Masala Telugu Movie Review, Rating

Masala - Cast & Crew

• Venkatesh
• Ram
• Anjali
• Shazahn Padamsee
• K. Vijaya Bhaskar
• Daggubati Suresh Babu 
•  Masala Movie Rating: 3.25/5

• Release Date: 14 Nov 2013
  Genre: Comedy - Romance
  Language: Telugu
  Director: K.Vijaya Bhaskar
  Masala - Story
  Masala is the story of Rahman (Ram Pothineni) stays with his sister Sania (Anjali) and they are legally fighting to get the title of their property. But, the odds turn against them and they lose the case.Their well-wisher, Narayana (M S Narayana), advises and convinces them to migrate to his village Bheemarajupuram, and assures Rahman that he will get him a job at his owner's place. And the owner is none other than the powerful Balaram (Venkatesh Daggubati).
  Rahman accidentally falls victim to an indistinct situation which makes him lie about his name in front of the villagers in Bheemarajupuram... Hence, a series of cover-ups, goof-ups and comic situations comes up, where to cover one lie; Rahman starts padding up witha bigger lie telling people that he also has a twin brother and then, starts the real story.
  Ram lands up working as a supervisor with the lie hater Balaram. Destiny plays a cruel role and forces Ram to perpetrate a bundle of lies in front of Balaram. What happens next? Will Balaram ever come to know about Ram’s real identity and his lie? Watch out the film to know more
  Masala - Star Performance
  Venkatesh Daggubati’s comedy timing is good, in fact he's the reason you get some laughs out of the film. The way he says the Telugu lines in English, or the scene where he says 'My English better than British' are just phunny.
  Ram was okay as Ram, but he was atrocious in the without moustache Rahman’s character. His performance in the interval bang is more like a drunkard than a gay dude. Ram’s mannerisms in Ram character recall his performance in Ready. Like Ram’s emasculate dance act just before the interval seems elongated and Venkatesh’s fustian English transcriptions, despite being frequently phunny, is so exaggerated that you lose the semantic biffs at several occasions.
  Anjali looks completely out of the character, the part where she plays the lover of Venkatesh in past is just feeless. Anjali & Shazahn Padamsee didn't have much to do other than provide scope for romantic numbers. Short dresses didn’t suit Shazahn in the Meenakshi Meenakshi track.
  The rest of the cast is as expected, loud and pretty much intolerable except for Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali & M S Narayana who try to bring in some sort of order and balance to the chaos but of course aren’t given enough room.
  Masala - Techinical Team
  Rohit Shetty is really lucky that his films run well at box office inspite of having terrible madcap scripts. But Vijaya Bhasker is not as lucky as him.
  Director just lifted nearly every scene from Bol Bachchan and translated them into Telugu. He failed to understand his mantra “Hardwork is keyhole to success”. Working with ever popular formula of lies, lies and more lies creating confusion and more confusion, very much like another phunny phileem in Tollywood. Vijaya Bhasker failed to elevate Anjali’s flashback in an imp active way, even confusion of lies didn’t work well in Telugu.
  Thaman SS music was not upto his standards. Even BGM failed to lift thescenes. Vijaya Bhasker totally failed to grab the music he wanted in this film, “Thats why Balaram says music is fire handle with care”. The song shot at Hokkaido, the second largest island in Japan which marks this film as the first Indian movie to shoot in Japan is nicely shot.
  Choreography is fine for the other songs. Cinematography is neat, camera work is good in Meenakshi Meenakshi & Ninnu Chuddani songs. Editor could have easily cut short the film by 10-15 min in the film.
  Masala just copied Rohit Shetty’s action choreography into Telugu, which just failed. Dialogues are promising especially few English translations are hilarious. Production values are grand.
  Masala - Analysis
  Masala is an official remake of Rohit Shetty’s Hindi film Bol Bachchan which had Ajay, Asin, Abhishek, Prachi & Amtabh in the cast. Despite of having such an impressive cast Hindi version just failed to reach Rohit Shetty’s mark success at box office.
  Masala fails from the start as the comedy element didn’t work, the cast is imperfect and they don't seem serious about their performances (leaving Venkatesh Daggubati). It is so shabbily made that you will instantly feel that director Vijaya Bhasker has lost interest in the initial parts of the film.
  First half of the film is draggy and second half it makes audience tiresome. Masala is a wearisome entertainer, better avoid it in theatres.
  
  
   

Satya 2 - Telugu Movie Review

Rating: 2.5/5

Ram Gopal Varma is known for his gangster movies in the past. Especially with his ground-breaking 1998 crime thriller Satya, the filmmaker has bagged six Filmfare and four Star Screen awards, besides setting a new trend in the genre. The movie, which narrated the life of the underworld mafia Satya, was applauded for its detailing and execution. After 15 years, RGV describes the future course of underworld in Satya 2 starring Sharwanand and Anaika Soti in leads, but he falters this time. The movie Satya 2 which is a sequel to Satya, does not match the first film. Sharwanand's performance is the main highlight in the movie. Interesting script and dialogues, Vikash Saraf's cinematography, Amar Mohile-Kary Arora's background score, well-choreographed action and stunts and a few technical stuffs are other big attractions in the film. But the big drawbacks of the movie are the slow-paced narration and uninteresting soundtracks. It should be said here that most of RGV's gangster movies had same formula in terms of its story, whereas Satya 2 breathes some amount of freshness in this regard. Radhika Anand, who has written the story for the film, seems to have drawn inspiration from Mahesh Babu's Telugu film The Businessman and Upendra's Kannada film Super in parts. But she has tried her best to bring originality in the script. She has tried to narrate the current crime scenario in a different angle. ADVERTISEMENT The underworld don in Satya 2 is not like the old ones. He is much more educated and unlike others, he consciously makes an entry into the mafia world. He has acquired lot of knowledge through research and study of mistakes made by all previous underworld dons. He starts a new underworld company that operates just like any corporate organisation. He also develops ways to deal with the modern day policing methods. Continue to Satya 2 movie review in the slideshow.

Satya 2 Story Satya (Sharwanand), is an aspiring don, who enters the scene with different ideology. Without having any big pertinent contacts in the city, he dreams to take over the underworld mafia. As a first step in this direction, he solves the problem of RK and Businessman Lahote (Mahesh), who is afraid of another don Sangi and police officer Bharathi, and becomes a reliable member in his gang. How does he become a frightening mafia? How does he start a highly influential Company? Answers to these questions will form the crux of the story.

Hrithik's Krrish 3 (10 Days) 2nd Weekend Collection At Box Office

Last week's release Krrish 3 has continued to keep the cash-registers ringing. It has done a fantastic collection at the Indian Box Office in the second weekend. The Hrithik Roshan starrer has once again topped the domestic business chart, beating Ram Gopal Varma's new release Satya 2. In just 10 days, the superhero film has become the second all time highest grosser, pushing down biggies' films like Ek Tha Tiger and 3 Idiots. With the release of Satya 2 and Thor: The Dark World, the business of Krrish 3 went down on its second Friday, when compared to its collection (Rs 13.44 crores) on Thursday. But Rakesh Roshan-directed flick witnessed big jump on Saturday and Sunday. In the second weekend, the movie has collected Rs 39.74 crores nett at the Indian Box Office, taking its 10-day domestic total to Rs 206.35 crores nett. Its breakup is Rs 9.16 cr on Fri, Rs 14.23 cr on Sat and Rs 16.35 cr on Sun. Krrish 3 Ten Days Collection At Box Office However, Krrish 3 has set several new records and the biggest among them are highest collection on single day, the fastest Rs 200 crore grosser, and the highest collection in the first week. With Chennai Express topping the list of all time highest grosser Hindi films, Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots (Rs 202 crores), Salman Khan's Ek Tha Tiger (Rs 199.50) and Ranbir Kapoor's Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (Rs 191.50 crores) were in the second, third and fourth places, respectively. Pushing them down, Krrish 3 has landed in the second place. Looking at its current pace at the Indian Box Office, the trade analyst feel that the Hrithik Roshan starrer would beat the record of Chennai Express in its second week and become the highest grosser of the year 2013 as well as all time highest grosser in the Hindi cinema.

Krrish 3 Movie Review

Superheroes have always captured the fancy of millions across the globe for ages and with the introduction of Krrish, India found its own bonafide superhero. Thanks to the Roshans, Bollywood has its first superhero franchise, that has taken one step further with the big release of Krrish 3 today, amidst the festive season of Diwali. A third in the franchise that began with 2003 movie Koi... Mil Gaya, Krrish 3 will take forward the story of the superhero Krrish, played by Hrithik Roshan. Like its prequels, Krrish 3 once again takes us into the world of masked fantasy, where the stakes are incredibly high, and this time our superhero Krrish faces the challenge of saving the world from the clutches of the villain Kaal (Vivek Oberoi). There's no doubt about the fact that Krrish 3 manages to match up to the scale of Hollywood films, but plot wise it has nothing much to offer you. Moreover, the story gets lost at times, considering the fact that there are too many unnecessary song sequences to kill it. 

Story

 After defeating the villainous Dr Siddhant Arya, and bringing his father Rohit back from the dead, Krrish continued fighting against evil and saving innocent lives. Now Krishna is living a happily married life with Priya, while Rohit is using his scientific brilliance to benefit society. And Krrish is everyone's favorite superhero saviour. Unknown to them, a dark force is growing in another part of the world. Kaal, an evil genius, is selfishly misusing his powers to spread fear, death and destruction. And he is being assisted by an army of very dangerous beings, which he has created himself.