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'Don 2' Review


Cast - Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan (cameo), Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta,
Director - Farhan Akhtar
Music - Shankar -Ehsaan -Loy
Cinematographer - Jason West
Banner - Excel Entertainment
Editor - Anand Subaya
Producers - Shahrukh Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani
Release Date - 23rd December 2011 (Friday)


After a flop from his much hyped movie 'Ra-One, the Bollywood King Khan Sharukh is back with 'Don 2'. To give a message that he will be back with King size hit, the caption was kept as 'The King is Back'. This stylish thriller is the sequel of his previous hit movie 'Don'.

Some of the cast from 'Don' are retained in this movie to make it feel more like a sequel.

Don 2 Story :

The story begin in Malaysia with the return of Don (Sharukh) to surrender himself to Roma (Priyanka Chopra) and her boss (Om Puri), the Interpol Officers. But, his main idea is to meet his enemy Varadhan (Boman Irani) in the same jail. They sketch a plan together to steal currency plates from DCB - a famous German Bank.

Both Vardhan and Don escapes from the jain had heads straight to Germany with the help of hacker Ali (Kunal). Roman and her team starts chasing for the escaped Don and Vardhan. With a lot of skill and ideas, Don sketches a plan and sets a stage to execute. Is Don successful in his plan? Rest of the story should be watched on silver screen.


Positives/Highlights :
Shahrukh Khan's Performance
Locations and Photography
Film Taking

Negatives/Drawbacks :
Few Jerks in screenplay
Songs

Final Word : Not Boring. Not Roaring. Watch it once.

Rajanna Review


 


Cast                                                    : Nagarjuna, Ainee, Sneha, Swetha Menon, Naazar
Music Director                              : M M Keeravani
Producer                                         : Nagarjuna Akkineni
Action Director                            : S S Rajamouli
Camera                                            : Syam K Naidu, Anil, Poorna
Story, Screenplay, Direction   : Vijayendra Prasad

Nagarjuna who is known for making movies with different stories is back with yet another such refreshing script of Tollywood. With experiments like Siva, Geethanajali, Annamayya, Sri Ramadasu and Gaganam he has got a unique reputation that no other star hero has got in the Telugu industry. He needs to be appreciated for accepting a story in which the hero (a star hero) would appear only after 50 mins of the beginning of the film and producing it with a good budget. It takes real guts and passion for cinema to produce such 'non commerical' ventures.

Rajanna Story :

This is the story of a freedom fighter Rajanna (Nagarjuna) and his daughter Mallamma(Ainee). The entire narration goes in Telangana in the olden days. Rajanna who was a freedom fighter had to fight with the Nizam Nawaabs against their cruelty in their area. He and his wife Lacchuvamma (Sneha) will be killed by the Nawaabs for the fight they are doing for Gareebs (poor people). 

Later, an old man brings up Mallamma and keeps it a secret that she is the daughter of none other than Rajanna. While the attacks on the poor people becoming more and other people were helpless, Mallamma takes an initiative and walks hundreds of miles to meet the then Prime Minister JawaharLal Nehru.

What happens next? Will Mallamma know that she is daughter of none other their leader Rajanna? Will Rajanna come back or really dead? The rest forms the story and has to seen on the silver screen.


Performances :

  • Nagarjuna should be appreciated for taking up the story and producing it with good values. He did a good job in acting too. He could carry the emotions well at many situations.
  • Ainee is the highlight of the entire film. Its not over edification to call her a blessing to Telugu film industry. Amazing talent and fantastic expressions. She could make even the elders cry and struck to their seats with emotion.
  • Swetha Menon did a very good job too. She carried the cruelity in her face through out the film and maintained the acting uniformly.
  • M M Keeravani music is the first hero of this film. It is highly unimaginable to see the film without such fantastic background music. He gave a 'meaningful' background score and elevated the emotions in an excellent way.
  • Vijayendra Prasad's story is one of the best in Telugu film industry, at least in the recent past. He could carry the direction department also well though there are some jerks at some places. Those kind of small mistakes are acceptable in such a good story and film.

Final Word : Go and Watch it! Encourage good films



Many Heros Rejected Raajanna Story - Nagarjuna Interview

Panjaa Review


Pawan Kalyan's Panjaa Review

A Hit in the name of 'Jalsaa' after many years of flops - but the fans said its not of his range


A Decent Movie 'Theenmaar' with lot of positive reviews - but the mass audience couldn't connect

And now..

Pawan Kalyan is back with his Panjaa. Let us see whether this action entertainer will be accepted or not.

Click here to see the complete Cast and Crew of Panjaa 

Story :
Jai Dev (Pawan Kalyan) becomes an YES man of the dreaded Don Bhagwan (Jackie Shroff) after getting a favor from him in the past. He is power and follower of Bhagwan (Balu Movie flashback?). Kulakarni (Athul Kulakarni) is the rival for Bhagawan. Jai has a friend Jhanvi (Anjali Lavanya) who is a club dancer. Incidentally Bhagwan's son Munna (Adivi Sesh) is a psycho (hyper sensitive) and kills people without calculation. He wants Jhanvi and starts harassing her. Bhagwan takes a word from Jai that he should not harm his son rather should protect him like how he is for the father.

Jai also runs a nursery and the life takes a turn when Sandhya (Sara Jane Dias) enters into his life. Jhanvi loves Jai but Jai loves Sandhya. Chotu (Ali) is the subordinate for Jai at the nursery. Meanwhile Munna kills Jhanvi and the story takes a turn when Jai kills him despite a promise to his father and his god father Bhagawan.

Bhagwan wants to take a revenge on Jai and plans to kill him. Jai doesn't like to fight with him due to the favor he received from the later in the past. He goes to Palasa, Sandhya's village and tries to live a peaceful life there.

Will Bhagwan take a revenge on Jai? What is the role of Kulakarni, the other don in this revenge? Rest of the story should be watched only on the screen.

Perfomrnaces :

Pawan Kalyan has to under play his character in this movie and did a great justification for his role. You cannot see the regular power of Pawan Kalyan in this film.

Adavi Sesh requires a special mentioning here. This Telugu NRI (acted in 'Karma') did a fantastic job in the negative role. His performance in the pre-interval scenes are worth mentioning here.

Sara Jane Dias and Anjali Lavanya did their roles in their limits. They may not be connected to Telugu audience easily. Anjali Lavanya has a short role in this and did a good job in item song 'vey ra.'

Jackie Shroff, Thanikella Bharani, Jhansi are regular.

Brahmanandam and Ali roles hardly bring laughs in the theater. The much hyped character in 'Paaparayudu' is not etched as per the expectations though the comedy is very good in the song.


Positives :
1. Pawan Kalyan
2. Adavi Sesh
3. Photography
4. Background Music
5. Paaparayudu Song and Pawan's Dance in it

Negatives :
1. Not a strong narration
2. Weak Comedy line
3. Songs are averagely picturized
4. Few editing jerks

Analysis :
Vishnuvardhan, the director tried to make a stylish action entertainer and is succesful in making stylish action but scores negatives in entertainment part. Editing in few scenes is awesome, especially in the pre-interval sequences and a scenes that shows the dominance of don Kulakarni over Bhagawan. But the expected entertainment is surely missing. Vishnuvardhan should have concentrated more on the script than just merely stylish action.

Looks like Vishnu Vardhan could not estimate the kind of script that suits Pawan Kalyan.

Final Line :
Watch it for Pawan Kalyan in a new role of no Power. If you love stylish films you will love this. Mass audience may not get connected to this. This may not create box office records but can an above average run.

Chiranjeevi's Comments on Panjaa 
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Panjaa First Half Report Review




Pawan Kalyan's Panjaa is released today (9-12-2011) across the globe in 1800 theaters. As per the report we got till now (till the interval scene) the first half was made in a very stylish way. Unlike in his previous movies, it looks like Pawan Kalyan is involved much in this movie screen play. There are no extras in the first half and went very naturally. Pawan looks completely different in this movie when compared to his earlier ones.

Highlights of First Half :

1. Pawan Kalyan's Stylish Acting
2. Extra Ordinary Photography
3. Songs Picturization
4. Villan Adavi Sesh Acting

Though the first 20 mins went in little dull manner, it picked up later. On a whole, the movie first half is as per the fans' expectations.

The interval scene could be the highlight of the entire movie. There are no flashback scenes and confusions. The screenplay is very good and increased interest on second half.

Villan Adavi Sesh dies in the interval scene and he did a superb acting. As per now, the movie is very good.

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Panjaa Movie Preview


Panjaa Movie Preview and Highlights


Cast - Pawan Kalyan,Sarah Jane Dias, Anjali Lavania, Brahmanandam,  Ali, Adavi Sesh, Subbaraju , Jhansi, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Sampath, Atul Kulkarni, Jackie Shroff, Thanikella Bharani
Story & Direction - Vishnu Vardhan
Music Director - Yuvan Shankar Raja

Click here to see the complete Cast and Crew of Panjaa 


Pawan Kalyan's Panjaa is all set for a grand release on December 9th all over the globe. Panjaa is coming after Pawan Kalyan's Theenmar which got a positive feedback in the opening week but failed to gain the momentum. Fans are eager to see how he has done mafia role in this movie.

He is doing the role of 'Jai Dev' (name could be different in Don getup). Panjaa is a slick and stylish action entertainer with mafia backdrop set in Kolkata. He will be see in a never seen before look and the posters with a beard has already created sensation. Though his get up got some mixed responses in the beginning, it is getting great applause now. Brahmanandam who is doing the police role name Paaparayudu is heard to have done a great job.

'The combination scenes of Brahmanandam and Pawan Kalyan are highlight for this movie', the producers said.

It is heard that Ali also got a good role to play and did his best in comedy timing. Pawan Kalyan will be romancing two new tollywood beauties Sarah Jane Dias and Anjala Lavania in this stylish action entertainer.

Vishnu Vardhan is known for his stylish taking and presenting heroines in a beautiful way. If the movie goes as per the reports heard, it will be a festival for Pawan Kalyan's fans.

The songs from Yuvan Shankar Raja scored average points in the beginning but are in to every one now like a slow poison. The Panjaa title song, Paparayudu and Ela Ela songs are already on top of the chart busters. It is also heard that Yuvan gave some fantastic background music for the film.

Shyam Koushal, who worked for Bollywood Super Start Hrithik Roshan's Krish choreographed the action scenes.