Review : Bethaludu – Different suspense thriller

Release date : December 01, 2016
Rating : 3/5
Director : Pradeep Krishnamoorthy
Producer : Fathima Vijay Antony
Music Director : Vijay Antony
Starring : Vijay Antony, Arundhathi Nair

Vijay Anthony has become a huge sensation after the success of his last film Bichagadu. He is now back with his new film Bhetaludu which has hit the screens today. Let’s see how it is.

Story:-
Dinesh(Vijay Anthony) is a senior software engineer who leads a happy life with his wife Aishwarya(Arundhati Nair). The twist in the tale arises when Dinesh starts hearing weird voices from his brain which ask Dinesh to kill himself.
Things get so serious that Dinesh’s life gets disturbed completely and he is joined in a mental hospital. There, during his treatment, the doctors find out that he is suffering from a problem which is related to his ancestral past.
What is that problem ? What does it have to do with Dinesh’s current life? and How does Dinesh manage to come out of this tricky situation ? That forms the rest of the story.

Artistes’ Performances:
Vijay Antony is suited perfect to the roles of Dinesh and Sharma. He has pulled off both the roles with ease. He has limited acting skills and he is cleverly selecting roles that suit to his talent.

Arundhathi Nair has given her best. In other roles, the guy who played doctor and YG Mahendran shine.

Technical Excellence: 
The film has terrific background score that is done by Vijay Antony himself. Cinematography and artwork is competent. Dialogues by Bashya Sri are neat.
Highlights:
First half
Suspense element
Background score

Drawback:
Out rightly silly climax
Slow narration
Complete contrast second half

Analysis:
The reason why "Bichchagadu" became such a big hit was the unique story and narration though it is basically mother-son sentiment drama. The way it was packaged made all the difference.

As "Bethaludu" begins to unravel the story, audiences would get impression that he has got it right again. The movie begins on a strong note by directly coming into the story without any deviation and keeping the suspense well.

The first half is terrifically shot with riveting drama and engaging screenplay. At "Viramam" (interval) bang, we feel that a superb thriller is in store. But all that good work is undone by the contrast second half.

In the first half, the story is set up as a psychological thriller or rebirth-revenge drama. In the second half, the disclosure is opposite to this. This revelation is not all convincing and has spoiled the show. From here, movie has completely gone out of hands of the director. All the mood the director created with his narration, Vijay Antony with his acting as well as background score has gone for the toss thereafter.

And the climax makes us feel indifferent to it. A typical mass-movie kind of fight sequence is thrown in all of a sudden. The reason why heroine married him in the first place and why she is harassed in the second half is not answered well.

"Bethaludu" is like half-boiled biryani rice, cannot be savored however beautiful it looks. All in all, the movie has superb first half but cliched final scenes which gives us unsatisfactory feel in the end.

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Sonam Kapoor, Tamannaah, Amy Jackson bag top honours at the Asiavision Awards 2016 – view pics

Sonam Kapoor, Tamannaah, Amy Jackson, Radhika Apte and Ram Charan won the prestigious Asiavision Award...

But it was Amy Jackson who stole the show in her pink gown, after she received an award for her excellent performances in Tamil cinema…

Radhika was given award for her excellent performance in Phobia, Kabali and Parched…

Tamannaah looked elegant in her blue gown as she bagged the award for the Best actress in Tamil cinema…

Sonam Kapoor looked stunning in the black velvet Caroline Hayden gown. Isn’t she?

Ram Charan bagged the Youth Icon of the year award…

She was awarded the Best actresses award for her performance in Neerja…

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'Kaashmora' Review: Graphical Comic Arundhati

Movie: Kaashmora
Rating: 3/5
Banner: PVP Cinema
Cast: Karthi, Nayanathara, Sri Divya, Vivek and others. 
Music: Santosh Narayan
Cinematography: Om Prakash
Editing: Sabu Joseph
Art: Rajeevan
Action: Anbirav
Producer: Pearl.V.Potluri, Param.V.Potluri ,Kavin Anne
Direction: Gokul
Release date: October 28, 2016

Karthi who has huge following in Telugu states has come up with this graphical extravaganza. When the first look from the movie released, interest was created on this movie.

The trailer, the promotions further added buzz to it. Kaashmora is here. Let’s find out about its merits and demerits.

Story:
Kaashmora (Karthi) cons everyone by claiming that he can catch any ghost. Although he doesn’t know anything about parapsychology he makes people believe with his techniques.

Yamini (Sri Divya) who is researching on ghosts comes to his place to observe him and he doesn’t welcome her. A funny incident brings him to a deserted old fort. Once he enters into the fort, all doors get closed and he is trapped.

It is revealed that a real ghost called Raju Nayak brought him to this place and now the real drama begins. Some centuries ago, Raju Nayak was a soldier in a kingdom. What is his Aatma doing now in this fort?

Artistes’ Performances:
Karthi is stunning in the two roles he has portrayed. While the Kaahmora role is funny, he has excelled in the other role of Raju Nayak.

Karthi’s comedy act when he enters in old fort is superb fun. He has shown lot of variation in his performance.

Nayanathara as queen steals the show. She has limited role but she has brought livewire to the screen in the second half. Sri Divya is wasted. Vivek is good as Karthi’s father. 

Technical Excellence:
The film is shot with excellent production values and visual effects. The VFX work is okay. The sets are huge. Cinematography is impressive.

Music by Santosh Narayan is totally bad. The pace of the movie is very slow and runtime is excruciatingly long.

Highlights:
Karthi’s performance in dual role
Nayanathara
Pre-Interval scenes

Drawback:
Ups and downs in narration
Lengthy runtime
Last portion lacks effectiveness

Analysis:
The trailers and promotions of “Kaashmora” gave impression that the film deals with wars and old kingdoms like “Baahubali” did but this movie is more of a horror-comedy. 

The “Baahubali” kind of episode is limited to few minutes of runtime in the second half.

“Kaashmora” begins on an interesting note with the story of a girl waiting for the character called “Kaashmora” to complete an unfinished mission. 

Immediately the story forwards to the introduction of Karthi, the fraud ghost buster. How he dupes people evokes good comedy.

His father Vivek running an ashram for the devotees of Kaashmora baba and how his family takes offerings in the form of eggs and milk which are later sold off to restaurants is too funny.

The track of Karthi the Kashmora going to a minister’s house and duping him is another hilarious moment and the best scene is when Karthi is trapped in fort. 

All these funny episodes come in the first half and till here we feel like we are watching a good horror-comedy. Trouble begins post interval, it goes completely off-mark. 

The entire track of Raju Nayak and Rani Rathna Mahadevi is almost like Arundhati. Which is why this episode doesn’t excite, and scenes drag on.

As the film progresses towards the climax, we turn restless and we also get the feeling that we were also duped by Raju Nayak and Kaashmora. While some of the graphics are best, some don't add much value.

Overall, "Kaashmora" is not entirely dismissible, nor worth praising. It works to some extent only thanks to comic timing of Karthi.

Bottom-line: Con-Mora!

Source: https://goo.gl/OZABW6

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Rajinikanth, Suriya, Dhanush, Vishal, Karthi donate Rs 50 lakh for TN relief fund

  

Tamil actors Rajinikanth, Suriya, Karthi, Vishal and Dhanush have donated Rs 40 lakh to the Nadigar Sangam, which is collecting for relief fund for the rain affected people in Tamil Nadu.

Chennai has been hit by the massive rainfall and flood in the last couple of weeks. The schools and colleges were shut and the roads blocked by flood. The life of the general public has been affected by the recent calamity in Chennai, which has suffered a huge loss, of lives as well as material things.


Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had sought Rs 2000 crore from the central government as relief for areas affected by heavy rains and floods in the state. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a financial assistance worth Rs 939.63 crore. The Nadigar Sangam has come forward to support the chief minister, and it is collecting donations from the celebrities from the film industry.

Some stars like Vijayakanth, Rabhava Lawrence and Anirudh have donated for the cause last week. Suriya and Karthi met Nassar, President of Nadigar Sangam, and handed over a cheque of Rs 25 lakh towards CM Relief Fund on Saturday. Actors Vishal and Dhanush followed them and donated Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively for the relief.


Rajinikanth's Sri Raghavendra Public Charitable Trust has donated Rs 10 lakh for the rain-affected victims of Tamil Nadu.

"As instructed by our Managing Trustee, Sri Rajinikanth, we are enclosing herewith a payorder of date bearing No. 056325. Drawn on Karnataka Bank, Chennai, for Rs 10,00,000 (Rupees Ten Lakhs Only) favouring CHIEF MINISTER PUBLIC RELIEF FUND, towards donation for rain affected victims of Tamil Nadu," reads the letter of Sri Raghavendra Public Charitable Trust.


It should be recalled here that Rajinikanth, Hansika, Suriya, Karthi, Kajal Aggarwal and a host of other celebrities made generous donation when Andhra Pradesh was hit by Hudhud cyclone last year. But now, the stoic silence of some celebrities has surprised many in the state. More stars from the Southern industry are likely to contribute to the flood relief fund.

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Dhanush To Promote 'Bajirao Mastani' In Tamil Nadu

Bajirao Mastani' is directed and funded by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra are doing female lead roles along with male lead role Ranveer Singh. The movie is said to be Bhansali's dream project. As per sources the script was written more than ten years. Priyanka Chopra are doing female lead roles along with male lead role Ranveer Singh Apart from producing and directing the movie, Sanjay Leela bhansali himself has composed music and Sanchit Balhara handled the background music. Technical team features Sudeep Chatterji for cinematography and Rajesh.G.Pandaey as editor. Rest of the cast includes Tanvi Azhmi, Vaibav Tatwawdi, Milind Soman, Ayush Tandon and Sanjay Mishra. As we reported earlier, the movie is getting released in South Indian languages, Tamil and Telugu respectively. The dubbing works are happening in full swing. Now to promote the movie, the team has sought help from actor Dhanush. Dhanush was recently seen with Ranveer

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Arnold becomes trouble for Shankar

Director sitar player World Health Organization needs to rope Hollywood whizz Arnold Schwarzenegger to play the role of antagonist in his forthcoming motion-picture show “Robo 2” is facing ton of troubles by  Arnold Schwarzenegger. He needs to form villain him in  reel life however he's turning into villain in his world. Earlier he asked Rs a hundred Crores as remuneration to act within the motion-picture show is that Rajinikanth can play the lead role. The budget of the motion-picture show is Rs three hundred Crorres, sitar player tried to convert the producer of the motion-picture show to rope him as a result of he's solely the one that will justify with this role. manufacturers asked Arnold to allot fifty days for shoot however he's able to allot solely thirty six days. Recently he asked manufacturers to form changes within the script and take the assistance of Hollywood script writers. His demands square measure increasing day by day that isn't attainable to satisfy by manufacturers. The motion-picture show is made by Lyca Productions. presently Rajinikanth is busy in his forthcoming motion-picture show “Kabali” in Asian nation, when wrapping the shoot he can be a part of the set of Robo a pair of.

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Rajinikanth’s role in ‘Kabali’ revealed

 

There has been much hoopla about the role assayed by Rajinikanth in Pa Ranjith’s ‘Kabali’. In a recent interview, the director revealed that Rajini will be seen playing the role of a good rowdy. Rajini will be appearing in without makeup in most part of the film. The ‘Madras’ director said that the Superstar accepted this role only because it is realistic and matches his real age and get up.

The shooting of the film started from mid September and is going on in Chennai. Ranjith said that the team will be heading to Malaysia next month to shoot some important portions in the movie. ‘Kabali’ produced by Kalaipuli.S.Thanu has Radhika Apte playing Rajini’s pair while Ksihore, Rythwika, Kalaiyarasan, Dhanshika and many others will be seen playing important roles in the film.

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Puli may not beat Baahubal

The much awaited movie “Puli” under the direction of Chimbu Deven which has hit the theaters yesterday did not received good response at the box office. The morning show was cancelled because of financial issue but the movie was released from noon in Tamil version. Although the expectation was so high that it would beat the collection of S.S. Rajamouli’s directorial venture Baahubali but Puli has failed to impress the audiences at the box office. Those who watched the movie are not satisfied because of weak climax of the movie. The movie has rich star cast in which actor Vijay has appeared in a never before seen avatar in the movie. Actress Sridevi  has comeback in Kollywood after three decades. The glamour of actress Hanshika Motwani and Shruthi Hassan are enough to attract the audiences but this time they did not grab the attention of audiences. According to traders, Puli won’t cross Vijay’s earlier collections of the movie. Puli may not earn enough movie to beat Baahubali.

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