Monday, January 31, 2011

ROBO


Enthiran (Tamilஎந்திரன், Entiraṉ ?) is a 2010 Tamil science fiction film co-written and directed by S. Shankar. The film features Rajinikanth in dual roles, as a professor and an android robot. Aishwarya Rai and Danny Denzongpa play other lead roles while Santhanam, Karunas, Kalabhavan Mani, Devadarshini, and Cochin Haneefa play supporting roles.[4] The film's story revolves around a scientist's struggle to control his creation, an android robot whose programme was upgraded to give it the ability to comprehend and generate human emotions. The plan backfires as the robot falls in love with the scientist's fiancée and is further manipulated to bring destruction to the world when it lands in the hands of a rival scientist. How the robot is stopped from further destruction forms the rest of the plot.
After nearly a decade of pre-production work, the film was shot over two years beginning in 2008. Produced by Kalanithi Maran, it became India's most expensive film.[5] Upon release, it also made the largest worldwide opening for an Indian film.[6][7] The film's background score and soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman, which released as an album on 31 July 2010. The film released worldwide on 1 October 2010, along with its dubbed versions: Robot in Hindi and Robo in Telugu.[8] Upon release, it enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success across the globe, collecting an unprecedented Indian Rupee ₹62 crore in the opening weekend, becoming the highest-grossing Tamil film and the highest-grossing Indian film of all time

SHANKAR DADA ZINDABAD

Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local dada and ATM (Any Time Murder) (Srikanth) is like his brother. Shankar is in love with Jahnavi (Karishma Kotak) who works at a radio station. She also owns the second innings house. The only problem is that she does not know that Shankar is a dada and believes that he is a professor. When Rajalingam (Sayaji Shinde) takes the second innings house Jahnavi, Shankar and the residents of the second inning decide to camp in front of his house. What happens when Jahnavi finds out who Shankar really is? Even though the movie opened to packed houses,it later on turned out to be only an average grosser. The movie did not go down well with the audience,as well as the critics

VENKI

Venkateswarlu (Ravi Teja) is a wayward youth in Vizag who roams around with friends all the time. One day he - along with his three buddies - accidentally gets selected in police selections. Venky and his friends embark on a journey from Vizag to Hyderabad to join police academy for the training. He falls in love with a co-passenger Sravani (Sneha) aboard the train. Sravani refuses the instant proposal of Venky. He also picks up a row in a state of inebriation with Sravani's father and another girl and threatens them that he would kill them. And surprisingly, Sravani's father and other girl found dead on their berths on the next day morning. After realizing that they would be blamed for a murder committed by somebody else, Venky and his gang slips off from the train and join the police training academy. There they realize that their boss Yogendra Sharma (Ashutosh Rana) is responsible for the murders in the train. Why does Yogendra want to kill Sravani and her father is the mysterious question that would be solved by Venky.
Rest of the story is all about how Venky protects Sravani and how he brings Yogendra Sharma to the book.


EK NIRANJAN

Viraiah's (Tanikella Bharani) younger son is stolen by Chidambaram (Makrand Deshpande) , who abducts children and makes them beggars. He names him as Chotu (Prabhas) and makes him beg on streets to earn money for him. The police raid Chidambaram and Chotu helps the police to find him. The police reward Chotu for helping them. This makes Chotu realise that he can earn money by catching criminals for the police. From then on Chotu works for the police and catches hold of criminals whom the police are in search of and becomes as bounty hunter. He also is in touch with chidambaram and communicates with him so that he can tell him who is his parents, but he never told him. While getting hold of a goon, Chotu comes across Sameera (Kangana Ranaut) who is a guitar teacher. Sameera is the sister of the goon who works for Johnny Bhai (Sonu Sood).
Chotu is asked by the police to nab her brother who is wanted by them for many crimes. When Sameera is feeding her brother, Chotu enters and forcefully arrests him after causing much havoc in the house. Chotu and Sameera fall in love. As her brother reels behind the bars, Sameera reciprocates her love to Chotu.
Veeraiah's elder son Kailash (Mukul Dev) also works for Johnny Bhai who will be arrested on charges of killing the minister (Posani Krishna Murali) which is planned by Johnny Bhai. Johnny Bhai wants to kill Kailash, who is arrested, fearing that he will reveal his name to the police interrogation. Kailash escapes from the police clutches and Johnny Bhai is in search of him. The police commissioner also asks Chotu to find Kailash and bag a handsome reward. Sameera's brother vacates his house and escapes to Bangkok fearing Johnny Bhai. Chotu also goes to Bangkok in search of Sameera and finds Kailash there. Johnny Bhai kidnaps Sameera and her brother and threatens to kill them if Chotu does not hand over Kailash to him. The story ends with Chotu rescuing Sameera from Johnny Bhai and how he meets his parents.

YE MAYYA CHESAVE

Karthik (Naga Chaitanya), is a mechanical engineering graduate but aspires to become a filmmaker. Through his friend, Karthik gets introduced to a cinematographer. With the support of him, Karthik becomes an assistant director to K. S. Puri Jagannath. Karthik's family, who are Hindus, lives on rent on the ground floor of a two storeyed house which belongs to Jessie's (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) family, a conservative Malayali Catholic Christian family from Alappuzha, Kerala, who live on the floor upstairs. When Karthik meets Jessie for the first time, he falls in love with her. Karthik expresses his love one day to Jessie, who is afraid of speaking to other men around her strict father's sight, and ends up angering Jessie. The two meet several times afterwords and Jessie begins to admit that she also liked Karthik, but wants to refrain from any problems because she knows her father won't accept a Hindu to marry his daughter. Her parents came to know about their affair and arrange a marriage for her. But at the wedding, she refuses to marry the groom, displeasing everyone in her family. Karthik and Jessie continue to love each other without the knowledge of their parents. Suddenly, Jessie is forced by her father to marry and seeks Karthik's help, who was in Goa for a film shooting. Karthik is unable to attend to her calls and messages as he was busy on the shooting spot and Jessie is unable to reach him. After a tense phone call from Jessie, Karthik goes back one night to check on Jessie. An angry and hurt Jessie makes a final decision to break up with Karthik because of her father's strong disapproval of their love. Later on, Karthik gets to know that Jessie got married and is settled abroad through his sister. Two years later, Karthik meets Nandini (Sapan Saran), who falls in love with him, but is rejected by Karthik who cites his previous affair with Jessie whom he could still not get over. He then comes up with a script for his first film, which happens to be his very own love story. He calls upon Silambarasan Rajendar as the films protagonist, Trisha Krishnan as the female lead, and the film was eventually titled Jessie. He then sees Jessie 3 years later in US, and thinks she is married. However she reveals to him that she is not married. She refused to marry anyone her parents set up because they rejected Karthik. Out of anger, her parents leave. They then get married at a Hindu temple and a church. The film ends at a theater where they watch "Jessi" that was directed by Karthik..

NAGAVALLI

Nagavalli is a supernatural thriller; its story revolves around characters living in a house in Tirupati. After a family member receives a Nagavalli portrait as a prize in the Nagavalli Dance competition, various characters start having abnormal experiences. In order to save themselves and unfold the mystery, the family looks to Ramachandra Acharya and Dr. Vijay.

SIMHA

Srimannarayana @ Sri (Nandamuri Bala Krishna) lives with his grandmother and Krishna Bhagawan. Sri is a professor at a college. At the hospital, one of the patients is Veerakesavudu. Veerakesavudu is an old man in coma. 18 years ago, Veerakesavudu was put into coma. The hospital owner wants to shift Veerakesavudu to another hospital for better treatment. Janaki (Sneha Ullal) is a student in the college and she has a mysterious past. A group of goons keeps chasing her and her flashback unfolds one day after Srimannarayana confronts them. The rest of the story is all about another character Simha (Nandamuri Bala Krishna) and how Simha is related to Srimannarayana.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

CHATRAPATHI

Sivaji (Prabhas) and Ashok (Shafi) are the sons of Parvati (Bhanupriya). Sivaji is her stepson. But Parvati showers equal affection on both of them and this is not liked by Ashok, who is her real son. They are one of the families living on the coastals of Srilanka. One day, this village is forced to evacuate and Sivaji is separated from the family. He ends up in a different boat and lands in Vizag port. He is brought up in the port itself. But his search for his mother never ceases. In that process he comes across Neelu (Shriya). Here, the port is dominated by some goons and naturally Prabhas is an aggressive guy. But he is always controlled by his well wishers. One day, he reacts aggressively and this makes him Chatrapathi. RAS Bihari (Pradeep Rawat) comes down to Vizag in the hunt for Sivaji since Sivaji kills one of his brothers. Also, Ashok lands in the same place. Realizing that Sivaji is his brother, he joins hands with the bad guys. The story is then of Chatrapati's who is searching for his mother and has a bunch of bad guys including his brother on his back while the entire port looks up to him.

MAGADHEERA

Harsha (Ram Charan Teja) is an energetic and carefree bike racer. One day, he accidentally touches Indu (Kajal Aggarwal). He feels strange vibrations. He runs to the bus stand where Indu is standing. As he doesn't see her face, he asks Indu unknowingly if she saw a girl wearing a white dress. Indu meanwhile changes her dress. With an intention of playing a prank on Harsha, she replies yes. This is followed by a sequence of humorous, yet subtly emotional events where Indu tries to identify if Harsha truly loves her and Harsha unknowingly impresses Indu with his love. Just as Indu begins to fall in love with Harsha, Raghu Veer (Dev Gill) meets her and gets smitten by her. He decides he must have her at any cost. A series of events get Harsha to realize that the girl whom he meets daily is the same Indu whom he accidentally touched. With the help of Sunil, he gets Indu to accept her love for him. During this process, Indu's father sees both of them getting intimate and rushes to confront Harsha.
Getting visions of his previous life and mistaking Indu's father for a king, Harsha proceeds to kill her father. The attempt is foiled. Having realized his folly, Harsha rushes to Indu's place to apologize. Using this as a chance, Raghu Veer makes sure Indu sees him trying to strangulate her father while Raghu Veer actually kills him. As Raghu Veer tries to escape, Harsha grabs hold of the helicopter and as they escape, Raghu Veer sees all the signs that his astrologer has talked about of a warrior who existed 400 years ago at whose hands he died and who'd take birth again to win his love. As he holds on to the helicopter, Indu touches Harsha's hand forcing strange vibrations following which he lets go and falls into a lake where he has visions of his previous birth.
The year is 1604. Kaala Bhairava (Ram Charan Teja) is the most formidable and honored warrior in the kingdom of Udaigarh. His family has been protecting the kingdom and royal family for generations. Yuvarani Mithravinda Devi (Kajal Aggarwal) is the princess and heir apparent to the throne. Her cousin Senadhipathi Ranadev Billa (Dev Gill) is head guard and is attracted towards Mithra. Sher Khan (Sri Hari), portrayed as a king who has never lost a battle is waiting outside Udaigarh planning an invasion. Bhairava and Mithra are in love. Ranadev Billa who is jealous of Kaala Bhairava forces a competition demanding that the winner would be worthy of both the throne of Udaigarh and the hand of Mithravinda. Mithravinda demands that the loser of the competition be exiled, thus proving her confidence in Kaala Bhairava. As she expects, Kaala Bhairava wins and Ranadev is exiled. Mithravinda's father, the king, asks Kaala Bhairava a favor of not marrying Mithravinda to which he reluctantly agrees.
To guarantee a victory in the upcoming war with Sher Khan, the head-priest of Mithravinda's kingdom asks to perform a ritual at a sacred Shiva shrine. As the ritual is being performed, Mithravinda again proves her love for Kaala Bhairava. Just as the ritual nears completion, a messenger comes to inform Kaala Bhairava that Sher Khan has attacked and with the help of Ranadev Billa who's turned traitor, he has killed Mithravinda's father. The entire army of Sher Khan along with Ranadev Billa comes to capture and kill Mithravinda. Sher Khan taunts Kaala Bhairava saying that if he kills one hundred of Sher Khan's soldiers, he'd accept defeat. This is because each descendant Kaala Bhairava's clan is famous for not dying in a war without killing at least hundred of the enemy's soldiers. Kaala Bhairava manages to kill hundred soldiers, but in the process, gets terribly injured. In the ensuing battle, Kaala Bhairava kills Ranadev Billa, but not before he hurts Mithravinda. As Mithravinda falls of the cliff, Kaala Bhairava jumps of the cliff too trying to catch her, but failing to do so, the reason why he feels vibrations whenever he touches her in the present life.
As the portrayal shifts to the current time, Harsha is rescued by Solomon (Sri Hari). Harsha kidnaps Indu from the clutches of Raghu Veer. He tries to convince Indu about his life and their previous life, but to no avail. He decides to take her to the place where they were killed in their past life. As Raghu Veer follows them, Indu remembers the painting she made in her previous life out of her blood to prove her love towards the then Kaala Bhairava, she recollects all the experiences of her previous life. In the battle which follows Harsha kills Raghu Veer with the same dagger as that of last time and saves Indu.
The movie ends with Harsha and Indu on one side of the cliff asking Solomon who is on the other side to get proper help to get them to the other side as they both rest.

RAGADA

The movie starts out with Tanikelli Bharani trying to kill an innocent man, who is against Pedhanna. Tanikelli gets killed by Jairam, who is one of Peddhanna's followers. Peddhanna is the biggest goon in all of AP, and he has 3 major followers who murder people for him. The other henchman just kidnap the wanted. These followers are, Jairam, Bhagavan, and Nanda. The next scene introduces Satya, getting of a truck and getting involved in a fight, which is against GK, and Peddhanna. Satya helps GK, who makes him his partner. Here, they find out that Satya is very money minded. GK's love, Sirisha, who does not love GK back, gets captured by Satya, and falls in love with him. Brahmanandam is another important character in the story who's major role is flirting with Sirisha. Priyamani enters as Ashtalakshmi, being chased by rowdies. Obviously, Satya beats them up, and finds out that the rowdies are Pedhanna's rowdies following Ashtalakshmi, for a reason she does not know of. Later, her whole family is introduced as a Brahmin family. Satya tells good tactics to GK, to fight Peddhanna. In one fight, Jairam captures Sirisha, and GK captures Jairam. Not wasting any time, Satya kills Jairam. Once again, Sirisha falls deeper in love with him. Satya gets another warning from Bhagavan, Peddhana's follower, to join him; but Satya does not. Ashtalakshmi, then, also falls in love with him. Later, Sirisha takes Satya to meet his friends at a pub, and she talks with a tattooed girl, whose face is not shown to Satya. In the next scene, Satya takes Ashtalakshmi on a date with him, that was supposed to be his date with Sirisha. Satya is cornered and goes to Bhagavan's house, and kills him, and his son. Satya thinks about why he joined the goon's gang. It is for money. The movie jumps to Satya's flashback, where they find out that Satya is an orphan, taken into care by a loving doctor, who is like Mother Teresa. The people of this village, Kaddappa, worship this doctor. At that time, an election is taking place. The people want the Dr. to decide on who to vote for. Devyander, a political campaigner and who also has the support of pedhanna, kidnaps Dr's daughter, to make sure she tells everyone to vote for him. However, she doesn't. Satya enters on cue, and beats up Devyander's men. It is later found out that he has to get 72 crores to keep the Dr's hospital running, as Devyander's dad donated the money to the Dr, to open the hospital.He also kills the doctor at one point of time. So, to get the money and to take revenge against the goons who killed the doctor, Satya enters into the city. At this time, Satya is back in his house and is dealing with Ashtalakshmi's parents who are weeping uncontrollably. He finds out that Peddhanna's men long ago kidnapped Ashtalakshmi's bigger brother, and that is why they came to the city. But, as they can not find him, they ask Satya to help. Satya goes to the headquarters where her brother is held, and frees him. Then, there is a major twist, as he finds out, that Ashtalakshmi is not who she says she is, and actually robbed 120 crores from Peddhanna with the help of her brother. The rest of the story is if Satya will get the money in time? Which girl has he really fallen for? What is the link between GK and Pedhanna? Overall, as critics say, Ragada has nothing new, but is an all-time entertainer and full of comedy, and good fighting and mass songs.Overall the movie became a hit for this season at the box office. It collected a share of over 20 crores within the first two weeks which is highest in King Nag's career.
On a whole the Cine pandits are assuming that the film may collect a share of over 30 crores at box office

TAGORE

Tagore (Chiranjeevi) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. As pressure builds on Police and Government to track down the Man who masterminds these killings, Balbir Singh (Puneet Issar), is specially summoned to head the task. He is aided by Suryam (Prakash Raj) who, though being just a constable in the mammoth Police force, is compelled by his instincts to see through the underlying design. Together they unravel the mystery and unveil the phenomenon called Tagore, but not before Badrinaryana (Sayaji Shinde), the human face of evil, finds out that his revelry in the belief of Tagore’s death was a mistake he can never make amends for.

INDRA

The film opens in a village in south India showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rivals.After the funeral no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will take claim.
The film then moves to 2003 in Varanasi. Shankar Narayana is a taxi driver who has his own boat makes an honest leaving and is held in high regard by the members of his adopted family. During a singing competition being held in his nieces college Pallavi (Sonali Bendre) sees him and falls in love with him. She makes a plan and pretending to be an orphan starts staying with Shankar Narayana and his family. Pallavi's father is currently the governor of UP, upon finding his daughter missing carries out a search for him and discovers that she is staying with a taxi driver and his family. Enraged he goes to his house to discover that she is staying with Shankar Narayana he folds his hands and greets him and it is hinted that he knows something about Shankar Narayanas past.
Indrasen/Shankar Narayana was held in high regard in his village. He used to work for the benefit of the people. Shivraj who had murdered Indrasen's family is warned by him not to return to the village. Shivraj returns and in the ensuing battle Indrasen kills shivraj. After this his sons swear revenge on Indrasen and his remaining family. One day Indrasen saves a young boy from being run over by a truck who turns out to be the son Veer Shankarnath the eldest son of Shivraj. He is furious over the fact that his son was saved by his enemy and he kills his own son, Indrasend upon hearing this storms Shankarnaths house and confronts him. He buries the boy in the courtyard and plants a small tree over it warning the brothers that if anything were to happen to the tree he would kill all of them. Snehalatha the daughter of Shivraj sees this and falls for Indrasen and tells him that she will marry him.
The town has been suffering from draught and the govt is unable to help because the place where the reservoir can be constructed is owned by Shankarnath and his family who are not giving it up. Indrasen calls a meeting and asks them to hand over the land in exchange for whatever they want. The brothers ask for all of his property and a promise that he will leave the village and Snehalata asks Indrasen to marry him. Indrasen agrees and the reservoir is built. On the day of the wedding unknown to Snehalata her elder brother murders Indrasen's elder sisters and their husbands. In a state of rage Indrasen goes on a rampage killing three of the brothers. Snehalata swears revenge and sends ganesh to seduce Indrasen's niece.
Indrasen then returns to his village and battles his enemies. Snehalata also realizes the truth and asks Ganesh to go ahead and marry. In the end both Snehalata and Pallavi try to convince Indrasena Reddy to marry them but neither are successful as he still wants to work for the people.