Quick Gun Murugan – All Hype, No Fire

I haven’t been watching movies for sometime now. But Quick Gun Murugan & its lead actors Rajendra Prasad, Rambha pulled me to the theater.

With all the media coverage and the promo that preceded its release over the past few weeks, I expected it to be great. But, I found QGM full of hype and no fire.

Firstly, it was my fault to expect the QGM to be on par with Rajendra Prasad & Rambha’s Aa Okkati Adakku.

Next, QGM doesn’t have any story that it can bank upon. All that talk on Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian fight was just hype.

Finally, age has caught up with both Rajendra Prasad & Rambha. They neither look funny nor sexy, but just a sorry.

I felt out of place, as the crowd was laughing at non-sense in the name of comedy. Lola kutty’ dialogues, the Tamil accent of English dialogues are passé, I say.

Rajendra Prasad seemed to be with a hangover of his Aa Naluguru kind of roles. He sports a gloomy look throughout the movie.

Mango Dolly Rambha has very little to do in the movie, except for some skin show. There were some news reports that Rajendra Prasad said the same in some interview & that created serious differences between him & mango dolly. She stopped sharing the stage with him since then.

Over all, the director & writer failed in milking a very good theme of Vegetarianism, a great comedian like Rajendra Prasad.

Copyrights, Piracy in Tollywood - Vangapandu & Magadheera

I was watching the television commercial and subsequent appeal of Ram Charan Teja, about the efforts that the film-unit has put into this epic of recent times, Magadheera.

The hero appealed to the Telugu audience, not to encourage piracy and honor the copyrights of the creators of the movie.

While I respect his right to protect his rights, I realized the film makers’ double standards when I saw poet Vangapandu Prasada Rao complaining that his song was copied into Magadheera.

The song in question, “Em Pillado, Eldamostava!” is indeed a popular number that created many revolutionary leaders in villages and small towns since ages. Not many would know Vangapandu, but all Telugu audience would have listened to his song sometime.

I think it is unfair on the film unit’s part to use the lyric (even if it is just one line) and that too, use it for shooting filthy romance.

With this, the filmmaker’s request for curbing piracy and upholding copyrights appear to be sham.

Seems, Magadheera’s special effects are not just on the screen. They are off the screen too. Two theaters in the state which were screening this movie have witnessed accidents with reports of loss of life in both the cases.

Magadheera Movie

Crossing all the hurdles, Magadheera is released today. The movie is the second film for hero Ram Charan Teja and was eagerly awaited by the fans.

The movie was in news for the past few days, due to non filmy reasons. There were clashes between fans and police due to political reasons. Hero Ram Charan’s affiliation with PRP is the reason for all the drama at Tirupati, where the midnight screening was not allowed

Magadheera is reported to be a fantasy film, aka Arundhati where the story goes back and forth. The hero Ram Charan and his lady protagonist Kajal Agarwal could not unite in their earlier lives, which was set in 16th century. They reincarnate and meet after 400 years.

Director Rajamouli reported to have crafted brilliant art work and graphics to give a touch of period film to the portions of 16th century story. Music Director MM Keeravani re-mix his own number from Papa Chiranjeevi's Gharana Mogudu. Mumaith Khan does a Disco Shanti in the re-mix of 'Bangaru Kodi Petta' song. Chiranjeevi also shakes a leg along with son Ram Charan in this song.

The producers Geetha Arts spent liberally in not only the making of the movie, but also the promos. Yesterday, the prime time slot on TV9 was full coverage of the making of Magadheera, interspersed with interviews of Ram Charan Teja. Today’s prime time news also was liberally filled with Magadheera publicity.

Krishnam Raju Quits PRP

Rebel Star Krishnam Raju quit Praja Rajyam Party today. Krishnamraju was away from party activities after the assembly elections, where he contested and lost from Rajahmundry

Krishnamraju said that the party could not use his services and thus he is quitting. However, it is understood that, PRP pushed him to contest from Rajahmundry where he did not have any cadre and had to face the toughest opponents like Undavalli (Cong) & Murali Mohan (TDP). The Rajahmundry seat was prestigious for both Cong & TDP and it was rumored that media Moghul Ramoji Rao of Eenadu group funded the expenses of TDP candidate Muralimohan.

Krishnamraju was apparently not happy to go and stand in the middle of that bull fight at Rajahmundry. However, he had no choice as this ‘elder brother’ (that’s what PRP’s Chiranjeevi addresses him) was asked to contest from Rajahmundry.

PRP’s troubles don’t seem to end now. The other cadre who flocked from the dustbins of various parties have already started to leave the camp. The heavyweights like Devender Goud, Peddi Reddy, Tammineni, all set to jump the boat soon.

While it is maverick YSR who must be amused with all this bleeding at TRS, PRP, TDP camps, in a way, Chiranjeevi should also be happy with all this. Because, by now he might have realized that, he built his party with absolutely useless faces, who are eventually going out on their own.

But what happens to Anniyya now? He already gave/took a farewell party to Tollywood & now has nothing much to do in Politics. Somebody should tell him about the importance of having a plan B.