Hey People.. I hope you all remember our Raghuram who is very familiar to us from ZEE Saregamapa and SYE Singers Challenge. To all those who like him .. Here is a chitchat with him by Early Tollywood.
Q) Please Tell about your childhood and education(high school and engineering).
A) I did my schooling in st johns secunderabad and inter from sri chaitanya narayanaguda. and engineering from CVR.
Q) Your First step of success
A) Sye singers challenge.
Q) Please Tell Your memories of Zee Saregamapa.
A) It was a very good platform to learn many good things.
Q) Who are Your Favorite singers?
A) S.P.B. , K.K. , Shankar Mahadevan, Karthik , Chitra.
Q) Who are Your favorite musicians?
A) Ilayaraja, A.R.Rahman, Harris Jayraj, Yuvan, Mani Sharma, Devisri Prasad, Mickey J Meyer
Q) Who are your Favorite actors and actresses?
A) Not one in particular...i like many..
Q) How are you feeling on the success of your album Geetham?
A) I made a lot of effort to do the album . Its a nice feeling when your work is appreciated.
Q) Tell some of Your Favorite songs.
A) Many many many songs but to mention few from recent....Evvare nuvvu (Raju Bhai), Neevalle neevalle (Neevalle Neevalle), Na manasuki pranam (AMAV) , My heart is beating (Jalsa) , Hridaym orchukolenidi (Parugu).
Q) What is the best compliment you got?
A) I often get a compliment 'you have a very good voice'.
Q) Do You prefer classical music or Western?
A) Personally i prefer western but it is essential to know and learn both classical and western.
Q) What are your future Projects and ongoing ones (in movies and as albums)?
A) I sang in vinayakudu.. now i am working on my second album ...
Lastly, a word to our audience..
listen to GEETHAM songs!!!
and people here is the link to hear Geetham Songs.... LINK
We Wish Raghuram a Good Future... May God Bless Him...
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11.14.2008
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ET Interview : RAGHU RAM (SYE Singers Challenge Fame) |
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AVAKAYA BIRYANI Review by GreatAndhra.com |
Film: Avakaya Biryani
Rating: 2/5
Presented By: Sekhar Kammula
Cast: Kamal Kamaraju, Bindu Madhavi, Rao Ramesh etc
Choreography: Prem Rakshit
Lyrics: Vanamali
Music: Manikanth Kadri
Cinematography: Shyam
Producers: Sekhar Kammula and Chandrasekhar Kammula
Director: Aneesh Kuruvilla
Released On: 14th November 2008
Story:
Akbar (Kamal Kamaraju) is an auto driver in a village called Devarakonda and also works as paper boy in the early morning. He is an orphan as lost his father in childhood. He, along with other young uneducated gang lives under the rule of Masterjee (Rao Ramesh), the village head. Babar, a Muslim leader in that place wishes to divert Akbar as religious chauvinist. But Akbar follows 'love all' concept.
A Brahmin family newly comes to that village in exodus from another village and resides in a house. Their plan is to start a hotel business there and also sell avakaya. Lakshmi (Bindu Madhavi), the elder daughter in that family falls in love with Akbar.
How Akbar and Lakshmi unite? How the Hindu-Muslim love is accepted by Lakshmi's father who believes in strict Brahminism? How the hotel business will be started by that family? How Akbar becomes a hero in his village from mere auto driver? All these form the rest of narration.
Performances:
Kamal Kamaraju is ok with his physique and bearing but needs to groom in expressions and other histrionics. New girl Bindu Madhavi is ok with the character she played in the film. And she too needs to groom herself to show versatility.
Music by Manikanth is good and cinematography deserves great mention. The songs 'Mamidi kommaku maa chilakammaku', 'Nannu chupe addam..' and 'Govardhanameththaadu gopalude…' have received good applause.
Director would have done batter work on dialogues. The required punches were lacked on a whole leaving audiences without sufficient entertainment.
Analysis:
It's a movie that moves in a different but slow pace. Technical brilliance is seen in making with creative cinematography, worth mentioning framing, enticing music and quality RR. The tempo of the movie and also the subject chosen for it recalls the 1990s Delhi Doordarshan TV serials like Govind Nihalani's 'Tamas', 'Malgudi Days' etc. It's a genre of movie that would be liked and disliked in equal form. In other words to say, there would be good number of audiences on both the sides. Director Aneesh tried to balance the equation between his creativity and commercial point. But on a whole at the end, it gives a 'boring feel' for some and a 'good relief' for others.
The film aptly suits to hit the film festivals across the world. It has some message in it. Aneesh would have got better experience with the films those will be played in film festivals. Like Thangar Bachchan's 'Pallikoodam', where the lead role works hard for a social cause and the betterment of a place, here the lead role in 'Avakaya Biryani' also does the same. That may not be taken as the only common point between the two. The way the story is narrated with remote village backdrop, limited set of characters with typical characterizations etc.
To sum up, the film has lacked in energy and audiences find it difficult to get connect to it. When story is not running at faster pace that should be filled in by comedy. Or if there is no comedy to show, the story should run. Although Aneesh has comparison with many award winning film makers, he brought some doubts in the heads of some audiences:
How a village family goes to another remote village for livelihood? Many audiences felt that it would have been convincing had they gone to city. And again why the heroine goes to Hyderabad to sell pickles?
How the village head Masterjee speaks in pure Andhra accent in Devarakonda, a Telangana village?
What is the characterization of Babar? He roams as vagabond on a motor cycle for some time and dresses up like MIM leader and sits along with CM other time and appears as 'Mutton Shop Mastan' in another frame. Finally he loses himself in an auto race with hero!!!
Leaving those trivial doubts aside, the film has got many concoctions that suit for Film Festivals. Religious tolerance, inter-religious love, village politics, auto race, auto driver growing as Mandal President and all. The style of narration is something different without the influences of any contemporary director. The notable minus in the movie is lack of sufficient humor and comedy. A couple scenes between village head Masterjee and an eccentric fried of hero Akbar during auto race bring laughs. Aneesh, after his blatant satire on Tollywood with 'Confessions of Film Maker' has made this commercial flick as his debut. Only a separate set of audience can patronize this movie.
source : greatandhra.com
11.10.2008
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ET Interview : Kishore (KHADAR of VENNELA) |
Remember Khadar of Vennela... adhe ra bhai "Andharu nannu psycho gadu antunte psycho cinemalu chusukuntu bathikina..." Now he is doing about 3 full Length Roles. Recently We took an interview from him (All thanks to Idlebrain for giving Orkut Profile). Here is the interview.
Hello Kishore Garu, We are from Early Tollywood...
Q. Tell About Your Childhood, Education and Job.
A. Childhood was in Kamareddy(Dist.Nzbd) till Intermediate. I did my B.com in khairatabad and flew off to US to do my Masters in information Systems. After my MS I got a job as QA tester and got quickly promoted to QA Manager.
Q. How were you feeling at the time of first shot in Vennela?
A. First shot was to eat a chicken sandwich..so it was good as i was a bit hungry so I guess the shot came natural without any tension
Q. How was it working with Raja?
A. Working with raja was great. He is a great co-artiste who is very down to earth.
Q. How did you feel on the success of the movie and KHADAR's character?
A. Success of the movie and Khadar's Character reached me very late as I did the movie as a project and forgot about it. When I came to india for 50 days function I knew what I missed.. It is a great feeling but I hope I really deserve it.
Q. Who are Your Favorite Actors and Actresses?
A. Favorite Actor is Brahmanandam.
Favorite Actresses are Aishwarya(for her beauty), Kangna Ranaut(for her acting) and Shilpa Shetty(for her physique--lol)
Q. Who is Your Favorite Director?
A. Chandrasekhar Yeleti, Suman Pathuri(watch out for his debut movie in May 2009), Shamit Amin
Q. Which is Your Favorite Movie?
A. Bommarillu(telugu),
Chakde(Hindi), Rockon(Hindi), Dil Chahta hai(Hindi), Taare Zameen Par(Hindi),
Thavamai Thavamirindu(Tamil), Autograph(tamil)
Q. What is Your Biggest Compliment?
A. All the 750 scraps till now in my orkut scrapbook are biggest compliments in my life. I hope i wont dissapoint them in my future movies
Q. What is Your Favorite Dialogue from Vennela?
A. MooduEndla kinda maa thatha illu kattisthunte itikepila kinda padi peekindu..- I love that dialogue..
Q. Please tell something about Indumathi and about your role in Indumathi
A. Indumathi is a thriller movie with many twists and turns..I play a comic relief in the movie.. Now it all depends whether a comedy in a thriller really tickles the funny bones of the current viewers who are really unpredictable..
Q. What are Your Dream Roles?
A. Dream Role is of a comedian whose entry itself gives whistles in a theatre..
Q. What are Your ongoing and Future projects?
A. Current(sushanth-hero), 12:34, Inkokkasari(suman pathuri's debut..watch out for a forthcoming blockbuster), Devakatta's 2nd movie
Q. What is your view on Telugu Audience?
A. Telugu Audience are unpredictable but as far as I have guessed they love comedy
We wish you a great future Kishore garu...
