Andaala Ramudu Review

Andaala Ramudu has a casting-coup of sorts with commedian Sunil and the long-long-ago-there-lived Aarthi Aggarwal in the lead pair. Though Aarthi was down in dumps with personal and professional hiccups nobody expected her to be romancing Sunil ( Viwers would very well remember she paried up with everyone in the TOP FOUR).The positive I found in the pre-release publicity is down-playing the role of Sunil. He himself in an interview told that Aarthi is the HERO of the movie. Ofcourse, you know you are fooled when you actually see the film.It's an out and out Sunil's movie and a considerably good one at that.

When you see the first slide of the film titles "Our sincere thanks to Trivikram Srinivas and Abburi Ravi", you are assured of your returns from the ticket you bought. Trivikram needs no introduction and A Ravi is the one who gave dialog to the most recent hit on Telugu celluloid Bommarillu. Ramesh-Gopi are credited with dialogues for the film. Together, they keep you busy almost through out the film. P.Laxmi Narayana alias Deepthi does a decent job directing a film which hints at a subtle message with a comic massage. Nowhere, you see that it is preachy and yet you register something.

Sunil, who was ill-treated by his father ( the chronic cine-rapist Chalapathi Rao. Heard he completed 99 rapes till the mid-90's and then he became a character artist, thus denting his chances to complete the carnal century. Know a guy called Don Bradman ?) vows he would return to his village only when his father takes a ticket to Hell. The opening song "Rajadhi Raja.." praising Sunil ( with the praisers Prepaid ) is good,but it gets a little out of control when he asks them to abuse him. As happens with all village love stories, the heroine is the sister-in-law of Hero.Venu Madhav plays a key role as Sunil's half-brother. Kota is Aarthi's Dad and by inference, Sunil's Mama. For any triangle( equilateral, isosceles, scalene or love) you need three vertices. And "Anandam" Akash, with a new bloated body completes the formalities. Though most of the twists are expected, you wont get bored as you are never far away from a PUNCH. The kids' gang hanging with Aarthi, though humorous, irritated me here and there.

SA Raj Kumar comes up with his standard orchestra. Sunil's dance movements in almost all the songs are simply superb. He definitely has RHYTHM in his body (Remember Santhosham?). "Super Good" RBC ( no,not Red Blood Cell,its R B Chowdary) delivered a reasonably good movie.


Sunil wont disappoint you.
And You wont repent.

Fully Furnished BOMMARILLU

When we are in our 8th standard,Nirmala Teacher told us Bommarillu = Bomma + Illu ( Rugaagama Sandhi). This is the first thought that flashed,at knowing the title. That time I felt for a film that boasts of talented youth in its crew (Producer 'Dil' Raju, latest heart-throb Sidhaarth and the glamorous Genelia) the title is surprisingly "Family Type". I was wrong and I was right.


Bommarillu is fresh and at the same time intense. It is youthful but with a underlying message.It is entirely based on the theme of human relationships and their emotional undercurrents. The interactions between the lead characters have been developed in an interesting way.Some earlier films, touched the topic but only fleetingly. The film succeeded in striking an amazing balance between entertainment and emotion.It is refreshingly peaceful in the midst of fiercely violent flicks.Ofcourse, there is a mandatory fight through which any Telugu hero proves his lady-love that he is indeed in love with the lady.



Sidhaarth's and Genelia's are very good roles and they excelled at them exceedingly well.Sidhaarth is charming as usual as a lover-boy and looked an immensely matured actor when playing the son. His monologue towards the climax is the icing on the cake.I feel Genelia got a bigger pie compared to Sidhaarth and she helped herself to discover unknown depths as an actress.She did a truly commendable job even going to the extent of eclipsing Sidhaarth at times.But in the process, she got on my nerves sometimes ( 2 or 3 times maybe), no fault of hers though, its the character which irritated me.Guess need not pat the backs of Prakash Raj,Jaya Sudha and Kota , all verterans who know how to play their respective characters as well they know the respective backs of their respective hands.Though I have to admit each time I took my kerchief out fearing tear-lash from Jayasudha whenever she appeared on-screen,she did not trouble me much. Suneel has his punches.And the hero's friends gang inluding Chitram Seenu, Vennela Ravi Verma did well.Neha (Dil fame) plays an insignificant role.


The film's director Bhaskar earlier assisted Sukumar and Boyapati Srinu for Arya and Bhadra respectively; both Dil Raju ventures. He did a truly truly good job here. Let us only hope, unlike most of the youth brigade, he gets better with the next one. Abburi Ravi penned some very good dialogues; though a very few of the jokes may come across as stale.And then there is this good 'old' music bloke called Devi Sri Prasad. "Apudo Ipudo Epudo..." is surely the pick of the lot.

Nede Choodandi ! ( It not today; tommorow. But do see it.)

Mee Abhimaana Theatre lo !! ( The 'abhimaana' part is not mandatory )

BOMMARILLU BOMMARILLU BOMMARILLU ....