Tollywood Kaburlu Teja Rao

Credits

Banner: Shreya Productions 

Cast: Sunil, Swathi, Brahmanandham, Raghu Babu, Ajay, Raviteja 

Music: Koti 

Editing: Praveen Pudi

Cinematography: Sudhakar Yakkanti 

Story, Screenplay, Direction: Ram Gopal Varma

Producer: Kiran Kumar Koneru 

Release Date: February 18th, 2011  

Writing/Direction

Movie is supposed to be a satire on Telugu film industry and everything Ram Gopal Varma has seen and experienced in Telugu film industry. 



The parallels are so funny yet he roasts everyone including himself. Cinephiles, critics, heroes, heroines, producers, distributors, music directors, and financiers. 



Spoofs are well done 



Nandi Awards - Gurram Awards lmfaooo



Kottukundam Raa movie and the starting lo movie name is Yedava 



Sunil - RGV 

Kota - Dil Raju Onti Kannu Gavarajju 

Ajay - Star hero 

Kanishkha - Anuksha 

KT Rao - Idk who but its some star hero

Babu Garu - Naga Chaitanya 

Srirsailam Anna - Am Rathnam, Dawood Ibhrahim spoof maybe.  

Ringtone Rahman Sharma - Melody Brahma Mani Sharma 

Data Base - Idk who this is but Krishna Bhagwan did a great job 



The Peon in Rakhi office is always sleeping which is a great gag, he even sleeps standing up against the wall. 



Also the assistant directors are so annoying - MS Naryana worst character, Rudraveena the most irritating guy if I ever meet someone like that ill def slap them or beat him, only character I liked was Annamacharya Suman Shetty, Swathi character was so annoying. 



Basically the movie has no point. The intentions as to show that making a movie will have compromises with hero, heroine. Music director, producer, distributor everyone when it finally hits the screen. 



The movie starts off well and its funny with RGV roasting everyone in Abba Sutti Kaadhu Raa Talent and then Mayabazar songs which ar every funny spoofing all star heroes and directors but then it just becomes stupid with the introduction of Raghubabu and Harshavardhan. Harshavardhan was one of the most annoying characters. 



The comparative movie is Neninthe which is directed by his protege Puri Jagan. Yet Neninthe is way better and more commercial way in such an entertaining and emotional manner. 



Here its done so poorly. Mainly movie is really slow and boring. There are some funny parts but then after a post just everyone’s bad acting and horrendous direction just made everything worse that comedy turned into boredom and irritation. 



And im not sure what the intuition was the movie. Was it to be a satire, a tragedy, pr comedy as he said. Ok the movie is very meta but its more like a frustration movie more than anything. Sunil character is clearly RGV and whatever he faces we dont feel anything or do anything. 



The point is that you will have to compromise to achieve your dreams but the way in which it’s done is so stupid. Brahmanandham character is stupid and then Venu Madhav is very athi with his characterization and gives irritation. 



I don’t even think its underrated movie, its frankly boring and just badly made. 



Heroes are also shown to be idiots and Ajay and Adarsh Balakrihsna are terrible. However that item song was actually very catchy not going to lie. 



But I did like how he touched upon how the industry is obsessed with astrology. Narsing Yadva says change the movie title to Na Yayaya Ki Ki Ki Ki and change your name to Appapapa Ra ra ra raju 



The out of nowhere Raviteja comes for no reason. I dont even know what the point was. 



Basically its a good concept but worst execution. There is no conflict, no direction, no acting, no dhum in the direction. Very weak and boring movie. So slow. Despite funny moments if you are not entertained, how can you say movie was good. 



Direction by RGV is terrible. Theres no flow or plot or any direction or point to the movie. That too coming after 12 years, there’s no point. The spoofs and satire is good but as a movie it so slow and boring and just frankly

Credits

Banner: kamakshi Movies

Cast: Nagarjuna, Arti Agaral, Shriya, Sudha, Mukesh Rushi, Brahmanandam, Ali, Sunil, Allari Ravi, Pasupati, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Siva Parvathy, Tanikella Bharani, Subba Raju, Jenny, Anant, MS Narayana, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Kaushal & Anitha (special appearance)

Camera: J Siva Kumar

Story: Bhupati Raja

Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers

Music Director: MM Keeravani

Lyrics: Sirivennela & Chandrabose

Action: Vijay

Choreography: Lawrence, Raju Sundaram & Ashok Raj

Art: Srinivasa Raju

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Producer: D Siva Prasad Reddy

Screenplay and Direction: VN Aditya

Release date: 7th April 2004

Interesting Facts: 


VN Aditya who just directed Manasantha Nuvve and met Nagarjuna and told NAgarjuna a youth subject. Nagarjuna said maybe 10 years ago it would have worked but I cant do it now. My age, character, and behavior should be very matured and then put his story aside and they took Bhupathi Raja’s story and VN Aditya developed it and added a love story 
In this time, VN Aditya 2nd movie became a flop and lot of people advised them to change the director bu Siva Prasad reddy said no. Aditya is a class director, Sivaprasad wanted to make a mass film so they spent 6 months writing a screenplay that appeals to class and mass audiences 
Keeravani music apparently was one of the highlights of the film. But as well all know he was not the first music director of the film. 
First they hired RP Patnaik to compose the music for the movie. He already composed a 2 tunes for the movie.
Then Keeravani came and scored the music and BGM. Siva Prasad Reddy was a huge fan of ANR and wanted to remix one of his old songs. First they thought of remixing song Muddante Cheda from Adrushtavanthulu, finally because it suited the situation they remixed Ettago Unnadi Olammi from Dasara Bullodu 
They thought about the title of the movie for a long time (chill rojulu) but after Seetharama Sastry wrote the song Nenunannu, they fixed that as the title 
The song Ee Swasalo became very famous. Nagarjuna and the public loved the song, heroine sings while hero fights so theres that class and mass. 


Audio was launched on March 11th, 2004 at Shilpa Kala Vedika. The fans of Akkineni Nagarjuna had a field day as their favorite hero had just completed a hat-trick in the form of - Santosham, Manmadhudu and Shivamani - and is going to continue the winning spree with Nenunnanu as well.
Stars of four generations of Akkineni Dynasty - ANR, Nagarjuna, Sumanth & Akhil - graced the occasion. 
ANR released the audio and gave the first cassette to Nagarjuna. Venu Madhav and Suma anchored the event.
VN Aditya watched the movie in editing an dubbing setup many times, after watching, first copy he didnt feel anything but NAgarjuna and Siva Prasad Reddy felt nervous. They didnt know what to expect and watching the movie in theater andholu praracharam chesthunaru. After watching first half, Nag and Siva Prasad didnt say anything and it made VN Aditya nervous. But after watching full movie, Nagarjuna put his hand on Aditya’s shoulder and said the movie came out very well and you’re sending me for a Nice holiday very happily. 
Nagarjuna released the movie on his own in Nizam. And movie became a hit at the box office. Nagarjuna said at the audio launch of the movie it would be a hit and it came true. 
VN Aditya watched the movie with fans at Vijayawada on release day. Talk in industry was that movie poyyindi and VN Aditya felt bad. On 7th day of release he went to 15 theaters to see the movie with public. Audiences response was great from audience. During the making of Nenunannu, Nagarjuna liked his working style and offered him another movie which was Boss I love you and it was a flop. 
Box office details: The film collected 14 crores and had a 50-day run in 125 centres and a 100-day run in 42 centres. It was one of the highest grossers in Nagarjuna's career while major bu

Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies

Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Shriya, Neha Oberai, Gulshan Grover, Jersey Singh, Sunil, Suman, Saurabh Shukla, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Rajan P Dev, Brahmanandam, Jaya Sudha,

Music: Mani Sharma

Dialogues: Kona Venkat

Lyrics: Sirivennela, Jonnavithula, Chandrabose

Choreography: Kalyan, Vaibhavi Merchant, Saroj Khan

Cinematographer: Ramesh

Art: Anand Sai

Stunts: Stun Siva & Vijayan

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao

Story - Screenplay - Direction: Karunakaran

Executive Producer: Saibaba

Co Producer: Priyanka Dutt

Producer: Aswini Dutt

Theatrical release date: 6th January 2005

Interesting Facts:


Both Karunakaran and PK were struggling at the time. PK didn’t have any successes after Kushi with Johnny and Gudumba Shankar disappointing the audience and Karrunakaran after Tholi Prema directed Yuvakudu and Vaasu which both didnt do well at box office. 
Apparently Karunakaran had PK in mind when making Vasu but instead they made with Venkatesh. Around that time Aswini Dutt announced that he wanted to make a film with Pawan Kalyan 
Karunakaran readied a nice love story and narrated it to PK during Gudumba Shankar time and Pawan okayed it. Pawan actually gave the outline for the film and Karunarakan developed the story. 
During that time in 2004, a lot of star directors now were upcoming and it was very hard to narrate a story to PK back then and didn’t have access. If they did, either he rejected it or he slept during the narration and missed films like Athadu, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi and Ghajini. 
During this time, Aswini Dutt finalized combination of PK and Karunakaran on Vjyanthi Movies banner and project was announced. Since he gave good music for Gudumba, PK put Mani Sharma as music director and his good friend Anand Sai as art director 
Movie has two heroines so they took Shriya for one main heroine role and for 2nd heroine, they wanted to cast Asin in it the role. But later on they felt we need a fresh face girl to get the right impact and casted Neha Oberoi. 


This film also has the backdrop of Delhi, Agra and Old City. We erected a set with Taj Mahal backdrop. We did a set worth 90 lakhs for Old City in RFC. This set would have a bit of Roman architecture. For the first time in Pawan Kalyan's career, the backdrops for songs in this film are very vivid and most colorful. 

Nitin Raikwar came to Hyderabad and stayed here for 4 days to pen lyrics for the Hindi song Hut Hatja 


Back then, PK was a style icon so whatever he wore became a trend. He went to Milan, Italy and stayed there for 5-6 days to explain the pants makers about what he want. Four months after placing the order, the pants makers delivered it in India. Renu Desai designed the pants and in Jan 1st week they held a pressmeet in December 1st week in 2004 to announce this. 
Pants sold really well. Just when websites were becoming popular, they put a few stills of the movie in idlebrain.com and said showcase your talent in idle brain with these stills. 
Not just PK fans, but MB Fans and youth eagerly waited for the movie due to the sensation Tholi Prema created in youth back then. It also started MB vs PK fan wars in discussion sites and SKN was involved in these fights. MB fans said why 1.5 lakhs cost for pants, PK fans said why put 20 crores for Arjun. 
December 25, 2004 audio was released and got a great response. Inthe Inthe and Hut Hatja got terrific response in public and due to cassette being sold have to listen to everything and slowly all the songs caught on and audio become a super hit 
Title was Balu ABCDEFG, around that time youth stayed using phones and SMS language so going with the trend they put the title like that. After hearing the title, fans thought they’re coming with another solid love story, thought of releasing 1 week before Sankranthi. Finally they announced Jan 6th 2005 released and budget was 15 crores and released grandly. 
But movie didn't get expec

Credits

Banner: MS Arts

Cast: Chiranjeevi, Namrata Sirodkar, MS Narayana, Tinu Anand, Bhupinder Singh, Rami Reddy, PT Raj, Saraswatamma, Baby Keertana, Baby Meghana, Baby Muthya, Master Vamsi, Master Bharat, Master Ajay, Ramya Krishna (SA), Rajya Lakshmi (SA) and Reema Sen (SA)

Music: Mani Sharma (Sri for one song)

Dialogues: Satyanand

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu

Art: Ashok

Lyrics: Sirivennela, Bhuvana Chandra, Chandrabose

Choreography: Lawrence, Raju Sundaram, Raja Sekhar, Robert

Stunts: Kanal Kannan, Peter Heins 

Visual Effects: Firefly Creative Studio

Creatives for visual effects: Bapu

Editing: KV Krishna Reddy

Production: Edu Kondalu 

Story - Screenplay: MS Arts Unit

Direction: Kodi Rama Krishna

Producer: Shyam Prasad Reddy

Release date: 15th January 2004

Writing/Direction

It's perfect example of good concept, bad execution. The story has potential but the screenplay is so bad to be honest. Its so badly written lmao. 

The movie is so clearly a mixture of Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade: In temple of doom, he has to bring back the Shiva Lingam and in last crusade they have to find the Holy Grail which grants immortal powers. Holy Grail is in a temple, here the Shiva Lingam is also in a temple or in some save when you enter it. 

Opening sequence and first 15 minutes is excellent, then the credits roll and everything seems well and good until Anji intro and first song. Ok. Then a random scene with forest people trying to capture an elephant. Then it introduces heroine and tries to bring in conflict point and tie in the story. 

But the villain is very weak, heroine is irritating and MS NArayana character is supposed to be henchman of the villain and it also gives irritation and is not funny. It's so forced and cringeworthy. 

Basically its an adventure movie with commercial elements: action, comedy, romance, emotion, and drama. 

But any adventure movie, the set pieces need stakes. 

Look at Indiana Jones, the opening scene which this is clearly inspired from he takes the thing and then a giant boulder comes and basically the villain gets it. I didnt feel it so much in this movie. For example he goes to get the sessanam, gets it, comes back, it gets burned. Ok. But somehow Naga Babu knows everything lol.

The drama is decent, action is there but forced, comedy is worst, and romance is non existent. Basically movie starts off well but then it tries to go in romantic and comedy track and fails miserably. 

Also interval is illogical and so convenient. He falls off a cliff of such height, he will most likely not be alive and falls where the snake and that knife formed into 72 years ago. 

Also if the tantrik 72 years ago dropped the praying materials into some black hole, how did some random priests in Uruvakona recover it? We are never told. 

Then Bhatia comes and then its like he has motives and then they bring tie in the subplot between elephant trapper and Bhatia who join hands to kill Sivayya. 

And then from there movie just gets unbelievably violent. He dies. And then Anji comes for revenge to kill everyone and then finally they go to climax. And it got very boring and exhausting. 

Climax is illogical because only Anji goes yet somehow if everything was that difficult how come in climax Bhatia comes just like that. In any adventure movie hero and villain always go through final hurdles and location together. Here he just comes somehow. 

And its just athi that he shoots the girl. So violent and over the top for no reason. 

Finally the movie ends and its just like. Ok. Movie ends but you dont feel anything. 

Are the graphics good? I mean maybe but ive seen Star Wars and Indiana Jones but it doesn’t feel anything. Its very clear its not that range. 

Direction by Kodi Ramakrishna is not good. As said before beginning and end are very good with set pieces and excitement but rest of the movie is so badly directed and executed you can’t forgive the rest. 

Credits

Banner: Creative Commercials 

Cast: Venkatesh, Bhumika Chawla, Ali, Vijay Kumar, Manjula, Varsha, Sunil, Jogi Naidu, Achyut

Dialogues: Trivikram Srinivas

Lyrics: Sahiti, Pothula Ravi Kiran & Sirivennela

Camera: Ramesh Babu

Art: Anand Sai

Music: Harris Jayaraj

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Fights: Vijay

Story - Screenplay - Direction: A Karunakaran

Producer: KS Rama Rao

Theatrical Release Date: 10th April 2002

Interesting Facts:

It’s Venkatesh’s 50th film

Harris Jayaraj Telugu debut, I heard it was Venkatesh's choice 

They filmed the last song Vaale Vale Poddula of the film in a set erected at Chennai on Venkatesh and Bhumika Chawla. 

The first set of 2 lakhs of albums was sold in 4 days after the audio release. The audio has got unanimous hit talk all over. 

Writing/Direction

Oh man, where to start? Honestly speaking watching this movie was an experience. One because it was relatable, but two because it could have been so much better. 

If you want to work in the arts or want to be an artist, it will be so relatable for you and it was for me since I want to be an actor and writer in films. 

Movie is basically about a guy who aspires to be a singer and what obstacles he faces to get there. Similar movies are Satyam and then Gowtam SSC. 

After watching this film I realized this and Satyam almost same story. Good intention hero, gets into a fight and thrown out of his house by his dad, has aspirations in music industry, heroine misunderstands him, his friends are there to support him, lastly needs heroine family permission to marry her, father accepts their mistake and he gets heroine in the end. 

The conflict in the movie isn’t well done or strong enough is the problem. The two points aren’t good. 

The first point is between Venkatesh and Vijayakamumar. His dad wants him to become IPS but he wants to become a singer. There’s really only one scene where we feel this emotion and thats when they have a heart to hear conversation. This is the only time. 

Other conflict point is making heroine like him. He does all chiller stuff stalking the girl and doing weird things following her and trying to make her fall for him. 

And they have no chemistry because heroine is not developed properly. What does she do? What are her interest? What are her goals in life? We know nothing about Divya as a character other than the fact that she is Vasu’s love interest. 

Also all of the songs are Vasu’s fantasies about her. He imagines something and then cut pana oru song Thalaiva except intro song and climax song. None of them are natural and are so out of sync. 

Their love story is not believable at all and is so convenient that she happens to stay in their house. 

Also the point of the movie is Vasu’s struggle etc. To be quite frank, we never actually feel it in the movie due to weak conflict points. He gets rejected, he hangs out with his friends, etc. but we never feel the real struggle of his musical efforts. 

Because we don’t really feel invested, director tries to add sister sentiment as a subplot and it works to an extent because its all connected to the story but it felt more forced rather than natural.



Vasu is a rom com so the romantic part is bad but comedy is surprisingly good. Trivikram’s dialogues and Venkatesh and Sunil comic timing are good and keep you entertained. 



However last 50 minutes are excellent and have great emotion. If rest of the movie was like that, definitely movie would have been a success. Climax is clear Trivikram inspiration of hero liking a girl but her marriage is fixed with someone else so inside he is feeling bad etc. 



Direction by Karunakaran is ok. He should have focused more on having stronger conflict points and heroine character to make her a real character so romantic track would have been better but overall it was a weak effort from him. Because the movie never bores you, his direction seems fine, but writing wise its a

Credits 

Banner: Sridevi moviesCast: Sudheer Babu, Aditi Rao Hydari, Naresh, Tanikella Bharani, Pavitra Lokesh, Harshini, Nandu, Kadambari Kiran, Hariteja, Rahul Ramakrishna, Kedar Shankar, Shishir SharmaMusic: Vivek SagarCinematographer: PG VindaProduction design: RavinderLyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry, Ramajogayya SastriEditor: Marthand K VenkateshStory, Dialogues, Screenplay & Direction: Indraganti Mohan KrishnaProducer: Shivalenka Krishnaprasad

Release Date: June 15th, 2018 

Sold or 8 crores WW and Finally it collected 7 cores are at the box office and was average at the box office. 

Writing/Direction:

So honestly speaking its basically Notting Hill but with telugu masala. If you ask me Sammohanam is a commercial film but its missing the two things that would make it more appealing which is action and emotion. But its a rom com for sure. And its a very conversational film and the conversations are very meaningful and well done. 

You can almost think of film as more than meets the eye. That’s precisely Sudheer babu’s point in the movie. He feels film industry is so fake and its basically a mukhabhagam. He doesnt like his dads thing and if you notice his sankocham towards it when he’s asked to help Aditi Rao Hydari out. 

He sincerely feels its so fake and tells his dad this and everything. If you notice the whole movie whenever something related to films is Brought up, he always denies it and has a chinna choopu towards it. 

So when the love interest themselves is a heroine, it has the potential for a lot of conflict and interesting moments and it does. The more time they spend with each other, the more the attraction goes, Thats why when she leaves, they both feel bad and he feels he’s losing a part of himself. 

Movie goes in a very smooth and breezy manner in first half. But this movie can be summed up as a tale of two halves. First half is very entertaining but the movie literally ends at the interval. 

For comedy purpose they put Naresh track and introduced that subplot and its so entertaining and funny. Naresh makes it so believable. 

Also that movie Kummestha is very funny. At times I got reminded of Neninthe because its a film set within film industry and the characters and people are so funny like the guy who plays the writer of the film promises Naresh. 

Also Vijay’s friends and everyone are so excited when he meets Samara he has that clout etc. so its very funny.

The only conflict left in the movie is if they will unite which they do because its a Telugu movie. 

And 2nd half is so boring and slow man. It tested patience. All the scenes felt like filler. And then introduces heroine flashback which seemed so out of place unconvincing. Just randomly in there and felt forced. It also doesnt help that that guy really couldn’t act. The comedy scene they put is also funny but by that point you’re just kind of waiting for the movie to end. 

Basically thats the reason she rejected him and overall when I saw it felt unconvincing mainly because of how badly done it was. If they gave another reason I would have believed it. 

The only meaningful scene was the rejection scene which is very real and relatable because it all happens to us at some point. When he gets rejected as well, its also very well done. 

Also liked that Vijay’s character is a children’s book artist. The book he wrote was very good. The climax is also feel good and leaves you with a good feeling but I dont know. Felt very mixed on rewatch. It was ok at best.

Direction by Mohankrishna Indraganti is pretty good. Writing, acting, rom com feeling, and overall vibe of the movie is very good but pacing and 2nd half were not great. 

Music and BGM by Vivek Sagar is CLASSIC.  

Overall:

Sammohanam is a decent movie on rewatch. First half, good music, relatable scenes and performances are the good part but a boring 2nd half and slow pace outdo the positives. Movie ends nicely but its take it or leave