This Day...

dreams have become colorful

the day i met you

sky was blushing, 

sun started winking at me,

I laughed back at him with shy

I will never forget

this day the day 

when i met you

all my life

The victim of (recycled) Telugu movies

Once upon a time as a kid just watching my favorite actors on screen was enough to make me feel good about a movie. Now, whether the movie had a story or not it didn't matter much back then. But as I was growing up I started watching international movies, thanks to english subtitles. At this juncture, user ratings, word of mouth reviews mattered a lot to me if I had to watch a movie. Sometimes these resources don't help you and you want to break those heads of your friends who have suggested to watch that movie. 

Appreciably, Tamil and Malayalam movie industries are making few good movies every year. Whereas, Hindi and Telugu movie industries are ridiculously recycling the same storylines again and again. Of course, here and there, now and then, we do get to watch few good movies, because of the new story writers and directors. 

Anyway, I'm here to review two Telugu movies which were supposedly most awaited movies of 2014, Aagadu and Govindhudu Andarivadu. Both movies had big names in the cast, so the expectations were sky high. 

At any given day, anyone would want to go to premiere show of Prince Mahesh Babu's movies, and I became a victim of this temptation. So here we go... movie starts, the hero makes the entry as a super cop with two-minute senseless punch dialogues which are funny of course. this two-minute scene was the first trailer for the movie and the only trailer which pulls you into the theater to watch this movie expecting the same kind of entertainment for full 120 minutes. Sigh.., everything blows off on your face after that scene. The hero intro song choreography was recycled from "Dookudu" and "Gabbar Singh". I did try not to compare with those movies. but I failed terribly in that. Then comes our heroine whose character is a copy-paste from "Gabbar Singh" and "Dabangg". Well, yeah, Gabbar Singh is Dabangg's remake. And therefore, the first half is half-boiled "Gabbar Singh" and "Dabangg". The first half is done. Second half starts, and I doze off. On our way back home I learned from friends that the second half is another half boil of "Dookudu". 

Now, let's postmortem GAV. First of all, I hate Ram Charan because he doesn't know acting, I hate his ridiculous face and his chimpanzee lips, and he carries a laugh which makes you wonder whether he is a man or a woman. Anyway, coming into the story. the whole story is about Prakash Raj and his son. His son ditches him to get a life in the US rather than die in the hospital which his dad builds for him so that he can provide service to the local village people and how Ram Charan unites his dad and dad's dad. The director comfortably picks the backdrop of Murari, one of his blockbuster movies. So again, I couldn't help compare this movie with Murari, Ram Charan's character is similar to Mahesh Babu's in Murari and Kajal's character is similar to Sonali Bendre's and the other supporting characters are more or less similar to the characters of Murari. But then there is one thing you will notice the total strength of this family is less compared to that of Murari.

Coming to the ridiculous things which I observed in the movie are:

•  the hospital which was built by Prakash Raj was constructed in 1952, this can be clearly seen on top of the building. So let's say, his son would be around 25 years then, right? 
• This is the year when his son becomes a doctor. so he must have done MBBS, so he should be about 27 years. 
• The same year his son ditches and moves to the US, but he settles in the UK (did he had immigration issues? he didn't get US visa? why did he end up in the UK? why?). 
• Now, Ram Charan comes to know about his grandfather, relatives and decides to reunite with them. He lands in India with iPad, Android phone, and many more other things. Seeing these gadgets in his kitty we can assume the year would be around 2010 since iPad was launched in 2010. 
• So what should be the Ram Charan's age now? 25 and not married? or 55 years with 4 grandchildren? Since he is shown as a 25-year-old guy, then he must be werewolf!!
• Prakash Raj must have been 45 years considering he got married when was a teenager (aka child marriage) when he builds the hospital, so his age should be 100 years. But he dances, fights, sprints and what not, you will end asking who is the hero here? Prakash Raj or Ram Charan? 
• Kajal has put on a lot of weight. Ram Charan looks like a kiddo in front of her. 

And that's it, I don't have anything to write up as the story is same what you see in regular family Sagas just the hospital is different. I would suggest watching Murari again instead of going to this movie. Ram Charan's acting hasn't improved and I don't think it will improve ever. 

Finally, yesterday I saw a small snippet of Ram Charan's interview where he says "These were the kind of reactions I wanted when I signed the movie". (Seriously??? I hope he reads my reactions to reconsider)