Archive for March, 2007
Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré
The film is about an executive, who is ambitious, who wants to make it fast in life and doesn’t mind playing with scruples. In the process he loses his girlfriend who is idealistic but again the hero has no regrets. At the end of the film you find him going for a swim with a [...]
Scarcity of heroines
Cinema modhalettalante okka heroine dorakadhu. Some films have already begun but the heroine search is still on. For example take this film by Jagarlamudi Radhakrishna who is Raghavendra Rao’s brother’s son. The heroine announced was Shraddha but now they seemed to have dropped her for technical reasons. Ditto with Mamta, photo lo kanipinchina glamour moham lo [...]
Email Shobana, aameki time ledhu
Ashwini Dutt’s daughter Swapna is holding the finals of Sarigamapa at Rock Heights tomorrow and there is a dance performance by Shobana. If you want an interview with Shobana stay away from her. Last time when she came here for Chiru’s Padmabhushan function she was irked by the media becoz they asked her the same [...]
Mutual Admiration Society
Cinema etlago hit kaadhani vallaki telusu andhukane atleast for publicity these people keep tormenting the media with press conferences, on record and off record. Jeevita and Rajashekar unleashed atleast oka 15-20 PC’s and now it’s director Jaya’s turn. There wont be anything in there, it is actually a mutual admiration society wherein A will praise [...]
Narayanamurthy ki kopam enduku vosthundi
Eppudaina TV mute lo petti did you watch R. Narayanamurthy’s speech. The other day I was watching the replay of audio release of Athili Sattibabu LKGÂ and by mistake pressed mute. That was exactly when R. Naryanamurthy came in to give his speech. He had all kind and good words for the film and the unit [...]
Ammo cell kottesthe!
I met this man who loves his cell phone more than his life. He was on his way to Lagadapati’s film Viyyalavari Kayyalu set at Jayabheri Estates. The route is just not long but is dense and is supposed to be infested by the big cats, wild peacocks, jackals, etc. You go on and on [...]
Production values rich ga undali
It’s humid out there and the heroine at the set comes near the cooler and enjoys the cool breeze. She waits to be called for her next shot. This producer whose hormones are ticking away comes near her and affectionately (?)Â pulls the strand of hair that falls on her face behind. The heroine is [...]
Le Rôle de sa Vie (France)
Two very identifiable characters. Claire Rocher, a bespectacled free lance journalist who writes for Elle and is also a transcriber and Elizabeth Becker a film star. Claire is a sort of girl who would never hurt anyone and is always saying Je suis desole, Excusez Moi which eventually gets on Elizabeth’s nerves. To be more [...]
Madhumasam a saving grace?
Time for Suresh Productions to take stock of the situation. A distributor says that they have lost faith in the production house. He questions, “Can you recollect which was the last time they had given a hit.” Confidence can’t be infused in the buyers because the banner has seemingly lost it’s glory with Ramanaidu’s son [...]
A mixed bag
I saw five films yesterday, and shuttling between Prasads and Sensation had taken the toll, I’m talking of the traffic testing my nerves. The heat is back but people showed no signs of fatigue. Press Meets at Vasavi Kalyana Mandapam went on as usual with many film writers showing enthu on documentary screenings. Tammareddy stands [...]
Will Jagapati get his market price?
The film of Jagapati Babu by JD isn’t finalised as yet. JB was intending to work in RGV’s film for sometime now and ditto with him too. At that time JB was on hiatus and also he was non-happening. But now with Pellaina Kothalo and Samanyudu fetching him an image once more the actor is [...]
Priyamani puked on the camera
So Sada doesn’t have a visa problem, it’s her dad who didn’t get the visa. And if he doesn’t get it, she can’t travel without him. The build up is definitely conservative.
Priyamani’s movie is something which we all are waiting to watch. Paruthi Veeran, directed by Ameer and co-starring Surya’s younger brother Karthi, is said to have [...]
Film writers throng HIFF
At Sensation Insomnia and Sensation Sunshine, lot of film writers, ghost writers were present to watch the films and documentaries. One person remarked that they have flocked to steal story ideas. Stories and ideas pilferage cheste cheyyaneeyandi kaani it becomes absolutely intolerable if they add nalugu fightlu, moodu paatalu to it and make the creative work into a masala movie. [...]
The Wind of the South - Algeria
A luke warm response marked the first day of the Hyderabad International Film Festival at Prasads (But the scene was different at Sensation Sunshine. A Polish film Persona Non Grata being screened at the theatre drew a houseful crowd). The arrangements have been good though there was a minor delay in starting of the films on time. The [...]
Les Revenants - France (Director: Robin Campillo)
The film begins at a cemetery at St. Louis. Les Revanants (They came back) is all about dead people coming back to life and the government taking initiatives to reassimilate them into the society and the families of the deceased trying to reintegrate them into their lives. The film throws up questions and makes you [...]
Movies to watch today
9.15 am Sensation Insomnia - Monkeys in the winter(Bulgeria)
11 am Prasadz Screen 2- Rachida (Algeria)
11 am Prasadz Screen 1 - They came back (France)
3.15 pm Sensation Sunshine - Persona Non Grata (Poland)
3.15 pm Sensation Insomnia - Ankur (India)
5.15 pm Sensation Sunshine - Black Friday (India)
7.15 pm Sensation Sunshine - Yesterday (S.Africa)
7.15 p.m Sensation Insomnia- The [...]
Katnam isthene Clean ‘U’
TV9 is over enthusiastic about its sting operation on its staff but what they don’t know is that the journos at HIFF are discussing how adept they are at themselves taking bribes for programmes like Nigha. If they are cleansing the world they should start off from the movie field on which they thrive on [...]
I’m not marrying her
A producer wanted to rope in Kajal for his movie. ‘Aiyyo aa ammayi noru peddadhi kadha, reels kooda chaala waste chestundanta, not everyone are in favour of her,’ said his friend. “Em parledhu, I’m not marrying, I just want her for the film.” Oka sametha vundhi..Jab miyan biwi razi tho kya karega khazi. I was [...]
T-shirt fold chesi pose icchina heroine
What a remarkable transformation, she has been no ugly duckling and there has been no Prof. Higgins. But the starlet, once upon a time Swapna Madhuri is now Madhumita. Earlier if you’d call her for an interview this babe would yell, “Mummy evaro phone chesare” but now she handles media relations, photographers, films with the [...]
Aiyyo, ippudu adhi hot property
The real estate prices are soaring like never and film stars are even endorsing plots and farms. If producers were to know that their lands would fetch so much they would have never gifted away their plots as remunerations to the stars. When films are in the making and the producer would fall short of [...]