MOVIE REVIEWS More Reviews KalashalaRelease date:24 April 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : Balaji Sakthivel Music Director : Jashua Sridhar Producer : M V Gopal Rao Starring : Tamanna, Akhil, Balamurugan, Hema....... Review by Aks : Hotshot Tamil director Shankar who is known for churning out slick commercial blockbusters with a social message like, Bharatiyudu, Okkadu, and Sivaji is the producer of Kalasala which has been dubbed in Telegu. Unfortunately, despite being his presentation, Kalasala is a huge disappoint due to the lack of a script which makes it an endless drag.....more AdhinetaRelease date:24 April 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : Samudra V Music Director : Srikanth Deva Producer : KK Radha Mohan Starring : Jagapati Babu, Sradha Das, Hamsanandini, Ahuiti Prasad....... Review by Pramod Reddy : The movie has an uncanny resemblance to the present day political situation in the State. Tollywood talk has it that this movie’s script was written with Chiranjeevi in mind and due to compelling circumstances Jagapathi Babu was roped in as the hero in the last minute.....more Ananda Thandavam Release date:10 April 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : A.R. Gandhikrishna Music Director : G V Prakash Kumar Producer : D Suresh Starring : Tamannah, Siddardh (newcomer), Rukmini.... Review by Pramod Reddy : If you are looking for a mass entertainer, stay away from this one. Ananda Thandavam is not a typical happily-ever after romantic flick. Instead it dares to deal with the dark side of impulsive love.....more    Punnami Naagu Release date:10 April 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 1/5 Director : A. Kodandarami Reddy Music Director : S.A. Rajakumar Producer : G. Vijaya Kumar Gowd Starring : Mumaith Khan, Rajeev Kanakala, MS Narayana, Nalini, Suhasini, Vinod Kumar ..... Review by Aks : Punnami Nagu would fall in that genre of movies that you must definitely avoid to retain your sanity and money. It’s even more disappointing to have a veteran director like Kodandarami Reddy who gave us blockbusters like Khaidi, Kondaveeti Donga, Challenge Pasivadi Pranam to come up with such a mindless flick.....more Billa Release date: 03 April 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 3/5 Director : Meher Ramesh Music Director : Mani Sharma Producer : Prabhod and Narendra Starring : Prabhas, Krishnam Raju, Anushka, Namitha ..... Review by Pramod Reddy : Amitabh’s Don was remade in Telugu as Yugandher *ing NTR and twenty five odd years later Shah Rukh took a shot at it and failed miserably. Now it is the turn of Prabhas to star in the remake of Shahrukh’s Don (as Billa) in Telugu. ....more Aakasamantha Release date: 27 March 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 3.5/5 Director : Radha Mohan Music Director : Vidya Sagar Producer : Dil Raju Starring : Prakash Raj, Aishwarya, Trisha, Jagapathi Babu, Ganesh ... Review by Pramod Reddy : Aakasamanthaa is a beautiful movie about the relationship between a doting father and an adorable daughter. It is narrated in a series of flashbacks by Prakash Raj (the father). The style of narration is like that of Tom Hank’s in Forrest Gump. ....more Manorama Release date: 27 March 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 3/5 Director : Eshwar Reddy Music Director : Koti Producer : Zee Tele Films Starring : Nishan , Charmee, Sridhar Rao , MS Narayana, Pradeep, Lahari, Sunayana ... Review by Aks : Manorama is a clean entertaining movie in which a socially relevant message of “Humanism” is delivered in a simple way without making it sound preachy. This is a complete multiplex movie targeted at the A centers and it definitely should do well in those centers. ....more Sontha Vooru Release date: 21 March 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 3/5 Director : P. Sunil Kumar Reddy Music Director : Saketh Sairam Producer : Y. Ravindra Babu and Kishori Basireddy Starring : Raja, Theertha, Swami, LB Sriram... Review by Aks : Sontha Oooru is a brave attempt by director Sunil Kumar Reddy to make a movie on a socially relevant subject of economic development eroding core human values. ....more Maavadu Release date: 20 March 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 1.25/5 Director : M. Sarvanan Music Director : Yuvan Shankar Raja Producer : K Muralidharan , V Swami Nadhan , S RangaRajan Starring : Simbhu , Sana Khan and Sneha ... Review by Pramod Reddy : Silambarasan (aka) Simbu’s Maavadu is a dubbed version of the tamil original ‘Silambattam' . Except for Yuvan Shankar’s catchy compositions the movie was an abject failure in Kollywood and the Telugu version too will meet the same fate. ....more Mestri Release date: 12 March 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 1.5/5 Director : Suresh Krishna Music Director : Vandemataram Srinivas Producer : K. Ramakrishna Prasad Starring : Dasari Narayana Rao, Mohan Babu, Srihari... Review by Pramod Reddy : Maesthri is a political satire. And Dasari Narayana Rao is a past master at making political satires. One only has to look at his old movies like Bobbili Puli and Sardar Paparayudu which were made with an eye on N.T.Ramarao’s entry into politics ....more Naa GirlFriend Baga Rich Release date: 06 March 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 1/5 Director : M. Nagendrakumar Music Director : Anand Producer : Kumar bros Starring : Shivaji, Kaveri Jha, Brahmanandam, Ahuti Prasad, Tulasi, Babloo, Vijay Sai, Ramaprabha, Gundu Hanumantharao and others ... Review by Pramod Reddy : Sivaji's story and script selection leaves a lot to be desired. He comes across as a good actor with a bad judgement of what clicks and doesn't click at the box office. ....more Venkatadri Release date: 20 February 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : V Samudra Music Director : Srikanth Deva Producer : Nandamuri Mohana Krishna Starring : Tarakaratna, Mandeep Takkar and Sneha Takkar and others ... Review by Aks : Venkatadri is an example of a movie where you walk inside the hall expecting nothing and walk out after two hours feeling exactly the same. It makes you wonder why the move was made in the ....more Drona Release date: 20 February 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : J.Karun Kumar Music Director : Anoop Roobens Producer : D.S.Rao Starring : Nitin, Priyamani, Killidarj, Mukesh Rushi, Dr.Sivaprasad, Baba Anthony, Rakhi Sawanth, Sunil ... Review by Pramod Reddy : Drona is symptomatic of the disease that has afflicted Tollywood films in general. Producer , D.S.Rao, made this film ONLY because he had the dates of the hero Nitin. He had nothing....more 16Days Release date: 20 February 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : Prabhu Salmon Music Director : Dharan Producer : P Mahesh Babu & D.Y.Chowdary Starring : Charmme, Arvind, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Chitti Babu, Manorama ... Review by Sailaja : 16 days is actually 16 ways to torture the audience with immature treatment, poor and misplaced humour and mediocre performance. It’s not only the hero but the audience too who ....more Satyameva Jayathe Release date: 13 February 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2/5 Director : Jeevitha Music Director : Chinna Producer : Sivani, Sivatmika Starring : Rajasekhar, Shivaji, Sai Kiran, Neetu Chandra, Sanjana, Sheryl Pinty, Milind Soman ... Review by Aks : Satya Meva Jayathe is so heavily inspired by the Bollywood flick Khakee that it ends up not only borrowing heavily from the original flick but also uses original footage. The item number by Lara ....more Siddham Release date: 12 February 2009 123Telugu.com Rating : 2.75/5 Director : JD Chakravarthi Music Director : Amar Mehili Production: Kiran Kumar Koneru Starring : Jagapathi Babu, Sindhu Menon, Kota Srinivasarao ... Review by Pramod Reddy : The J D Chekravarthy (yes that is how J D has spelled his name in the credits) directed film Siddham starring Jagapathi Babu, misses its mark by the proverbial mile...more                      More Reviews