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Music: Mani Sharma all day, then DSP and Thaman, SA Rajkumar, Harris Jayaraj, Vivek Sagar
Cinematography: KV Guhan: Athadu, Jalsa, parts of Khaleja, Dookudu, Baadshah, SVSC, Aagadu, Naani, and Mister.
PS Vinod: debut with Panjaa, Manam, Oopiri, Dhruva, Soggade Chinni Nayana, Hello, Aravinda Sametha, AVPL, Vakeel Saab, Sita Ramam and waiting for SSMB28
KK Senthil Kumar: All Rajamouli movies except Simhadri, Student No1, Vikramarkudu and Maryada Ramanna, also did Golconda high School and Arundhati, only 17 movies,
Shyam K Naidu: 15 movies with Puri Jagan
Rathnavelu: Arya, Jagadam, 1 Nenokkadine, Rangasthalam, Brahmotsavam, Sarileru, Sye Raa, and Robo.
Art Directors/ Production Designers:
AS Prakash: Arya, Agnythaavasi, Aagadu, Bommarillu, Dubai Seenu, Kantri, Ready, Kotha Bangaru Lokam, King, Namo Venkatesa, Simha, Don Seenu, Ragada, 100% Love, Dookudu, Bodyguard, SVSC, Mirchi, Baadshah, Balupu, Masala, Aagadu, Mukunda, Srimanthudu, A Aa, Janatha Garage, Nenu Local, Jai Lava Kusa, Agnythaavasi, Aravinda Sametha, F2, Sarileru Neekevvaru, Ala Vaikunthapurramlo, Waltair Veerayya, Veera Simha Reddy, SSMB28
Thota Tharani: Arjun, Athadu, Mass, Leader, Life is Beautiful, Brahmotsavam, Khaidhi No 150, Sivaji the Boss,
Ashok Koralath: Indra, Kalisundam Raa, Okkadu, Darling, Arundhati, Takkari Donga, Jayam Mandera, Santosham, Bunny, Varsham, Shankar Dada MBBS,
Anand Sai: Brindavanam, Badrinath Temple set in Allu Arjun's Badrinath, Thammudu, Simhadri, Vaasu, Sye, Ashish Vidyarthi's house in Gudumba Shankar, Balu, the Warangal Fort recreated in Mahesh Babu's Sainikidu, Munna, the iconic contemporary mansion of Sanjay Sahu in Jalsa, Parugu, Khaleja, Adhurs, Shakthi, Dhammu, and Yevadu.
Raveendar: Magadheera, Nagineedu's house in Maryada Ramanna that Son of Satyamurthy? Bhagamathie Bungalow set which was built in just 29 days Vikramarkudu, Chatrapathi, Okkadunnadu, Rakhi, Pourudu, Goldconda High School, Mr Perfect, Oosaravelli, Sri Rama Rajyam, Oh My Friend, Rajanna, Eega, Attarintiki Daredi in Ramoji Film City, Oohalu Gusagusalade, Nannaku Prematho, Soggade Chinni Nayana, Gentleman, Duvvada Jagganadham, Mahanubhavudu, and Sammohanam, Radhe Shyam
Avinash Kolla: Krishagadi veera Prema Ghada, Major, Shyam Singha Roy, Jersey, looking forward to Dasara
Chinna: Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi, Shivamani, andhrawala, Super, Lakshmi, Pokiri, Yogi, Desamuduru, Chirutha, Bujjigaadu, Neninthe, Anjaneyulu, Ek Niranjan, Golimaar, Nenu Naa Rakshasi, Kandireega, Businessman, Devudu Chesina Manushulu, Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu, Ninnu Kori
Editors: A Sreekar Prasad is favorite: Annammaya, Nuvve Kavali, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Manmadhudu, Okkadu, Arjun, Malliswari, Gowri, Athadu, Jalsa, Khaleja, Panjaa, RRR
Navin Nooli: Rangasthalam, Ala Vaikunthapurramlo, first big movie was Govindudu Andari Vadele, Nannaku Prematho, Dhruva, Aravinda Sametha, Jersey, Gang Leader, Krack, Acharya, Bheemla Nayak, SSMB28
Marthand K Venkatesh: Pokiri and Kalisundam Raa, Preminchukundam Raa, Bavagaru Bagunarra, Ganesh, Tholi Prema, Thammudu, Raja, Seenu, Kalisundam Raa, Badri, Ninne Premistha, Aazad, Jayam Manaderaa, Daddy, Takkari Donga, Bobby, Idiot, Raghavendra, Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi, Vasantham, Shivamani, Arya, Andharawala, Venky, Nenunnanu, Pokiri, Shankar Dada MMBS, Bhadra, Super, Godavari, Thulasi, Desamuduru, Bommarillu, Munna, Happy Days, Parugu, Kantri, Bujjigadu, Brindavanam, Ragada, Orange, Mr Perfect, SVSC, Yevadu, and Geetha Govindam
Fight Masters: Vijayan: Okkadu, Arjun, Pokiri, Takkari Donga,
Anbariv: KGF and Vikram
Ram Lakshman: Krack fights
Vijay: Dookudu, Aagadu, Ragada, Kick, Businessman, Shivamani, Mass, Bheemla Nayak
Producers: Aswini Dutt, MS Raju, Dil Raju, S Radhakrishna, Shobu Yarlagadda, Sravanthi Ravi Kishore
Andariki Namaskaram! Today we are back with another movie discussion this time for Nagarjuna and Sreenu Vaitla's comedy entertainer King.
Today we have Pranav joining us once again to take a trip down memory lane and share our experiences for the movie. Hope you all enjoy and can relate!
Banner: Kamakshi Kala Movies
Cast: Nagarjuna, Trisha, Mamata Mohandas, Srihari, Deepak, Geetha, Brahmanandam, Sunil, MS Narayana, Krishna Bhagawan, Jayaparakash Reddy, Ajay, Surya, Chandra Mohan, Sayaji Shinde, Venu Madhav, Master Bharath, Fish Venkat, Duvvasi Mohan, Gowtham Raju, Sudha, AVS, Dharmavarupu, Supreeth, Srinivas Reddy, Jeev, Prudhviraj, Gundu Sudarshan, Banerjee, Sravan, Narsing Yadav, Chitram Seenu, Giridhar, Ranam Venu, Rama Chandar, Devadas Kanakala, Rajitha, Lakshmi Narasimha aka Tarzan, and Ramajogayya Sastry
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
Editing: MR Varma
Agenda:
1) First Impressions
2) How your liking towards it grew
3) Songs and Music
4) Writing and Direction
5) Deeper Meaning and Things you Noticed on rewatch
6) Why it will always be relevant
Topics:
Early 2000-2010’s commercial movie directors: Muthyala Subbaiah, SS Rajamouli, Trivikram, Puri jagannadh, Boyapati Sreenu, Sukumar, VV Vinayak, Gopichand Malineli, Krishna Vamsi, Vamshi Padipally, Koratala Siva, VN Aditya, Dasaradh, Gunashekar, Veera Shankar, Veera Potla, Parasuram, Surender Reddy, Sreenu Vaita, Anil Ravipudi, Karunakaran, Sreekanth Addala,
2015: Muthyala Subbaiah, Puri jagannadh, VV Vinayak, Krishna Vamsi, Vamshi Padipally, Koratala Siva, VN Aditya, Dasaradh, Gunashekar, Veera Shankar, Veera Potla, Parasuram, Surender Reddy, Sreenu Vaita, Karunakaran, and Sreekanth addala everybody went to the shed and became outdated. They no longer have the same grip or creativity to make it big
Present Day: Rajamouli, Trivikram, Sukumar, the big 3, then Koratala Siva, Boyapati, Anil Ravipudi
So I feel bad that when the time Telugu cinema is peaking and getting global recognition for the first time, the amount of commercial movie directors that can appeal to Western audiences are basically nil. They know Rajamouli and these new age directors none of them are commercial movie directors at all and majority of them disappear after just one film
New age directors: Middle Class Melodies director Vinant Anantoju, Venkatesh Maha, Sankalp Reddy, Sudheer varma, Tharun Bhascker, Madha movie director, Chandoo Mondeti, Nag Ashwin (project K), Hanu Raghavapaudi (Sita Ramam), Ravikanth Perupu, Venky Atluri, Venu Udugula, Sailesh Kolanu, Praveen Sattaru, Ravi Kiran Kolla, Venky Kudumula, Vivek Athreya,
Promising: Srinivas Avasarala, Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Nag Ashwin, Hanu Raghavapudi, Ravi Kiran Kolla, migitha andaru they have to prove themselves
Future: Is Rajamouli just a one off wonder or will the West now actively be interested in the new discovery that is Telugu cinema? MB29 will anyhow have humongous worldwide hype, but will ProjectK, NTR30 and RC15 get the same reception now that Tarak and Charan are known faces in the west? That remains the million dollars question.
Credits:
Banner: 14 Reels Entertainment
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kriti Sanon, Gautham krishna, Nassar, Anu Hasan, Sayaji Shinde, Pradeep Rawat, Kelly Dorji, Vikram Singh, Posani krisha murali, Srinivasa reddy, Anand, Sophie Choudry.etc
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Camera: R. Rathnavelu
Fights: Peter Hain
Lyrics: Chandrabose
Choreography: Prem Rakshith
Story: Jakka Hari Prasad
Story sahakaram: Arjun YK, Thota Sreenu
Screenplay: Jeremy Zimmerman
Direction: Sukumar
Producers: Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta, Anil Sunkara
Release date: 10 January 2014
Credits
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, Catherine Tresa, Urvashi Rautela (special appearance) Rajendra Prasad, Prakash Raj, Bobby Simha, Baby Shreshta, Nassar, Sathyaraj, Vennela Kishore, Subbaraju, Srinivasa Reddy, Saptagiri, Shakalaka Shankar, Pradeep Rawat, Rajendran, Jayaprakash etc
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography: Arthur A Wilson
Editor: Niranjan Devaramane
Production Design: AS Prakash
Action: Ram Laxman
Costumes: Sushmita Konidela
Screenplay: Kona Venkat, K Chakravarthy Reddy
Additional Writing: Hari Mohana Krishna, Vineeth Potluri
Story - dialogues - direction: Bobby Kolli
Producers: Naveen Yerneni & Y Ravi Shankar
Story: A fisherman from jarlarpeta Waltair Veerayya is hired by RAW Agents or the police Rajendra Prasad and Vennela Kishore to catch Bobby Simha. But there’s more to the story than meets the eye.
Writing/Direction: Chiranjeevi characterization and entertainment work good, but 2nd half is not upto the mark. Sequences and bonding between Raviteja and Chiranjeevi should have been showcased better. 2nd half is pretty slow and feels like a drag due to the scenes not being written with much focus and impact. First half is really breezy and Chiru carries with his comic timing and performance. Shruthi Hassan role was cool but then it just ends and there’s a lot of logic missing. Like why would a common CI hire a fisherman to get the job done when there are so many other people out there. Lot of supporting cast wasted and typical routine revenge story. Also for somebody like Waltair Veerayya, there’s no strong villain to challenge him or make him a force to reckon with. Climax is also over the top and silly. Jumps from a cliff onto a helicopter and then beheads a guy in court.
Technicalities:
Music: Songs are not good. Worst album of DSP in recent times. BGM is surprisingly good, flute BGM was the best.
Cinematography: Amazing
Production Design: Decent
Fights: Bad
Costumes: Good
Dialogues: Entertaining
Editing: could chop off 5 mins in climax, all useless stuff
Overall: decent timepass entertainer, some entertainment and Chiru comic timing keep you entertained. More entertaining than Veera Simha Reddy so folks are enjoying it.
Credits
Banner: Mythri Movie Makers
Cast: Nandamuri Balakrishna, Shruti Haasan, Duniya Vijay, Honey Rose, Varalaxmi Sarath Kumar, Laal, Ajay Ghosh, Murali Sharma, Chandrika Ravi, and others
Dialogues: Sai Madhav Burra
Music: Thaman S
Cinematographer: Rishi Punjabi
Editing: Navin Nooli
Production Designer: A.S. Prakash
Fights: Ram-Laxman, Venkat
Producers: Naveen Yerneni and Ravi Shankar Yalamanchili
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Gopichand Malineni
Release Date: Jan 12, 2023
Interesting Facts
Story: Veera Simha Reddy is a faction leader in Pulicherla revered by his people. When he is killed his step sister and brother in law, his son Jai Simha Reddy who lives in Istanbul steps in to finish the revenge.
Writing and Direction: Pathetic writing and even worse direction. Gopichand Malineli should be ashamed of himself. No logic in the movie at all and filled with cringeworthy scenes from start to finish. Clearly inspired to make a Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu, and Chennakesava Reddy and failed miserably.
Technicalities:
Music: Worst. Way too LOUD
Production Design: Amazing
Cinematography: Amazing
Editing: Bad
Dialogues: Useless
Fights: Useless
Costumes: Veera Simha Reddy clothes are nice, black shirt and lungi
Overall: Balayya fans and general audience won’t like it. Not a good film and honestly just stupid. Saying this as a die hard Telugu movie fan.
Credits
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra
Cast: Prabhas, Kajal Agarwal, Shraddha Das, Prabhu, Ahuti Prasad, Kota, Srinivasa Reddy, Raja Sridhar, MS Narayana, Mukesh Rishi, Chandra Mohan, Sivannarayana, Tulasi, Prabhas Sreenu, Vamsi Krishna.
Music: GV Prakash
Fights: Peter Heins
Art Direction: Ashok Koralath
Interesting Facts:
Credits
Banner: Sumanth Arts
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Bhumika Chawla, Prakash Raj, Rajan P Dev, Achyut, Geeta, Mukesh Rushi, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Telangana Sakuntala, Gowtham Raju, Ajax
Music: Mani Sharma
Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Art: Ashok Kumar/Koralath
Cinematography: Sekhar V Joseph
Editing: A. Sreekar Prasad
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Guna Sekhar
Fights: Vijayan
Producer: MS Raju
Release date: 15th January 2003
Agenda
1) First Impressions
2) How your liking towards it grew
3) Songs and Music
4) Writing and Direction
5) Themes and Deeper Meanings
6) Why it will always be a classic
Interesting Facts
Why did it fail
Final Thoughts - Harris Jayaraj the real MVP, the only reason why the movie is still relevant is due to the all time classic album. Every song is fire. My favorite is Orugalluke Pilla and Maayera. Andhra ni motham shake chesina paata.
Last time we recapped the worst. This time we're gonna recap the best! Enjoy!
Best
Average:
Songs
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SSMB28
Salaar
Hari Hara Veera Mallu
Pushpa 2
Dasara
NTR30
NTR31
Bhola Shankar
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