Dilwale - The Movie Review

Movie:                                    Dilwale
Theater:                                  Khaleel, Nandyal
Show Time:                            21 00 to 00 00, 18/12/2015
Theater Feel:                          3 out of 5 (5 being best)
Movie Rating:                        1.5 out of 5 (5 being best)
Overall Impact on Audience: 2.25 (5 being best)

Hero:                                Shah Rukh Khan, Varun Dhawan
Heroine:                           Kajol, Kriti Sanon
Villain:                             Boman Irani
Director and Screenplay: Rohit Shetty
Writer:                             Yunus Sajawal
Music Director:                Amar Mohile and Pritam
Editor:                              Bunty Nagi


Dilwale is only for Dilwale. I went in with high expectations though I did not like the trailer. Did the movie reach my expectations?

StoryLine :

A Buried Love story, by a huge misunderstanding, revisited after 15 years through a young love. Will they bury the hatchet and fight the old demons?

MainStory :

The story begins in an auto garage in Goa and ends in an auto garage. Shahrukh loves Varun  though Varun is not his brother and apparently Varun does not know that. The bromance between SRK and Varun was the epitome of the story. Varun meets Kriti and both fall in love. To our predictable surprise,  she is the sister of Karol but original ha.  Kajol does not accept their love.

There is a parallel flashback shown in the movie which runs in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Kajol and SRK both offsprings of rivaling mafia dons fall in love after a series of incidents.  Kajol's father does not like this and a fight ensues in Kajol's home. The end result of the fight is Kajol's shoots SRK as she believes SRK cheated her and killed her father.

Back to the present,  after some incidents Kajol and SRK pair up.  Kajol knows the truth ultimately. And they bond. An unnecessary and non-comical track of Johnny lever and Boman  Irani runs in the movie.

Movie Review:

The plot is usual. It is all predictable. The movie shines here and there. Only SRK did the acting. Kriti was unnecessary. Any other heroine would have done the same job as there is less scope. Varun Dhawan overacts.Music is good.

What the movie misses terribly is - Comedy, bad editing, poor screenplay and usual story. It is not even one-time watch.

Editing and Screenplay are not at their usual good too. Rohit Shetty has done a bad job in action sequences too.


Movie Fact: After watching the movie, Dilwale can never be logical Dilwale.

Mukunda - The Movie Review

Movie : Mukunda
Theater :  SVC Mahalakshmi Screen 2, Kothapet
Show Time : 6 to 9 PM, 26/12/2014
Theater Feel : 3 out of 5 (5 being best)
Movie Rating : 2 out of 5 (5 being best)
Overall Impact on Audience : 2.25 (5 being best)

Hero : Varun Tej
Heroine : Pooja Hedge
Villain : Rao Ramesh
Director/Story/Screenplay/writer : Srikanth Addala
Music Director : Mickey J Meyer
Editor : Marthand K Venkatesh


Varun Tej Resembles Daggubati Rana. Rana got a good start though Leader. Did Varun Tej get? I don't think so.

StoryLine :

A young stud stands up against Municipal Chairman for repeatedly attempting to warn/kill his best friend.Did he win? Did he lose?

MainStory :
As a Tollywood hero, you are meant to win the race! It just that how you win the race is the story of the movie.

Arjun - Mukunda are 2 best friends. Arjun loves daughter of Chairman's brother. Chairman's son knows about this and attacks Arjun. Mukunda Saves him and warns the goons to never ever touch his friend Arjun or they will face his wrath.

Arjun is seen with his lover, fights ensue with Mukunda showing his muscle power. Then and there you will be seeing Prakash Raj reciting dialogues which are actually very good. 'Loving India, Democratic India, Romatic India, Fighting India' - Some of the themes of the dialogue!

After interval Elections are scheduled to happen. Mukunda wants to show Chairman that people may flash that they like you but it is not entirely true!. Mukunda selects Prakash Raj as the candidate and ever changing pricey Onions as election symbol. Another significance of Onions is his father is a Onion trader.

Onion wins the election and chairman to avenge his defeat - tries to marry off his brother's daughter and chairman's son tries to kill Arjun. In both incidents, as you know - Mukunda turns the tide.

Plot&Movie Review :

The plot is usual. All through the movie, surprisingly Hero and heroine never talk to each. By the way, Heroine is chairman's daughter and Mukunda taunts chairman by speaking out 'Your daughter is very beautiful'. The movie is good in patches. Scenes involving Mukunda and Rao Ramesh are very good. Rao Ramesh using science in politics is kind of eccentric to what we see in the movies. Scenes involving Prakash Raj are good too. Those dialogues are well written. Mukunda did not have many emotions to show. One serious face all through the movie. Bad for him. His next film will again look like a debutant film.

What the movie misses terribly is - Comedy, bad editing, poor screenplay and usual story. Directors when they are going to direct a newcomer. They may not be knowing the actor completely. So it is good time to experiment. And new comers too, irrespective of the image movie is going to give them, they have to try something new. Its my view.

Technical :

I somehow did not feel the movie is rich in color. Even the camera looks hazy, it did not capture the moments properly. You can see the noise in the movie. Movie is poorly edited, probably less time to edit as it was scheduled to be released as Sankranthi release.

Director Addala, owner of the story, dailogues and screenplay, did his worst job in all the 3 films till now. I usual wait to hear the final dialogue of the director at the end of the movie, this time I was not interested at all.

Movie Fact : After watching the movie, I cant say it is one time watch.

Lingaa - Movie Review and Story

Movie : Lingaa
Theater :  Rajdhani, Dilsukh Nagar, Hyderabad
Show Time : 9 to 12 PM, 12/12/2014
Theater Feel : 2 out of 5 (5 being best)
Movie Rating : 3 out of 5 (5 being best)
Overall Impact on Audience : 2.5 (5 being best)

Its not just any other movie. This movie is Special. It is Rajnikanth's movie after 4 years. With Ravi Kumar as its Director, It is meant to be a super success for the Superstar.

Whistles start way before the actual movie starts. When the curtains raise, and the titles are On, You can only listen to the non stop Whistles(I personally cant whistle though).

The actual movie starts with team from government drilling a dam to check if it is standard enough to sustain incoming floods. There is a temple just nearby the dam, when Government started drilling the temple, the head of the Village(Singanuru) K Viswanath stops the officials. The very night the official is killed near the temple by Jagapathi Babu, the MP of the constituency and resident of the Village Singanuru. The Very Next day, K Viswanath calls upon entire Village and tells them that he had a dream The kinship of the Raja Lingeswara has to open the temple and search for them. The next take, you see Rajni stepping down a Limo and the start of O Rabba song. The song was choreographed pretty well. The locations were exotic. A good amount of money is definitely spent on the song like any other Rajni's movies. So Audience thought that Rajni is leading a Lavish life some where in the world being son of a Raja. But the next scene after the song reveals what Rajni is doing now. He is in a jail dreaming about traveling around the world.

Rajni does not like his grandfather Raja Lingeswara though he is named after him. He is under impression that his grand had all the Raja Bhoga and left nothing for his father who died as retired school teacher. And Rajni cuts his name to 'Lingaa' and is a thief. Beautiful Anushka Shetty comes to his rescue and bails him out of the jail. Brahmanandam is SI of the sub jail. Very short role and nothing impressive. Anushka is a news reporter and grand daughter of  K Viswanath. She came to take Lingaa back to Village. But Lingaa does not. Lingaa steals Anushka's gold chain and sells it to the usual jewelry shop owner where the owner makes a deal with Rajni to steal a 3 crore necklace from a shopping festival. Lingaa steals it and hands over it to the owner. The stealing scene is good and Anushka was indirectly involved in it. The jewelry owner promises to pay 1.5 crore to Lingaa's gang the next day. When Lingaa goes to the shop, He see the police taking the owner to Jail. With no future insight except for being caught by Police, He goes to Anushka and understands that it is a ploy played by her, with no more options he agrees to go to Singanuru to open the temple.

After this there is a theft, Big flashback(lengthiest flashback I have seen), Final fight scene with Jagapathi Babu.  That is how movie ends. Just like any other Rajni's movie. Watch out for more in Theater.

Most of the Rajni's Movie follow the same formula like the one below :
1) Grand pa Rajni spends all his wealth for the poor
2) Child Rajni or Grand Child Rajni comes and again rescues the same Village.

Highlights of the movie :

1) Rajni
2) Train Scene
3) Kurnool district repeating multiple times.
4) Construction of Dam and graphics

Thumbs down in the movie :
1) Cant expect Rajni to fight like 20 year old Bruce lee.
2) Weak Story line, would have been a better story a decade ago
3) Music was lackluster, Rahman did not produce enough his least best score.
4) Boring in patches.
5) Not a sound ending.
6) Screenplay looks amiss sometimes.

I think, Rajni has to stop making such movies and do some experimental movies. He should try acting his age in one of the future movies to thrill his fans. I don't like some guy who is not fan of Rajni talk funny about him neither do any other fan.

Whatever, You can watch lingaa if you are fan of Rajni, If you are not, you can watch once.

Verdict : Baba was better than this movie!!!