Telugu Movie Reviews
Critic verdicts on the latest Telugu releases.
Fails to gel
When you are looking to launch career for yourself, it will be always tempting to go for mass roles and themes.For, such a kind of cinema…
Passes the test
It is one of the oldest formulae in the book. A seemingly good for nothing guy who is given up as a wastrel. But when the fires of his…
Power of love
With the name Devadasu, the film can be of only one genre. And considering that, YVS Chowdary has managed to come up with a plausible…
Taut and tough
Remakes have been the flavor of the season. Almost every one of them, including the very same Suriyas Ghajini, has worked wonders at the…
The right steps
With prabhu Deva and Lawrence Raghavender around the leitmotif of dance writes itself on to the film. After all, the duo is the two best…
All in the family
Family values and sibling love are themes that never go old in Telugu cinema. And if there is right treatment for it, it can also be very…
Fun all the way
The film, as everyone would know, was originally named Clean Bowled. But the sudden and untimely demise of the director Konda brought about…
Slick and stylish
It is a unique problem for NRI youths. The problem of marriage. Caught between two worlds of diverse cultures, the nubile youngsters are…
Curate's egg
It takes extreme skill and the tough concentration of a tight-rope walker to make a full-length comedy film. Ravi Babu has taken the…
Study of love
Everything about Happy is for hero Allu Arjun. The storyline and narration are prepared to match the hero and it has indeed worked really…
Gritty entertainer
Ram Gopal Varma's much-hyped Telugu production "Shock" is a huge disappointment. It turns out be nothing more than a rehash of the flop…
Playing it safe
'Ranam is like any other Gopichands film. It doesnt have good storyline but gives great entertainment. The storyline where a hero from…
Packaged entertainment
Revenge and action stories never go out of fashion and Asadhyudu also belongs to this genre. Debutante Anil Krishna has successfully…
Syrupy and sentimental
If a film does well in one place, it doesnt mean that it will do well in other places too. And Raja Babu is a good example of this.…
Taut and tough
Dubbed films are working in Telugu these days. And Ghajini, too, works big time. The film provides abject lesson in how to make gritty…
Action unlimited
There is a fixation among Telugu filmmakers with faction fights and larger-than-life dons. Numerous movies have been made on the…
Right flavor
The cross-cultural confusions added with romance are always interesting. Otherwise a book like Inscrutable Americans (by Anurag Mathur)…
which you will want to watch again and again.
Many years after Arya won our admiration for his unique definition and understanding of love, he is back as a psychologically unsound…
Ghatikudu - The hunter
Whenever there is a film from Suriya, the expectations are high and there is also an element of variety offered from him. So this time, he…
Venky mark’s a comedy entertainer
Hero Venkatesh stands in the lead among the top artists, who give prominence to play versatile roles rather than boost their heroism or an…