Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum & Genius Movie Reviews by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

After watching more than two thousand telugu movies, I have decided not to comment too much on movies. Thus this revolution of cut-shorting my reviews on telugu movies. Having said that, I would continue sharing my appreciations to the talented technicians and artists - those who add value to the industry standards.

Two among such subjects are the current topic of discussion, they are Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi's (popularly known as Krish) Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum & Omkar's Genius! Undoubtedly both the movies have amazingly creative thoughts and came out as brave attempts from the above mentioned gentlemen (two directors), of course with the support from their masters called Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry for Krish and Chinni Krishna for Omkar.

Immediately to start elaborating my views on each of these movies, separately - I have chosen the below style:

My personal view on Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum:

This movie is a brilliant thought and attempt that is excellently narrated by the director without any confusion, but he had to face few hiccups in injecting the actual intend of the theme into the common audience due to the sensitivity involved in the subject itself (about the presence of god). My perception in understanding the message in this movie is that, the meaning of the god is to help fellow human beings when they are in real need and sorrow.

Value Additions:

1) Subject, Narration and Theme

2) Music by Mani Sarma

3) Lyrics by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry (specially Jaruguthunnadi Jagannaatakam)

4) Emotional Performances by each and every artist

5) Dialogues by Sai Madhav Burra (like Devudantey Saayam etc.,)

6) Twist in the story with a fresh idea

Pitfalls:

1) Casting mis-match (Nayanatara & Rana)

2) Lack of clarity in conclusion (at least for a common audience)

My Overall Rating for KVJ - 3.25 / 5

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My personal view on Genius (Telugu Movie by Omkar):

Denikaina Ready Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

Denikaina Ready is my second movie in the October month, after Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu (a trimmed and incomplete version which was exhibited in Vyjayanthi Theatre). So followed by the great disappointment (because of stupid and psychic telangana issue on CGR Movie) it was a good relief to the Nizam film lovers as well as to the industry in the form of a Dhenikaina Ready success. So let us digg into this topic of movie review and discuss why this movie has listed in the HIT movies of 2012.

Vishnu Manchu who was in a crunch has come out with good colors this time with a comedy flavored movie, which was a good choice at this situation. The technical talent of this movie is an additional advantage and crucial for the actor to taste the success after long time.

Life is Beautiful Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

A movie can be sensible and beautiful only with a brilliant and intellectual team of technicians and most importantly, the visionary Director and Script Writer. Coming to the  "Life is Beautiful" its a movie made with a specific intention and the captain proved his skill of turning simple things more beautiful once again with this flick. Though most of the reviewers are speaking rave about this movie, I personally liked the movie exceptionally good for many reasons (mentioned below) and rate Mr. Kammula's latest project with high marks. 

Let us see why is this conclusion come from me....... It may be Dollar Dreams, Anand, Godavari, Happy Days or Leader and now Life is Beautiful - Sekhar Kammalu is always climbing high by selecting and making different kind of movies. He inspired and influenced me with his every flick and made me a great fan of his. It is very easy to comment on a technician's work but is highly difficult to shot a scene and coordinate with all the 24 frames, to make it beautiful.

Eega Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

Creative Genius Rajamouli has passed his 10th Movie with distinction and proved once again that he is technically brilliant and highly talented!! 



Story, Screenplay, Direction: SS Rajamouli, who started his career in 2001 with Student No.1 did not tasted failure in his 10 Movie career even after 11 years (i.e., even in 2012).

The basic reason for this is that he prepares well (extensively well) for his script and the entire movie - scene by scene and if possible frame by frame. His vision towards the final output before start of shoot and after finishing the post-production will be the same and there will be no much changes (the project might end up with much more positive highlights, but not with mistakes or negative changes). Coming to Eega, Rajamouli intelligently started narrating the story in a much realistic way - i.e., a father telling the story to his daughter.... This made every critic shut their mouth and stopped their hands in writing negative word about Eega movie. The very reason for mentioning about the above line is that the movie is full of fiction and every scene has a flaw (if we treat the movie as a regular movie). But these days any commercial movie is filled with flaws and the way Eega taken off was mind-blowing and makes a lot of sense.

Gabbar Singh Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

If one wants to know about the Original Power of Power Star Pawan Kalyan and his stamina of highest crowd pulling capability (to theatres all over the world, irrespective of talk & actual content etc.,) then they want to read this review...... because "He is special".

Pawan Kalyan, the name it self is the biggest kick for an average movie lover and if his movie gets unanimously positive talk all over from the world on the day one, then it is the biggest festival for movie buffs especially when it is summer! Gabbar Singh is one such movie with a full fledged entertaining elements placed most appropriately to full-fill the actual intention of the audience, that is entertainment at its best.

But who are the people behind this successful outcome? and what are the main reasons behind this huge response from audience of all sections? My analysis and review on this discussion can be read below: - 

Dhammu Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

After two consecutive flops (Shakthi & Oosaravelli) - NTR Jr. wanted to choose a perfect script for his next movie that should bring back his glory in tollywood and thus choose his favorite genre script, Dhammu. The young actor was pretty confident about scoring a big success to join the 40Cr+ Club / Top Five Earners - with this flick, but let us see how the movie is actually faring!

Screenplay & Direction: Boyapati Seenu, the four (4) movie young director has some rare talents of directing scenes extra-ordinarily, but as he is still young in the field needs to learn varied topics of highlighting the subject and theme as a whole while canning some brilliant scenes - which would then finally appreciated by the audiences. His efforts of pleasing big stars like Ravi Teja, Venkatesh, Bala Krishna & NTR Jr., with his subjects and scripts is simply appreciable, but the way he shapes out the final product is not so absolute perfect. Having described about his qualities, Boyapati again chose the same theme as of his previous movies (Mass-Action) once again for Dhammu. 

Racha Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

After a debacle (Orange) - Ram Charan Tej - the Magadheera S/o. Magadheerudu of tollywood, took his time to come back with a bang (Racha) this summer to entertain the movie lovers (especially the mass audience). Let us see how he managed to impress the cinegoers with the 2 movie director Sampath Nandi as the captain of the ship..

Until the movie - Racha announced no one knows who Sampath Nandi is (though he already worked for a small budget movie as his debut directorial film). But this time it is a wonderful opportunity for him to prove his capability of handling such a huge project. Both Charan and Sampath worked hard for Racha with a zeal to taste a much desired success to move forward in their careers - and now to know, how Racha has shaped up - Read More!

Ishq Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

Nitin with a decade of his acting experience, have seen many flops and few hits out of his 18 Movies. On 14th June 2002, the actor's first movie Jayam (Directed by Teja) released and was proved as a huge box-office hit. His second movie Dil (Directed by VV Vinayak) was also a big hit followed by a flop movie Sambaram (but remained as a sincere attempt by the Director Dasarath) and then tasted a sensational hit Sye (Directed by SS Rajamouli) which has helped in proving himself as a bankable star. 

But unfortunately there was not even a single HIT for him after SS Rajamouli's Sye (which was released on 23rd September 2004 i.e., almost 7 and a half years back), though his immediate movie Sri Anjaneyam (Directed by Krishna Vamsi) brought him some recognition as a good actor the movie failed to collect monies. The next 12 Movies of Nitin were also resulted as "Flop to Above Average Movies". This time Nitin chose to come up with a wonderful team as a lead actor in "ISHQ - a Smashing Hit" after 13 movies long wait. His hard work and sincerity paid off with this flick!

Now let us see what made this movie a biggest hit in Nitin's career?

Businessman Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

After a smashing hit (Dookudu), Mahesh Babu joined his hands with Puri Jagan to wrap up Businessman in just 74 days (fastest movie of Mahesh Babu as hero till date). With the immediate previous hit and the festive release advantage coupled with the then industry hit combination has created a lot of hype on the movie, but what is the actual result of the Businessman output and what range of Business is it going to do....? 

Story, Screenplay, Dialogues & Direction: Puri Jagannadh who is known for his brilliant direction of simple scripts with the help of powerful punch dialogues has repeated the magic once again with Pokiri (Mahesh Babu), but this time as The Businessman. Firstly we should appreciate the captain of the ship for completing the project in a very short span of time that too with a super star, same time bringing out the quality output. Though the movie is away from reality, the narration and racy screenplay in collaboration with thought provoking and piercing dialogues have added great value to the simple script. 

Bodyguard Movie Review by Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

After a long gap of over an year, Venkatesh has come up with his choice (of remake) as Bodyguard. Released with a good hype and pre-release talk, lets see how is it competing with Mahesh Babu's Businessman which was released just one day before its release...

Story, Screenplay & Direction: Gopichand Malineni has tilted Siddique's original story-line a bit to match the nativity, which is still not so convincing to our audience. Though I did not watched the original  (Malayalam) version or that of Tamil, I got a chance to keenly observe Salman's Bodyguard (Hindi Version on Sunday) after watching Venky's (on Saturday) to draw the above conclusion. Having stated that there are slight changes in the story line, the key concept and the theme remains same which should help the movie becoming a commercial HIT.

Pawan Kalyan's Teen Maar Movie Review

After a disaster, Komaram Puli - Pawan Kalyan has come up with a movie called Teen Maar (Frankly speaking this is not an apt title for the movie). But this time the movie will get all the money back invested in it, for sure.. As always Pawan Kalyan's movie Teen Maar also recorded huge openings in the first week, however when it comes to.....

Story: Faltoo in my words, I dont know why Pawan Kalyan liked the script of "Love Aaj Kal" it is not at all deserved to be remade! Sorry to be very frank - but the movie has nothing to tell people other than just how the love is aaj kal, which makes no sense - showing this concept as a correct path (Generally when the Hero is playing the character, people wants to follow him) when this is not supposed to be followed. As per my knowledge, any movie should either entertain or educate the audience, Imtiaz Ali failed to do so with this project. (Pawan might have choosen this subject because of few similarities in his real life with this super hit "LAK" - I hate PK for choosing this subject)!


Director: Jayant C Paranji, with a much needed success after a long gap got this chance! But as I mentioned these kind of subjects should not attempt in tollywood, unless they decides to change the core concept - I dont know if he has accepted this offer by thinking it as an opportunity or a chance... However, Jayant would have taken the complete ownership of the movie and made his attempt by changing the script, any how he did his role OK!

Screenplay and Dialogues: Trivikram, this guy is the key to the movie's fate - for the kind of subject he was given, he did a genuine work. He did his best with more than a dozen hit dialogues, which made Power Star fans very happy. A Script-cum-Dialogue writer can never do justice if he/she wont like/believe in the project that he/she works for. So somehow I felt that Trivikram is not completely convinced with this subject, otherwise he would have done much better job.

Music: Songs were already been appreciated by the music lovers and Visuals also made PK fans to do TeenMaar in theatres, now Mani Sharma once again did an amazing job with the BGM in TeenMaar! But only in re-recording I saw an experiment (Spot Dubbing for Pawan Kalyans' dialogues) which is a draw back in the movie. Otherwise, Mani has done a fantastic job.


Cinematography: Jayanan Vincent, has done an excellent job! Pawan Kalyan was shown in two different characters in this movie, one being a romantic Indian who lives in Capetown (Michael Velayudham) and the other being a young socialist (Arjun Palvai) with full of guts, principles and energy. For both these characters Jayanan Vincent put an extreme focus to differentiate, as there is a 30 year gap between the two stories. Especially, locations selected for Michael's role (Pawan Kalyan) were shown in a grand way. I would say, this aspect is the biggest highlights of the movie.

Other Technical Departments: Art direction by Narayana Reddy was Good, Editing by MR Varma - Bad (there were multiple useless scenes in the movie)!

Artists Performances: Power Star Pawan Kalyan is now once again proved that he is the powerful star with all kind of expertise required to make a movie block buster! With this kind of stories very few heroes can make the final product - as the best - with their performances, Pawan Kalyan is one among them and Teen Maar is the successful output. In both the roles, Pawan Kalyan excelled by putting his 100% effort. The amount of dedication and confidence he has on the subject lets him do his best in it. Exept in dances, Pawan Kalyan rocked all the way in the movie and has become the first responsible person for this hit!

Trisha was shown more beautiful, than in her past movies. Her performance in the movie is good and played another important role for the success of the movie (because of her costumes and skin show). Ali's role was brief but did justice. Paresh Rawal done a decent job, while Sonu Sood and Mukesh Rushi were confined to their roles.

Kriti Karbandha, was big minus for the movie (mainly because of her make over - it was really over makeup) there is hardly few scenes for her to perform, but failed to leverage an opportunity she got.

Overall - inspite of choosing a worst subject, mainly because of Power Star's performance, Trivikram's Punches, Mani Sharma's Melodies, Jayanan Vincent's veteran experience and others, helped Teen Maar to become a Hit with 3.25/5 as my rating.

Shakti Movie Review - Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

Shakti Movie inthaka mundhey choosaanu (just 2nd show choosochaa), Ippudu nidrapovaali..Adhenti, Movie Review ani heading petti - nidra povaali antunnadenti anukuntunnara?

Artham chesukondi - movie gurinchi entha thakkuva maatlaadukunte antha manchidhi, kaani 250/- karchupettanu kaabatti (ante naaku natho vachina inko mugguriki kalipi) naa abhiprayam short gaa chebutha vinandi....



Story - Meher Ramesh, Yandamuri Veerendranath, DS Kannan & JK Bharavi - naluguru kalisi kastapadi prepare chesaaru kaabatti bagaaney vundhi kaani Script Pakadbandheega Chesukoledhu, more over ilanti storyki shakti vunna director kaavali.

Ika pothey Director - Meher babuki ee saari super idea vachindhi - Adhentante: Pokiri & Magadheera rendu block buster hits kaabatti - Shakti kadha koodaa vaatini base chesukuni prepare chesthey output alaagey vasthundi anukoni start chesi rendu moodu identical points ni movielo imadchaadu (eg., under cover cop - super hypetho revealing cheyadam, sainikudilaa kaapaadey vamsham, yodhudu, dialogues - with 2 different generations, high budget sets etc.,). Kaakapothey silly fellow, oka point marchipoyaadu - adhi, movie story entha goppagaa vundhi anna point kanna aa story ni entha goppagaa prekshakulaki choopinchaamu anna vishayame important ani. Presenting sangathi ala vunchithey, paina cheppinattu scriptey sariggaa prepare chesukoka povadam chaala bhaadhakaramaina vishayam (adhi kooda ilaanti bhaari budget movieki) .

Coming back to Music Director: edho velathi clear gaa kanipinchindhi - BGM OK anipinchinaa, Songs lo pale gaa theylipoyaadu Mani Sharma. Ilaanti movies ki BGM entho strong gaa vundaali, more over songs lo sooooper anipinchelaanti music ivvali - rendu miss ayyaayi!

Castinglo - Krishna Baghvan, Maro Iddaru Mugguriki tappa movielo evariki kadha meedha pattu (grip) ledhu ani cheppukovachu (including Jr. NTR) - it is the minimum responsibility for every major actor/actress in the movie to know/involve in the subject very much or atleast Director should take care of it. Oka movie hit avvaali antey andhuloni characters andharu perform cheyaali (subject artham chesukoni perform cheyyali) - ee simple formula directorki theliyadu kaabolu paapam :(

Fights, Comedy, Dialogues - veeti gurunchi entha thakkuva maatlaadithey anta manchidhi!

Sameer Reddy, Anand Sai did a bit decent job, chaala rojula tharuvaatha Ileana ni chaala baaga choopinchaaru. Sets & Locations kooda baagunnayi.

Jr. NTR - yelaagainaa Magadheera Records baddalu kodadhaamu anukunnadu (nijaaniki ntr can do it) but thanaki hit kottadaaniki formula and secret theliyadhu (ofcourse dhaaniki luck and support kooda vundaali). Success rate ekkuva vundaali antey - hero just ekkuva kastapadithey chaaladhu, ekkuva aalochinchaali kooda (from audience point of view).

Overall gaa bhaari level lo hit avvaalsini movie (konni jaagrathalu theesukoni vundi vuntey), chaalaa dharunamgaa fut ayyindhi (chaalaa thappulu cheyyadam valla). Naa sincere advise to Meher Ramesh is to do a small budget film (with less than a Crore) and try for a hit, at least this time with strong confidence, but not with over confidence!

Highlights: Hero Cop ani choopinchina scene - it was tooo good.

My Rating for this movie is 2/5 - Worst but not boring.