Mastizaade

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

                                            Starring                        :Sunny Leone

                                                                                  Tushar Kapoor

                                                                                  Vir Das

                                                                                  Suresh Menon

                                                                                  Shaad Randhawa

                                            Direscted by                 :Milap Zaveri

                                            Produced by                 :Pritish Nandy

                                                                                   Rangita Pritish Nandy

                                            Music by                      :Meet Bros Anjjan

                                                                                  Amaal Mallik,Anand Raj Anand

                                           Release Date                 :29 January 2016

Review:

             Mastizaade is an Indian sex comedy film,directed by Milap Zaveri and produced by Pritish

Nandy and Rangitha Pritish Nandy.The film stars Sunny Leone is in dual role along the side of 

Tushar Kapoor and Vir Das along with Shaad Randhawa,Suresh Menon and Vivek Vishwani.

This movie hits the big screens on 29 January 2016

Rating:

      Cinemacart          :3/5

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Kungu Fu Panda 3

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

                                    Starring                                :Jack Black

                                                                                  Bryan Cranston

                                                                                  Angelona Jolie

                                                                                   Dustin Hoffman

                                                                                   Lucy Liu

                                                                                   Jackie Chan

                                                                                   Seth Rogen

                                                                                   David Cross  

                                                                                   James Hong

                                                                                   Kate Hudson

                                                                                   J.K.Simmons

                                  

                                      Music                                  :Hans Zimmer

                                      Production                           :Dreamworks Animation

 

                                                                                    Oriental Dreamworks

                                      Distribution by                    :20th Century Fox

                                      Directed by                          :Jannifer Yuh Nelson

                                                                                    Alessandro Carloni

                                      Produced by                        :Melissa Cobb

                                      Written by                           :Jonathan Aibel

                                                                                    Glenn Berger 

                                      Language                             :English,Mandrain

                                      Release Dates                      :23 January 2016(China),29 January 2016(US)

Review:

                      Kungu Fu Panda is a 2016 3D American-Chinese computer animated action comedy

martial arts film,produced by Dreamworks Animation and Oriental Dreamworks and distributed by 

20th Century Fox.It was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni.The film was 

written by Jonathan Aibel,Glenn Berger,produced by Melissa Cobb and executive produced by 

Guillermodel Torro.It is the sequel to 2011 film Kungu Fu Panda 2 and the third installment in the 

Kungu Fu Panda the Franchise.This film released in China on 23 January and United States ,Canada 

on 29 January 2016 in 3D.It is planning to release in other formats in the monts of March and April.

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Lachindeviki O Lekkundhi

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

Starring         :Naveen Chandra,

                    Lavanya Tripati

Director         :Jagadish Talasila

Producer              :Sai Prasad Kamineni

Music             :M.M.Keeravani

Release Date              :29 January 2016

Review:

              Andala Rakshasi fame Naveen Chandra is once again pairing up with Lavanya Tripati.

They started their career with a succesful love story 'Andala Rakshasi'.Lachindeeviki O Lekkundhi

is a telugu entertainer drama.This film is to be released earlier but due to some technical aspects 

it is postponed.Finally this film hits the screens today.Let see how the film turn uot to be.

Story:

          The story of the film stars in a bank.Lavanya plays the role of cashier in the bank and

Naveen Chandra was her collegue.He starts loving her.The story of the plays with robbing the bank.

After a point Lavanya was possessed by a spirit.

           What is the link between the possession of spirit on the heroine and robbing of the bank?

The rest of the story is how hero tackles both the situations watch on the big screen.

Rating:

          Cinemacart            :3/5

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Seethamma Andalu Ramayya Sitralu

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

Starring           :Raj Tarun,Aarthana

Director           :Srinivas Gavireddy

Producer              :Shailendra Babu,

                                   K.V.Shridar Reddy,

                                  Harish Duggisetty

Music                    :Gopi Sundar

Release date             :29 January 2016

Review:

             Young hero Raj Tarun is currently riding with back to back hits in his career.

This week he is ready with yet another youthful entertainer Seetamma Andalu Ramaiah Sitralu.

The village drama which stars Aartana as the female lead has hit the screens today.Let see how this

film turns out to be.

Story:

          Sri Ram(Raj Tarun) is a happy go lucky youth from Ramapuram whoose only motto is to 

marry his childhood sweetheart Seetha(Aarthana).Ram tries different ways to propose her but

everything ends up in a bitter note.

         Things become so bad after a point that Seetha strats hating him big time.Loosing no hope

he continues too woo her and finally manages to win his love.This is also the time when Seetha's

parents stands against the couple.They throw a challenge and asks Ram to acomplish it.

            What is that challenge?Will Ram be able to acomplish it?That forms the rest of the story.

Plus Points:

                Raj Tarun has once again given a honesr performance.He is improving with every film 

and has stunning screen performance.

               Aarthana is definitly a find.She looks very pretty in Indian avatar and also performs well 

in all her emotional scenes.Once again Shakalaka Shankar is pretty impressive with his comedy.

All his comic punches create a decent impact during first half.

             First half of the film is ok and has some breezy moments.Yet another major aspect of the 

film is music given by Gopi Sundar.All the songs are refreshing and have also been shot well.

Raja Ravindra is also good in his mature role.

Minus Points:

                   One of the major drawback of he filmis stoy narrate during second half.The challenge 

thrown at the hero at last minute looks out of place.

                After a point of time the film side tracks completely and just a single challenge wraps up

things in hurry.Story of the film is ages old and nothin new to offer.

                The conflict point between hero and heroines father has not been established well.

Also,the love story between thelead pair looks jaded and has no clarity.

Technical Aspects:

                   Camera work is beautiful.The way village atmosphere and all the rustic locales have been

showcased is quite good.Production values are decent.Gopi Sundar music ism pretty.

Rating:

  Cinemacart               :3/5

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The 5th Wave

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Review:

               The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film directed by J.Blackeson

,based on Rick Yancey's eponymous novel with a screenplay by Susannah Grant,Alkiva Goldsman

and Jeff Pinkner.The film stars Chole Grace Moretz,Nick Robinson,Ron Livingston,Maggie Stiff,

Alex Roe,Maria Bello,Maika Monroe and Liev Schrieber.

           Development begins in March 2012 whrn Colombia pictures picked up the film rights to the 

triology with Grham king's production company GK films and Tobey Maguire's Material pictures.

Filming took place in Atlanta,Georgia from October 2014 to January 2015.The 5th Wave was 

released thaetrically on 22 January 2016 by Colombia pitcures.

Cast & Crew

Starring   :Chole Grace Moretz,Nick Robinson,Ron Livingston,

Maggie Stiff,

                                                                       Alex Roe,

                                                                       Maria Bello,Maika Monroe and Liev Schrieber.

Director    :J Blackeson

Producer     :Graham King,Tobey Maguire

                                                                     Lynn Harris

                                                                      Matthew Plouffe

Music by    :Henry Jackman

Release Date     :22 January 2016

Language      :English

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Airlift

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Review:

             Airlift is an 2016 Indian war thriller directed by Raja Krishna Menon and starring 

Akshay Kumar,Nimrat Kaur,Purab Kohli and Lina in pivotal roles.The film follows Ranjit Kayal

(Akshay Kumar),a Kuwait based Buisnessman,carries out a biggest civil operation of evacuation of 

Indians based in Kuwait during Iraq-Kuwait war carried out during during the reign of  Iraqi emperor

Saddam Hussein.

Cast & Crew

Starring    :Akshay kumar,Nimrat Kaur,Feryana Wazheir

Director    :Raja Krishna Menon

Producer   :Nikhil Advani

                                                                               Monisha Adwani

                                                                                

                                                                               Aruna Bhatia,Madhu G.Bhojwani,Bhusan Kumar

                                                                               Krishan Kumar,Vikram Malhotra

Music by   ;Amaal Mallik,Ankit Tiwari

Language    :Hindi

Release Date     :21 January 2016(Dubai)

22 January 2016(India)

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Moondraam Ullaga Por

Review & Rating

Review:

              Moondraam Ullaga Por is an Tamil action drama film produced by T.R.S.Anbu and 

V.Suresh Narayan under the production company banner Aartin Frames TRS studios and directed by

Sugan Karthi,distributed by Dream Factory.The Cinematography is being handled by Dheva and the

editings is managed by Richard.The music for the film is composed by Veda Shankar.

Cast & Crew

Starring   :Sunil Kumar,Akhila Kishore

Director   :Sugan Karthi

Producer   :T.R.S.Anbu,V.Suresh Narayan

Music   :Veda Shankar

Release Date   :22 January 2016

Language   :Tamil

Story:

           It narrates story of an imaginary war between India and China after 15 years i.e,2025.

Sunil Kumar played the role of a soldier who foughts for the country India.Akhila Kishore played

the role of soldier's wife.It was not easy to write script of a fictional war tale.Even though it was a

fictional the director had research to write the story to make it believable.

Rating:

Cinemacart    :3/5

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Kathakali

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Review:

               Kathakali is the latest Telugu movie dubbed from Tamil is released in theatres today.

The film Kathakali is going to entertain the audience with its interesting and surprising thrilling 

elements.Kathakali stars Vishal in lead role and he is very happy with the film result in Tamil.

The film that was for the Pongal in Tamil has did good buisness and made enough fans for the movie.

Cast & Crew

Starring   :Vishal,Catherine Tresa

Director   :Pandiraj

Producer   :Pandiraj,Vishal

Music by   :Hiphop Tamizha

Release Date   :22 January 2016

Story:

          The story begins in Cuddalore with a fight between fisherman and of Cuddalore and Chennai

over fishing rights.Vishal who returns to Cuddalore from US for his wedding.Vishal and his family 

struggles with a local gangstar Thamba.Vishal is getting ready for his marriage with Catherine Tresa

in the movie.Vishal then heads to Chennai to shop for his wedding and bring Meenukutty.During 

this time,Thamba was murdered in Cuddalore.Thamba's men suspect it is Vishal and his brother 

who are behind this and the police men starts investigating.Who killed Thamba?How Vishal rescued 

his famliy?For rest of the story watch film in theatres.

Rating:

Cinemacart     :3/5

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Soggade Chinni Nayana

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Cast & Crew

Starring    :Akkineni Nagarjuna,Ramya krishna

Lavanya Tripati

Director     :Kalyan Krishna

Producer       :Akkineni Nagarjuna

Music    :Anoop Rubens

Release date     :15 January 2016

Review:

              Akkineni Nagarjuna comes up with interesting films in his career.This time around,he comes

up with a complete family entertainer as Soggade Chinni Nayana.After a huge round of promotions,

the film hits the screen on january 15.Let see how the film turns out to be.

Story:

          The story of the film based on the native villaage of andhra and is set amidst the family of late

Bangaraju(Nagarjuna).The film opens up with Bangaraju's son,again roe played by Nagarjuna and

his wife(Lavanya) who are on the verge of taking divorce.The couple reached their native village 

and confront their problem to bangaraju's wife Satya(Ramya Krishna).

           An upset Satya locks herself in a room and confronts this to a huge potrait of her late husband.

Satya reveals to him that she has landed in huge problems after his death and pleaded him to do 

something about this.Rest of the story is how the dead Bangaraju came back to his life and solves

his family problems.

Plus Points:

             Soggade is Nagarjuna's one man show as the script.He has shown godd variations in both

his characters.His chemistry with Ramya Krishna and Lavanya is simly stunning.Ramya Krishna

is superb in her role and looks gorgeous even in this stage.

Minus Points:

               Conflict point of the film is bit simple and nothing much interesting to offer.Once the

twist is revealed the story of the film is predictable.Even the film is entertaining in the first half

the actual story of the film only starts in second half.

Technical Aspects:

                 Music of the film is impressive.Production values are top notch and camera work is

excellent.

                Coming to the director Kalyan Krishna,he has done a superb job with the film.Even though

the story is simple,the way he narrated the film with decent family emotions is what makes this film

tick.

Cinemacart rating   :4/5

Express Raaja

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

Starring     :Sharwanand,Surabhi

Director    :Meerlapaaka Gandhi

Producer    :Vamsi Krishna Reddy

Pramod Uppalapati

Music     :Praveen Lakkaraju

Release date     :14 January 2016

Review:

                Express Raja is a latest Telugu movie that is going to hit the screens for this 

Sankranthi on 14th of January 2016 as an Action, Romantic, and Comedy Entertainer. The 

movie is penned and directed by Merlapaka Gandhi of Venkatadri Express fame. The cast 

and crew of the movie look so confident about its story and picturization that they are 

slated to release the movie for Sankranthi along with other Telugu movies from big 

banners like Nannaku Prematho, Soggade Chinni Nayana, and Dictator.The movie has 

Sharwanand and Surabhi in the lead roles. Sharwanand has been doing his 

journey with express speed these days by selecting decent stories and on the other hand 

‘Beeruvaa’fame Surabhi is trying her luck with this movie.

Rating:

Cinemacart   :3.7/5

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Kathakali

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

Starring    :Vishal,Catherine Tresa

Director    :Pandiraj

Producer      :Vishal,Pandiraj

Music    :Hiphop Tamizha

Release date     :14 January 2016

Review:

                The Main lead role in Kathakali movie is played by Vishal Krishna, Catharine Tresa, Nassar,

 Karunas, Soori. This is the first time Vishal Krishna and Pandiraj are joining hands together for a 

movie. This movie is produced by Vishal himself from his own production house Vishal Film Factory 

along with Pandiraj production house “Pasanga Production”.

Rating:

Cinemacart      :3.75/5

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Tharai Thappattai

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

Starring     :M.Sasikumar,Varalakshmi,Sarathkumar

Director     :Bala

Producer       :M.Sasikumar,Bala

Music      :Illayaraja

Release Date      :14 January 2016

Review:

           Tharai Thappattai is a Tamil musical drama Movie, which is produced, written and 

directed by Bala. The Movie features Sasikumar and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar in the 

leading roles. Sasikumar was asked to shave his trademark beard and sport a thin 

mustache, to play a Nadaswaram player. He also underwent training with folk singers and 

dancers for a month. The soundtrack has been composed by Ilaiyaraaja based on 

karakattam. This Movie also happens to be Ilaiyaraaja’s 1000th film.

Rating:

Cinemacart    :3.25/5

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Dictator

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Cast & Crew

Starring    :Bala Krishna,Anjali,Sonal Chauhan

Director    :Sriwass

Music Director    :S.S.Thaman

Producer    :Sriwass,Eros

Release date    :14 January 2016

Review:

             Continuing with the festival releases,another most awaited film,Dictator has hit the screens 

today.This is the 99th film of Nandamuri balakrishna and is directed by Sriwass.Let see how this

film turns out to be.

Story:

             Chandu(Balakrishna) live a normal life with his in laws in Hyderabad.One fine day,he comes 

across an aspiring actress(Sonal Chauhan) and helps her in a critical situation.The problem gets big

and Chandu lands himself in a huge mess.

          When all this is going on Chandu's family gets to know about a shocking truth about his past 

which is related to all this problems.What is that shocking truth?Who is Chandu in real life? Where

does Anjali feature in all this set up?To know answers to all these questions you need to watch on 

big screen.

Plus Points:

              Undoubtedly,Balakrishna is the soul and heart of the film.The way Sriwass showcased 

Balayya as Dictator is impressive.Balakrishna done a superb job in this film.

             Sonal Chauhan is good in her tiny role and Anjali looks beautiful and shares a superb 

chemistry with Balakrishna.

           Interval bang and second half in Delhi are decent.Some confrontation scene between 

Balakrishna and Rati Agnihotri have been executed well and elevate the film to a decent level.

Minus Points:

                The story of the film is quite old.First half of the film just ok.When you have star like 

Balakrishna the villan should be strong.Sadly,Bollywood actress rati Agnihotri does not create 

much impact.

Technical Aspects:

              Music by S.S. Thaman is pretty impressive.Camera work is impressive.Dialogues are in

typical Balayya style.

Rating:

Cinemacart   :3.5/5

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Nannaku Prematho

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Cast & Crew

Starring    :Jr.N.T.R,Raku Preeth Singh

Director     :Sukumar

Music Director    :Devi Sri Prasad

Producer    :B.V.S.N.Prasad

Release Date    :13 January 2016

Review:

              The day which everybody was waiting for has finally arrived today.NTR's most awaited 

family drama,Nannaku Prematho has hit the screens all over.Let see how the film turns out to be.

Story:

         Abhiram(NTR) is an young enterpreneur based in London.One fine day,he came to know that

his father(Rajendra Prasad) is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is in his last stages of life.An 

upset Abhiram,rushes back home to confront his dad.

        During this time,Abhiram's father reveals that his last wish is to see 

Krishnamurthy(Jagapathibabu),the richest Indian in UK gets defeated in life.He further reveals to

Abhiram how Krishnamurthy had ripped of his property and happiness by cheating him big time.

Rest of the story is how Abhiram dethrones Krishnamurthy and fulfills his father's dying wish.

Plus Points:

          With Nannaku Prematho,Ntr stuns you with emotional performance.This is Ntr's best 

performance till date.Ntr need to be appreciated for coming out of his comfort zone and accepting 

a film like this.

        Another major asset of thus film is Jagapathibabu.All his confrontation scenes with Ntr have 

been designed exceptionally by Sukumar.

Minus Points:

          Nannaku Prematho is a class film and the masses might find it hard to digest certain facts.

Even though Ntr is superb in this film,the regular punch dialogues and dances he is usually 

associated with are competely missing in the film.

        First 15 minutes and Rakul Preeth Singh and her mom could have been mellowed down 

and edited out.

Techical Aspects:

         Music by Dvi Sri Prasad is well and all the songs are situational.Production values and camera 

work is top notch.Sukumar's brilliance writting script is amazing.

Rating:

Cinemacart   :4/5

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Killing Veerappan

Review & Rating

Cast & Crew

Starring      :Shivaraj Kumar,Sandeep Bharadwaj

Director       :Ram Gopal Varma

Producer         :B.V.Manjunath

Music Director       :Sandy

Release Date     :07 January 2016

Review:

                  The trailers of Killing Veerappan have given a maverick director Ram Gopal Varma is 

back to his best.The film which deals with the real story of the dreaded sandalwood smuggler has hit 

the screens today.Let's now see whether RGV is back in the reckoning  or not.4

Story:

              The story of the film is quite narrated with the police officer's point of view.

Veerappan(Sandeep Bharadwaj) is a dreaded sandalwwood smugglerwith tons of cases on him.

Cops from three different states are after him over a period of ten years but to their bad luck,he 

escapes unhurt all the time.

               This is also the time when the cases is handed over to a sincere police officer(Shivraj 

Kumar) who takes things in his hands.He makes several plans but somehow turns unsuccessful 

all the time.Rest of the story is as how he makes one final dreaded plan and kills most wanted 

smuggler.

Plus Points:

                      Credit should go to Ram Gopal Varma for getting his casting absolutely bang on.

The way he has choosen a new face for Veerappan's role is spot on.The Mumbai actor looks 

astonishingly close to Veerappan and strikes vengeance from the word go.

                     The locations choosen is realistic and dense forest locations give a superb effect.

The various plans associations to kill Veerappan is quite good.Shivraj Kumar is quite good as cop.

                Supporting character,especially Yagna Shetty who played Veerappan's wife role is very 

good.The way of direction is quite good.

Minus Points:

                        One of the biggest drawbacks of the film is that Veerappan has a very less screen 

space.

Technical Aspects:

                           As in all RGV films technical aspects are a huge plus.Camera work is astonishing.

Killing Veerappan is one of the best works of RGV in the recent past.

Rating:

IMDB    :8.1/10

123telugu.com    :3/5

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Azhagu Kutti Chellam

Azhagu Kutti Chellam:

Cast & Crew:

Movie : Azhagu Kutti Chellam

Music : Ved Shanker Sugavanam

Production :  ’Neeya Naana’ Anthony

Director : Charles

Starring : Narayan Lucky, Akhil, Karunas, Suresh, John Vijay

Rating    :3/5

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Abbaitho Ammai

Review & Rating

                       Abbaitho Ammai is a film by Ramesh Varma and produced by J.Vandana Alekhya,

P.Kriti,S.Srinivas.The fantastic music for this film is given by Illaiyaraja.

Cast & Crew

Starring    :Naga Sourya,Palak Lalwani

Director    :Ramesh Varma

Producer   :J.Vandana Alekhya,P.Kriti,S.Srinivas

Music    :Illaiyaraja

Release Date      :01 January 2016

Review

Story:

             Abhi(Naga Sourya) is a desperate youth to have fun in life.He is addicted to various social 

networking sites and always looks for reasons to flirt with girls.During his search ,he came across 

a simple girl and become a good friend with her.

            This is also the time when he falls for Prardhana(Palak Lalwani) and starts getting close to 

her.Twist in the tale arises when Abhi gets caught in an uncomprimising situation in Prardhana's

house.Hell breaks loose as both the families of the couple disown them for good.

          Left clueless,Abhi left Prardhana in a tricky situation.He gets yet another shock of his life 

when he comes to know that his close online friend is none other than Prardhana.Rest of the story is

as to how Abhi gets his deeds right andwin his love back.

Plus Points:

              Story of the film is pretty good.Naga Sourya looks good and performs good in his character.

Palak Lalwaani looks beautiful and gives a splendid performance in the film.The emotions 

between Naga Sourya and his family members handled well.Rao Ramesh is superb in his

negaative role.

Minus Points:

                     One of the biggest drawback of the film is lack of clarity.Songs are major hindrance in 

the film.

Technical Aspects:

                     Abbaitho Ammai is quite good in technical department.Camera work,Visuals,

Production in the film are top notch.Illaiyaraja's music is pretty decent.

Rating

123telugu.com:3/5

Telugu Mirchi:2.5/5

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