Last Sunday, I watched Chintakayala Ravi. No, I did not watch it at Greater Union Cinemas, but on DVD. Believe me, the print is perfect. It might have leaked from the print labs and some extra adventurous guy digitized and left it on the internet to spread like wild fire. The thing is the DVD is available in Sydney even before it was screened. The distributors might have lost huge amount of money. As per the information I read on idlebrain the movie is scheduled to be screened in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland after Sydney. If this trend continues we will hardly be able to watch any movies so far away from home. This movie watching experience is something like a get together for us. Irrespective of the talk the movie gets, we go and watch the movie, just for the fun and thrill of watching a Telugu movie in this foreign land.
Coming to the movie, it falls short of the huge expectations you might have about it. It tried a lot to be hilarious but succeeds only a few times. Some of the scenes like the one in which Venkatesh and Anushka are stuck in the super market are yucky. It became a custom after Nuvvu Naku Nachav and Malleswari for Venkatesh to appear in formal shirt and without any bottom. The story is so silly and has many loose ends which were not taken care of. Venkatesh did his level best to breath life into the movie. He is perfect as the protagonist but did not suit the age the character should possess. He evokes laughs with his perfect comedy timing. Anushka and Mamta Mohandas got some chance to show their acting abilities and they proved themselves. Nikita sparks in the short cameo role. We can see lot of girls like her in our colleagues, cousins and friends who are hyper-active and extremely talkative. Sunil is also good as Pendurthi Babu. All other actors did justice to their role as they are so much experienced to take up those kinds of roles.
As I already wrote music by Vishal-Sekhar is good and might have appeared great on the screen. They lifted the title track of Om Shanti Om and used it for the high-dose-sentimental scenes in the second half. The song Shava Shava Balle Balle which you might think is great while hearing is not so exciting while watching. The presence of Venkatesh and NTR together did not lift the excitement up.
Venkatesh is supposed to do much better roles than wasting his time with these movies. May be we are in for a treat as Kamal Hassan and Venky are getting together to star in Marma Yogi.
Coming to the movie, it falls short of the huge expectations you might have about it. It tried a lot to be hilarious but succeeds only a few times. Some of the scenes like the one in which Venkatesh and Anushka are stuck in the super market are yucky. It became a custom after Nuvvu Naku Nachav and Malleswari for Venkatesh to appear in formal shirt and without any bottom. The story is so silly and has many loose ends which were not taken care of. Venkatesh did his level best to breath life into the movie. He is perfect as the protagonist but did not suit the age the character should possess. He evokes laughs with his perfect comedy timing. Anushka and Mamta Mohandas got some chance to show their acting abilities and they proved themselves. Nikita sparks in the short cameo role. We can see lot of girls like her in our colleagues, cousins and friends who are hyper-active and extremely talkative. Sunil is also good as Pendurthi Babu. All other actors did justice to their role as they are so much experienced to take up those kinds of roles.
As I already wrote music by Vishal-Sekhar is good and might have appeared great on the screen. They lifted the title track of Om Shanti Om and used it for the high-dose-sentimental scenes in the second half. The song Shava Shava Balle Balle which you might think is great while hearing is not so exciting while watching. The presence of Venkatesh and NTR together did not lift the excitement up.
Venkatesh is supposed to do much better roles than wasting his time with these movies. May be we are in for a treat as Kamal Hassan and Venky are getting together to star in Marma Yogi.
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