There are two ways of looking at the film MPOD. You can blindly appreciate whatever the director has dished out in the name of experimentation. On the other hand, you can obviously criticize the loopholes in such a daring attempt.Both the approaches will not…

Most of us are prisoners to the cliches of our own creation. At any rate, K Raghavendra Rao sure is. The veteran director created a particular kind of filmmaking in the 80s, and what began as his unique style is today seen as a weatherworn…

When you remake a successful movie in one language to another care has to be taken to localize or add contextual flavor to it.For instance, Nayakudu's original Runaway was about the travails of a young man whose plans of going to Dubai runs awry…

There is only a certain amount that a mentor can do. It is for the protege to take up the cue and take it up further.Ram Gopal Verma may be a good teacher and mentor to his countless students. But most of them have…

Which a title like Good Boy, corny or tacky puns in reviews are inevitable. But the truth matter is Good Boy is anything but that. Not at all good. Of course, it is for boys with plenty of skin show by the heroine.The story…

Remakes are a tight-rope walk. The original would have been made keeping in my strengths of an actor in that language. So it is imperative on those handling the remake to come up with improvisations to suit the new language and actor.The makers of…

It is difficult being Balakrishna these days. On the one hand, his fans want a particular kind of cinema from him (loud dialogues and mass songs) while the urban audiences and the media is disdainful of such stuff and wants new things from him.So…

Realism always works. Especially when it is told in endearing terms. For proof see Premiste. This Telugu version of Tamil hit Kadhal is a simple tale of a mechanic falling in love with a school girl. This every-day story works on screen because of the…

A film must have something novel. Either the story or its telling. But when none of this is, what follows is a big, uncontrollable yawn.And that is what you end up with in Moguds Pellams as the story and direction have nothing new to…

In cinema, the story is not everything. The script is. This vital difference is well underscored in Meenakshi. The story is infact one with very good emotional content. A good director, with a better idea of workable script, would have come up with a better…