12/08/08 ~ Early Tollywood

12.08.2008

Kuberulu (2008) Movie Review

Cast:
Ali, Sivaji, Krishna Bhagwan, Farzana, Hema, Apoorva, Kinnera, Ranjitha, Kondavalasa, AVS, Raghu Babu, Kousha, Suman Setty, Shakuntala, Duvvasi Mohan etc
Story: Siva-Suresh

Rating: 2/5

Crew:
Dialogues: Dasari Brahmam
Cinematography: Ram Pinisetty
Producers: Karuturi Srinivas, Yaganti Srinivas
Screenplay-Direction: Srinivas Reddy

Kuberulu from Srinivasa Reddy is a disappointment particularly after his Bommana Brothers Chandana Sisters and Yamagola Mallee Modalayyindi. The director is known for minimum guaranty of returns. Kuberulu tag line Vallaki Annee Appule may well reflect on the producers of the film.

The Synopsis

Yarlagadda Siva Ram (Sivaji) is young man and an ardent fan of the chief minister. Even the abbreviation of his name is YSR. He has political ambitions and wants to become the panchayat president of his village. His friend Babu (Ali) happens to be a fan of N Chandrababu Naidu.
Siva Ram borrows money left, centre and right in the village to contest elections. He loses the polls to his rival (Chalapathi Rao). Unable to repay the loans, he goes to Hyderabad to make money somehow. His friend Babu also joins him.
They meet their friend Ram Babu (Krishna Bhagawan) with great difficulty. But Ram Babu is after a gang who stole Nizam’s jewelry. Sivaram and Babu under the leadership of Rambabu make attempts to get the treasure which has been concealed by the looters and get rich.
The rest of the story deals with whether these three succeed in their attempt.

The Performance

Sivaji’s imitation of Dr YS rajasekhar Reddy and Ali’s mimicry of Nara Chandrababu Naidu falls flat in the first half. They have nothing much to do in the second half by way of comic antics. Krishna Bhagawan also fails to evoke any laughter.

Kondavalasa, AVS, Raghu Babu and Suman Setty too could not bring any laughs by their episodes. Farzana is just a glamour prop. Hema, Apoorva, Kinnera and Ranjitha just go through the motions.

The Techniques

The story is the weakest link. The village politics do no lend any credence to what the protagonists do later, going on a leisurely treasure hunt. For any character to be credible, the actions of the character should be justified by convincing incidents with sufficient reasons for motivation.

Even a ribald comedy has to have convincing characters. Srinivasa Reddy has taken a weak plot and diluted it much further by lackluster screenplay.

The cinematography, audiography and editing is good, but of what use when they try to capture an insipid storyline with unimaginative incidents and contrived situations.

Verdict: Kuberulu is just an average fare which brings in more fatigue than any rib-ticklers.

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Neninthe MUsic Launch Coverage

Audio of Ravi Teja – Puri Jagan’s latest film ‘Neninthe’ was launched at a function organized in Prasad Labs. K Raghavendra Rao and VV Vinayak attended this function as chief guests. K Raghavendra Rao released the audiocassette and gave the first unit to music director Chakri. VV Vinayak launched the audio CD and gave the first unit to Ravi Teja.

Speaking on the occasion lyricist Bhaskarabhatla said, “I penned two songs in this film. I am proud to have written a song on Krishna Nagar which is known as the abode of strugglers of Telugu film industry. It also gave me self satisfaction and it denotes the pride of dwellers of Krishna Nagar.”

Music director Chakri said, “We are doing a film in the combination of Puri Jagan and Ravi Teja as a long gap. This film belongs to Telugu film industry. Neninthe will remind the sweet memories of all the people worked in Telugu film industry. Producer Danayya should feel lucky to be the producer of this film.”

Neninthe gave me immense job satisfaction – Puri Jagan
Puri Jagan said, “Neninthe has the backdrop of Telugu film industry. It is the story of an assistant director. At the same time, this character will be identified by the people who struggled in their lives. All of us come to Telugu film industry, because of passion – but not for money. And nobody works so hard in any other industry like we do in Telugu film industry. We are all proud of Telugu film industry. Chakri gave good tunes. I would like to thank Danayya who did not compromise of production values. He allowed us to reshoot the song in Bangkok when our song shot in Swiss did not come out well. Neninthe is the film that gave me job satisfaction as a director. I would like to thank VV Vinayak who did a small guest role in the film.”

Producer Danayya said, “I would like to thank Puri Jagan for allowing me to produce Neninthe on our banner. It was supposed to be made on Puri Jagan’s home banner earlier. By keeping the fact that the ticket tariff is reduced, Puri Jagan and Ravi Teja cooperated. I would like to thank them.”

Standing ovation for Neninthe – VV Vinayak
Guest VV Vinayak said, “I saw some scenes of the film and I am sure that Neninthe will be a super hit. There are good dialogue punches in the film. And Puri Jagan shown the facts of Telugu film industry. I liked the dialogue – rupai sampadana leni ye vadhavaki I love you cheppe arhata ledu. Puri Jagan touched all the aspects of film industry including the audiences. I am sure that all the people of Telugu film industry will give a stranding ovation for this film.”

Ravi Teja concluded the function by saying Neninthe is an amazing film with awesome character.

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