Trivikram Srinivas-Mahesh Babu combination had worked wonders earlier in the form of Athadu, and later in their brief stint with Jalsa too. (It should be remembered that Mahesh had share in Jalsa by lending voice vore to the movie.) The star and the director share good rapport, and they planned to work for another movie. Hare Rama Hare Krishna was first planned with M S Raju as producer but the project was called off. Then they finally stated to work on good romantic subject with a tentative title Varudu. And then, they started search for the right "vadhuvu" (bridge) for Varudu (groom). While Trivikram said that he plans to complete the film by the end of the year, Mahesh clearly stated that the film would not release this year. Now, more news comes in about the film!
Based on Mahesh's current image as a hero, the movie's subject has changed. Thus, the title Varudu seems to have been undone too! While the new title is not yet known, it's learnt that Mahesh is going to be shown as even more handsome personality in the movie.
The fans' long wait thus comes to become a much longer wait! Let's wait and watch for more twists or plain simple news of the film.
Mahesh Babu impresses with 'Dasavatharam'
Kamal Haasan would be pleased to know that Tollywood superstar Mahesh Babu has high regard for the legendary actor. Mahesh Babu was impressed with Kamal's latest – Dasavatharam and shares his experience to the media. 
Super Good Films is known for bringing out family subjects. Almost all the films that came on the banner could be watched by the entire family by sitting together. A few years ago, Dr Rajasekhar played hero for 'Simharasi' on the banner with Samudra as director. After a long gap, the banner roped in the hero once again for the remake of a successful Kannada film 'Anna Thangi'. On receipt of the proposal, Rajasekhar and Jeevitha watched the film and they were very much impressed with the subject. As the subject was completely jelled with sentiment, Rajasekhar came to a conclusion that he could attract the families and agreed to do the role. Then Meera Jasmine, who had innocent looks and at the same time had enough glamour to play the role of a sister was roped in as the sister. With VR Pratap wielding the megaphone, the film came out as 'Gorintaku'.Ashok (Rajasekhar) and Lakshmi (Meera Jasmine) are brother and sisters. Their father Sarvarayudu (Rajasekhar), who was a landlord of the village, and mother (Sujitha), die during Lakshmi's childhood. Ashok and Lakshmi turn inseparable. Like any other girl, Lakshmi also falls in love with a boy called Aakash (Aakash), but makes it clear that she would love or marry him only with the blessings and acceptance of her brother. Ashok performs her marriage. He also marry a girl called Nandini (Arthi Agarwal) on the same dais. After their marriage, Aakash and Lakshmi lead a happy life along with Aakash's cousins and sisters-in-law. In a gap of seven years, Lakshmi turns the mother of two daughters and a son. Then Nandini also turns pregnant but suffers abortion due to the intervention of one Kantham, who stays with her claiming to be her aunt. As Nandini's uterus was also removed, Ashok turns childless and to please him Aakash and Lakshmi bring their children to cajole him. By the time Aakash returns to their house, his cousins cheat him and swindle the entire property. Aakash gets jailed in a cheque bounce case. Lakshmi and her children turn orphans. With the Kantham's advice, Nandini throws Lakshmi out of house and warns her not to try to meet her brother. With no way to save her husband and her family, Lakshmi commits suicide with her three children and on learning this Ashok also dies proving that they are inseparable even in death.
As far as performance, Rajasekhar truly lived in the role of a brother. He performed with complete eloquence to win the hearts of women audiences. Especially, he showed good emotion in sentiment scenes. Once again, Saikumar's dialogues came in very handy and they were in perfect sync with his body language. Meera Jasmine is the other performer to make note of in the film. Her character was etched with different shades as a innocent girl, as a trickster, as a chivalrous girl, a loveable sister, a wife, a mother and what not. She appeared a perfect fit in all the shades of her role. Especially, her performance in the climax is worth watching. Arthi Agarwal, the heroine of the film, has not much role to play in the film but to show some inhibition just before the climax. Arthi was able to perform her role well, which has a negative touch. Others including Chandramohan, Sivaji Raja, Surya, Brahmaji, Raviprakash, Hema, Surekhavani and others did justice to their roles
Behind the screen, camera work by Akhilan is okay while Nandamuri Hari did his job as usual while editing the copy. Music by SA Rajkumar is average as he had not much scope to give tunes either with a fast beat or in youthful tune as the subject did not allow him to do so. However, the background score and re-recording should have bee a little better. The basic drawback in the film is the subject. It is aimed at a particular section of audiences — families. Hence the director could not go beyond certain limits with his hands tied with the subject based only on brother-sister sentiment. Screenplay was also very old fashioned.
The story being a tear-jerker, could please the audiences who were in their above 40s. It could neither please the youth nor college going students. In the absence of any mass masala ingredients, the commercial success of the story depends on how the family audiences welcome it. The comedy track picturised on Venumadhav has nothing to do with the film and at the same time he miserably failed to make the audiences laugh heartily.
Cast: Rajasekhar, Meera Jasmine, Arthi Agarwal, Akash, Sujitha, Chandramohan, Sivajiraja, Surya, Brahmaji, Raviprakash, PJ Sarma, Venumadhav, Uttej, Gauthamraju, Hema Choudary, Hema, Surekhavani, Prabhavati
Credits: Dialogues – Gangotri Viswanath, Lyrics – Veturi and Sirivennela, Music – SA Rajkumar, Camera – Akhilan, Editing – Nandamuri Hari, Presents – RB Choudary, Producers – NV Prasad and Paras Jain, Screenplay and direction – VR Pratap.
Banner: Mega Super Good Films
Released on: July 4, 2008
Kathanayakudu Music Review
The Tamil version 'Kuselan' is simultaneously remade in Telugu as
'Kathanayakudu'. In fact 'Kuselan' in itself is the remake of a Malayalam film 'Kadha Parayumbol'. However, it is learnt that the director of 'Kathanayakudu' chose to improvise the Super Star's role in a much larger way keeping Rajanikanth's image than the original. Hence there is no surprise that most of the songs were in praise of the hero and made the audience to believe as one the reasons for the title justification.Though the impact of AR Rahman could be clearly seen in his nephew's tunes, one could find his own style by giving a tune which is equally acceptable to both Tamil and Telugu versions. At times, some bits in tunes, remind us the songs in films like 'Oke Okkadu and Gentleman'.
Lyrics by Veturi, Ramajogaiah Sastry and Ananta Sriram were perfectly suited to the tunes making the audiences question themselves whether the songs were first tuned in Telugu or Tamil. Moreover, the songs rendered by top class artistes like Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, Kailash Kher, Daler Mehendi, Chitra, Shreya Ghoshal, Sadhana, besides Sujata, Prasanna were quite melodious and surely the album has the chance of reaching the top three in very few days.
Cinema Cinema
Artiste: Shankar Mahadevan
This number seemed to be the theme song / title song and it could be the introduction song of Rajanikanth, who plays really a film hero (real life role) in the film. The song was penned in such a way to explain about film and film making and the merits and demerits in the film industry. The lyricist being attached to the film industry for several years was able to explain about the film industry. As the song had lyrical value, the music director might have chosen to give scope to the lyric than filling it with music. However, he utlised the interlude time very well. The music lovers could easily identify the impact of AR Rahman to certain extent and at the same time, he maintained his own style by mixing Illayaraja kind of melody in the song.
Vatche Vatche Vaana
Artiste: Shreya Ghoshal
This song appears to be a situational song. The number begins with music of rain and frog noise etc. Soon it turns a little fast number and very youthful. Shreya Ghoshal's voice filled the needed melody in the song. Music Director Prakash needed compliments for honoring the singers' talent without filling in unnecessary music to snub the voice. This made the lyricist to use his literary talents in scripting fantastic lyrics to all the songs. Especially use of very common words in a song lifted the tempo in the song. No doubt, it would remain yet another good song on 'Rain' theme. Traditional instruments like guitar, violin, drums, flute, electric guitar and bass guitar and were aptly used by the music director.
Challe Challe
Artists: Hariharan, Sujatha
This number was tuned in complete melody. The song begins with guitar and ghatam sounds. It appears a duet between the hero and heroine. The tune is in folk song manner as the background songs is the chirping of birds, with light drumbeat coupled with flute bits. Guitar interludes along with bits from key board enhanced the theme of the song. However, the ghatam sound continued to remain in the background. The use of guitar bit before the second stanza is worth listening. The second stanza talks about share market and the sweet and diabetes, which means the couple returned from the city to village. The use of flute in the interludes between the second stanza are also worth listening.
Ra Ra Ramayanna
Artists: Kailash Kher, Prasanna
This number was tuned in a mass beat. Especially the initial music indicates that style of a Sikh's folklore kind of music, followed by traditional drum (dappu) music indicates some other. The humming indicates another kind of folklore beat. The song also penned in praise of a hero and his heroic deeds. The wavelength of music director, the director and the lyricist appear to be in right sync and all the songs had good lyrical values. However, the music director also made use of traditional instruments instead of going for extravagant instruments.
Om Zaarare…
Artistes: Daler Mehendi, Chitra, Sadhana Sargam
This number filled the void that the music director ignored the western instruments in his album. He used several western musical instruments and different humming in the backdrop. Some how, he could not ignore use of traditional instruments and took their help in the last stanza. He chose to use one of the Tamil musical instrumentsm which sounds like a mridangam of Carnatic music, with a different sound.
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