'Mr Perfect' :Perfect With Slight Imperfection

Banner: Sri Venkateshwara Creations
Cast: Prabhas, Kajal, Taapsee, K Vishwanath, Prakashraj, Sayaji Shinde, Nasser, Murali Mohan, Brahmanandam, Raghu Babu, Master Bharat etc
Music: Devisri Prasad
Cinematography: Vijay K Chakravarthy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Director: Dasaradh
Producer: Dil Raju
Release date: 22/04/2011

Prabhas is back and after almost a year. He paired up with Kajal and it is also a crucial big budget venture for producer Dil Raju. Let us see how perfect this gets..

Story
Vicky (Prabhas) who lives in Australia grows with a rule that he would never compromise for anything he doesn’t like. Given his practical thinking, he wants everything to be perfect, even in relationships. The marriage of his sister gets him to India and here he meets Priya, daughter of his father’s friend (Murali Mohan). As such, Vicky’s father (Nasser) wants him to get married to Priya.

Initially, both Vicky and Priya feel repulsive but in no time, Priya starts falling in love. She begins to change herself to suit Vicky’s life and thoughts. However, when the moment comes, Vicky gives his practical outlook and returns to Australia.

Here, he meets Maggi (Taapsee) through a competition and feels she is the perfect one. How perfect is Maggi for Vicky? How true is Priya’s love for Vicky? How correct is Vicky in his thoughts? All this forms the rest of the story.

Performances
Prabhas has given a decent performance. He scores in his outfits and timing of dialogues but he should have reduced the mannerism of keeping his hand in pant pocket in almost all scenes, might look like fashion and style but felt like an overdose.

Kajal Agarwal is expressively beautiful and is drop dead gorgeous in sarees. She is a visual treat to the audience and steals few more hearts with her endearing smiles. Performance wise, she was apt.

Taapsee looks hot and fits the bill rightly given her character. The dubbing suited her expressions and she fills the glamour quotient.

K Vishwanath was elegant, Prakashraj was matured, Sayaji Shinde was noisy, Nasser was natural, Brahmi tried to bring few smiles, Raghu Babu was jarring, Master Bharat was regular. The ladies did their bit to support.

Highlights

    Prabhas- Kajal screen chemistry
    Locations and cinematography
    Costumes
    Theme of the film
    Screenplay

Drawbacks

    Second half
    Weak emotional scenes
    Overdose of moral preaching

Analysis:
The film comes across as a clean, family entertainer and the intention of the makers must be appreciated. Their attempt to reiterate the values of love, life, relationships in today’s world is acknowledged. However, dealing with such human subjects requires humane feel and a deft handling of the script, that was missing here.

As such, the protagonist goes with the flow of destiny but there is nothing significant he does to perfect the situations. He is more on the receiving end most of the time. On the other hand, the idea of a girl willing to adapt herself like that was rather unconvincing (of course, finding a girl like that in today’s times is jackpot fortune).

First half comprises with good humor and flow of drama. And second half also continues in similar fashion recalling the blend of Santhosham and Bommarillu but with weak handling of emotions. Required emotion is not carried in the fag end of the film and hence it appeared weak.

The film deals with the understanding of relations between younger generation and the older ones. The plus point in the film is that all the songs are good with pleasing music and sensible lyrics. But all are situational songs and no duets are seen in this genre of film, surprisingly.

Having said that, the film appeals largely due to the conviction in the belief of love, sharing and how few things in life cannot be got merely by rational thinking. At the box office, this is a treat for the family audience and given the craze for Prabhas and Kajal, the openings will be strong. Overall, this would be anywhere between an average and profit grosser.

Bottomline: For family audience

MR PERFECT 2011 Telugu Movie Review

Behind the Movie Mr. Perfect: The recent soft lover boy image of Prabhas secured after ‘Darling’ will be examined once again with this flick in direction of Dasaradh. As usual producer ‘Dil’ Raju keeping too many hopes with presence of two beautiful heroines Kajal Agarwal, Tapsee and music from Devi Sri Prasad, here arrives ‘Mr. Perfect’ today into theatres. Let us see, how perfect is this film?   

In the Movie Mr. Perfect: Vicky (Prabhas) is a modern day perfect young boy dreaming high about future. He is working in Australia on dream project to start own animation (video games) industry. Vicky doesn’t believe in old ideologies. In order to stay victorious in life, he doesn’t mind hurting others by disrespecting their values and sentiments. He feels himself as ‘Mr. Perfect’ with no adjusting attitude.

One fine day, Vicky’s father (Nazar) asks him to arrive in India for attending sister’s marriage in their native village in a Coastal district. Other purpose of this visit is to make Vicky meet Priya (Kajal Agarwal), his old school mate and fix their marriage. Priya is a girl of self respect who finds her joy in happiness of others. Although Vicky and Priya are initially quarrelsome, they soon patch up and love buds between the two. Finally when Priya changes her priorities and interests getting ready to marry Vicky, he disapproves her reasoning incompatible mentalities.

On his way back in Australia, Vicky meets Maggie (Tapsee) whose thought of mind is exactly same as him. When both of them get ready for marriage and approach Maggie’s industrialist father KP (Prakash Raj), he keeps an interesting test for Vicky to win his daughter. Vicky on his way to win Maggie by passing this test understands the true meaning of life. How did KP’s family change the thinking and attitude of Vicky? How did Vicky win back his true love Priya? forms the heavy climax.

Values of the Movie Mr. Perfect: In shorter version producer ‘Dil’ Raju’s team has once again relied on an emotional story line comparing the beliefs and mental outlooks of past and present generations. Shades of ‘Orange’ and ‘Brindavanam’ are easily observable in the film. Apparently story was thin but script was burdensome. Dasaradh tried his best to make patrons glued to his emotions. Unfortunately slow narration and old pickled boiling family drama have taken a toll and director Dasaradh failed in these aspects. Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are quite interesting which can be considered as life line for ‘Mr.Perfect.’ Music by Devi Sri Prasad was good work for two songs and background sensed like a copy of ‘Bommarillu.’ Cinematography by Vijay Chakravarthy was fine while editing by Marthand K Venkatesh became weak in second half.  Production values of ‘Dil’ Raju are definitely remarkable.

Performance wise Prabhas got a new character with two different shades. The macho man well balanced the both and excelled in spelling lengthy dialogues with utmost feel. Surely Prabhas raised his acting standards appreciably shouldering the movie in compliance with beautiful Kajal Agarwal who looked awesome. She undoubtedly won the hearts of audience with cute looks and sweet expressions. Tapsee enters in second half with a typical character quite matching to her energy standards. Self dubbing of Tapsee left a bad remark damaging her role. Comedy by Brahmanandam as Jalsa Kishore was a laughter riot. His presence saved the first half to maximum extent. Among others Naazar, K. Vishwanath, Prakashraj, Sayaji Shinde, Pragathi, Sameer, Kasi Vishwanath, Master Bharath, Raghu Babu etc well handled their roles.

Out of the Movie Mr. Perfect: ‘Dil’ Raju’s confidence on sticking to his own psychology of repeatedly relying on emotional story lines hasn’t worked totally this time. Although there are few glitches of interesting and heart touching episodes but this is not a Perfect package to shine at Box Office. Prabhas and Kajal gave a delightful performance with superb chemistry which was not alone enough to pull the movie for two and half hours. Especially missing of emotional efficacy and depth of scenes in second half might cause adequate problems for movie’s success.

All the village episodes with enough fun generating ingredients mixed in first half worked very well. Of course story moved hardly by an inch. Yet first half is easily passable with an expected interval bang. Second half is where actual movie unfolds which lagged to entertain audience with inconsistence and slow storytelling. In particular lengthy, exhaustive second half served negative for entire film. 

BO wise a section of family audience might like the overdosed emotional and sentimental scenes with Prabhas leading from front. Other wise ‘Mr. Perfect’ is age old wine in new bottle.

www.Ayeshaweb.Blogspot.com Verdict of Mr. Perfect: Not totally Perfect!

Manchivadu 2011 Telugu Movie Review

Banner: Super Good Films
Cast: Tanish, Bhama, K.Vishwanadh
Music: Shilpi
Producers: NV Prasad, Paras Jain
Director: Lakshminaryana

Super Good Films is one of the very few banners which draw audience to theatres with its brand name. SGF is known for formulaic films with heavy dose of sentiment targeted at ladies and mass audience. Manchivadu from Mega Super Good Films has that stamp all over it. This movie is formulaic, sentimental and yeah of course ‘boring’. Here is the complete review…

Story:
Raja (Taneesh) is the grandson of a retired IAS officer (K. Vishwanadh). His grandfather hates him so much because Raja isn’t educated and does nothing to lead his life. Then comes Raja’s cousin Indu (Bhama) from US in to his life. She is well educated and beautiful and Raja falls for her in his first sight. Enters Ramesh (Shiva) who is also cousin to Raja and he has all the virtual aspects for making Indu to fall in his love.

But Raja with the help of his friend (Raghu Babu) cooks up a fake love story and says that he was dumped by his lover. Indu believes and sympathizes him and one day that girl comes for real in to Raja’s life. Will Raja’s love on Indu prove successful? What happens to the girl who enters Raja’s life as his lover? All these questions are answered in the second half of the film.

Analysis:
Director Deepthi came up with a clichéd story in which first half of the film has nothing but so called mass comedy. It is very loud that it would be a serious test for the audience patience. Every actor hams big time and the director never gave a chance for a breather with the loudness in the proceedings. Only interesting point in the film comes during the intermission break.

But again the film falls back into the same loud zone and all of a sudden it turns gloomy and dramatic. Brand Super Good comes into foreground out of nowhere and the hyper active lead man turns sober and silky soft. From then on every scene and dialog resembles a Television serial with heavy dose of glycerin.

Thanks to the director that he didn’t end this movie on a clichéd note. Had he done that Manchivadu might have ended up as a good for nothing film. However, the director should’ve ended this film with an anti climax. The final scene is complete waste and unwanted. Director opted for a happy ending but in that process has harmed the characterization of hero.

Performances:
Tanish is energetic and confident actor. He did well within his limits. But he should work on his histrionics in comedic scenes. In those scenes he is very loud and on par with actor Raghubabu in loudness. Bhama is another pretty face who can’t emote at all. Shiva is Okay. Vishwanadh is standard. Jayanthi went overboard in few scenes. Raghubabu’s loud comedy should please lower classes. Madhavi Latha and Sonia did cameos. Others all helped the proceedings.

Tehnicalities:
Gangothri Viswanadh dialogues are TV serial stuff. Such dialogs won’t work with film going audience. Sirpi’s music is pretty ordinary. He followed SA Raj Kumar’s pattern probably to please the producers who have been seriously addicted to SARK’s music. Background score is pathetic at the best. Venugopalan cinematography lacked quality. There is no consistency in the lighting and framings. Editing has many jump cuts. Production values are mediocre.

Such films don’t give any scope for the director to sparkle. Deepthi should blame himself for writing such weak storyline and wavered screenplay.

Plus Points:
- Wait, let me think!

Minus points:
- Gosh, there are far too many!

Final Word:
Manchivadu is targeted at ladies and B, C audience who doesn’t bother to watch loud entertainment and heavy dose of sentiment. This is standard super good movie and if you’re a loyal fan of theirs, then give it a try. Rest all can rest in peace.

Lokame kothaga 2011 Telugu Movie Review

Banner: Neha Media Pvt Ltd
Cast: Aditi Agarwal, Sivaji
Music: Lalit Suresh
Producer: Neelam Sankar
Director: Bharat Parepalli

Lokame Kothaga Review – Lokame Kothaga Movie Review: Bharath Parepalli can be called as Ghajini Mohammed of Telugu film industry. He has been making films continuously for over a decade but he is yet to mark his first hit. Lokame Kothaga is yet another movie from Bharath’s table. Expecting a hit out of him is a big ask. So how about asking for a decent film? Did Lokame Kothaga prove to be a decent flick? Read the review…

Story:

Aditi (Aditi Agarwal) is on her way to college for an alumni meet. She recollects her college days and experiences in her journey. Like every teenage girl Aditi and her friend Jyothi dreams of having a boyfriend. Rahul (Shivaji) is a music lover who falls for Aditi. He impresses Aditi by expressing his love in a very unique way. But later Aditi loses faith in love due to the experiences of her friends and co students. She goes away from Rahul. How does Aditi believe in love again and when does she get back to Rahul is the rest of the story.

Analysis:

This is a remake of Kannada hit Moggina Manasu and director Bharath didn’t try to put in his own talent into it. Hence, Lokame Kothaga is bearable to some extent. However the snail paced screenplay and confusing sequences puts you off the screen. This is the movie about the feelings of an intermediate girl but the director failed to catch the exact feelings of girls of that age. When films like Kotha Bangaru Lokam showed the exact nature of inter students, Lokame Kothaga goes overboard in dealing with it.

Kannada hits are not always bankable in Telugu. Vaana, Yogi and Taj Mahal are super hits in Kannada. But they didn’t impress our audience because of the screenplay. Tollywood audience love to be entertained and when the film falls short of entertainment most of the times it doesn’t work. Same is the case with Lokame Kothaga.

Performances:

Shivaji’s role is very minimal. His is more like a special appearance. This film’s driving factor is Aditi Agarwal and her performance is not bad compared to her previous films. Suman did a fair job. Kasi Viswanadh and Vizag Prasad are strictly Okay. Suman Shetty’s comedy hardly evokes laughs.

Tehnicalities:

Music by Lalith Suresh has come up with n number of tunes. Most of them irks you or works as the much needed break. Background score is not up to the mark. Music director should stop copying Rahman if he is wishing to stay in business. Dialogs are very weak so is the cinematography. Production values are standard.

Bharath once again disappoints on the script front. He should have made changes to the original script to suit our audience tastes. Instead he simply xeroxed the Kannada version on to Tollywood celluloid. Tough luck Ghajini!

Plus Points:

- May be the plot of the film

Minus points:

- Everything except the above

Final Word: Lokame Kothaga doesn’t have anything ‘Kotha’ in it. If you watch this film by accident then your ‘Lokam’ would seem ‘Chethaga’. Watch it at your own risk.

Mr Perfect 2011 Telugu Movie Preview

Young Rebel Star Prabhas movie MR Perfect is all set to release April 22nd. Kajal Agarwal and Tapsee are the female leads, and the movie is Produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateshwara Creations and Directed by Dasaradh, Editing was done by Marthand K Venkatesh and Dialogues were penned by Abburi Ravi and the screenplay is by Hari.

Music by Devi Sri prasad has already created a positive vibe among the public for the movie, 90% of the movie is shot outdoors in places like Australia, Malaysia, Polachi, Kerela, Ahobhilam. Dil raju is taking extra care for this movie to make sure that it would be a Summer bonanza for the audience

Mr perfect is Family oriented romantic Love Story plot of the story revolves around the conflict of youngsters between career orientation and relation ships. Dynamic hero Prabhas who proved himself as a family entertainer with darling, richness in making of the film, the story created huge expectations among the audience. Mr Perfect is releasing in 500 theaters world wide. We have to wait and see the review to know how it fares at the box office and stand out as a Summer Entertainer.

Teen Maar 2011 Telugu Movie Review

Behind the Movie Teen Maar: Anything about Pawan Kalyan and his movies is a sensation. This film also stand on same sentiment and hype around is very high. Glamorous Trisha, director Jayant C Paranji, Trivikram and Mani Sharma teaming up together made the flick most awaited. Let us see, how far Pawan made his Fans dance for ‘Teen Maar’?

In the Movie Teen Maar: Michael Velayudham (Pawan Kalyan), chef in Cape Town is a playboyish kind of character, never cares on long term relations with girls. He is just a crazy, logical guy meets Meera (Trisha). Both become good friends and hang out romantically but don’t realize that they are in love. Time when Meera has to leave India for a Monumental restoration assignment, Michael who won’t believe in long distance relationship proposes for a break up. To see Michael happy, Meera agrees and both of them are separated as good friends with a break up party.

Here comes Sir Jee (Paresh Rawal), the restaurant owner observing Michael from close. He narrates love story of his friend Arjun Palvai (Pawan Kalyan), a student leader in Varanasi who falls in love at first with Vasumathi (Kriti). The sincere lover in Arjun Palvai fights against the odds of family barriers to win Vasumathi. As if Arjun Palvai represented the meaning of Love 30 years ago, it is confused Michael representing the present generation’s meaning of Love.

How Arjun Palvai’s pure love story influenced the life of Michael? How Michael patches up with Meera, even after her marriage with Sudhir (Sonu Sood)? How Michael realizes the meaning of love even after his bed relation with foreign girl Mitchell (Donna)? How these two love stories of Michael and Arjun unravel forms the climax.

Values of the Movie Teen Maar: Basically this is a movie of two layered love tale interweaved tightly with superb screen play. Although a remake to ‘Love Aaj Kal,’ we find many alterations made to make this a packed Pawan Kalyan film. Jayant well directed the key episodes without leaving the flavor at any moment. He needs all appreciations. Script work from Trivikram hasn’t left any untouched element in Pawan Kalyan and truly he is a genius. Dialogues from this man are funny, meaningful and light hearted with heavy meaning carried. On the music front Mani Sharma’s background was awesome while ‘Vayyarala …,’ ‘Barbie Bommaki…’ and ‘Gelpu Thalupule...’ are picturized wonderfully. Songs are better visually than in just audio form. Cinematography by Jayanan Vincent is top notch catching the locales from Varanasi to Cape Town and Editing by MR Varma is defective in few lengthy scenes. Production values maintained by Ganesh Babu are ‘A’ class.

Performance wise, it is all the way a show of Pawan Kalyan. Character of Michael Velayudham is his regular best while Arjun Palvai is fabulous with settled expressions and strong substance. Michael gave Pawan to show his regular mannerisms which are overdosed many a times. No complaints, Pawan Kalyan after a long time showed his strength in acting with characters of two different shades.  He is just amazing. Next one to talk about is Trisha. She reinvented the new sexy look and I swear she is red hot to handle. The kind of costumes selected for Pawan and Trisha’s romantic adventures will blow our minds. Trisha got a correct role and she well managed the chemistry with Pawan. If Kriti was cool, Paresh Rawal made a good come back. Ali’s comedy was good to some extent and bad man Sonu Sood looked soft. Of the remaining Kasi Vishwanath, Mukesh Rishi and others are good.

Out of the Movie Teen Maar: If die hard Pawan Fans are waiting for a single love story based characterization for Pawan Kalyan, here is your double dhamaka. Although film has few boring moments with weak take off and sinking first half an hour, Teen Maar suddenly catches the momentum with arrival of Arjun Palvai. Apparently story is simple, predictable yet it blows fresh air and you constantly fall in love with intensity. Can’t be called an outsmart show, Jayant managed to come out with a neat, clean and decent output for Pawan Kalyan in recent times. Teen Maar is a film with feel and soul. Especially romantic episodes and lip kisses between Pawan and Trisha stood highlighted.

The way Pawan made a transition from Michael to Arjun is simply superb. It looked as if all the pretty blunders played with Michael’s character are desperately done by Jayant and Trivikram to elevate the strength in Arjun. Thanks that Arjun became the central character in entire drama.

For general public, surely ‘Teen Maar’ is an above average product. When it comes to Power Star Fans, here is your most awaited after ‘Khushi’ and ‘Jalsa.’ Comparisons between ‘Love Aaj Kal’ and ‘Teen Maar’ are an out of scope subject because earlier was thoroughly a director’s show and later is perfectly a show of Pawan Kalyan.

Box Office wise A, B class centers and family audiences will lead from front to create new records. In C centers quite doubtful on how they would absorb this typical modern content.

Jr.NTR's "Shakti" Telugu Movie Review

Behind the Movie Shakti: Budget of Rs.45 crores with a brand name of Vyjayanthi, director Meher Ramesh touching the peculiar socio fantasy subject and Junior NTR’s enormous star power added with glamour spice from Ileana made ‘Shakti,’ the most awaited. Let us see, how far did it stand up to the title?

In the Movie Shakti: Movie begins in Egypt where Faktuni (Pooja Bedi) waiting for husband Mukthar (Sonu Sood) to return back devastating 18 Shakti Peetams and the secret Peetam in Hampi is shocked to see him dead. Faktuni wants to demolish Maha Shakti and destroy India pleasing the Egyptian mummies to come alive. To take revenge on Maha Shakti, lady villain Faktuni grooms both her sons Rakha and Bashir as warriors to attack India and Shakti Peetams at right time.

Fast forward 27 years, Home Minister Maha Deva Raya (Prabhu) meets Naga Sadhu (Nazar). Both are waiting for the day of Lunar Eclipse to perform pooja for hidden Maha Shakti Peetam in Hampi, access to which is possible with Rudra Shulam and Jwala Mukhi. On the other side Rudra Shulam is possessed by International Criminal Jackie (Jockie Shroff) in Dubai while Jwala Mukhi is with Maha Deva Raya. At the same time evil Faktuni wants both of them to win the world. As Maha Deva Raya’s daughter Aishwarya (Ileana) is born by the blessings of Shakti, she alone has the power to open doors for Hampi Peetam.  Aishwarya in order to enjoy her freedom runs away from home roaming in Jaipur, Sri Nagar and Haridwar. During this freak out journey with friends, Aishwarya meets guide Shakti (Junior NTR) who saves her from the attack of Faktuni’s followers and she falls in love with him.

As story progresses the grown up sons of Faktuni advance into India to kidnap Aishwarya. Then time for the big twist. Shakti rescues her to reveal his original identity as undercover cop Shakti Swaroop, IPS. Obviously they sing a duet and story moves on to get some life. It’s time for nearing Lunar Eclipse and Maha Deva Raya, Naga Sadhu narrate a lengthy flash back recognizing the re-birth of protector Maha Rudra (Junior NTR) in the form of Shakti Swaroop.

In crisp, flashback is that Hampi Shakti Peetam is guarded by Maha Rudra and King Vijaya Krishna Raya (SP Balu). During a lunar eclipse time performing the pooja for Maha Shakti in Hampi, Mukthar attacks them with help of a king’s follower Janaki Ram (Jockie Shroff). In the fight, everyone die and Janaki escapes to Dubai with Rudra Shulam who later on becomes Jackie while Maha Rudra’s wife Gowramma (Manjari Phadnis) dies giving birth to Shakti Swaroop. Coming to present again, Faktuni and Jockie enter India on Lunar Eclipse day to accomplish their task. How did Shakti Swaroop encounter them and how did he save the 18 Shakti Peetams and Hampi Peetam forms climax.

Values of the Movie Shakti: Story spans over two generations. Unfortunately you might get a feel of listening to a story line belonging to ancient times of Egyptian mummies. But truth is that it spans between 1980 and 2011. What makes such a lengthy story look unappealing on the screen is known alone to director Meher Ramesh. Neither there was a tight script nor there an efficient utilisation of wonderful star cast. Meher absolutely failed in every department.  Dialogues by Satyanand sounded funny. Work of Yandamuri and other seniors in expansion of story is absolutely hopeless. Music by Mani Sharma was better in background than songs. Art work by Anand Sai was marvellous. If cinematography of Sameer Reddy well captured the locales of Egypt, Dubai, Jaipur, Haridwar etc, editing by Marthand K Venkatesh was full of blunders. Production values of Vyjayanthi are top notch, as usual.

Performances wise Junior NTR alone shouldered the entire movie in spite of a fact that both the hero characters were not at all his cup of tea.  Tarak looked handsome in undercover cop getup while Maha Rudra was shear disappointment for Fans even. Ileana is meant only for glamour. Pooja Bedi is poor and Jackie Shroff is wasted. Nazar was fine but the voice dubbed missed the feel. Prabhu, SP Balu, Manju Bhargavi, Sonu Sood, Manjari Phadnis, Sayaji Shinde, Vinod Kumar were also just okay. Comedy wise Brahmanandam episode was total amateurish while Ali, Krishna Bhagawan, Venu Madhav were fine.

Out of the Movie Shakti: Strictly speaking everything about this film is a big let down. It was only the presence of Junior NTR that can become saving grace else this would be a total disaster. Meher Ramesh shown his copy cat mentality in every department of story and narration but missed out the effectiveness in delivering the punch. There was no emotional connectivity. He should have concentrated a bit more on developing a sensible script with this kind of story. Other than going on a tour of Haridwar, Sri Nagar, Hampi and other locations, there is nothing great in Shakti. Junior NTR could have never accepted this kind of characterization.  Length of the movie is more than 3 hours with a length of 15 reels tests the patience. Both first and second half, there is heavy lag. Surely Meher could have dealt this more better. There is no chance for movie to create new records at BO. Big sorry for Aswini Dutt and Meher gets a strong blow for missing the big target. Junior NTR should remain cautious while selecting his directors and stories.

Chattam *2011* Movie Review

Chattam Movie Review

Behind the Movie Chattam: Faces of Jagapathi Babu and Vimala Raman are the only attractions for this flick directed by PA Arun Prasad, who earlier had super hit ‘Thammudu’ with Pawan Kalyan. Producer Natti Kumar releasing the movie with nearly 400 prints, let us see what is this ‘Chattam’ all about?

In the Movie Chattam: Gowri Shankar (Jagapathi Babu) is a circle inspector in Hyderabad. He grabs money from criminals saving them from pretty crimes. Constable Ramana Rao (Jeeva)’s daughter (Vimala Raman) will have romantic encounter with Gowri and obviously he falls in love with her.

Here come the real episodes of acid attack on Swapnika and the brutal murder of little girl Vaishnavi in Vijayawada. With in no time criminals behind these two incidents are killed in the same fashion like Swapnika and Vaishnavi. As CB CID special officer (Murali Sharma of Athidi fame) enters the scene for interrogation to find the man behind these two murders, he is shocked to find that it is none other than Gowri who surrendered to Mumbai police.

Gowri is then shifted to Arthur Road Prison where Pakistan terrorist Kasab is placed. Next target of Gowri is to kill Kasab? Did he achieve it? Why Gowri wants to take revenge on Kasab? Why is Gowri questioning the Indian Judicial and Legal system? form the climax.  

Values and Out of the Movie Chattam: Basic idea of the film is to punish criminals then and there ensuring the spot justice without delaying the process in name of judicial system. Despite the thought being good and idealistic in the current society where crime rate is zooming up, presenting same on the screen is lackluster. Narration was very weak from PA Arun Prasad impaired in conviction. Screenplay is not at all gripping. Dialogues in climax episode are meaningful while rest of the movie, they are weak. Background by Sreelekha is second rate. Editing by Gowtham Raju is good while cinematography by Jaswant is just average. Production values of Natti Kumar are passable.

Performance wise Jagapathi Babu was at his best. He portrayed good emotions in Mumbai Terrorist Attack episode where his entire family will be killed. Again in climax episodes JB has shown the spark. Next person who gets applause for screen presence is Murali Sharma. While Vimala Raman exposed too much of her deep cleavage, she is permitted just for sake of glamour quotient. Jeeva, Ashish Vidyarthi, Chalapathi Rao are just okay and Asha Saini looked hot in item number.

First of the film is weak with bits and pieces of episodes inspired from Vaishnavi and Swapnika incidents. Interval bang could have been betterly picturized. Second half holds the key for film where entire message is delivered. Commercial success is no way guaranteed for this 2 hour film and it may fare better for one week in B & C centers. As production cost of the movie looked very low budgeted, producer may breakeven.