What’s it about!

Bendu Apparao (Naresh) is local RMP doctor in a village. He is gullible but his intentions are noble. As his sister is being harassed by his brother-in-law for dowry, he tries to make fastbacks. With his attitude, he wins the hearts of the village and steals the heart of Padma (Kamna), daughter of village landlord (Ahuthi Prasad). One day when he is returning from movie, he sees a guy struggling for last breath and Apparao tries to help him but he dies before taking oath from him that Apparao should meet his parents and hand over the money that he carries now. Rest of the drama is all about how Apparao meets them and what happens to that money.

It’s all about the sea where whales make their home; where dolphins and incalculable species of fish swim; and where lies a secret buried deep within. The film stars rolling with AR Rahman’s Blue theme track.

Soon we are introduced to the two lead characters Aarav Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) and Sagar Singh (Sanjay Dutt) – two friends who run a fishing business in the Bahamas. Akshay as usual plays a rich brat who prefers to spice up his life with the PYTs. He loves them all – be it ‘ebony or ivory’. Sagar comes across as one of the serious types. After a hard day’s work they drink and play. It was during one of their mock boxing fights, Aarav chooses to drop the bomb. He pokes Sagar to do something big in life and mentions about a certain ‘The Lady in Blue.’ But Sagar, visibly angry, tries to avoid the topic.

‘Main’ is Sohail Khan and Salman Khan alternatively, and ‘Mrs Khanna’ is, of course, Kareena Kapoor. Raina (Kareena Kapoor) is married to Samir (Salman Khan), but is wooed by Akash (Sohail Khan). Predictably, one gets to see Kareena’s (mostly) graces through the eyes of Akash and her (mostly) faults through the eyes of Samir.
 
The film is supposed to be a romantic comedy. At least the presence of Govinda and the plotline of an extramarital interest within a married couple suggest so. However, the performance by the lead actors hardly manages to draw your attention away from the Diwali excitement around you.

Acid Factory is about a bunch of bad guys locked up in one, (you guessed it!) acid factory. One of them however is an undercover cop. Sounds Kaante? Well, it is. The look, set up, soundtrack and characterisations, bear an overbearing influence of Sanjay Gupta’s super stylised 2000 flick. The only difference being that, in Acid Factory the characters suffer from temporary amnesia. However few minutes into the film you realise that the memory loss bit is just a forced gimmick. And has little impact on the story.

Acid Factory has some breathtaking action. But it’s the basic flaws in the script that rob it off the desired thrills.

This one has no middle ground. You will either love Wake Up Sid or just hate it. A section of the viewers are likely to complain about the lack of a coherent plot and its leisurely pace. But on the flip side, that’s exactly why Wake Up Sid works. Director Ayan Mukerji hasn’t gone in for a lavish, exaggerated debut. Like Love Aaj Kal and Luck By Chance, restrained and subtle portrayal of emotions are its high point.

Sid Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor) is not Aamir Khan of Dil Chahta Hai or Hrithik Roshan of Lakshya. They may have been rich and lazy. But both were essentially kind hearted, chilled-out guys.

What’s it about!

Shiva (Nitin) is good-hearted thief – sort of robin wood. He robs the black money from the rich and donates to the charity organizations. Police seize Rs 500 Crore belongs to a Dubai based Mafia leader which incidentally lands into home-minister (Ahuti Prasad). Shiva robs the money from home minister’s house and runs away from the place. He accidentally meets a naughty girl Krishna Veni and follows her to a marriage. At the wedding place, they tease each other and soon romance blossoms between them. Krishnaveni incidentally happens to be daughter of the home minister. When it is revealed that Shiva is a thief, Krishnaveni hates him but the mafia leader in Dubai soon kidnaps her. Now Shiva takes the job of bringing her back from Dubai.

What’s it about!

Chandu (Gopichand) leads happy life in Australia and stays with his uncle (Chandramohan). He falls in love with local Telugu girl Mahalakshmi (Trisha) at first sight. She runs an Indian restaurant there. Initially, she avoids his advances and love proposals but relents in after a couple of song and dance numbers. When she about to accept his love, she is taken away to India by her aunt to marry off her son. Now, hero lands in Cuddapah where Mahalakshmi’s father (Kota) waging war with his neighboring village lord Shivaiah (Satya Raj). On the insistence of Mahalakshmi’s father, Chandu takes on Shivaiah’s men and then he learns that Shivaiah is estranged father. Rest of the movie is all about father-son sentiment drama with a revenge angle in the end.

What’s it about!

Satya (Naga Chaitanya) is a student. He discontinues his gradation studies in Vizag and comes to Hydearabad in search of a job. He stays with his uncle (Sunil) in Hyderabad and gets a job in a nursery. He runs into a fight with local college students who are influenced by political mafia leader Durga Rao (J D Chekaravarthy). Satya tries to change the students but fails. Then he joins in the college to cleanse the system. On the other hand, there is Vidya, a teenager, who aspires to go to college but could not as her brother feels college students are rowdies and she would not be safe in college. So she teaches in an elementary school. She meets Satya and love blossoms between them. Main crux of the movie is how Satya changes the students and brings them out the bad influence of Durga Rao.

What’s it about!

Mallanna (Vikram) is a CBI Officer working under economic offences investigation department. He steals some of the money that he caught during the raides and distributes to the needy and poor. He comes in disguise of god Mallanna to the helpful who petition at the temple of Mallanna. Once CBI raids on powerful rich person PPP (Ashish Vidyardhi) under the guidance of Mallanna and after that PPP vows to finish him off. His daughter Subbalakahsmi (Shriya) swears revenge and pretends to fall in love with him. Mallanna is protected by CBI Joint director (Krishna) in his Robin Hood activities. The rest of the movie is how Subbalakshmi realizes her fault, and Mallanna achieves his mission.

What’s it about!

Anjaneyulu works as a journalist in a TV channel and leads life carelessly. He is more attached to his father Murthy (Nasser) and shares everything with him. One day, a girl Anjali (Nayanatara) and asks him to rescue her from rowdies. He saves her and also falls in love with her at first sight. On the other hand, a minister seeks help of a mafia leader Bada (Sonu Sood) to kill an officer who has prepared a report of all the illegal activities of the minister. Bada hatches a plan to kill the officer and plants a bomb in a bus in which he is traveling. On the same bus, Anjaneyulu parents are leaving to their hometown after making visit to Hyderabad and they get killed in the blast. Rest of the movie is how Anjaneyulu takes revenge.

What’s it about!

A film unit led by a hero (Gautaam Rode) and a heroine (Priyanka Kotari) leaves for a deep forest for a film shooting. An assistant director (Nitin) loves the heroine but doesn’t express his feelings. After a two days shoot in the forest, camera conks off, so the unit goes for ‘excursion’. Soon an unknown ‘entity’ kills one by one. Who is behind them? That is what Adavi all about.

Analysis

Magadheera sets new standards in commercial film making. It is excellent. second half is spellbinding. Go for it. Credit goes to Rajamouli.

Story:

Magadheera is about rebirth and revenge. Harsha (Ram Charan) is a bike racer. He accidentally touches the hand of a girl Indu (Kajal) that creates sparks in his body. He meets Indu, but she hides her identity and plays pranks with him. Indu’s father (Surya) is fighting to get back their ancestral Udaighad castle.  His nephew (Dev Gil) eyes Indu, kills his uncle, and puts the blame on Harsha. From this point on, the story goes back in time 400 years.

Life comes crashing down for struggling writer Akshaye Khanna, when an aspiring actor manages to steal his script. Luckily for the over smart, non-actor (played by Arshad Warsi) his film clicks and he becomes an overnight star. Now the hard-on-luck writer decides to get even and make a film with the same actor – who obviously doesn’t want anything to do with the former. This clash pretty much forms the premise for this week’s new release Shortkut-The Con Is On.

What’s it about!

Uday, a young rich kid, who believes in the adage of life is short and live it to the fullest. He falls in love with a docile girl Sandhya (Shamili) at a first sight when he catches her in writing dairy at a pub wearing chudidar. She lives alone at a beachside house, running a nursery. She is very traditional girl with her own ideals. He enters in her house as P.G to make her fall in love. On her birthday, he expresses his love and presents 12 beautiful birthday gifts. On the same day it is revealed that she is suffering from a terminal disease. The rest of the movie is how he makes her life beautiful before she dies.

Sometime back in 2007 it seemed all studio bosses set themselves a singular goal – Get Akshay Kumar on board. Pay him the moon and block a few months of his life in the form of bulk dates. Did anyone say script? Well, who cares! After all they have the biggest star in town. A good-looking heroine, foreign locales, slick music videos and few SMS gags would take care the rest.

What’s it about!

Venkat (Varun Sandesh), a graduate, lives with his brother and their family and lives off conning others for petty things. He falls in love with Madhumita on a very first sight after getting a glimpse of her face on broken glasses. He woos her with his wit, his helping nature and other pranks. Due to some understanding, he breaks the marriage of Madhu’s sister but he keeps it as secret. When Madhu accepts Venkat’s love, it comes out in the open that he broke his sister’s marriage. How both the lovers unite again after misunderstandings cleared forms rest of the story.

What’s it all about?

Sushanth (Sushanth) is a carefree youth who doesn’t worry about yesterdays and tomorrows and lives in the “current” moment. He loves Sneha (Sneha Ullal) at first sight, and finally makes her accept his love. Sneha’s dad (Charan Raj) notes that Sushanth is totally irresponsible, and Sneha asks Sushanth to change his attitude for their love but Sushanth says he’d not. This leads to their separation. Sneha comes back to him and admits he created love in her mind and thus he should take it off too. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

Those who are interested in watching tearjerkers, heavy dose of sentiment movies, then you got the right film for you. Raju Maharaju falls in the category of those heavy sentimental family movies that used to come in the 80’s. It is just the sophisticated version of those films. Looks like the film is mainly targeted to women audiences in B and C centers. Definitely it is not for everyone.

What’s it about!

DD (Sumanth) and Chinna are orphans and childhood friends. Their aim in life is to set up a ‘Pulihora centre’. DD joins a local goon’s (Jayaprakash Reddy) gang so that he could easily get money for the pulihora center. On his first job, he is assigned to kidnap a girl Pragathi, a minister’s daughter with noble intentions. In fact, Pragathi herself hatches a kidnap plan with her friend to demand 4 Crores from her father to rescue farmer who are losing their land. She thinks that DD has kidnapped her on her friend’s advice. Later she knows the truth but by that time she starts liking him. Then DD’s boss comes to him and orders him to kill her. But he flees with her. The rest of the story is finding the person who hatched the plan to murder Pragathi.

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