Naga Chaitanya's JOSH Audio Release Function Coverage

Music of Naga Chaitanya’s debut vehicle Josh was launched at a grand function organized in Shilpakala Vedika on the night of 18 July. ANR, D Rama Naidu, Kiran Kumar Reddy (speaker of AP Assembly), Nagarjuna, Mohan Babu, Bala Krishna, Venkatesh, Srihari, Nitin, Nikhil, Ram, Sushant, MS Raju, Varun Sandesh, Amala, Radha, Naga Chaitanya, Karthika, Sandeep Chowta, Vasu Varma, Rajamouli, Ambika, Seenu Vytla, Boyapati Seenu, VV Vinayak, Vamsi Paidipalli, Dasarath, Srivas, Chandrabose Sameer Reddy, Kishore Kumar, KL Narayana, D Suresh Babu etc attended the function as guests.

Sandeep Chowta who scored music for Ninne Pelladatha and Super composed music for this movie.

Kiran Kumar Reddy launched the CD and gave it to ANR and D Rama Naidu (grandfathers of Naga Chaitanya). K Raghavendra Rao launched the audiocassette and gave the first unit to Bala Krishna, Venkatesh and Mohan Babu.

Radha said, “I am here today because my daughter Karthika is making her debut as heroine in Telugu films. I am happily married with three kids. I did two films with ANR and Vikki Dada with Nagarjuna in the past. I wish that you would encourage my daughter the way you encouraged me. I saw Naga Chaitanya when he was 2 years old. I feel that Naga Chaitanya is like our own family member. Karthika is fond of dances since childhood. I would like to thank Dil Raju for introducing my daughter.”

ANR said, “Naga Chaitanya is the 6th actor from Akkineni family. When Nagarjuna wanted to introduce Naga Chaitanya, I told him that there would be many expectations on his because he is the grandson of ANR and D Rama Naidu. Dil Raju has a golden hard and he is entrusted with the responsibility of doing this grand launch. I listened to the songs. There is rhythm as well as melody in it. I want to participate in 100 days function of Josh.”

Mohan Babu said, “ANR is a cultured man. When I wanted to invite him to a function of mine, he said that i needn’t invite him in person. He came with just a phone call. When i asked Nagarjuna to do a guest role in Adhipati, he asked me if i liked that character. He came and worked for the film when i said that i am convinced and satisfied about the character. I would like to appreciate, congratulate and bless Naga Chaitanya that is coming from such a nice cultured family.”

Bala Krishna said, “I share Babai – Abbai relationship with ANR. And I am here as a Babai to Naga Chaitanya to bless him. Nagarjuna generated a special craze for him. Likewise, Naga Chaitanya too will chalk a special path for himself in the industry. There is a healthy and heavy competition among the new generation of heroes and I am sure that Naga Chaitanya will win it. I didn’t know that heroine in this movie is daughter of Radha till i came to this function. I also realised that Dil Raju sang a song for this film. I wish this film a huge success.”

Venkatesh said, “I Hope that this movie will be like mixing the acting Nagarjuna in Shiva with mine in Chanti.”

Karthika said, “I am born and brought up in Mumbai. I am fond of dances since my childhood. My parents asked me to act in films. I request you to encourage me like you did for my mother Radha. I feel happy to act in Naga Chaitanya’s debut film.”

Dil Raju said, “I approached Naga Chaitanya to play the lead role in Kotha Bangaru Lokam. But Nagarjuna opined that KBL is not the right film for the launch of Naga Chaitanya since it was a soft story. He wanted to launch Naga Chaitanya with a joshful film. Director Vasu Varma worked over this story for three years and Nagarjuna Okayed this story in a single sitting. This film will be releasing in August.


Josh film will give third hattrick on our banner. The director forced me to sing a small song in this movie. Vasu Varma is a good director and I learnt a lot about scripting from him. Sandeep Chowta gave brilliant music. It took me two months to get close to Naga Chaitanta. Naga Chaitanya is a brilliant actor and he performed a 320 feet emotional scene in a single take. Siddharth did a 350-feet climax scene in Bommarillu in single take. Karthika did a bubbly character. I am 100% confident of success.”

Nagarjuna said, “My father ANR’s wish is to see Naga Chaitanya as hero. I told ANR that he would be watching 100th film of Naga Chaitanya as well. And Naga Chaitanya will be acting in 200th film of D Rama Naidu. I wanted to produce this film. At that time Dil Raju approached me with Josh subject. Dil Raju and Vasu Varma treated Naga Chaitanya as their own brother. I saw first half of the movie and liked it.

Dil Raju saw the entire movie and loved it. Being grandson of two legends ANR and D Rama Naidu, i wish that he would become a greater actor than ANR. I completed my engineering before entering films. Naga Chaitanya wanted to enter movies after intermediate. I asked him to complete degree and made him go through B.Com. I would like to request all my fans to encourage Naga Chaitanya.”

Meena Starring VENGAMAMBA (2009) Telugu Movie Review

Film: VENGAMAMBA

Rating: 3/5

Banner: V M C Films

Cast: Meena, Sarath Babu, Saikiran, Sana, Subbaraya Sarma, Ashok Rao, Ananth, Sudha, Sivaparvathy, Ranganath, Sriram and others

Music: M M Keeravani

Cinematography: P R K Raju

Director: Uday Bhaskar

Producer: Doraiswamy Raju

Release Date: July 17, 2009

Story:

A holy tale, the story begins on the backdrop of Tarigonda with the life of Vengamamba (meena) who is the darling daughter of Krishnaiah (sarath Babu) and Mangamamba (sudha). However, their dreams of seeing their daughter married does not help as right from childhood, she is into the trance of lord Venkateswara (sai kiran). She gets married to Venkata Chalapathy of Injeti family. However, he dies due to a snake bite. From then on, Vengamamba gets into a complete service to the god and begins to write songs and various poems on the lord. She has her own form of obstructions in the form of Kainkaryam (ananth), Dikshitulu (ashok rao) but then divine help is always there to assist her pious heart. A chance sequence takes her to Tirumala and what happens from there forms the rest of the story.

Presentation:

The director has come up with a neat storyline and both the presentation and narrative were good. The dialogues were simple, the script was written without much flaws and the screenplay was sensible. Music played a key role and it did well while cinematography was neat. Graphics were excellent. The make up department could have been better since the puffing up was a bit on the higher side. Also, the art department should have brought more authentic feel to it. Editing was crisp. Costumes were apt. meena did a fabulous job and showed enough maturity in her role. Saikiran and Sana were the perfect choices. Saikiran has shown good potential, Sarath Babu was elegant, Subbaraya Sarma was impressive, Ananth was good, L B Sriram was okay. The others did their bit and contributed.

Conclusion:

The film has been a take on the real life story of the famous Vengamamba of Tarigonda. The makers have taken an authentic touch to it and while the first half revolves around her childhood to her younger days, the second half goes about with her divine journey and spiritual awareness. The film has got some real good technical effects and with some decent performances by the cast, it was neat. The film will surely appeal to the family audience and those who are interested in divine flicks. Maybe few learning points for the youth and the mass audience as well. This will be a decent run at the box office with some positive word of mouth.

Bharatstudent Verdict : Divine and neat, recommended

Ooha Chitram (2009) Movie Review by Bharatstudent

Film: OOHA CHITRAM

Rating: 1.25/5

Banner: Likith Arts

Cast: Vamsi Krishna, Kaveri Jha, Jeeva, Giri Babu, Krishna Bhagawan, Surya, Babloo, Vijay and others

Music: Siva K Nandigam

Cinematography: V N Suresh Kumar

Director: Satya

Producer: K Paidi Babu

Release date: 17/07/2009

Story:

A good tale gone bad, the story begins with Vikram (vamsi) who is a police inspector but then he goes through a bumpy ride as his information is wrong and he is at the wrong place all times. Things take a turn when he checks the purse of a police officer and this leads him to suspension. Vikram meets Keerthi (kaveri) at that time and soon they fall in love. After a while, Keerthi introduces him to a website 'May I Help You'. Here, Vikram meets Raj and the latter gives him a plan so that Vikram can prove his intelligence and get back to the department. However, there are many complications that take place and soon Vikram realizes that Raj has got a mystery behind him. What happens from there forms the rest of the story.

Presentation:

The director has attempted to come up with a storyline that has got many elements and that's why he could not put up with the presentation and the narrative as well. The dialogues were dull, the script was written shoddily and screenplay was poor. Music was a major disappointment and the cinematography was stale. Editing was completely disastrous. Art and costumes were okay and made their presence felt. Coming to the cast, Vamsi Krishna was poor as he was not able to express himself and his body language was poor. His physique was good and that's where it starts and ends. Kaveri Jha was yet again seductive to the core but then the stylists should work on giving her different looks. Jeeva was okay, Giri Babu was regular, Krishna Bhagawan was not upto the mark, the others came and went.

Conclusion:

The film attempted to come up with various elements in one go and this made a mess of the movie. While the first half takes off on a different note, somewhere down the line, it loses track of the plot and leaves the audience confused. The second half takes a different turn and it must be said that editing was nowhere to be seen and there are many things happening at one go. The film is poor in performances and also in technical aspects. This will sink in box office in just a few days. The choice of the lead character was wrong and there was no proper comedy.

Bharatstudent verdict: Can be ignored