Revenge is one of the basest of human emotions. And that is why you have many films still being made on that theme. Perhaps after love and friendship (other basic human emotions), revenge is the most played out feeling in films.In N Shanker's Ram,…

It is one of the abiding mysteries that why should a Hindi film that had only an average run be remade in Telugu. The question should be put to Sravnthi Ravi Kishore, the producer, and B V Ramana, the director of Premate Inthe. Socha Na…

To make a film based on legends and age-old stories calls for a giant leap of faith and an earthy conviction based on market realities. How best can you make a modern-day film out of a fairy-tale kind of story to a generation of mass…

Being bad has never been better. And suddenly gangster and mafia movies are the flavor. In a sense, even Mahesh Babu's previous movie Athadu was one.In Pokiri, the hero is introduced to us a ruthless baddie, part of the huge underbelly of mafia. By…

In a sense, Balakrishna has painted himself into a corner. He is a man of mass films and such movies have to, almost mandatorily, carry certain elements. And to spin a script with all these ingredients calls for certain compromise and ingenuity.In Veerabhadra, you…

Suddenly journalists, rather reporting news, are news themselves. There is a lot happening in a journalist's life these days. And in Bangaram, director Dharani has tried to hold a mirror to one such journalist who ends up unwittingly in many conspiracies and confusions. He also…

To make a movie with ghosts as important characters is difficult enough in a horror movie (to make the audience willingly suspend their sense of disbelief is a tough task). But to make film with ghosts and line it up with emotion, sentiment, revenge and…

At a time when films are made out of fixated and fixed formula, to conceive a project that is straight from the heart is in itself a huge plus. And to actually make a film based on those fine and sensitive feelings, calls for a…

Why another gangster movie, you may ask. If it is interesting, why not. Dhoolpet (a dubbed version of the Tamil movie Puthupetta) manages have a look at the violence that is so typical to the underworld with rare empathy and emotion. It chronicles the life…

It is interesting as to what levels people go in the name of entertainment and comedy. Accepted comedy is all about exaggeration. But that doesn't mean one pass off absurdity as fun. Director Vijayendra Prasad tries this in Srikrishna 2006 and we get is over…