Credits

Banner: Suresh Productions

Cast: Tarun, Arti Agrawal, Kiran Rathod, Laya, Sunil, Brahmanandam, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Sararh Babu, Chandra Mohan, Sudha, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, K Viswanath, Ahuti Prasad

Director of Photography: Sekhar V Joseph

Choreographers: Suchitra Chandra Bose, Lawrence, Ashok Raj

Art Director: Narayana Reddy 

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh, Madhav 

Music: RP Patnaik

Lyrics: Veturi, Kula Sekhar & Y Kasi Viswanath

Story - Screenplay - Direction - Dialogues: Y Kasi Viswanath

Production: D Suresh Babu

Theatrical Release Date: 14th January 2002 

Interesting Facts: too many - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZ_9JA5ylA&t=1065s&ab_channel=RajeshManne

Writing/Direction: Writing is mish mash of 3 successful movies, yet somehow the movie works. 

So basically the story is two childhood friends realizing they have feelings for her each other and how they unite and their love wins everyone over is a time tested story. This is literally the plot of Nuvve Kavali. 

So two friends falling in love plot is Nuvve Kavali 

Ahuthi Prasad hates Chandramohan family for not marrying his sister and marrying someone else - literally Srihari from Kalisundam Raa 

Tarun sacrifices his love in climax for greater good of the two families as he didn’t want to break the friendship - Nuvvu Naaku Nachav Venkatesh 

It literally mixes all 3 movies and presents it to you as Nuvvu Lena Nneu Lenu. To make a difference, the finance/busuiness angle is there as well as the presence of K Viswananth. 

Since this is a Suresh Productions banner and because the director worked for Kalisudnam Raa, the comparison and influence is inevitable. 

Despite that, the leads have very good chemistry yet I felt the way that they like each other was a bit unconvincing. Only after their Panama says you two should marry, then they start taking it seriously but I guess they always liked each other. 

Aarti Agarwal character is the best written character as the emotion in the film stems from her. Kasi Viswananth merged all the themes of friendship, love, and sacrifice seamlessly and then added his own comedy track to keep you entertained. Sunil is the biggest source of entertainment in the movie and his comedy keeps you laughing like anything 

Two things I really liked were set up and pay off of the following: 

Another thing I really liked was hero’s name is Radha and girls name is Krishna, so symbolically they are saying they are eternal lovers. 

Direction by Kasi Viswanath is very good. I can’t explain it, but its so well directed, emotions are so good, and most of all movie is so entertaining you never feel bored. Also since this is a musical hit, the elevation scenes are the songs much like Nuvvutonante Nenoddantana and many other films. His creative inputs and writing was excellent in his first film, and after 22 years we still remember the movie, that must mean he did an extraordinary job which he did. 

Music and BGM by RP Patnaik is CLASSIC RAA AYYA, each and every song is a classic, the only song I dont like is Chi Chi Bulamma sounds funny and isn’t as good as the others. My favorite songs are Ela Ela Ela and title song, childhood memories. Nindu Godari is also too good and then Edo Edo is also classic. BGM is too good. Elevates so many scenes and gives goosebumps. Classic that’s it. 

Credits

Banner: Sumanth Arts 

Cast: Uday Kiran, Reema Sen, Sunil, Tanikella Bharani, Chandramohan, Sudha, Tanu Roy, Shiju, Parachuri venkateswara Rao, Sireesha, Devadas Kanakala, Shiva Reddy, Kaushal Manda, Sagar, Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry (cameo) 

Music: R.P. Patnaik 

Cinematography: S Gopal Reddy 

Editing: KV Krishna Reddy

Art Direction: Rajesh Touchriver apparently 

Fights: Ram Lakshman 

Story - Producer: MS Raju 

Screenplay: Parachuri Brothers 

Direction: VN Aditya 

Release Date: October 19th, 2001 

Credits 

Banner: Primeshow Entertainment 

Cast: Teja Sajja, Amrutha Aiyer, Ravi Teja (voice), Vinay Rai, Varalaxmi Sarath Kumar, Vennela Kishore, Raj Deepak Shetty, Getup Srinu, Satya and others

Music: Anudeep Dev, GowraHari, Krishna Saurabh

Cinematography: Dasaradhi Sivendra (same for naa Saami Ranga) 

Editor: Sai Babu Talari

Art Director: Sri Nagendra Tangala

Screenplay - dialogues: Scriptville

Writer - director: Prasanth Varma

Producer: Niranjan Reddy Kandagatla

Release Date: January 12th, 2024

Interesting Facts: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/director-prasanth-varma-on-hanuman-this-cinematic-universe-will-also-have-a-female-superhero-film/article67694986.ece

Writing/Direction: the Line of the movie is basically like every superhero movie: A man gains superpowers to save to world and fight evil. Here the stone gives him superpowers and the evil is Michael who intends to do bad things with the stone if he ever got it. 

Hanuman tries to be a superhero origin story and a commercial masala Telugu movie at the same time and I felt it did neither fully. The balancing act was not there. 

Positives in the writing were Hanumanthu’s characterization, elevations, the world building Anjanadri etc, actions sequences and fun factor which is main. 

The action sequences were so well chroerhpraged and the first fight when he gets his powers is typical but very fun. Its a must scene in every superhero movie of the hero getting his powers and learning how to use them.  

The references scene was a delight because I love that stuff and then they give elevation for Balayya. Scene when he finds the stone is very good. Gajapathi fight scene at interval is very good and then Avakayi fight was very well done with symbolism basically hes gonna beat the villains into a paste. Reminded me of Sitharala Sirapadu and theaters probably went crazy for that scene. 

The elevations were also superb. If you are Hindu, then you have heard the stories and mythology and know of Hanuman’s powers and greatness and this movie does them very well. 

The negatives were actually some of the commercial elements: romantic track is not believable at all nor was I entertained by it, comedy didnt work except the bird that follows Satya and then the movie really didnt have emotion. To generate emotion they kill Varalaxmi. Then I felt it, but other than that I never felt the sister brother bond. The one scene which is done really well between them is when Hanumanthu’s grandma tells him that the reason his sister isn’t married is because of taking care of him, so Hanumantu makes everything without his superpowers by hand so she can take care of herself. Touching and well written moment. Aslo Vinay rai’s villain was very weak despite an interesting backstory. He has no motives for us to connect. Its just he is bad guy and wants to do evil things. 

There’s also the themes of a village that is under a ruler and they are all salves. Who will free us from atrocities and it happens to be Hanumanthu with his superpowers. Once they are freed, immediately another conflict comes in. 

Direction by Prashanth Varma is amazing and very good to be honest. Despite such limited budget the output is outstanding and looks like easily a 70-75 crore film. The VFX is tacky for the animals and some scenes but what else do you expect. That being said the way he was able to craft a Telugu superhero movie despite it being a routine template movie and package it very well is amazing. 

scenes that how his brilliance 

Best Movies - Top 10 

Top Movies 

Worst 5 

Special mention: Waltair Veerayya not Chiru range movie and acting was very artificial very overrated movie bad album and then Boss saying hey have 2.25 ratings but we did 2.25 million,  

Rangabali, Kushi, Tiger Nageswara Rao, Bro, Mem Famous, Anni Manchi Sakunamule - Nanindi Reddy said my film will have a self life of 25 years despite the bad talk. Nobody will watch it again. 

Top 10 Songs:

Worst Songs of the year: Poonakallu Loading from Waltair Veerayya, Cult Mama from Skanda, Ole Ole Pappayi from Extra Ordinary Man 

Awards 

Hero of the year: Prabhas two highest grossing movies but result wise Adipurush disaster and then Salaar TBA 

Best film - Salaar 

Best Director: Prashanth Neel for Salaar 

Special mention: Ram Abbaraju for Samajavaragamana 

Best Actor - Naveen Polishetty for MSMP 

Special Mention: Nani for Dasara 

Best Actress: Mrunal Thakur 

Special Memtion - Samyuktha Menon for Virupaksha 

Best Debut Male - Sangeeth Sobhan for MAD 

Best Debut Actress - Vaishnavi Chaitanya for Baby 

Song of the Year - Needhe Needhe from Hi Nanna 

Singer of the year male - Karthik (Nachavule, Adipurush 2 songs, Anni Manchi Sakunumule title song, Adigaa Hi Nanna) 

Singer of the year female - N/A 

Best Supporting Actor: Naresh for Samajavaragamana, Raviteja for Waltair Veerayya 

Best Supporting Actress: Rohini for Writer Padmabushan 

Best Cinematography: Sathyan Sooryan for Dasara, Bhuvan Gowda for Salaar 

Worst movie: Bhola Shankar, Agent and Veera Simha Reddy

Worst Director: Meher Ramesh, Surender Reddy and Gopichand Malineli 

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Credits

Banner: Homble Films 

Cast: Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Hassan, Jagapathi Babu, Bobby Simha, Tinnu Anand, Easwari Rao, Sriya Reddy, Garuda Ram, Madhu Guruswamy, Brahmaji, Shafi, John Vijay, Devaraj, Saptagiri, Prudhvi Raj, Jhansi, Mime Gopi, 

Music: Ravi Basrur

Cinematography: Bhuvan Gowda

Editor: Ujwal Kulkarni

Production Design: T L Venkatachalapathi

Costumes: Thota Vijay Bhaskar

Action choreography: Anbariv

Dialogues: Sandeep reddy bandla, Choudary Hanuman, Prashanth Neel, D.R. Suri 

Story - Screenplay - direction: Prashanth Neel

Producer: Vijay Kiragandur

Interesting Facts:

After KGF, Prabhas himself kept hearing from fans manodu KGF chest bagundedi and everybody was talking about KGF including people in his home but he hadn’t seen the movie until then. Then he watched it and said it was extradoinary then a producer in the industry said Prashanth wants to meet him. Initially Prabhas was hesitant because in Telugu industry they say hero wants tp meet director ula kaadhu so he asked for clarity does he really want me to meet me or producers trick so he said ok. They met and talked about what movies they like general talk it was not a meeting for a film. They liked each other after it. And Prasanth was surprised because they thought Baahubali actor was big egotistical guy loos attitude. Then Pramod who is prabhas cousin and owner of UV Creations got a call from Vijay Kirangandur and he had just signed Adipurush and Project K and said Prasanth wants to direct you. They never gave him a response and he thought there was some 100 heroes he could have chosen. Then one night at 12 AM, he and Pramod were deciding and and if they say yes Om Raut and Nag Ashwin will get angry, if he says no then he can ever work with Prashanth need again so they asked how many days Hombale needs. They said 45 days. He was like Prashanth need 45 days his last two movies took 6 years to make and we can lie to other producers. But he understood one thing, if he said to Prashanth Neel and fans found ut, they will kill me so he agreed to do it. All his projects took a long time, Project K took 3 years and finally it took 112 days to complete Salaar. 

For Prithviraj, Neel narrated the story when he was filming a movie called Aadujeevitham in Dubai and then COVID happened and he has a huge physical transformation and then Prashanth need narrated Salaar. Initially he wanted to say no because generally pan India movie dont give Malayalam actors big roles but within 10 minutes he said yes. But now due to Aadujeevitham dates issue he called need and said I cant do it. Because he was the only choice for the role, Prashanth Neel spoke to Prabhas and said we will wait for you let us know your dates when you can make it and he ended up doing the movie. 

For SHriya Reddy she made a comeback to Telugu cinema after 17 years, apparently she’s in Amma Cheppindi movie so its her first straight movie after 17 years. Of course we all remember her fro. Pogaru and its her first movie in a long time. Prashanth neel had her in ind for the role and called her monthly to keep in touch and let her know about the progress. 

Godavarikhani, Italy, and Ramoji Film City entire shooting happened. Filming started on January 27th 2021 in Govadarikhani and ended up on December 1st, 2023 after 114 working days. 

The movie is a reimaginging of Neel’s own Uggaram which starred his brother in law Srimurali, 

Movie was shot on Alexa 35 with Signature Prime and Signature Zoom Lenses by Bhuvan Gowda. So why didnt they use Arri Alexa LF since its such a big scale film he tired it for about 2-3 days but the backgrounds were coming really into focus not the image and he wasnt getting the proper framing. 

Finally teaser on July 6th, 1st trailer on December 1st and then 2nd trailer on December 18th finally movie release on December 22nd. Fans loved it, ok for general audience and running successfully.

Credits

Banner: Niharika Entertainments 

Cast: Nani, Sai Pallavi, Kriti Shetty, Madonna Sebastian, Rahul Ravindran, Jisshu Sengupta, Murali Sharma, Abhinav Gomatam, Manish Wadhwa, Leela Samson, Subhalekha Sudkahar, Sivaranayana, Anurag Kulkarni in Pravanyalaya song 

Music: Mickey J Meyer 

Cinematography: Sanu John Varughese

Production Design: Avinash Kolla 

Editing: Navin Nooli 

Fights: Ravi Varma 

Story: Satyadev Janga  

Story Development - Dialogues - Screenplay - Direction: Rahul Sankrityan

Producer: Venkat Boyanapalli 

Release Date: December 24th, 2021 

Interesting Facts:

Writer Satyadev Janga worked on the story for 3 years and he knew Rahul Sankrityan from a long time. 

The inception of Shyam Singha Roy happened in 2019 when the filmmaker met writer Satyadev Janga. The latter pitched a one-liner with the backdrop of Calcutta.

The highlight of the movie is that Kalighat Temple Set in Hyderabad. It was The set costed them Rs 6.5 crores and the shoot of the film is currently happening in the set. The film is a periodic drama set in the backdrop of West Bengal. A 100-year-old Kali temple set was constructed using bricks and clay to bring the authentic feel of an old Bengali temple. Over 1200 workers took two months to construct the special set that is spread across 10 acres in the outskirts of Hyderabad. Even the workers for the set are flown down from West Bengal as the makers did not want to miss the unique style of the temples in their state. But the set was damaged by heavy rains and The makers spent close to Rs 2 crores and 10 days on the set work again. 

Movie got average talk I think and was a hut but the weirdest movie. Budget was 4-60 crores but they undersold it for just like 20 or 25 crores and it made 27 crores share and was a hit at the box office. Its considered a success. 

Writing/Direction:

The big problem with this movie is actually the present portion. Any story of reincarnation needs conflict but here there is none. Vasu’s entire character has no point because his whole point is that he is Shyam Singha Roy reincarnated. Theres nothing else. The main villain Mahanth is already dead and if he wanted to take revenge, then Shyam’s brothers are also dead cobvienelty in a a car crash. So the entire present portion is useless.

I still standby my comment that if the director had made the entire movie in 1970’s Kolkata with the same themes of caste, communism, and devadasi’s this movie would have been an all time classic. Because there’s so much to explore. 

The directors efforts in writing are present in set up and payoffs which some of them work brilliantly. 

Production Design by Avinash Kolla. MASTERPIECE. The Bengali architecture is perfect and the whole atmosphere created for the period setup, printing press, houses, village, etc is so good and authentic and realistic. Its the highlight technicality of the movie if you ask me. 

Credits 

Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies 

Cast: Nagarjuna, Soundarya, Raghuvaran, Shilpa Shetty, Banerjee, LB Sriram, Prakash raj, Brahmanandham, Sujitha, Nutan Prasad, Raghunatha Reddy, Tanikella Bharani, Dharmavarupu Subramanyam, Narsing Yadav 

Music: Mani Sharma 

Lyrics: Suddala Ashoka Teja, Veturi, Chandrabose, Sirivennela

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu

Art Director: Srinivasa Raju of Manmadhudhu, Sitaramaraju, and Rajakumarudu fame

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Fights: Kanal Kannan, Thriller Manju 

Screenplay Assistance: Feroz Bhagat, N Maharajan, Crazy Mohan, Bhupathi Raja, Yandamoori Veerendranath 

Dialogues: Parachuri Brothers 

Story - Screenplay - Direction: Thirupathi Swamy 

Producer: Aswini Dutt 

Release Date: September 29th, 2000 

Context: Saw it on TV when I was like 8 years old in India but only from Chamma Chekka song and remember that song so well, asked what movie this is and they said Azad, wanted to watch it since it has Nagarjuna and I knew of him. Bought the VCD and watched it. Remember liking it and then downloaded the songs and used to listen to them a lot. Later on came to know that the movie was not a big success. Revisited the songs when making a Hariharan playlist and realized theyre very good. Decided to rewatch the movie and see how it is. It’s a good action movie with emotions. Its entertaining. You never feel bored. Should have been a success. 

Interesting Facts: 

This is director Thirputahi Samy’s next telugu movie after the super hit Ganesh with Venkatesh. 

Tirupathi Samy Died In a Car Accident In Chennai In June 2001.

Tirupathi Swamy, being a Journalist himself by profession has chosen a story that is based on a Journalist. He took Amitabh Bachchan’s’ Main Azad Hoon and Legend of Zorro movie as inspirations and wrote the story. 

He must have approached Aswini Dutt after to make a movie and then they cast Nagarjuna as the hero and movie was launched. Vyjayanthi is known for making movies with high priodictwuon values with all the commercial elements and Azad is the same. 

Casting they took Soundarya who dubbed for herself for the first time in Telugu for this film and then Shilpa Shetty who had done Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya and then Veedavadandi Babu starring Mohan Babu before this making it her 3rd Telugu film in her career. Her last one would be Bhalevadivi Basu. 

Set evergreen villain Raghuvaran and remaining actors such as Prakash raj, Brahmanandhan, etc. 

Filmed in Rajahmundry, Hyderabad, Pollachi mainly then songs in Switzerland. 

Songs were released on Supreme Music audio label and it became a super hit.

Since it was coming after Nuvvu Vasthavani huge hype for the movie and for Nagarjuna and finally it released and movie was declared above average or average I think. 

Despite this movie ran for 50 days in 72 centers and 4 days in 100 centers. Movie also ran for 104 days in Sandhya 35MM and in Anakapalle Nagarjuna created a record: His three films ran for 100 days in a span of 6 months: 

Nuvvu vasthavani - Raja theater 

Ninne Premistha - Satyannarayana

Azaad - Gopal krishna

For singer Mahalakshkmi Iyer it was a breakthrough as she had sung just two songs in telugu before this in Okke Okkadu which was a dub and first straight movie was Ammo! Okato Tareekhu music by Vandemataram Srinivas. 

Perhaps due to Nuvvu Vasthavani hype and then competition  from so many other movies. 

List of movies released against it were Ninne Premistha 14th, Rayalaseema Ramanna Chowdhary 15th, Vamsi on Oct 4th, Jayam Manaderaa on October 7th, and then Nuvve Kavali on October 13th which would go onto to become industry hit and highest grossing movie of 2000. 

Nagarjuna had 3 releases as said before and one of them was actually in competition with this movie Ninne Premistha in a edition to Jayam Manadera which released a week later and almost became industry hit range movie and stopped. 

For Soundarya she had 3 released in 3 weeks in Ninne Premistha Sept 14th, Azad 29th, and then Jayam Manadera October 7th. 

Credits 

Banner: Vyra Entertainments 

Cast: Nani, Mrunal Thakur, Baby Kiara Khanna, Priyadarshi, Jayaram, Nassar, Angad Bedi, Viraj Ashwin, Shruti Haasan (cameo),

Music: Hesham Abdul Wahab

Cinematography: Sanu John Varughese ISC

Editor: Praveen Anthony

Production Design: Avinash Kolla

Story - Screenplay - Direction: Shouryuv

Producers: Mohan Cherukuri (CVM) and Dr Vijender Reddy Teegala

Release Date: Dec 7th, 2023 

Writing/Direction: So our podcast motto is if the writing is good, the way you make the movie will good as well. For Hi Nanna thats apt for the most part. 

The story seems like a rom com between 3 characters but much like Jersey it actually does genre shifts and its purely a drama movie. The writing is actually very good for all the emotional scenes and director has written some good threads. 

Good part first is that the movie is all about relationships and how it affects others. Nani daughter one, Nani Mrunal one, Nani mother in law, Mother and Jayaram and how it affects Mrunal, all of these bring conflict into he story. Also everybody wants something 

Mahi wants to know who her mom is, Yashna wants just wants to be happy, Viraj wants to be free from his guilt of what happened to his wife, Jayaram doesnt want to fail as a parent. 

The writing is very strong especially in emotional scenes. The hospital scene, pre climax, and climax are so strong that you will get tears from your eyes. If you got cry then you eyes definitely will get wet for sure. Its that strong and relatable. Through Yashna’s character, director has created a lot of relatability and actually her character is the best. 

I felt this is the movie Kushi wanted to be in terms of husband wife conflict but failed miserably at. The brilliance of Hi Nanna actually is that the whole flashback sequence its not convincing their love story its just there and I’ll come back to that but their conflict after marriage is very convincing so you relate to their marriage and love story during that part,. Due to strong emotions, things work. 

I felt the most emotional part is that Viraj is such a dedicated father that he attended every ceremony based on cystic fibrosis and lives his daughter so much hes willing to any extent and fight withe everybody to make sure that she lives. That part hit hard. 

Also loved the thread between Pluto and Yashna. She doesn't like dogs but then the dog gave her confirm, she likes dogs and then that day Pluto still remembered her after all these years despite her not remembering him. 

Interval twist was expected but accident scene was heartbreaking man. So crazy. Also liked the two mass warning scenes basically when Yashna’s mom tries to insult Viraj in the hotel and then at wedding party in 2nd half he also gives her warning. There was no fight. 

Also the symbolism of doors closing. Idk if you guys noticed. Every time Mahi asks Nani to tell her about her mom, Viraj always shuts the door implying that chapter is closed and he doesnt want to talk about it. But Mahi does. And then in operation room, the door starts to close and last thing Mahi sees is her mom and dad outside the ER ward showing that this chapter has finally been opened and now its closed. She knows the truth.Very cool. 

2nd half has a trope of bakra track and initially I thought why is Angad Bedi there. Greatest bakra ever asalu the level of class and respect was too good. We got whistles in our theater when he came in climax to do the operations. 

Interestingly, the movie keeps going just based on emotion. Theres no traditional commercial elements or entertainment. I wish there was more because movie has inconsistent pacing. Towards the interval and then post interval movie really felt flat and slow but then last 30 mins is outstanding with emotion that you leave the theater with a feel good feeling. The two scenes are when they hide in the cabinet and Nai runs away and then their fight after they drunk in Odiyamma song, Wish more scenes were there like that. 

Credits

Banner: T Series and Bhadrakali Pictures 

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Rahsmika Mandanna, Anil kapoor, Tripti Dimri, Bobby Deol, Babloo Prithviraj, Shakthi Kapoor, 

Music: Harshavardhan Rameshwar and other 

BGM: Harshavardham Rameshwar 

Cinematography: Amit Roy ISC 

Eidting: Sandeep reddy Vanga 

Production Design: Suresh Selvarajan 

Fights: Supreme Sundar 

Screenplay: Sandeep reddy Vanga, Pranay Reddy Vanga, Saurabh Gupta, 

Dialogues: Saurabh Gupta 

Story - Direction: Sandeep Reddy Vanga 

Release Date: December 1st, 2023 

Writing/Direction: 

The movie’s story or core point is a man who has been traumatized by his father since hid childhood has psychopathic tendencies and he goes insane because of his dad’s neglect since his childhood. Therefore he’s supposed to have animalistic qualities about human nature. It’s hard to explain this stuff without using English words so please forgive me this time. 

Writing is actually the biggest villain of the movie not Bobby Deol I will explain why. Given the core point and movie was promoted as such, you would think its a family drama with strained relationship between father and son. Movie is not about that. It’s about a man’s descent into madness because of father’s neglect and he never gave him the love and affection that deserved so he is like this. BUt it’s not convincing at all. Thats the biggest problem. There’s no reason/nothing shown for us to connect as a father son relationship or for us to care. I will take example of a movie that Im not a big fan of but in Ala Vaikuntapuram Lo he clearly shows Murali Sharma has made his life a living hell since he was young with a grudge on Jayaram so we feel for Allu Arjun’s character and relate to him and buy that father son relationship. 

Here Vanga doesnt show anything. He tells you but doesn’t show it much. Yet this guy still loves his dad. The opportunity to make a commercial film is there but it didnt work for me. 

Family drama part is nonexistent, romance part is comical she falls for one dialogue about alpha males and then next scene cancels her engagement and then Hua Main song, and then action part about grandfather wealth wars. But he villains have no proper motives etc. nothing is properly established or explained about the family heir wars to begin with.

Another example a lot pf people didn’t like KGF2 but its same like animal yenti ante, whatever Rocky Bhai does since you connect with him, it seems believable. Because I didnt connect here, you dont connect with what he’s doing so Vanga’s paithyam is in full affect. 

To positives, Hua Main to interval is next level movie. Masterpiece level if you ask. Best sequence in the movie is revealing the suspense of Varun and that flashback. Too good. That entire stretch was so entertaining and amazing. Also the body double part was so ridiculous but so entertaining. But then rest of the movie never reached that level again. And then the post credit scene didnt really work. Remembered oh Zoya said that right but it felt forced and then im not sure theres even scope to make a sequel to be honest. But thats just me.  

Direction by Sandeep Reddy Vanga is decent. Hero characterization throughout the movie is superb and 1st half taking is very good for that stretch but rest of the movie doesnt work or feel convincing. Due to the lack of conviction you feel a disconnect and as said before 2nd half was like his piathyam whatever he wanted to show was more for triggering audiences and critics rather than telling a emotional and relatable story with an interesting hero characterization. That being said whether you disagree or agree with a film or whatever the content is, Sandeep Reddy has created a brand for himself making unique movies which star controversy and open for a lot of discourse. This is for sure. So while I might agree or disagree with what he showed, its the audience responsibility to take it however they do. That is for sure.