Kung Fu Panda 2

Name: Kung Fu Panda 2      

   

Genre: Animation/Action/Adventure/Comedy

Cast: Voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Garry Oldman, Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Director)

Synopsis: Peacock Clan rules the Gongmen city of ancient China. Lord Shen of peacock clan wants to use fireworks as new weapons and developing the same. His court’s goat future teller tells him that a warrior of black and white will defeat him and will be hindrance in his rule. Hearing this Shen with his large army starts exterminating Panda population of the area to stop this prophecy to never let that happen. As Shen parents came to about his atrocity, they immediately exile Shen to move out of the Gongmen city and never come again and before going out of the Shen promises that he will have his revenge. After thirty years, Po is now the dragon warrior protecting the villagers from the bad guys with the furious five. Shifu tells Po that he is now a kung fu master but he still doesn’t have the inner peace. When he was defending villagers from wolf bandits of Shen who were there for stealing metal for new cannons to be made, a symbol distracted him and remind of a flashback of his birth. Po later on came know that he was found in a radish box by his goose father and he is an adopted child though Po still remained unsatisfied.

Shifu received a message that Shen has attacked Gongmen city and has killed Master Rhino and is planning to destroy Kung Fu and the whole of the ancient China with a new weapon developed by him. So he sends Po and the furious five to stop Shen and his evil plans. They entered the city and finds that Master Ox and Croc were being held captive. Po and the furious five asked them to help in liberation of city from Shen but they refused in saying that if they do then he will destroy the city by the new weapon. Po and the furious five were chasing Shen’s men and later surrendered and were taken to Shen tower. Later they destroyed Shen’s new cannon but during his fight with Shen a symbol on Shen’s plumage reminds his past again with a little flashback and that gives time for Shen to escape to its other tower. Tigress asked Po about what distracts him again and again to which Po finally tells him that Shen was there and he knows something about his past. Tigress asked him to stay here but he went into the factory to find Shen. On other side the furious five too entered the factory to blow it out so that cannons can’t come out but seeing Po in trouble they went into the factory and tried to help him. Shen starts fighting Po and ultimately hits him with a cannon and Po went all out. Shen captures the rest of the furious five as their hostage.

Po wakes up and sees that Shen’s future teller has rescues and healed him and is now in his ancestral village and asks him to remember and embrace his past. Po remembers everything that what actually had happened that on that day and how his parents sacrificed his own lives to save Po. Po finally attains Inner Peace that he is now living a happy life though such atrocities and hardships is being faced by him. He went to the city again to stop Shen and his evil plans. He freed the furious five and later sees that Master Croc and Ox with his own Master Shifu too has arrived there and starts fighting with Shen’s wolf bandits. Eventually they thought that had stopped Shen’s plan but Shen hits the wreckage created by Po with his new cannon. Shen starts a whole round of cannon towards Po but as Po has now attained Inner Peace deflected all the cannon balls fired at him. Tigress, Shifu and even Shen was shocked to see this and could believe its own eyes. Finally Po went to Shen and asked him to stop all this but listening to him Shen starts again attacking him and in that fight ropes which were holding a canon falls on him and crushed him to death. 

Po came back to the village and tells to his goose dad that he is his father at all and hugs each other. Meanwhile somewhere else, Po’s real father who were living with rest of the alive panda’s senses that his son is still alive somewhere.

Review: As first was a big success so a lot to be expected from the next part and it delivered with full expectations. The movie is full of action, adventure and a lot of comedy scenes which makes it a little ahead of its previous prequel. Action sequences used in this part was even better then it was used in the prequel. Story was at all connected with the previous part. Lord Shen was better on the villain part and was more effective than the prequel’s Tai Lung. Music given by Hans Zimmer and John Powell were as usual at its level best. It has to be said that this part of the movie has more action sequences and adventure fun than the previous part and the 3D make it an extra edge to it. A fabulous and a classic animation movie with Po’s panda style was mind blowing.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 

Kung Fu Panda

Name: Kung Fu Panda

Genre: Animation/Action/Adventure/Comedy

Cast: Voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, John Stevenson & Mark Osborne (Director)  

Synopsis: Po (Jack Black) was having a dream where he seen legendary warrior with unmatched Kung Fu skills are being greeted by the legendary kung fu warriors, The Furious Five bow down to that legendary warrior and requesting him to fight with them and at that time suddenly Po wakes up from dream. In the valley of peace in ancient china Po is a Kung Fu lover panda who idealizes the furious five including Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper and Crane trained by their master Shifu. Po tells to his dad Ping a goose that he had a dream and being forced to ask about the dream he tells he dreams about noodles. Oogway, an old tortoise had a dream that Tai Lung,(Ian McShane) an evil snow leopard and also old student of Shifu will escape from prison and come to Valley of peace again to have his revenge as he was denied to take the dragon scroll, the source of limitless power. Hearing this, Shifu send one of his goose messengers to check the security of Tai Lung so that he can’t escape.

Master Shifu ordered furious five that there will be a Kung Fu tournament and from there Master Oogway will choose the dragon warrior who will have the dragon scroll and in turn Tail Lung can be defeated. Everyone in the village gets this news and was very excited to watch the tournament which includes Po as well. But when Po reaches the arena the door were closed. In desperation after doing every attempt to watch the tournament, he sat on a chair with full of attached fireworks and rockets. Suddenly he moves in the sky but very soon falls down in middle of the arena but he woke up, he saw Master Oogway was pointing finger towards him and telling everyone present there that he is the dragon warrior.

Furious Five and Master Shifu were angry that it was just an accident and couldn’t believe that he is dragon warrior. Shifu tried every trick in his book to make Po quit of being himself considered as dragon warrior and should go back home but Po remained there as he was so fanatic about Kung Fu. Even most of the furious five wasn’t impressed from him and wanted him to immediately move out of Jade palace where they all lived. There once together he came know about the real story of Tai Lung from Tigress (Angelina Jolie). Meanwhile on other side, after seeing all the security preparations of Tai Lung, Zeng, the goose messenger of Shifu was getting out of the prison at that moment one of his feathers was dropped near to Tai Lung. He used that and as he himself is a master because he was treated by Shifu himself used that feather starts fighting with the guards himself. After a hell of fight he breaks from the prison and tells Zeng that he should go back to Shifu and tell him that he coming back to have his dragon scroll back.

Zeng gives this bad news to Master Oogway and asks him to guide to stop evil Tai Lung so that Village and the people can be protected. Oogway asks Shifu to give him promise that he must believe in Po and nurture him to bring the best out of him and then he ascends into the sky. Shifu went to Po and the furious five and gave them both the news of Tai Lung is free and Oogway is gone. He further asks Po that he will teach him but Po refuses saying that he will never able to defeated Tai Lung. On initial disagreement between the two, Shifu starts teaching Po Kung Fu and in a little while the progress showed by Po, Shifu can’t believe himself. Po starts believing in himself as a Kung Fu master. The furious five decides to take on Tai Lung by themselves. They have tough fight with Tai Lung but in the end Tai Lung defeated them all and strikes them with nerve attack. Crane brings all of them and seeing all of them defeated Shifu decided to give dragon scroll to Po. On the day of giving dragon scroll to Po, he opens the scroll but nothing happens and being disappointed and no other way to save the valley, Shifu ordered Po and the furious five to take the people out of the valley as far as possible and he himself will face Tai Lung.

When Po and the furious five were starting to take villagers out of the valley, Po meets his goose dad. Po was little upset that things doesn’t go right but his dad tell him that it’s Ok if things doesn’t go right. He tells him that he is gonna tell him his secret of his secret ingredient soup and which is nothing. You just had to believe that it is special. Realizing this he went back to master Shifu. Shifu on other side had started fighting with Tai Lung. Tai Lung being in rage and aggressive was overpowering Shifu at every front. When he was about to Shifu, Po came there and challenged Tai Lung to take the scroll from him and he is the dragon warrior. Tai Lung was now more angry starts fighting with Po with full force. But Po’s unconventional and effective kung fu techniques were too much for Tai Lung. Tai Lung when once defeated was about to open scroll but nothing happened at that time too. Po at that time asked Tai Lung that he didn’t get that in first time either and that there is no secret ingredient and it’s just you. Tai Lung starts attacking again but Po finally over powers him. Seeing this, all the villagers including furious five bows down to Po and call him as master. Po remembers of Shifu and went back to him and Shifu asks him that finally now he can have peace.

Review: One of the classic animation movies with full of action and adventure. The Kung Fu sequences used in the movie from start to finish was great. Story of the movie was decent but the focus given on the rest of characters excluding Po was a little disappointing. Comedy scenes in the movie were quite good which brings some laughable part. Music given by Hans Zimmer and John was good too. Although at some areas movie seems to be a little stretched but as a whole movie is a great to watch full of action and adventure and specially the introduction of new style of Kung Fu “ The Panda Style” this was great.

Stars given: 3 out of 5

Brindavanam

Name: Brindavanam

Genre: Action/Comedy/Drama/Romance

Cast: NTR Jr., Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Vamsi Paidipally (Director)

Synopsis: Krishna/Krish (NTR Jr.) is the son of a billionaire businessman. His girlfriend Indu (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) has a friend name Bhoomi (Kajal Aggarwal). Indu tells Krish her friend Bhoomi’s problem that her father Bhanu Prasad wants Bhoomi to marry her cousin suitor who is a goon and a rowdy whom Bhoomi doesn’t like at all and doesn’t want to marry him. Her grandfather tells Bhanu Parsad that Bhoomi has fallen in love with a guy in the city so that Bhoomi doesn’t have to marry that cousin rowdy. Her father tells he wants Bhoomi to bring her boyfriend to the village where he wants to meet him. Indu convinces Krish to become Bhoomi’s boyfriend as if he will go then he will make the thing right she is confident of that and to which Krish agrees.

When Bhoomi and Krish were going to Bhoomi’s village, Bhoomi tells Krish about every family member in her family and what type of person he or she is. When Krish reaches Bhoomi’s home he sees that her uncles’ are lazy guys and actual bonding in the family is missing. He also meets her grandfather who had actually made this plan and Krish told him too he will make the things right. He tries to change her uncles’ and rest of her family members and wins their hearts as well. Bhoomi’s grandfather told Krish that Bhanu Prasad and Sivudu whom he met when he was coming to Bhoomi’s village are step brothers and are rivals to each other from last 25 years. Druga Prasad married second time against the wishes of his child Bhanu and from his second wife Sivudu was born. Some people for their own gains tried to convince Bhanu that Sivudu was not good for him and he should break relations with him. So Durga Prasad lives six months Bhanu and other six months with Sivudu. Krish tells Druga Prasad he will unite both Bhanu and Sivudu and ultimately he succeeds.

After some incidents in the village Bhanu starts to get impress from Krish and accepts their relationship. Now seeing this both Krish and Bhoomi starts getting worried but finally they decided to tell the whole truth to Bhoomi’s father Bhanu Prasad. In the home Bhanu Prasad was sitting and talking to Bhoomi’s cousin suitor and his uncle that the marriage with Bhoomi is not possible now as Bhoomi like some other person and Bhanu too like him very much. Hearing this her cousin suitor becomes very angry and tells Bhanu that he will get Bhoomi at every cost and he don’t care about you or anyone and caught Bhanu’s collar but Krish came there fights with him and warns him never to come here again and seeing this Bhanu declares that Krish will be the groom for her daughter Bhoomi and also he is going to meet his brother and bring him back with him and successfully does that.

Further it was revealed that during a function that Indu is Sivudu’s daughter and both Bhoomi and Krish got shocked to see that. Sivudu asks Indu to bring her boyfriend to the village but Indu tells her father that her boyfriend had ditched him and had gone away. Hearing this Indu’s father told his men to bring Indu’s boyfriend to him. Upon hearing that her boyfriend is not there he asks his men to bring his parents to him. Bhanu also asks Krish to bring his parents to him so that their marriage date can be fixed. Seeing the things got mixed up Indu tells Krish he should bring his foster parents to which Krish agrees. Bhoomi’s rowdy cousin suitor men try to abduct Bhoomi but Krish rescues them. Krish bring his foster parents to meet them to Bhanu. Problem starts when Sivudu’s men bring real Krish’s parents in home and when they saw Krish there everyone was shocked. Krish tells them the whole situation and they all agreed to him.

Bhanu Prasad starts their engagement but now seeing everyone is happy Bhoomi starts falling in love with Krish too. Indu also starts realizing that. Mad and angry Bhoomi’s rowdy cousin suitor came to know about the real identity of Krish and their relationship tells Sivudu everything. He reveals the same to his step brother Bhanu and both starts beating Krish. Soon Durga Prasad intervened and told both of them that it was his plan to bring Krish and he was not at all lover of Bhoomi but to save Bhoomi from that Rowdy suitor. Even after the hardships given by both of them but he stuck here makes everyone happy and everyone has seen the results. Everyone is happy and together. He didn’t cheat Indu and it was Indu infact who had sent Krish as Bhoomi’s lover and also that now Bhoomi too loves him a lot. Suddenly they saw that Bhoomi’s rowdy suitor has taken Bhoomi forcefully with him. Bhanu tells Krish that she is yours and he alone have to save her. Krish got away chased them and beats the hell out of that rowdy suitor and saves Bhoomi.

Krish in the end in temple has to decide to whom he should marry and the elders let the decision leave the three of them that is Krish, Bhoomi and Indu. Krish starts praying to Lord Krishna and asks them to give him a solution. Lord Krishna appears and tells Krish it all part of life and suddenly Lord Krishna disappears.

Review: It’s a good movie made by Vamsi Paidipally. Direction was good by Vamsi. Performance of NTR Jr. was nice and he all together played a different role with ease. Most of the focus of the movie was NTR Jr. and Kajal Aggarwal. Kajal performance in movie was average and same can be said Samantha although the both of them look charming and gorgeous but Kajal role in the movie was more as compared to Samantha which makes him the lead actress too. Comedy scenes in the movies were hilarious and good. But dialogues in the movie were very good. Villain segment of the movie wasn’t effective at all and was even below average. Some of songs in the movie were really good. Overall it is a family movie and good to watch.

Stars given: 3 out of 5.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Name: Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Genre: Comedy/Mystery/Thriller

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Priyadarshan (Director)

Synopsis: Badri is head of a Brahmin family. Their ancestral palace is believed to be hounded by a ghost named Manjulika, a Bengali classical dancer. Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan) who is Siddharth’s wife and also the son of Badri’s elder brother came from America to live there for some time as to complete company’s project over there. Badri insisted Siddharth to live with them but Siddharth said that they had already laid their luggage in that ancestral palace. Siddharth was later crowned as the king of the throne of that place as he was the rightful owner. After some days, Avni sees a big lock on a room in the palace. She asked why the room is locked but everyone told her to stay away from this room as it contains ghost of Manjulika. Avni being curious opened the lock of that room. Soon some unnatural events begin to take place in that palace. Avni came to know about the story of Manjulika and begins to sympathize with her. Badri and Batuk approach a high renowned priest of the village named Yagyaprakash Bharti but came to know that he has gone to London for some work and his followers are not sure when will he return. Siddharth starts suspecting Radha for causing such strange and unnatural events and asks Badri that is Radha is suffering from some psychological disease. He calls his friend Dr. Aditya Srivastva (Akshay Kumar) who is a psychiatrist, so that he can check whether Radha is normal or not.

In the beginning when Aditya reached Siddharth’s home, everyone was thinking him a fool but in reality he is one of renowned psychiatrist. Aditya soon realizes that Radha is perfectly normal and the reason for the strange events happening in the palace is someone else. One night, he hears some sounds coming from a room whose lock was previously opened by Avni and checked the room. He encounters Manjulika’s voice through the closed door. The voice of Manjulika told him that she will going to take her revenge on Durgaashtami, a very sacred day in Hindu mythology. Aditya locks Radha in a room saying that she is the reason for all the strange occurrences in the palace. On the engagement day of Nandini who is Siddharth’s cousin and Sharad Pradhan, everyone was enjoying and partying. Suddenly Aditya asks Siddharth to find Avni and soon, saw a struggle was going on between Avni and Sharad. Siddharth thinks that Sharad was trying to force Avni with her and starts beating him. Later on, Aditya reveals Siddharth that it is Avni who’s suffering from a disease is called Dissociative Identity Disorder, where she believes herself as some other person and she is the one responsible to for strange happening in the palace. He reveals that when he realizes that Avni was suffering from DID disease, he went to her hometown to gather information about her and has told Siddharth the facts about her. He asks Siddharth to stop Avni from going out and he himself will come to know that something is wrong with her. As told by Aditya, Siddharth stops Avni to go outside today and hearing that Avni being possessed as Manjulika warns Siddharth. She this side of Avni, Siddharth got worried and asks Aditya to save her at all costs. He also told Siddharth about Manjulika past. As Avni came to know about the story she deeply influenced with her and has sympathy for her and slowly she becomes possessed by her.

On the day of Durgashtami, Avni was fully possessed by Manjulika dances with Sharad as for love Shashidhar in the past. She tries to kill Siddharth as she (Manjulika possessed) thinks that he is the Vibhuti Narayan in the past who killed her lover. To cure Avni with help of Priest Yagyaprakash Bharti, Aditya plans to have a ritual in which he will let Avni (Manjulika possessed) had her revenge of Siddharth (whe she thinks is Vibhuti Narayan) and after killing him Manjulika should let Avni free. At the moment she tries to stick the killing blow on Siddharth, Aditya changes it with a dummy. Seeing Siddharth killed in possessed state Avni falls down. Later, Avni is healed and cured. All ends well and everyone was happy. Aditya asks Radha that he will like to marry her. He asks Badri that he has asked some question to some and if the answer is yes, just let him know.

Review: One of the very good movies made by Priyadarshan. Story of the movie was very unique and creative although it is more or less same as Chandramukhi movie of the southern legend actor Rajnikant. Akshay Kumar performed the role with full charisma and conviction. Vidya Balan’s performance in the movie was also brilliant and so does the rest of the cast’s performance. Music of the movie is very good as well as the songs of the movie. Movie contains full of thrills and comedy given by Akshay Kumar gives an edge to that. It holds its audience together all the time and the movie goes on at a good pace. It’s a typical psychological thriller with some good comedy in it and it’s a must watch.

Stars given: 3.5 out 5.

Gabbar Singh

Name: Gabbar Singh

Genre: Action/Comedy

Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Shruti Haasan, Abhimanyu Singh, Harish Shankar (Director)

Synopsis: Venkata Ratnam Naidu a young boy lives in a village called Kondaveedu in Guntur district with his younger brother, stepfather and her mother. His stepfather always remains partial to him but love whole heartedly his brother which angers Venkata Ratnam the most. His anger towards his brother and his stepfather grows so much that one day he runs away from home and during that time he renames himself as Gabbar Singh being influenced from popular antaonist character of Sholay Film. After 21 years, a gang of robbers tried to rob a bank in Kondaveedu village but during their escape Gabbar Singh (Pawan Kalyan) as now a cop of that area stops them, recovers money and beats the hell out of those robbers. As from now on Gabbar Singh is the inspector of the Kondaveedu village. He wants to live with her mother in the new house but she told him that she can’t leave Venkata’s stepfather as well as her brother. His brother is now a gambler and has taken loan from most of the people of the village. He falls in love with a handicraft vendor of the same village named Bhagya Lakshmi (Shruti Haasan) whom he meet during a raid for nabbing gamblers in the village.  Later on, it was revealed that the robbers that Gabbar Singh catched were henchmen of Siddhappa Naidu (Abhimanyu Singh) who wants to become an MLA of Kondaveedu with his uncle’s help. Siddhappa Naidu went to Gabbar Singh to appreciate him and tell him that that he is and to which Gabbar Singh responded that he knows who he hits and he knows how to handle guys like him.

Being in anger he went back. He called a meeting of the merchants of the village and asks him that from now on they will have to give money to him as tax to leave them peacefully but the merchants refused him. Angry Siddhappa asked his henchmen to disrupt market but Gabbar Singh came there, beats the hell out of them and reopens the market. Now Siddhappa wants to kill Gabbar singh but his uncle advises not kill him but use political connections to transfer him. Siddhappa and his uncle meet the minister but he refused them by saying that he is an honest and sincere cop and transferring him at this point as elections are coming near will hurt his political aspirations and also advises to make peace and accord with him. Gabbar Singh proposes to Bhagya Lakshmi but she rejected saying that she has to look after her father as he is drunk all the time and she will not married till he is alive. Gabbar Singh came back home to tell this rejection of marriage proposal to her mother but he found his mother dead. Later on Gabbar Singh was attacked by henchmen of Siddhappa again but kills all of them and confronts Siddhappa that he should not come in his way or he will teach him a lesson of lifetime and will not let Siddhappa to become MLA of the village.

Gabbar Singh’s brother starts beating his own creditor from whom he has taken long on provocation of Siddhappa’s men but Gabbar Singh came to the occasion and beat the hell out of his own brother till the creditor will be satisfied. Later on, Siddhappa and his men came with Gabbar Singh’s brother and stepfather and demands action to be taken against Gabbar Singh but he was asked to apologize by his stepfather which he readily does. Siddhappa being angry told Gabbar that something big will happen in next 24 hours. Gabbar starts interrogating his men and after some interrogation he finds out that Bhagya Lakshmi was forced to marry some merchant by paying her father lot money. Gabbar Singh goes to the wedding ceremony asks her whether she loves her or not to which she responded as yes and Gabbar marries her in the same event. Siddhappa being in rage and anger, tried to bribe one of the members of the party to get him an election ticket and for that he will pay and handsome amount of money. Minister told Gabbar Singh that Siddhappa has offered money to high command of the party and if they receive that money then he won’t be able to do anything against him. Gabbar Singh caught the money from Siddhappa’s henchmen. Then again seeing Gabbar Singh’s brother in desperate need of money gives him and asks him to deliver a box full of sweets to the very same minister but later on as he came out of the minister’s house, the bomb explodes which later on, on investigation came to know that was brought in by Gabbar Singh’s brother. Police commissioner suspends Gabbar Singh. Gabbar Singh later on being convinced by Siddhappa as he has to kill gabbar otherwise he will caught and sent to jail for his crime which he mistakenly committed or will be hanged till death by the law, came to kill Gabbar but he has to intentions to do so but being his own father treated so well by Gabbar he changed his mind. He confesses Gabbar Singh that he was sent by Siddhappa to kill him. He also tells him that he didn’t know that Siddhappa planted that bomb in that box. Gabbar Singh tells his brother that he should confess this in front of the commissioner. Siddhappa came to know that and calls Gabbar that he was the one behind his mother’s death. Gabbar Singh came straight to Siddhappa’s house, takes down his goons and kills him. At last, most of the Siddhappa’s men were hired by Gabbar Singh and were police job as constables.

Review: One of the best performances of Pawan Kalyan one could ever see. His performance in the movie is absolutely charismatic and electrifying. Shruti Haasan role in the movie as good and so do was of the Abhimanyu Singh. Songs of the movie are very good and so do is the music. Story of the movie is almost same as the Dabangg movie of Bollywood but it is a very good remake made by Harish Shankar. His direction of the movie was brilliant. A great movie is the one which comprises all the components of the movie that is actors’ performance, direction, Songs, Screenplay etc at its level best and yes, Gabbar Singh movie comprises all that and for that the movie is a Solid entertainer and a must watch movie.

Stars given: 4 out of 5.

Darling (2010)

Name: Darling (2010)

Genre: Romance/Drama/Comedy

Cast: Prabhas, Kajal Aggarwal, A. Karunakaran (Director)

Synopsis: In 1980’s a farewell party was going on between friends and on parting their ways they promise to be in touch forever. Hanumath Roa became a criminal laywer and Vishwanath with her daughter has gone to Switzerland to settle and earn money. Prabhas (Prabhas) was having a childhood liking to Nandini (Kajal Aggarwal). Few years later, those old friends planned to meet again. Prabhas was eager to meet Nandini. Another girl Nisha also loves Prabhas, but when Nisha tell her feeling to Prabhas, he didn’t accept her love and Nisha attempted suicide. Seeing this Nisha’s father kidnaps Prabhas’s friends and tries to force Prabhas to accept her daughter’s love. Seeing his friend’s in danger, Prabhas came up with a fake story that how he has fallen in love with his childhood love in Switzerland. Nisha’s father hearing Prabhas story let them go. The reunion was going to take place in the farm house of Buchchaiah. When Prabhas didn’t meet Nandini at first he plan to go back, but on their way back he saw Nandini and came back to farmhouse. He tries to impress Nandini through various attempts but fails every time. Even Nandini’s brother also plans to thwart Prabhas attempt to impress Nandini. When Prabhas and his friends were playing Basketball try to persuade Nandini to play with them as she loved basketball too. Rishi, one of the son of the person who were having a Reunion tries to impress Nandini too. From there on cold started between Prabhas and Rishi. As story moves on, Prasanna daughter of Buchchaiah tell Prabhas that he loves a man who is well settled in Australia but they are asking dowry of 50 Lakh and forces him to talk to her father and get him ready for the marriage. Prabhas talked to her father and he was ready along with his friends that they will go after her marriage. Nandini on seeing all this, starts liking Prabhas. Rishi Seeing closeness between Nandini and Prabhas become jealous and plans take revenge against Prabhas. He plans to paralyse him by planting a wire to ironbox but unknowingly Prabhas father touched that cable and got an electric shock. Seeing this, Prabhas got mad and there was scuffle between him and Rishi. Hanumanth Rao ejects Prabhas from house. Later he also came to know that Rishi is not Apalla Raju’s son, but Vishwanath’s nephew. Vishwanath on the day of his marriage married another girl whom he loved and seeing this, Vishwanath’s father outsed Vishwanath from home. Hanumanth after various negotitians with Vishwanath’s father able to get Vishwanath forgiveness from his father on one condition that Rishi should marry Nandini. Prabhas decided not to tell Nandini that he loves her, makes up his mind to leave and go back home. Nandini came running towards Prabhas to tell that she loved him too, but as Prabhas father has given his word to Vishwanath’s father for Rishi and Nandini’s marriage and Prabhas also want to honour his father’s word leaves from there without saying anything. Nandini go back her father told her about his marriage with Rishi but Nandini tell them she loved Prabhas only and tried to convince them. Nisha’s father also realized that the story Prabhas told them was fake and tries to take back Prabhas but Prabhas reject that by saying his story may be lie but his feels are true. Seeing Nandini running towards Prabhas Nisha’s father and his goons tries to kills Nandini and Prabhas. Nandini urged Nisha’s father to spare Prabhas life as both of them love each other. He spared their lives. They both were happy with their family members.

Review: It’s a Telugu movie full of romance and a little drama. First part of the movie was a little stretchy specially the Switzerland episode. But Prabhas being an action hero, in this movie has shown that he can also do Romantic and dramatic roles very well. Kajal Aggarwal acting is also good. Music is good in the movie. Some comedy scenes in the movie are very good. Overall, a good movie to watch for.

Stars given: 3 out of 5

Chennai Express (2013)

Name: Chennai Express (2013)

Genre: Romantic, Action, Comedy

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rohit Shetty (Director)

Synopsis: Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is a bachelor who lives in Mumbai. He was raised by his grandparents as his parents died in a car accident when he was 8 years old. Party celebration were about go for his grandfather who was about to celebrate his 100^th birthday. Rahul friends suggested him a trip to Goa before the celebrations of his grandfather’s birthday but his grandfather died watching a cricket match before celebration his 100^th birthday. His grandmother told Rahul that his grandfather wish was to immerse his ashes in 2 parts, 1st in Ganges river and 2^nd in Rameshwaram. She request Rahul to immerse one part of ashes in rameshwaram himself. Rahul readly accepts the same but he had also planned to go Goa with his friends. So he changed the plan. He bought ticket of Chennai express and tell his friends that we will meet them at Kalyan Station. When he reached there he meet his friends but suddenly he realized that he left the ashes of the grandfather so he went back on train. As the train starts leaving Kalyan station and he was about to get off the train he sees a girl running to catch it so he offers his hand to let the girl in. Subsequently he sees 4 persons running after the train to catch and he helped each to them to board it. Later he found that the girl whom he offered help to get on the train is being kidnapped by those 4 persons who he also helped. As story moves the girl introduces herself as Meeena Lochini Azhagh Sundaram (Deepika Padukone) also called Mennamma and tell her story and about her problem. When both Meena and Rahul reached, Meena’s village Komban, Thangballi a powerfull man whom her father wants Meena to marry, challenge Rahul for a duel. Rahul on the very night of fuel escapes from the village but caught by the police on international waters. By telling his story police brought him back to komban to verify rahul identity. Soon after verifying police left him but he again escapes from that Village by taking Meena as a hostage. Soon their car broke down and they have to take shelter in a near village called Vidhamba. Soon Meeena finds out that he too fallen in love with Rahul. As Rahul wants to leave the village but Meena don’t. So Rahul alone the village but he came back too. But they were caught by Thangabalii and his men. Villagers of Vidhamba gather around them and help Rahul and Meena to escape. After they decided to go Rameshwaram to disperse his grandfather’s ashes. They decided to go their separate ways, Rahul to Mumbai and Meena to Pune. But Meena slept during the drive and when she woke up she find herself in Komban village. Rahul tells her that How long will she gonna run, it has to end. Rahul talks to her father and tell him what her daughter wants and tell Meena that “I love you”. Challenges everyone for a fight Including Thangaballi. Rahul in the fight succumbed to many injuries but beats every goon of Thangaballi and himself too. Seeing the courage and will of Rahul as a comman man, Meena’s father Durgeshwara azhagh sundaram  allow Meena to marry Rahul, the twist which changed Rahul’s life forever.

Review: It is basically a Bollywood movie released both in Hindi and Tamil version as it contains many Tamil Actors. Rohit Shetty direction is very good. On top of that, acting of Shahrukh khan and Deepika Padukone is also at its best. Movie also has good songs. Item number done by south actress Priyamani gaves it a spicy touch to the movie. Rare mixture of Bollywood and south which makes it a unique one. Most of the story doesn’t have loose end but as far as action is concerned it is average. Overall a got entertainment movie and fun to watch. Those who don't watch south films may not like the movie that much.    

Stars given: 3 out of  5.