Charmi's 16 Days Review By Bharat Student

Film: 16 DAYS
Rating: 1/5
Banner: Cosmos Entertainment
Cast: Charmee, Aravind, Kota, Dharmavarapu, Manorama, Jayaprakash and others
Music: Dharan
Cinematography: Sukumar
Director: Prabhu Solomon
Producers: D Y Choudhary, P Mahesh Babu
Release date: 20/02/2009


Story

A substandard tale, the story begins with Gutthi Gurumurthy (Aravind) who comes from a small place to the city for an interview and he manages to find place to stay with his distant relative Subramanyam who is actually a defaulter on loans taken on interest. He is absconding but then leaves his key at a secret place. Guru takes the key and stays and he also manages to get a job. On the other hand, there is Angel (Charmee) who grows as an orphan and works with a mineral water company. She doesn't have a place to stay so she locates those houses without occupants and stays there for a night and gets going in the morning. One such instance gets her to Guru's house. All this apart, there are two dons Yadagiri (Kota) and Rami Reddy (Jayaprakash) who are out to kill each other and Reddy is successful in killing Yadagiri's son. So he vows to kill Reddy's son by the 12th day ceremony of his son. A twist of fate occurs and Yadagiri's goons mistake Guru to be Subrahmanyam and get him to take money. Guru gives an idea to kill Reddy's son and he is given a 16 day deadline to kill else Yadagiri threatens to kill him. What happens from there forms the rest of the story.


Presentation

The director had a good plot in mind but he could not conceive it in the right manner. Both the narration and presentation were not upto the mark. The dialogues were boring, the script was written average, the screenplay was disturbing. Music was good in two songs but the background score was too melodramatic, cinematography was okay at places but on the whole it was very disturbing. The frames were changing so rapidly that it causes strain to the eyes. Editing was not proper. Costumes were okay. Locations were simple. Aravind has worked hard for his role but then his role is quite weak in the movie. Charmee from her end was infusing some energy but it must be said that sometimes it was too childish and boring. Especially the mimicry acts she did brought groans from audience. Dharmavarapu was just okay, Manorama was not required, Kota managed to pull the show to a great extent and though he was repetitive it was somewhat okay. The others need no mention here.


Conclusion

The film appeared to take few bits and pieces from Hollywood flicks like 'Lucky Number Slevin' 'Hard Target' but by no means was it matching the standard. While the first half goes about in a rather mundane manner, the second half is also very much the same testing the patience of the audience from time to time. The immaturity of direction was shown very clearly in the film and added to that was the improper synchronization with the dubbings. The film will find it hard to survive even for two weeks.

Bharatstudent verdict: Forget it!!!

Charmi Kaur's !6 Days Audio Release Function

Music of Charmee’s bilingual film ’16 Days’ was launched at a function organized in Green Park hotel on the evening of 24 October. Murali Mohan, Paruchuri Gopala Krishna, RP Patnaik, Dasaradh and Allari Naresh attended this function as guests.

Murali Mohan launched the audio CD and Allari Naresh launched the audiocassette.

Murali Mohan said that he saw all the songs of the film and liked the director’s work in canning those songs.

Director Prabhu said that Charmme has done fabulous performance and so is Kota Srinivasa Rao.

Photo Gallery

16 DAYS WALLPAPERS

CHARMY IN KAMALS PATH

Charmy- the Punjabi bubbly girl came in limelight of Telugu film industry with the film Sreeanjaneyam of Krishna Vamsy.

But after that she was in the news for wrong reasons and she condemned all those rumors. She was linked with a young music director and some heroes, but she never took them seriously.

The film Mantra has really brought out the new Charmy and her performance in thriller movie is appreciated by every one.

Now she is doing 16 days, another thriller Manorama ,Boss gari Ammay with Srikanth and one more thriller Dhooram with Bhoomika.

But she is not satisfied with these roles. Now she wants compete with Kamal Hasan by portraying 10 roles in a film.

Let us wait and see, which director & Producer come forward to offer such roles to Charmy.

16 DAYS PHOTO STILLS

They say nothing succeeds like success, and that certainly has been the case in Tollywood this season. After the success of Mantra, it looks like every director is trying his hand at the thriller-horror genre.

Now Charmi, herself is hoping for a repeat show as she is playing the lead in what filmmakers say is another spine chiller titled 16 Days.

Arvind, a newcomer, is playing the lead opposite Charmi in this flick. Prabhu Soloman is directing the movie which, being jointly produced by Nageswar Rao and D Mahesh Babu.

"As the name suggests, the film is a gripping tale of events that play out in a 16-day span," says the director. That's not all. Apparently Charmi will be seen imitating some of the top stars from the Tamil and Telugu film industries. Charmi though, it seems, is all excited about the music of the film.

"I am sure this film will be a milestone in my career. It has the most romantic song that I have heard in a long time," said Charmi. Well this film certainly seems to have it all…thrills, spills and romance as well.