Bhoothnath Returns

Cast : Amitabh Bachhan,Parth bhalerao, Boman Irani,

Director : Nitesh Tiwari

Music : Palash Muchal, Meet Bros Anjjan, Ram Sampath, Yo Yo Honey Singh

Story: Bhoothnath wants to redeem himself as a human for which he will be asked to scare a boy in the Bhooth world. He comes back to human world on the mission. He meets Akhrot and rest of the story tells whether Bhoothnath will succeed or not.

Review: The concept inherits from Bhoothnath but a different plot. Bhoothnath contesting in the elections to fight against the antagonist is a new thing despite the logic if we consider.
The best thing about the movie was the election campaign by Bhoothnath which should be appreciative and thought provoking.
Akhrot character was quite good with local accent and his chemistry with Big B dwelled well in the story.
Boman Irani was okay as a corrupted cold blooded politician.
Overall,  first half was okay and second half was good.

Music Dept: Songs were good like "Party toh banti Hai", background score is Ok.

+ Points: Amitabh and Parth's performance.

- Points: First half. 

 Interesting points: Shahrukh and Ranbir in cameo roles.

Rating: 2.75/5

Suggestion: A good watch.

Bottomline: Bhooth Minister

Naan Sigappu Manithan/Indrudu

Translation: I am a red man.

Cast : Vishal, Lakshimi Menon.

Director : Thriu

Music : G.V Prakash

Story: Naan Sigappu Manithan is a story of a person who suffers with narcolepsy disease which makes him sleep at the extreme emotions like anger,happy,sad. He would face all problems due to his disorder in personal career and none would give job. Later one girl comes into his life, rest of the story is about how he survived.

Review: This film was from Vishal factory production company and once again taken a different genre of film after Pandianaadu/Palnadu. The plot of the film is delicate as in  medical-disorder-oriented movies.
The movie starts with introduction to disorder of the hero, a pinch of humour, the fresh love plot between Vishal and Lakshimi Menon made them successful lead pair for the second time after Palnaadu.
The interval scene makes the movie to take a new turn of revenge.

One would think how hero would deal with his disorder and take the revenge. Director dealt the complexity of the "disorder" story with his narration without missing any logic . The story takes new twists and turns in second half, Vishal impressed with his acting skills carrying all the emotions. The movie had all commercial elements with the mix of love, comedy, action and revenge.
Concept is new but the story is not.

Lakshmi did very good job and suited well to the character.

Music Dept: Background score was bad and songs were okay.


+ Points: Vishal performance, concept.

- Points: Background score.

Rating: 3.25/5


Suggestion: A good watch.

Bottomline: Don't make me sleep.

Race Gurram

Cast : Allu Arjun, Sruti Hasaan, Shaam, Mukesh Rishi,Prakash Raj

Director : Surender Reddy

Music : S.S Thaman

Story: There are two brothers who always fight to satisfy their egos. One rowdy enters in between them and the movie takes a new turn and goes on till the end.

Review: Race Gurram film marks the interesting combination of Allu Arjun and Surender Reddy. This is an wholesome entertainer with all commercial elements. Characterizations are good, songs placement is not justified. Antagonist acting was not up to the mark though the characterization was good. Sruti was restricted to only songs and haven't got any scope for acting.

Prakash Raj got an unjustified character and not up to the mark.

Allu Arjun once again carried the movie with his acting and diction, one word dialogue "Devuda" would become best in the recent times. He again proved that he is the best in emotional scenes which comes between him and brother. Story is routine.

Ali once again entertained as Dr.Pali.

Music Dept: Re-recording was not good, songs "down down", Race Gurram were good. Title song was misplaced, it was suppressed by the background score.

+ Points: Climax and interval bang, Bramhi's rocking performance.

- Points: The trailer of Kotha Janta in interval.
               Few scenes as in bank scene, Prakash Raj and Arjun meet for the first time.

Rating: 3/5

Suggestion: A good watch.

Bottomline: If one want entertainment, watch this film despite of logic.

Rowdy

Cast : Mohan Babu, Vishnu, Jayasudha, Shanvi

Director : Ram Gopal Varma

Music : Sai Karthik

Story: A group of people tries to get a project which involves a heap amount of money which would be harmful for the local people.
Anna(Mohan Babu) of the area would know this and tries to stop the project, meanwhile Anna's son gets angry with his father and goes with antagonists to kill Anna. The remaining plot unveils the story.

Review: RGV has extracted the best from the superb actor, Mohan Babu. He succeeded in getting a role of Anna by Mohan Babu with his natural presence without a wig. Visuals, direction, camera work what not, everything was good.

Mohan Babu has given his career's best performance after Pedarayudu, Rayalaseema Ramanna Chowdary, M Dharmaraju M.A. Few scenes has gone to next level because of his dialogue delivery.

Jayasudha as usual given her natural performance.

Vishnu proved himself as an action hero with right mix of emotions in few scenes.

The best thing was the richness in the visuals with a low budget(Of course, credit goes to RGV). Songs were drawbacks of the film, why would Anna need a duet songs at the age of 60. This film was having few copy-paste scenes from Raktha Charithra series and Sarkar series.

+ Points: Mohan Babu's presence without wig and performance, dialogues.

- Points: Space wouldn't have given to songs in between a serious plot.

Interesting things: Budget was just around 1 Cr.

Rating: 3.25/5

Suggestion: One time watch.

Bottomline: Rowdy is Andhra Sarkar.