Buzzing Movies

“Taking your life does not mean the end of your problems. It means little or no regard for people who are dependent on you, so why not kill someone and put a full stop to your worries,” is the suggestion and deal offered to Nandu (Skanda) to kill Satyanarayana (Sachin Khedekar). Nandu kills him and goes behind bars. He suddenly wakes up to discover that all he had experienced was just a dream, but the incidents that occurred in his dream actually take place all over again. Nandu who was depressed all along begins his life afresh, as he treats the dream as a lesson gifted by life.

The dream contains the travelling story of Skanda over a period of twenty four hours. Kalyani bumps into him which forms one part of the day. Skanda lacks courage to profess love, he is jobless, ridiculed, suffering from negativity and resolves to end his life. The story is about lost opportunities and a fresh chance revisiting you again and again (Malli Malli). Will the protagonist make use of the chance and bounce back?

If you overtake death, you can overtake life too, the result is hope, opportunities, happiness. This is the message given to us in bold lines by the director. Sadly and ironically the director lacked courage and did not believe in his dictum and took his life hours before this film released. The film begins on a pessimistic note, drags and intersperses the first half of the story with mindless humour that has no connection or gel with the story.

The way the story flows is rather rough, it jumps on many occasions confusing the audiences. The interpretation of this concept could have been intriguing but the way it was handled lacked clarity. Colour rendition is fairly accurate but the edit seems clumsy on occasions. The bearded hero is good looking but he hardly gets a range of emotions to display or test his talent. Kalyani is too short, has nothing much to do. The film ends abruptly with a song misleading viewers to think there is more to follow. Malli Malli is neither reflective or engaging.

End Credits :

Starring :Skanda, Kalyani, M.S.Narayana, Kondavalasa, Sachin Khedekar, Venu Madhav.
Music: SS.Thomas.
Producer: Dinesh Kumar.
Director: Raj Aditya.

Sana Khan has nothing much to do except dropping her clothes and acting coy and innocent, using the slightest pretext to get close to Simbhu. The hero has many things to do and shows of his make up skills like getting yello stripes painted on his face and testing the audience's patience with his drill like dances and yes all songs and dances look and sound the same. Just when you think a dance has ended he comes up again with a funny action that is beyond comprehension.

The movie begins with a Brahmin youth Sambha who is devoted to his grandfather, a temple priest and temple rituals. A meek, docile and good hearted Sambha saves a villager's life when a mob attacks him and when things go out of control he wields the sword and retaliates. His brother Prabhu is seen coming out of the jail and there begins a flash back.

Twenty years back in a village in Pulivendula, the siblings are shown as having an enemity with their cousin Veera Raghavaiah and his son. Veera Raghavaiah's son dies in mishap and the former blames Simbhu before he kills himself. Another young son wreaks revenge on Prabhu's family by eliminating everyone and Simbhu's wife Sneha escapes and gives birth to another Simbhu.

This boy is brought up by the grandfather as a Brahmin but does the story end there? It's blood and gore again with Veera Raghavaiah's younger son vowing to kill Simbhu. Sana Khan is wasted, she is used only to spill glamour and the first ten minutes drags with some mindless romance. The violence is terrible, one man dies when he is dumped into hot boiling black bitumen and the other's ear is chopped off.

The violence by a politician who forcibly grabs the land of the villagers is unwanted. Simbhu is full of beans but he would have been better off being his own natural self. Ribald jokes. The plus point of the film is that Prabhu's appearance before the interval arouses curiosity. Sneha's testimony in court looks clichéd. How many times haven't we seen a heroine save the hero by jeopardizing her image/character? Sneha is so innocent here that she knows how to make ‘junnu' but can't make out the taste between an egg plant and a non-veg curry. This is a complete masala movie meant for the B and C centre audiences, loud, bright, there is nothing much to expect.

End Credits :

Starring :SImbhu, Sneha and Others.
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Producer: K Muralidharan & V Swami Nadhan.
Director: Saravanan.

Raised as an orphan at the junction Raja (Ravindranath) becomes the manager and hands over the collections to the collector of the region and seldom comes in contact with Kota, the powerful leader of the mafia. An incident triggers a meeting between the duo and Raja finds himself drawn into a dangerous game. What makes the story interesting is the conversations between Siva Prasad and Kota which are scripted keeping the current political scenario in mind.

Ravi BabuThere are references to Pavala Vaddi to Jalayagnam, Ring Road to Sridharan’s non compliance to the Metro Rail Project which is interlinked to the main story. Unlike a complete focus we saw on the assorted characters in the hindi film, Junction concentrates on a handful and just about manages to balance comedy with pathos. Brahmanandam who played a soft ware engineer and a man who had no sympathy for beggars in Pokiri has his academic certificates stolen by Ali and is compelled to beg for a living in this movie, the character here is a mere extension.

Babu Mohan recollects his once upon a time famous song demanding alms and regrets the recession hitting beggars too. Naina, has hardly any role to play and Ravindranath, the hero whose debut comes in late fits the role given to him perfectly. Bhanuchander appears for a brief while but lends credibility, there is an item number by Asha Saini rechristened Mayuri.The film has been designed to appeal only to the masses. The ending is slightly abrupt and instead of glorifying beggary in the climax, a solution to the problem by showing a better life would have done some good. It’s not a great movie but at the same time one wouldn’t get bored either. Watch it for the satire on political parties….