A bulked-up Nani plays the double-braided Jadal, who belongs to an oppressed tribe that’s trying to get an identity, the equivalent of a voter’s ID that says they […]
Sumanth Prabhas and Ananthika Sanilkumar play Anvesh and Mythili. They meet on a dating app and fall in love. Or do they? The film tries to capture the
Venu Gopal Reddy’s ‘Romanchakam’ offers plenty of laughs but the emotions don’t work Read More
Dulquer Salmaan digs deep and gives one of his most likeable performances as Dan, an irresponsible “loser” who likes to gamble away his father’s wealth. Dan gets into
Ravi Teja is in excellent form as a devoted father whose fondness for drink takes a break only once per year, when he takes the vow for Lord
Shiva Nirvana’s ‘Irumudi’ is a very effective mix of devotion and emotion Read More
Suriya is in fine form as a forty-something bachelor. Mamitha Baiju plays a twenty-something woman who falls for him. We think the ups and downs of this unusual
Venky Atluri’s ‘Vishwanath & Sons’ takes a subversive subject and plays it safe Read More
Akhil Akkineni shows he can be a mainstream leading man. He plays the title character, an orphan who grows up to be a big part of the family
A few weeks after ‘Sing Geetham’, Telugu cinema hits it out of the park once again with a totally out-of-the-box experience. A rich man is haunted by memories
If our heroes can have generically entertaining action entertainers, why not our heroines? Samantha is in good form as a woman whose strengths are those traditionally associated with
A barren village loses the only tree it has. The next day, all the villagers find that they are unable to speak normally. They begin to sing. This
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s ‘Sing Geetham’ is a sweet, joyous, inventive eco-musical Read More
Ram Charan is terrific as the title character, a sportsman who plays cricket and wrestles and is also a good runner. The story has a lot of meat
Jyotika (as a stenographer) and Sonakshi Sinha (as a lawyer) play unlikely friends who become partners in solving cases (or rather, they’re courtroom partners who become unlikely friends).
Pawan Kalyan plays a cop who has modelled himself after Bhagat Singh. He fights all kinds of injustice. He gets two heroines. He gets a villain. He gets
