near by mall. He would be left with nothing at his old age and is admitted at a old age home.

India is witnessing a big number of stories where many Govind Shettys are quitting their shops due to the mall culture. Govind Shetty at the same time is reluctant to change his ways of doing business. He likes to send home the grocery where the actual customers like to go to mall, shop, eat and have fun time. He is reluctant to provide discounts like the way malls do(or advertise). He is also reluctant to provide credit(in the form of credit card). His shop does not have many options or brands for the grocery item. All these reasons make the consumer to look for a place which provides all of these or some of these. I being an engineer, always mentored upon to learn the technologies of tomorrow, find it bleak too see the future of small retailers like Govind Shetty.

The movie is a good depiction of paradigm of shutting small scale retailers and growth of malls. It also has Sudharani who is the narrator of the story. A good watch if you are looking for documentary kind of material. 

Pravaaha - a beautiful movie

Since I am spending my days working from home these days, I happened to watch a beautiful movie - Pravaaha in kannada.

It stars Achyuth Kumar as Marappa - a potter in a village. He owes a rich fellow in the village a very huge money. His son Siddarama is shamed in his school for this fact. He is shamed for being a potter's son. Siddarama takes a oath never to become a potter which is his family tradition.

The film portrays Marappa making pots hysterically and trying to sell them. But he soon loses demand to a plastic seller. Plastic seller mocks at Marappa every time he hurries to the market with his supplies.

Siddarama is determined to make it big in his life. He runs away from his house to a near by town. He is scared of police. He meets a nice boy at the temple. Temple boy gets him  job at a bluffing center, Siddarama obtains a lot of money in the form of tips. Once the bluffing center is ridden by the police. Siddarama escapes and goes back to his village in a slum dog millionaire style wearing cool goggles on a moped just to find his father dead.

He brings his mother to town and live a life of a migrant in the town. Its a story of a struggle through the competition between tradition and modern plastic era. Its a story of decaying condition of rural education system, migration to cities, pollution in cities due to this and multiplication of slums for the incoming crowd.

The director Naidu has done an awesome job in bringing the realities in the form of a beautiful movie. Achyuth Kumar as usual has done his best to show the character of Marappa. In today's mainstream kannada movie industry, it is a good movie to watch and enjoy your Sunday for a thoughtful week.

Linga - A Rajanikant Movie

Its been a long time that I have not blogged. Reasons vary from busy office schedule to investing time on health and etc.

When I returned to blogging, I wanted to start with an auspicious post. So I chose the movie I watched long time, Linga - A Rajinikanth starrer with Anushka and Sonakshi Sinha.

The movie is directed by KS Ravi who is Rajinikanth's long time director. We have seen the two hit success with Muthu and Padayappa, With that in mind I started to watch this movie.

The plot of the movie is about an  engineer who builds a dam and strives to retain it that is in the verge of demolition to be used for industrial purposes by the villain(Jagapati Babu). The dam would have been constructed by the older Rajini in the times of British. He sells his property to British construct the dam on his own as British officers reject the proposal.

Somehow the British officer involved defames older Rajini and makes him leave the village. Rajini marries Sonakshi Sinha and gives birth to Linga (also Rajini). Anushka approaches Linga and seeks to help her grand father who is looking for Linga to open a closed Temple in her village

Linga opens the temple and finds a pendrive that contains the dam information. He managers to expose Jagapathi babu, now an MP, blasts a bomb mid air, saves the village and the dam.

First in Firsts - Rajini is too old for a Linga character. Though Rajini is like a demigod to me, I could not watch him in this movie.
The plot is not very catchy, there are some sequences too long that will let audience off the track
The older Rajini's train fight is worth a watch

The movie is a hit only because of Rajini, except which there is nothing to watch out here for.

"1" Nenokkadine

This is one movie that gives the "sitting on the edge of the seat and nail biting" experience. Directed by Sukumar, movie stars Mahesh Babu as Gautham - a pop singer in the same image as Ashique2 hero. He is suffering from a psychological disorder that fails him on his memory of his parents.

The plot begins with a boy(young Mahesh Babu) running for help after witnessing his parents murders. That boy is brought up in orphanage. Through his childhood, he visualizes three men killing his parents and also looking out for him to be killed. He wants to avenge them at any cost.

The movie is full of twists and twirls and makes you think every moment. There are no clues dropped in the story line. The team has made the best use of technology and editing is the next best thing.

I fans for Sukumar from the times of Arya2 and Arya and he's lived up the expectation. Mahesh Babu as always suits best for extra human roles and this one is a delight to a viewer. Débutante Sanoon has done a pretty role.

One thing in the movie is - there is no comedy and there are no comedians(Bramhanandam). That mostly is the reason why it is received with apprehensions. But for those fans of Mahesh Babu, this is a great watch.

Bhag Milka Bhag - Review

This movie was watched last Saturday. Didn't get time to critic it.

Movie stars Farhan Aktar as Milka Singh. Before I write about the movie, here is the brief on Milka Singh.

Milka Singh was born in Pakistan and migrated to India during the India - Pakistan partition. His family including his father, mother, brothers and sisters were killed on this trip to India. When he came to India, he settled in Delhi and went on to become a soldier in Indian Army. He underwent training and participated in 1956 Olympics. He represented India in Asian games and won medals and broke records in common wealth games. He again took part 1960 Olympics and came 4th. He was then summoned to Pakistan to play against Pakistani counter part Abdul Khaliq. He was given the honor as "Flying Sikh" by Pakistanis. He won and brought India pride. He donated all his medals to national museums.

The movie almost portrays the above story but with a lot of unwanted love affairs of the protagonist. I was expecting to see a movie like Chak de India with the preoccupations of trailers which were shown in cinema halls. But the movie turned out to be neither a love story nor a story of an athlete.

The part that captures you are the scenes of Milka's life in Pakistan. He is asked by his father to run for his life - Bhag Milka Bhag. Milka runs and saves himself but he returns. He finds a pool of blood and a pile of dead bodies - which belonged to his father, mother and other family members. He then run back and catches a train to India. He rebels in the refugee camps and involves in stealing, cheating and becomes a thug. He falls in love - twice. Trains himself in the army camps. He goes to Australia, Rome etc to take part in world class athletics. This is all the movie about. A good watch I must say if you are not prejudiced. Dont have any expectation and you'll enjoy every bit of the movie. Farhan Akthar has done a very good job and Om Prakash Mehra has created yet another magic like that of Rang De Basanti. 

Ghanchakkar - Review

The movie has Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan in lead. The pair manages to amuse you with the light heart comedy. No laugh riot but the comedy sinks in you for a long and you find it hard to digest.

The plot is about Emraan being the habitual bank robber and he is contacted by Pandit and Ibris for a bank robbery contract. Sanjay(Emraan) and Neetu(Vidya) decides to take this up as the final assignment and settle for life with the bank looted money. The robbery takes place well with three men (Ibris, Pandit and Sanju) each covering faces with the masks of Amithab Bachan, Vinod Khanna and one other. They put the money in a suitcase and disperse on the agreement that they meet after 3 months to settle shares of money.
Sanju meets with an accident on the way home carrying the suitcase. He is diagnosed with partial memory loss and after 3 months when Pandit and Ibris contact him, he is in no clue of the money he carried. Neither Neetu knows where the money is kept. So Pandit and Ibris kidnap Neetu, come stay with them - do every possible thing to remind Sanju of the money but in vein. Sanju seeks 1 week time to get the money but on the 7th day, when Sanju still clueless, Pnadit and Ibris take Neetu and go to subway train. Sanju meets them there only to find that he has forgotten who Neetu is. They are met with Chota Chetan who is pressing for the money from Pandit and Ibris. When he finds they have failed to get money from Sanju, he kills both Ibris and Pandit. Chota Chetan  also shoots at Neetu and sanju and leaves the train. At that moment Sanju's mother calls him and tells about the suitcase that he left with her 3 months ago. Neetu listens to this and is happy that she's found money and Sanju is alive. She also realises that Chota Chetan is dead due to a fork and banana which Sanju carried from his home to kill the gangsters.

The movie overall fares well on the dining scenes of the Sanju's house and except that there isn't much to watch out for. 

Singam -2 Review

I happened to watch this movie last weekend and it turned out to be the best mass movie I have watched ever. Surya is the MAN. He is the hero and he is all you get to see in the movie.

The plot is continuation of Singham -1 where a petty police inspector from a village make it big in the city sacking a state minister. In this movie, he is directly and secretly appointed as the SI of Tuticorn, a city of Tamil Nadu. He is to deal with arms mafia and drug mafia cultured by local goons. He gets hold of the goons and also a international wanted drug dealer danny.

The movie never makes you think of the money or the time you have spent on. It is a joy to see Surya's charm. One of the interesting things is that Surya never even touches the heroin. Anushka Shetty manages to do her job ok ok style. Hansika Motwani looks too old for a school uniform. Great watch for a weekned