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Telugu movies I DIDNT WATCH this year: Hero, Super Machi, Wanted Pandugod, Good Luck Sakhi, Sebastian PC254, Aadavallu Meeku Joharlu, Stand Up Rahul, Bhale Thandana, Godse, Sammathame, Pakka Commercial, The Warrior, Thank You, Ramarao on Duty, Happy Birthday, Nenu Meeku Kavalsina Vaadini, Saakini Daakini, Ginna, Macherla Nijayakoavargam, Ori Devuda, Urvashivo Rakshasivo, Alluri, Itlu Marudumilli Prajaneekam, and Yashoda

In just 7 months we have reached 50 episodes and never expected such speed. Today we have a BANGER of an episode for you with one of the greatest Telugu movies of all time Athadu directed by Trivikram Srinivas starring Mahesh Babu. 

We have Akhil and Pranav joining us to talk about one of our favorite movies. 

Agenda: 

1) First watch impressions and thoughts 

2) How your liking towards it grew 

3) Songs and Music 

4) Writing and Direction 

5) Deeper meaning and things you noticed on the rewatches 

6) Why it will always be a classic 

Interesting Facts

1) During F2, Anil ravipudi met Mahesh babu and narrated the storyline and he liked it a lot and they said ok. "I was inspired by the real life happenings in the life of a soldier while traveling in a train. The soldier was alone in the train and returning home and we interacted on various topics.

Though he was interacting with me, his entire concentration was on his duty and I understood that though soldiers go to their houses, they will be thinking of their duty. At the same time I realized that soldiers too have similar kind of emotions like everyone of us

2) Jagapathi babu was the original choice for villain but he was replace by Prakash Raj, jagapathi babu gave video clarification konni situations vallla, konni konni jaruguthu vuntayi industry lo, thappavu avvi, part of parcel and life saga teeskovali, aa situation valla aa cinema lo nenu lenu. He rejected two films for Sarileru as well.

3) Sai Pallavi was the original choice for the heroine but she rejected it and went to Rashmika. Sai Pallavi knew before hand that if she did this, the audience would garner more hatred towards her for sure, and as an audience we can’t imagine her in that role as her role in MCA was so irritating.

4) Konda Reddy Buruju set in Ramoji Film City costed 4 crores around 500K USD and then a house set in Aziz Nagar was built for the movie and can see it almost telugu movie now: Lakshya, Bangarajju, Krack, Gaali Sampath, Tuck Jagadish, Seetimaar,

5) First schedule on July 5th and ended on November 8th, so exactly 6 months almost, quickest big film other than Aravinda Sametha which was 5 months April 2018 to September.

6) Marked Vijayashanti’s comeback to Telugu cinema and first time acting with mahesh babu after Koduku Diddina Kapuram so nice to see the legend back.

Story: Combo of Okkadu and Athadu which sounds amazing but it’s very simple and routine. Ajay Mahesh babu goes to Ajay Satyadevs village to relay a message to his family that he has died in battle. Then he realizes that in the village Satyadev’s family is under threat from MLA Nagendra who is a corrupt and evil leader in Kurnool. Then he makes it his mission to make Nagendra realize his mistake and reform him. This is the story in a nutshell

Acting: Mahesh Babu one man show, Vijayashanti is great, Bandla Ganesh funny 

Writing/Direction: very amateur level but the mass blocks in the movie and Mahesh Babu make it watchable. Train comedy is worst. and there is no train from Kashmir to Kurnool. Direction is good, you never feel bored, story is routine, Mahesh babu one man show. But overall it’s entertaining movie. Heroine role and family is worst.

Technicalities

Music: Worst

Production design: world class.

Fights: Interval fight is good

Editing: Train scene

Dialogues: Meow Moew Pilli, Milk Boy tho Pelli, Ilanti never before ever after

Yevadu yevadu ni vodilali raa, pave ganta nundi,

What is good: Mahesh Babu, pacing, fights, cinematography and songs

What is bad: depiction of the soldiers and what exactly happens, you actually forget that he’s a soldier other than the beginning, Vijayashanti house, and then climax, but there’s no justification.

Basically the writing isn’t good. Rape comedy and rape jokes. MB and the producers should know better. Comedy isn’t fresh, it’s very forced.

Other than some moments with Prakash Raj and Sangeetha, nothing works.

Weak hero villain conflict. Best example of this is like Singam, hero and villain one upping each other. Here it’s just convos and Prakash Raj is some minister who can’t do anything to a simple soldier. Like in Race Gurram when Ravi Kishan cant do shit to Allu Arjun despite being the CM lmao. Climax makes no sense, to reform criminals, you send them to the army to learn responsibility. If anything should have throw him in jail or just killed him tbh.

Andariki Namaskaram! Here's our review of NTR and Vamshi Paidipally's family entertainer classic Brindavanam. 

Kontha mandi idhi serial anukuntaru, but for me it's one of the best class + mass entertainers ever in Telugu cinema. 

Village type family entertainer is my favorite genre, so naturally I loved this movie. 

Credits

Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations

Cast: NTR, Kajal Agarwal, Samantha, Prakash Raj, Srihari, Kota Sreenivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Ajay, Tanikella Bharani, Praneet Reddy, Raghu Babu, Ahuti Prasad, Fish Venkat, Surekhavani, Pratima, Hema etc

Music: S Thaman

Here's our review of Boyapati and NTR's Dhammu. You know the rest....

Dammu..Dham Dhamta Dhammu

Andariki Namaskaram! Today we have a new concept in today's episode. In American culture we have something called what's your Mount Rushmore of something which means what are the 4 Best things of a particular topic so we decided to apply it to Telugu Movies of our favorite stars. 

Mahesh Babu

Pokiri, Athadu, Okkadu, Khaleja

Special mentions - Murari, 1 Nenokkadine, Dookudu, Businessman, SVSC

NTR-

Simhadri, Adhurs, RRR, Brindavanam

Special mentions - Aadi, Aravinda Sametha

Ram Charan -

Chirutha, Magadheera, Rangasthalam, RRR

Special Mentions - Racha, Yevadu, Naayak, Vineya Vidheya Rama,

Pawan Kalyan -

Tholi Prema, Thammudu, Kushi, Badri

Special Mentions - Jalsa, Gabbar Singh, Panjaa,

Allu Arjun -

Arya, Desamuduru, Vedam, Race Gurram

Special Mentions - Bunny, Sarrainodu, Julayi, Pushpa

Prabhas -

Varsham, Bujjigaadu, Baahubali, Mirchi

Special Mentions - Mr. perfect, Darling,

Venkatesh

Preminchukundam Raa, Kalisundam Raa, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Malliswari

Special Mentions - Jayam Manderaa, vasantham, Raja, Aadavari matalaku Ardhare Verule, Namo Venkatesa, Chanti, Kshana Kshanam, Swarna Kamalam, Bobbili raja, Deviputrudu, pavitra bandam,

Nagarjuna

Shiva, Geetanjali, Manmadhudu, oopiri

Special mentions - Annamayya, Govinda Govinda, Mass, Santosham, Nenuannnu, Gagagnam,

Chiru -

Khaidhi, Gang Leader, Indra, Shankar Dada MBBS

Special mentions - Chantiabbayi, Annayya, Swayam Krushi, rudraveena, Aapathbandhavudu, Jagadeka Veerudu, Tagore,

Raviteja -

Idiot, Vikramarkudu, Kick, Neninthe

Special mention: amma nanna, Krishna, Don Seenu, Mirapakaya, Itlu Sravani, Khadgam

Balayya -

Samarasimha Reddy, Aditya 369, Bhairava Dweepam, Simha

Special Mention - , Sri Rama Rajyam legend, Akhanda,

Nani -

Pilla Zamindar, Jersey, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy, Eega

Special Mention - Astha Chamma, Yevade Subramanyam, Gentleman, Nenu Local, Ninnu Kori, Shyam Singha Roy,

Ram Pothineni -

Devadasu, Ready, Kandireega, Nenu Sailaja

Vijay Deverakonda -

Yevade Subramanyam, Pellichoopulu, Arjun Reddy, Geetha Govindam

Here's our rant about the greatest Telugu movie ever made! Starring Mahesh Babu and directed by Vamshi Paidipally, the last movie I ever watched in my college career. Fitting end with a fitting movie. Learned a lot. 

Andariki Namaskaram! Today we are back with a script breakdown of the movie Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava. I hated it on first watch, but on the rewatch and insistence from my friend Akhil, my view point changed so much. 

Logline: In a faction torn land, Veera Raghava Reddy embarks on a journey to find himself and a solution for his village.

We broke the movie down into 3 parts: The aftermath of the war, love track, and solution for peace. 

Aftermath of the war: 5 Rupee Factionism between Nallagaudi and Kommadi, Opening Fight, aftermath of Nagababu death, Yeda Poyinado song, women affected, NTR leaving the house 

Love Track: First meeting, college scene, Anaganaganga song, Pomodoro scene, Metro scene, Bedroom scene, Reddy Ikkada Soodu song 

Solution for Peace: Rao Ramesh scene, Neelambari scenes, Peace Meeting Scene, Naveen Chandra murder scene, Climax fight, Ending. 

Enjoy!