Cast: Rahul Ravindran, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Harshvardhan, Santhanam, Seeman and others.

Music: Thaman

Director: Ravi Varman

Producer: D. Ramesh Babu

Release date: August 13^th, 2010

‘Moscowin Kaveri’ is in the making from the past 2 years and the music of this film was released in May 2009. Due to some reasons, ‘Moscowin Kaveri’ was completed long ago, but has hit screens today. The story of this film is about two lovers, who are compared with the Kaveri River, in India and the Moscow River, which is in Moscow city which is in Russia. Read the rest of this entry »

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Bachchan, Vikram, Govinda, Priyamani, Ravi Kishen, Nikhil Dwivedi, and others

Music: AR Rehman

Story: Mani Ratnam and Suhasini Mani Ratnam

Cinematography: Santosh Sivan

Editing: A .Sreekar Prasad

Studio: Madras Talkies

Director: Mani Ratnam

Producer: Mani Ratnam

Distributor: big Cinema and Madras Talkies

Release date: June 18^th, 2010

‘Raavan’ is made on Rs 120 crores budget and has been shot in a modern day vision of the adaptation of Indian epic Ramayana. ‘Raavan’ has the constitution of Sita getting abducted by Raavan and Rama fighting for her. But the climax is a surprise and there is a twist to the new aged Ramayana penned by Mani Ratnam.

Story

Dev (Vikram) is a duty minded police officer who falls in love with a classical dancer named Ragini (Aishwarya rai). He likes her character, her intellectual mind with innocence and her attitude and is spell bound with the impression that she is unconventional like him in every aspect.

After a few reel flow and songs, the lead stars decide to get married and soon land up in setting down in martial bliss. Dev learns that he is posted to the Maati town which is in northern India and is asked to take up his duty as soon as possible.

Maati is ruled by a tribal named Beera (Abhishek Bachchan) who is like a demon god to the populace in the town. He rules the whole place with his equation of power and makes his word as the saying of the lord, to the populace of maati.

As soon as Dev joins the duty, he learns about Beera and wants to eliminate his evil shadow from the populace of the Maati Town. The only way he traces out to do is to vanquish Beera in all aspects like a thunder lightening. According to a perfect plot, he rips open Beera’s ruling and changes the fortunes of Beera into misfortunes.

Beera is fumed and enraged with the deeds of dev and wants to corner him in his dutiful posts. He kidnaps Ragini and forces Dev to come in search into the dense forests. The jungle is dense and scary as expected and the reel flow is witnessed with a lot of emotions, confusion and acting skills amalgamated with scenic locations.

The forest place becomes a war zone to dev and Beera and it replicates the past epic battle of Ramayana, which happens in between Rama and demon Raavan. Here in the battle, Beera becomes Raavan and dev becomes Ram and a battle in between good and bad or evil takes place.

Finally as expected good takes on bad and wins the war. Dev clips Beera and is happy to take back his Ragini. But there is a serious twist in the story line as Ragini or Sita falls in love with Beera and refuses to go with Dev.

The climax is a suspense which must be seen on the big screen. But it is the most relishing element of the entire movie, which must be seen on the big screen.

Performances

The movie revolves around Aishwarya rai, Abhishek Bachchan and Vikram and so the three stars the cynosure in the film. The three stars have their own acting credentials and need no receipt of explanation for her flawless acting performances.

The others star like govinda play the role of Sanjeevani Kumar, replicates Hanuman character in the epic Ramayana. Actor Ravi Kishan and Nikhil dwivedi play the roles of Siddharth and Laxman Pratap Sharma in the movie. South Indian actress Priyamani plays the role of Serena ort Soorpanakha in the movie. Manisha Koirala, Bipasha Basu (surprise element) and Ashish Vidyarthi play their brief roles very effectively.

Music in the film is by AR Rehman and needs no judgment; it has come up splendidly and suits to the theme of the subject. But there is a note that Rehman’s music lacks the past zeal which was witnessed in the films like jeans, Sakhi, Bombay and so on.

Cinematography by Santosh Sivan and screenplay are highlights of Raavan.

Direction by Mani Ratnam is flawless and will be a masterpiece among the films released in the year 2010.

On the whole, ‘Raavan’ is a cinematic treat to the Indian cinema audiences and is worth a watch in this season

Deadly Honeymoon which is the latest buzz was premiered on lifetime movie Network on April 25^th, 2010. This movie is said to be a hot box office hit and the story goes on as follows.

Deadly honeymoon is about a newly married couple, who are on a luxury ship on a cruise for their honeymoon. They are in deep love and relationship. But suddenly the bridegroom disappears and the investigation begins by the investigative authorities.

A woman detective is pressed into service and the case takes twists and turns as evidences began to surface. The woman detective finds that the groom had many secrets and so had enemies on the ship. There is evidence that the bride is behind the whole conspiracy. This suspense thriller is an excellent subject to watch and the movie keeps the audiences on toes.

Cast: Neeru Bhajwa, Sudeep, Amrutha Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Roshabh Jain, Anu Ansari, Ashwini Kalsekar, Amit sadh, Ganesh Yadav, Zakhir Hussain, Vikas Srivatsav, Rakesh Raj, Chyan Trived and Jeeva Director: Milind Gadgkarstar Music: Dharam and Sandeep Producer: Prashanth Burr and Chandrashekar

‘Poonkh 2’ is sequel of 2008 release ‘Poonkh’ which was an RGV film. ‘Poonkh 2’ is a bit more horror and thriller than its earlier version.

Story

Rajiv(sudeep) shifts to a new bungalow and gets busy with his construction business. He has two kids named Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and Rohan (Rishabh) who are happy to be in a new place. They start to search for the news things surrounding their house. The house is surrounded by deep woods and is also near to a beach. Soon, the kid’s find a doll and the horror of their life starts. The doll has the evil sporty of Madhu, who returns to torment and haunt the house of Rajiv (sudeep). He and his wife Arathi (Amrutha) began to experience strange and horror happenings in their house.

Evil spirit Madhu starts to spread her evil deeds in the house and the Rajiv, Aarthi and his kids start to face them. Madhu is the same devil which was fund in the earlier version of ‘Poonkh’. This movie shows the evil spirit of Madhu in the most rebellious, powerful and invincible form. The deeds of Rajiv to suppress Madhu fail in all aspects and the animalism of Madhu is exposed.

What brings the end of madhu the evil spirit is suspense.

Performances

On the performances terms, all the cast which played the lead are justified. They all gave their best to their characters.

Milind penned a good concept of story and has also directed it well.

Disfigured bodies, bloodshed, Horror, Violence add to the reel life of “Poonkh 2”. But the life of this film at the box office lies in the hands of the audiences.

Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Nandana sen, Aruna shields, Neeru Bhajwa,Sanjay Kapoor, Dilp Tahil and others., 

Music:  sachin Gupta 

Director: Kokkie Gulati 

Producer: Renu Taurani and Kumar S taurani 

Release date: April 9^th,2010 

‘Price’ is a mush awaited movie of actor Vivek oberoi. It was much hyped for its rich female star cast of glam dolls and action scenes filled with thrilling sequences.

Story

Prince(ViveK0 is one of the world’s smartest thieves, who has forgotten the past of his. Same is the situation of Prince like of Aamir’s “ Ghajini” but it has a twist. The quickest thief slowly tries his best to remember his past and discovers that he is regaining his past at a snail pace.  

Prince recollects that he used to work for a man called Sarang and has committed a huge rich robbery, on the saying of him. but Prince due to his memory loss, has forgotten the place , where e hid the riches.  

As expected, he is wanted by the police of our country and a group of criminals are also interested in nabbing him, in order to own the robbery of riches. In the meantime, Prince recollects about his love life and tries his best, to recollect his girlfriend’s face. He fails in doing so, but discovers her name to be Maya. He starts searching for her and lands up with women, whose name is Maya.  

The sudden twist in this story is that robbery is not only about the riches, but is also a key to save the man kind in the world, from an unfortunate. 

What happens next is the climax of the story, which has to be seen on the silver screen.

Performances

This movie will give a good push to Vivek’s career. Performance wise and his acting wise Vivek need no intro or explanation. He is perfect in all sections and is improving film by film.  

The three woman who are nandana sen, aruna shields and neeru Bhajwa are pretty in looks and justify their glamorous roles. 

Coming to the story, the director has done his best in keeping the audiences in suspense. But this story needed a much better treatment, which could have boosted a lot to success. However, Kookie has impressed the audiences with the concept and this is enough to jack up his skills from a junior level of directing skills to a senior level. 

Music by sachin Gupta is good to listen on screen and suits to the scripts mood. 

Anyway, the truth is that this movie is much better to watch on the small screens on a disc or on a television channel and is a waste of time to journey to the theatres.

Cast: Sam Worthington, Alexa Davalos, Danny Huston, Gemma Artherton, Pete Postelthwaite, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson and others

Music: Ramin Djawadi

Cinematography: Peter Menzines. Jr

Editing: Vincent Tabaillion and david Freeman

Script: Kawrence Kasdan,Travis Beacham, Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi

Direction: Lousi Leterrier

Producer: Basil Iwanyk, Kevin De la Noy, Richard D. Zanuck.

Distribution: Warner bros

Release date: April 2^nd, 2010

“Clash of the Titans” is a fantasy based film which is claimed to be a remake of 1981 film with the name “ Clash of the titans” which is the same name. This film is based on the Greek Myth of Perseus.

Story

“ Clash of the titans” is a movie which is about the struggle about men against Kings and the kings against the gods. Persues (Sam Worthington), is a child of a god, but is raised by a human, in order to save his life and his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), who is a underworld god .

After growing into a young warrior, Perseus, goes for the battle against Hades, in order to stop him from seizing power from Zeus (liam Neeson), which could lead to bringing hell to earth.

Perseus leads a bunch of warriors, who are valiant and starts off his journey in order to defeat Hades. He battled with unholy demons and beats and starts to prove his mettle.

What happens next is a suspense which has to be seen on the special silver screen.

Cast: Maradona rebello, Bipasha basu, Mahesh manjrekar, Ronit Roy, Daya Shanker Pandey, Lillete, Kiran Karmakar, Asha Sachdev, Snajidha Sheikh and others.

Music: Raju Singh

Director: Sudipto Chattopadhya

Producer: Sanjay Gupta

Release date: April 2^nd,2010

‘Pankh’ movie is having an impressive story which will attract the thinking audiences the most to the theaters. It deals with the story of a boy, who is forced to be a homosexual in his childhood and when he turns into man, his Sexual identity becomes a big question to him.

Story

‘Pankh’ starts with the story f a young boy(maradona rebello) who is forced to become  homosexual, due to some consequence in his life. He plays the character of jerry, who is confused over his identity in the society.

Jerry incidentally meets a girl named Nandini(Bipasha)  and then he instantly falls in love with her., then the man in him , peeps out of his mind and asks him the question about his manliness. The confused state of Jerry is well represented and then how he turns into a man, in order to surprise Nandini, with his love is the crux of ‘Pankh’.

Performances

Maradona has acted well in this movie and has dealt with his character in a mature way. He is new to bollywood, but has done class acting in the movie.

Bipasha adds the life to the reel. Her oomph and seeking eyes are a true need and the deed to the story.

The director Sudiptyo has well dealt with the story of ‘Pankh’ and can pick an award or two, due to the intensity of the story, which mimics real life picture to some extent.

But at the same time, ‘Pankh’ deals with some complicated networks of relationships and so is watched by some intense minds who come for a different set of entertainment.

Cast: Nana patekar, Dimple kapadia, Sunil Shetty, Vidya malvade, rehan Khan, Anjana Sukhani and others

Music: Sandesh Shandiya

Direction: Kabir Sadanand

Production: Nikhil Panchamiya

Release date: April 2^nd,2010

‘Tum Milo toh Sahi’ is all about Love and the driving force of Love in people’s lives.

Story

Subramaniyam (Nana) and Delshad(dimple) arte the coffee makers  in a coffee shop. After retirement, they own a Cofee shop, which is buzzed with youngsters, who are interested in some chats with the friends and the usual coffee sipping.

Amit(suniel Shetty) is a busy money maker in his life and his wife Anita( Vidya) is not happy with his money making skills via neglecting his family.

Bikram(rehan Khan) and Shalini(Anjana) are two youngsters who are in love and are linked to the coffee shop. A multinational company wants to own the coffee shop in order to set a record in setting up a chain of coffee shops.

It is a bit humors and also has some elements for thought. The story revolves around the three characters and just moves on and on till the reel is over after 2 hours.

Performances

Nana, Dimple and Sunil need no intro about their acting skills.

In the same way, theatre artists turned actress, Vidya Malvade is also excellent in her acting and plays her character of a middle class wife in a convincing way.

Songs have no time and situation to appear and are filled up in the second half of the movie.

Kabir has made a movie with some good thought, but has lost his way in creating the main crux and then the conclusion of the story.

Cast: Sandhya Mridul, Amir Bashir, Koel Puri and others.

Music: Shibani kashyap, Deepka Pandit, Gaurav dasgupta and Vivek Philip.

Direction: Sarthak Dasgupta

Producer: Sanjauy Gupta and Parth Arora

Release date: April 2^nd, 2010

“The Great Indian butterfly” is a story about a married couple, who is unhappy about their marriage and is in search for ways to keep themselves in the bonding of marriage.

Story

Meera (Sandhya) is a wife of Krish (amir) who are not happy with their marriage. They decide to go on a tour to Goa, in order to discover new life in their marriage and also the elusive great Indian butterfly, which is found in a nearby valley to goa.

Meera and Krish are at constant internal strife and spoiling their holidays are the phone calls to meera. Meera learns that she has lost a job race to her junior and this annoys her even more. Moreover, Krish was in live in relationship with Liza(Koel) and this was known to Meera before the marriage.

But she now finds it hard to digest this fact and wants to forget it once and for all in the goa trip. But adding to her annoyance, Meera learns that Krish is still seeing Liza and is comfortably dating her as well.

Meera leaves Krish and the film is then a suspense filled elements to the audiences. Will Meera unit with her hubby or not is a climax which must be seen on the silver screen.

Cast: Aditya Nrayan, Shweta Agarwal, Shubh Joshi, Rahul dev and others.

Director: Vikram Bhatt.

Shaapit deals with a typical story which has a bit of thrill, suspense and a bit or horror.

The regular romance element is presented with a twist and the direction of the movie is fair enough, to be credited positively.

Story

Young and handsome guy Aman (Aditya) is in love with Kavya (Shweta) and proposes to her one fine day. She accepts his love and the couple are happy with their love development. On the day, when aman Proposes to Kavya, the couple meets with the accident, when the former goes to the latter’s home, to drop her. They get unhurt in the accident and are lucky enough to get out of it, without getting bruised.

After this car accident, Kavya’s parents ask Aman and his parents to forget about the relationship and ask them to call of the marriage proposal. The reason behind is a curse from a Brahmin and his family. Kavya’s parents narrate a story which took almost 300 years back. They narrate about an incident in which a Brahmin father curses the whole family and according to it, no girl in their family will get married and if did so, the curse will lead to the death of the bridegroom.

Due to deep love on Kavya, aman concludes to fight over this curse and wants to free Kavya from its pangs. Aman and his friend Sham(Shubh Joshi) take the help of an occult professor Pashupathi (Rahul Dev). After seeing the love of Aman towards his beloved, the professors decide to help in this.

What happens next? A shock is struck in the family and what is that are questions which may arise in your brain. For all these reason, please go an watch the movie on big screens.

Performances

Aditya Narayan has justified his role of Aman, which portrays that of a lover, a son and youngsters with an aim to break the jinx of his lover. His acting is natural and has no signs of Aditya debuting in acting field with this film.

Shweta Agarwal is good in her role and has life in the first half. The second half offers her a bed ridden role and she oozes glamour in the song.

Rest of the star cast like Rahul dev, Shubh Joshi and so on justify their characters and roles and live to the outcome, which is expected from them.  

Vikram Bhatt has attained success in directing Shaapit into a suspense thriller and the movie is sure to run for a while in theatres.

Cast: Jagapathi Babu, Priyamani, Keerthi Chawla, Jackei, Kota Srinivas rao, Tanikella Bharani and others.

Music: Chinni Charan. Director: Karthikeya Gopalkrishna Producer: D. Ratnakumar, D. Karunakar and D. Suresh Babu. Release date: March 5th, 2010

‘Sadhyam’ is only poised and presented to die hard fans of Jagapathi babu and Priyamani. No other normal Telugu cinema audiences can bear the brunt of this nuisance tale. No doubt, this movie will be a big flop and will be kicked out of the theatres within few days from today.

Story

Suhani (Priyamani) is a confusing person, who is sensitive and low in confidence. She gets troubled by everything and is targeted by everyone. Her frustration reaches the brim, during the different experiences, but somehow, only to test the patience of the audience, she controls it.

Krishna Prasad(Tanikella) is saved from a serious accident by Suhani. He recovers from the accident and thanks her for the life saving favor. In return, he pleads her to ask a favor, which he would like to do, for her. During the accident, Suhani sees a revolver with Krishna Prasad and asks for it.

Krishna learns about her pathetic frustration and experiences and grants her his revolver. He asks her to shoot anyone, who test her patience and also promises her, that he has the potential to evade the matter legally, by his background power.

Like a telugu saying, “ Kothi Kobari Chippa Dorikithe”, Suhani goes on with the revolver to kill her friend Anitha (keerthi) as she has a personnel grudge. She fails in killing her. Then again she attempts to kill her boyfriend Sandeep (Jagapathi), but fails in doing so for a reason.

Due to some latest incidents, she decides to kill a person. Who is the person and why is he being killed by Suhani is a idiotic suspense which has to be seen on the silver screen.

Performances

Jagapathi Babu is as usual going to attract the women folk with his handsome personality. He justifies his role Sandeep in this film ‘Sadhyam’.

Priyamani rules this film ‘Sadhyam’ the most and is seen in some ever revealing costumes, in order to entertain the masses. Her acting and dancing is good.

Keerthi Chawla plays a small role perfectly and adds the glam quotient when needed.

The rest of the stars cast like Tanikella, Kota, Pragathi, Munna, Venu and others act well in their respective characters.

Music is below average and has no catchy tunes to hum. Background score is little bit better.

Direction needs no explanation at all. It is better, if K. Gopalkrishna joins a senior director again and learns some direction values from him. The direction and screenplay make the story confusing and they need a lot of grooming, at least to reach today’s hit formula.

On the whole, this movie will not be a crowd puller. Instead of it, all those audiences who go to this movie will pull their hair, till it comes out. But this film can bank on the thighs and assets of Priyamani to some extent.

Otherwise

Only GOD can save this movie!

“Lizard Boy” is a Sci-Fi monster movie which is about a half man and half reptile creature story.

This movie is a monster thriller which takes a number on twists and turns in the end, while revealing the truth. Lizard boy also raises many questions about the modern day scene progress and modern day genetics while harkening back the old movie about monsters.

Story

Dr. Gino Conti, is a well renowned Geneticist which is hired by the defense sciences to develop or to create a hybrid animal which has a human brain reptile features. This is a movie with a lot of action, drama, horror and gore in the end.

This movie features Pete Punito, Steven F, mark Strano, Miranda Allgood, damon gragrory, Rachel Riley, Bruce brown, domizaino Arcangeli, Marcia Loring and Ryan Gray.

Paul Della Pelle has directed this movie and is a 98 minute long film.

Cast: Naga Chaitanya,
Samantha, Krishnudu, Puri Jagannath, Tanya, Surekha Vani, Sanjay swarup,

devan Lakshmi and others. 

Music: AR Rehman. 

Story, Screenplay &
Direction: Gautham Menon 

Cinematography: Manoj
Paramahamsa 

Editing: Anthony. 

Producer: Manjula
Ghattamaneni 

Banner- Indira
productions. 

Release date: February 26^th,

2010.

Rating:3/5

‘Ye Maya Chesave’ is a
youthful entertainer and has all the stuff to attract the young
generation
into the theatres. Once again, director Gautham Menon has come up with
a breezy and heart full entertainer. The movie weaves a magic around
the audiences and leaves them spell bound.

Story

‘Ye Maya Chesave’ is a
story about to lovers. Karthik (Naga Chaitanya), who is a passed
mechanical
engineer, wants to chase his dream to become a film director. With the
help of a friend, he joins as an assistant director under director Puri
jaganath. His struggle as an assistant director is show in few scenes
which is enough to enlighten the minds of all those, who think direction

is a second class school subject. 

Karthik and his family move
out a new rented house. They stay in the house of a landlord named
Joseph
(devan). The landlord belongs to malayalee Christian community and has
two children. One happens to be Jessie (Samantha) and the other happens
to be a angry young man.  

As soon as Karthik enters the
house of Jessie, he falls in love with her at first sight. She is a
bit older to him and so the age and the cast and religion barriers come
in heed of the story. Jessie is a well educated girl, who is an IT
professional
she migrates to other state on a work and so Karthik follows her. He
and his friend follow Jessie and Karthik tries different passionate
tricks in order to woo Jessie.  

Finally the heart melts and
Jessie falls in deep and true love with Karthik. The real story with
the twist begins from here. The main obstacle for this sweet love to
succeed is the family and religion and this forms the crux of the story. 

But all ends well in the Telugu

version of ‘Ye Maya Chesave’.

Performances

Naga Chaitanya justifies his
role in ‘Ye Maya Chesave’ and he plays it with a lot of ease.
The sincerity and the genuine enthusiasm is seen in the action of the
Naga Chaitanya. His body language and the kind of mood he creates,
perfectly
matches the character of a budding director in the film industry. 

Samantha looks awesome in this
movie ‘Ye Maya Chesave’. She delivers her best in a character which
is bound by Dualities and delivers her best.  

The rest of the star cast like
Krishnudu, Surekha, Sanjay Swaroop act well according to their given
characters. Puri jagannath performed well in the role of a director
and contributed well to the movie’s reel flow. 

Cameo appearance of Trisha
and Simbhu is worth watching. 

Music is excellent and is
composed
by AR Rehman. It lives up to the expectations in the film. But few songs

which are un-situational act as speed breakers to the movie flow.  

Director Gautham menon has
come up with an incredible subject this time. The flavor of romance
and love are well amalgamated and the climax has been carved
excellently.  

But this movie will only appeal

to college going students and young generation and will be a passé
for family audiences.