'Magadheera' Review: It’s Not A Movie-But Historical Wonder!!

Film: Magadheera
Source:GreatAndhra
Rating: 4/5
Banner: Geetha Arts
Cast: Ram Charan, Kajal, Dev Gil, Srihari, Surya, Sarath Babu, Sunil, Brahmananadam, Hema, Chiranjeevi, Kim Sharma, Mumaith Khan, Subbaraya Sharma, Rao Ramesh etc
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music: Keeravani
Cinematography: Senthil Kumar
Fights: Ram Laxman and Peter Heins
Lyrics: Chandrabose, Keeravani and Bhuvanachandra
Story: V Vijayendra Prasad
Dialogues: M Rathnam
Producer: Allu Aravind
Director: SS Rajamouli
Released On: 31st July 2009


The much awaited ‘Magadheera’ has arrived. It has created huge expectations by the virtue of its posters, trailers and above all the music. Finally let us see if it has reached those expectations.

Story:
Harsha (Ram Charan) is a young man who earns money on bike races and bets. He loves such adventures on two wheelers. He happens to touch the hand of a young girl Indu (Kajal) accidentally and that ‘soul touch’ connects his present to the past.

What’s the past?
That’s 1609 AD when Kalabhaiarava (Ram Charan) was the warrior in Udaigarh who trains the soldiers. The Senadhipathi Randheer (Dev Gil) lusts on Yuvarani Mitravinda (Kajal) but the latter loves Kalabhirava. That results in a huge battle between Randheer and Kalabhairava which puts end for their lives. Sher Khan (Sri Hari), the Muslim invader witnesses the valor and love of Kalabhairava and salutes to him.

They take rebirth as Harsha and Indu. And many characters from the past also come to present with the soul connectivity. But where? What happens to them? How the past life matters for them in present life?

That has to be watched on big screen to experience the marvelous treat along with unleashing those queries.

Performances:
Ram Charan:
He stood as an icon of macho look. He portrayed the 1609 AD role, Kalabhaiarava, with right bearing and voice modulation. Chiranjeevi’s yester year’s voice echoed in the ears of audiences with that modulation of Ram Charan for that character. His dances are spellbinding, especially in ‘Bangaru Kodi petta..’.

Kajal:
She is the right choice and perfect blend. Her elegance is amazing in queen’s role.

Sri Hari:
His portrayal as Muslim warrior Sher Khan is quite wonderful. He added value to the movie on a whole.

Dev Gill:
This Bollywood villain has shared screen in the main antagonist role. He proved perfect particularly in ‘past birth role’.

Others:
Sarath Babu is ok in the role of old king, the father of Yuva Rani Mitravinda.

Rao Ramesh perfectly grooved in the role of Aghora Sadhu with apt gait and voice modulation

Brahmanandam and Hema got wasted

Sunil’s comedy is ok to large extent

Technical departments:
The movie deserves right mention for music, sound effects, graphics, 3D effects, Cinematography and Choreography. What not! Every technical faculty has rightly worked on this film. Director Rajamouli should be appreciated for his guts to bring such a massive film on Telugu screen.

Allu Aravind should be esteemed for his wonderful production values.

Music And Lyrics:
Keeravani and Chandrabose have created wonder with music and lyrics. Every word has aptly grooved into the situation in finest musical form.

Jorse Jorse is like a sheer poetry drawn on a canvass

Naakosom Juttu Peekkunte (written by Keeravani) is hilarious and entertaining

Panchadaara Bomma will be one of lifetime melody hits in Ram Charan’s filmography

Bangaru Kodi petta (penned by Bhuvanachandra) surpassed the older one in choreography

Dheera Dheera is the song that was ever pictured on Indian screen so far

Magadheera…(rolling title song) is innovative and interesting with the dances of Allu Aravind, Keeravani, Rajamouli, Rama Rajamouli, Ali, Sunil, Brahmanandam, Kajal, Kim Sharma, Mumaith Khan, Saloni, BA Raju and every technician worked in the movie

Above all the background music stood as backbone for the movie

Highlights:

Marvelous art work carried to portray Udaigadh city of 1609AD
Battle between Kalabhairava and 100 soldiers of Sher Khan
Wonderful picturization of Dheera Dheera song
Lord Shiva’s statue that brings hysterical feeling
Helicopter and bike stunts of Ram Charan
Disappointments:

Brahmanandam-Hema comedy
Chiranjeevi’s episode
Dialogues in first 44 minutes
Analysis:
“This is our movie-our Telugu movie. This is our pride. This is the creation happened with the cognizance of our Telugu director”…would be the feel of every Telugu film lover while watching this film.

Words wouldn’t suffice to explain the experience of technical extravaganza depicted in this film. It’s just spellbinding. The range of Telugu film has gone to a higher plane with this film. The maker Rajamouli and producer Aravind should be appreciated unconditionally. And kudos would go to the technical team that has kept its brilliance to make this movie a wonder.

Keeping the first 44 minutes away the rest of the movie arrests the audiences completely. The first 44 minutes would literally keep the pulse of audiences down and confused. Pale dialogues, insipid scenes between Brahmanandam and Hema, weak portrayal of Chiranjeevi in a senseless scene would let down the audiences.

The real tempo starts as soon as the completion of the song ‘Naakosam nuvvu juttu peekkunte baagundi..’ The momentum develops with the first horse riding scene of Ram Charan chasing a bus. The interval scene hooks the audiences with lot of enthusiasm for sure. And the audiences can never turn their head and blink eye lid from then till climax.

And the audiences come out from theatre with the experience of a rollercoaster ride, with the sound reverberating in hearts, with a heavy hangover of watching a new facet of Telugu cinema.

The film proves to a historical one with respect to patronage of audiences of all classes.

Rating Judgment: The movie scores 4/5 by the virtue of technical values and adventurous attempt. It would have scored bigger if the first 44 minutes were also dealt well with sensible comedy and treatment.

Verdict: It’s good to watch the film as soon as possible.

Vijayashanti makes quick moves

Medak MP and Telangana Rashtra Samithi secretary general Vijayashanti has stepped up her activity to take a plunge into the Congress.

Though TRS leader T Harish Rao sounded optimistic that she would not quit the TRS, Vijayashanti had a luncheon meeting with her old friend A Narendra and Sangareddy MLA T Jayaprakash Reddy on Friday and discussed further moves. She was wondering whether she should straightaway quit the TRS or embarrass KCR by writing letters and addressing press conferences.

She is even contemplating quitting her Medak parliamentary seat to prove that she is ready to face the challenge of the TRS leaders. And if she wins again on the Congress ticket, it will be a psychological advantage over KCR!

PRP in crisis, two ex-MLAs quit

Praja Rajyam Party is plunging into deep crisis faster than one could expect. Even as PRP president Chiranjeevi was enjoying the compliments being received for his son Ramcharan Teja’s film Magadheera on Friday, his party leaders started quitting the party one by one.

Within a few hours of former union minister U V Krishnam Raju quitting the PRP, two other former MLAs V V S Chowdary and Goli Rama Rao announced that they were also resigning from the party and joining the Congress. They said they could not adjust themselves in the PRP, which had failed to sustain despite having ideals.

Meanwhile, stage is set for the defection of senior leader T Devender Goud and E Peddi Reddy, along with thousands of PRP workers into the TDP. It might happen on Sunday, party sources said.

'Magadheera' Audio Disappointed Mass Audiences

It was with great hype and hoopla that the audio release of the film ‘Magadheera’ was looked out for and finally it took place in a grand manner recently. The audio has hit the stores too and reports have begun to flow in on the outcome of this.

It is heard that the songs of the film have not been able to impress the mass audience one bit and fans of Ramcharan Teja are said to be quite disappointed. They are heard saying that the album has got tracks which are mild and melody was there but no momentum was present.

This has come as a surprise since many thought that music director Keeravani would come up with something very impressive but that did not happen. Charan has been more of a mass hero so far so the album has let them down. Now a lot rests on the film itself to see if it can give a good feel to the songs visually.

Chiru applies for 'rising sun' symbol

So, it is going to be “rising sun” for Praja Rajyam Party as its election symbol.

PRP president Chiranjeevi has officially applied to the Election Commission of India for rising sun symbol. According to him, this symbol is more appealing and closer to the party’s philosophy and flag. So, this would catch the attention of voters very much.”We will insist on the rising sun symbol and I don’t think there would be any hurdle,” he said.

Alternatively, Chiranjeevi also applied for umbrella symbol, in case there are any objections from the EC on rising sun symbol which was already allocated to DMK in Tamil Nadu and many not be available as a free symbol. Now that PRP is a recognised political party, it can choose the symbol of its choice from the available ones!

Drink liquor, pay to Relief Fund

The Rajasekhara Reddy government seems to have come to the conclusion that the best way to get revenues to the exchequer is make people drink more and more; and pay more.

On Tuesday, the Chief Minister issued orders increasing the “trade margin” (an indirect increase in sales tax) on beer and IMFL from two per cent to nine per cent. The government is expected to get an additional revenue of Rs 300 crore from this little increase.

What is interesting is that the AP Beverages Corporation Limited, which does liquor trading, has announced that the additional revenue will go to the Chief Minsiter’s Relief Fund, so that people who die of consuming excess liquor can be given compensation! Good idea, isn’t it?

Gallery: Siddhartha and Shamili in Oye

Meera Jasmine's Love Story Ends

She is known as the talented Malayalam beauty and on screen, she has been rated as the finest actress in the southern circuit. However, off screen, she has equally been in the focus with her long list of controversies and link ups. She is none other than Meera Jasmine.

Recently, things were going well for her when there was a strong buzz that she was having a relationship with Mandolin Rajesh, brother of Mandolin Srinivas. There was also a grapevine that both had got married secretly. However, all that seems to be a fairytale now.

As per the latest news, it is heard that Meera and Rajesh have parted ways and Rajesh was heard saying that ‘time is the healer’. Sources reveal that Meera was keen on earning the maximum before she gets married and she started signing anything that came her way. This is said to have not gone well with Rajesh and curtains have dropped on their romance.

Jr NTR Kicked 'Magadheera' Audio Invitation?

It is no secret that the tough taskmaster S S Rajamouli and young tiger junior NTR are thickest of friends. So it was obvious that junior got the invite for attending the audio release function of ‘Magadheera’ but then sources reveal that though Rajamouli invited, NTR rejected it.

Reports say that NTR was aware of the reactions his fans and his community folks would give if he had gone there so he wanted to draw the line there. On the lighter vein, there were those who commented that junior was busy watching Kantri movie in ZEE Telugu so maybe he had no time.

All said and done, the feelings of caste are being originated right from a venue where many of the common people would learn and consider it an integral part of their lives. So isn’t it about time the young brigade of stars cross all those barriers and start working as a team??

Naga Chaitanya's Fight In Front Of Jr NTR's Office

Naga Chaitanya acted in an action sequence for ‘Josh’ that was shot just opposite to the office of Jr NTR this evening at 4 pm (29th June). The shoot was carried on PV Narasmiha Rao Express Highway for the last few days and the scene of bus falling from flyover was shot there. Now, the landing of bus on autos and cars was shot here opposite Jr NTR’s office in Film Nagar. Three cameras were used to can the scene and Naga Chaiatanya acted in that fight scene in single take.

Maghadheera Audio launched

The much awaited Ram Charan Teja’s starrer Magadheera’s music is finally out at a function organized in Shilpa Kala Vedika on the night of 28 June.



Amidst fans, and galore, Chiranjeevi launched the audiocassette and gave the first unit to star producer Aswini Dutt, K Raghavendra Rao and D Rama Naidu.

While Pawan Kalyan launched the audio CD and distributed the first unit to Srihari, Allu Arjun and Srikanth

Magadheera is directed by SS Rajamouli and produced by Allu Arvind under Geeta Arts Banner. MM Keeravani has scored the numbers for this film.

Several stars who have ascended the event include Nagababu, Bhogavalli Prasad, Dil Raju, DVV Danayya, C Kalyan, ML Kumar Chowdary, Ashok Kumar, Seenu Vytla, Muruga Doss, Meher Ramesh, Surender Reddy, Allu Arjun, Srikanth, Ravi Teja, Sunil, Ali, Siva Reddy, MM Keeravani, Paruchuri Venkateswra Rao.

Aditya music has bagged the rights for this film.

‘Amayakudu’ movie launched

Krishnudu’s latest flick ‘Amayakudu’ was launched at Annapurna studios here on Saturday.

The film is directed by Bharati Ganesh on Octagon banner.

While actor Srihari sounded the clapboard, Anil S Nair switched on the camera.
Speaking to the media on the film launch Krishnudu said, “I listened to around 50 scripts after Vinayakudu movie. I liked this story. The title of this movie suits my face. It has got good family background.”

Ananya who is doing Tamil films is making her debut in Tollywood
Director Bharati Muguran said, “The story idea occurred to me when I watched Vinayakudu movie. This film has new story idea mixed with sentiment. Ghatikachalam penned good songs.”

Can Prakash Raj quit smoking?

Talented actor Prakash Raj is never short of words when it comes to his personal life.

We all know his reel life competencies and he can always sit pretty.

But in real life, he has something to strongly contemplate.

Its smoking!

He’s a chain smoker and people even used to compare him to Bollywood hero Shah Rukh Khan in terms of smoking.

His addiction is now becoming a barrier to his films and he is unable to properly concentrate on film scripts and allied activities.

Recently, when he was shooting for Hindi film ‘Most Wanted’ (Telugu remake of Pokiri) in Bangkok with Salman Khan, it seems that the director and the crew did not like his behavior.

Oops!

Yup!

Let’s hope that his smoking does not ruin his reel life!

‘New York to be remade in Telugu?

As many as three directors in Tollywood are looking to remake Bollywood film ‘new York’ – starring John Abrahams and Katrina Kaif.

The film was released amidst huge expectations and the talk is already pretty positive.


Telugu filmmakers meanwhile are gearing up for its remake and are vying for the remake rights

The significant aspect is that all are Assistant Directors who are fighting for this piece.

Amongst them is noted filmmaker Krishna Vamsi’s assistant director, one from Chandrasekhar Yeleti’s camp and another one from Ramgopal Varma camp.

Well! Let’s wait and see who bags the remake rights?

I think it will be Ram Gopal Varma’s camp, given his stardom in Hindi!

What do you say?