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
A terrific Sobhita Dhulipala plays a true-crime journalist who begins to track a serial killer. What works better than the genre parts of the film is the subtext,
Sharan Koppisetty’s ‘Cheekatilo’ is a solid serial-killer drama, narrated with empathy Read More
Jiiva plays a panchayat head who has to be a proper politician when a wedding and a death threaten to erupt into trouble. The film’s strength is its
At a time our ‘mass’ heroes are going over the top displaying their machoism, Chiranjeevi gamely takes on a role with more comedy than action. The film is
Prabhas has fun in a role that’s not serious. But the whole film should have been that way. Instead, things turn sentimental and tedious. That’s the short take.
Maruthi’s ‘The RajaSaab’ has some goofy gags that (sadly) give way to tiresome sentiment Read More
The point of the film is to present Pawan Kalyan as wonderfully as possible. Mission accomplished! And there are some good set pieces. But the rest of the
