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Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York. Her parents divorced when she was young and she lived with her mother, although they moved around quite a bit. Christina's goal almost since birth was to be a singer, and at age 12 she was invited to audition for "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (1989).

She wound up getting the part and stayed there for a few years, until the show ended. In 1999 she had her breakthrough hit, "Genie in a Bottle". Since then she's made millions of fans, sold millions of records and has won many awards, including a Grammy for best new female artist. She has even made a Latin album and will be working on a second one. A Christmas album has also been released.

Christina Aguilera is a bilingual singer mixed with Irish and Ecuadorian roots. Her self titled debut album went 10x platinum. She has received many honors including 6 Grammy Nominations and one win for Best New Artist. 2 MTV Video Music Awards, a Radio Music Awards, 2 VH1 Awards, and a Teen Choice Award with Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones, Mya and Pink and the smash hit "Lady Maramalade".

Seematapakay Review: Moderate Entertainer

Film: Seematapakay
Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Wellfare Creations
Cast: Allari Naresh, Poorna, Sayaji Shinde, Nagineedu and others
Music: Vandemataram Srinivas
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Cinematography: Adusimilli Vijay Kumar
Story, screenplay, Direction: G Nageshwar Reddy
Producer: Malla Vijay Prasad
Release date: 13/05/2011

Allari Naresh who scored a hit with his last movie ‘Aha Naa Pellanta’ has now arrived with yet another comedy treat. Let us see how entertaining this is

Story:

Sri Krishna (Naresh) is the blue eyed boy for his big and stinking rich family (Sayaji, Sudha, Surekha Vani, Ravi and others).

He falls in love with Satya (Poorna) who believes in helping the poor. She has a special hatred for rich people and knowing this Krishna along with his friend (Vennela Kishore) disguise as poor people and befriend her.

In no time, Krishna manages to convince his family also to cooperate and act as poor people. The love blossoms and Krishna family also likes Satya. However, Krishna discovers that Satya is originally from Kurnool and her father is the dreaded factionist Nagineedu (Nagineedu).

Does Poorna know Krishna identity? Will Krishna family accept Satya family? All this forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Allari Naresh does his bit as required but this time, one doesn’t see his significant contribution. He just sways along with the story and carries the film without any special impact.

Poorna is good in emotional scenes and was overacting a bit during the regular scenes. But then, she is spicy hot in the songs and reveals a totally different side of her.

Sayaji Shinde delivers as required. More than his characterization, it is his body language and facial expressions that give enough humour to the audience.

Nagineedu was elegant and matured, Ravu Ramesh was not used to his fullest potential, Sudha was neat, Brahmi was okay, LB Sriram was standard, Vennela Kishore made his presence felt, Surekha Vani was sensuous, Geeta Singh was general, Jayaprakash Reddy was usual.

Highlights:

    * Dialogues
    * Poorna glamour and sexy appeal in songs
    * First half
    * Parody song of Simha, Khaleja, Brindaavanam etc

Drawbacks:

    * Routine storyline
    * Second half
    * Not enough dose of comedy
    * Not much from Allari Naresh this time

Analysis:

The film has come in with some hype and with the buzz that there is a dig at ‘Simha’ ‘Khaleja’ etc, the expectations were more.

However, the film is a safe comedy entertainer. To those who are seeking some variety in Allari Naresh movies, this will not help. It is the standard formula entertainer and it scores as it passes off without any idle moment. On the other hand, comedy is timing oriented and dialogue focused which keeps the audience busy.

But the content is on beaten track. There is no reasonable depth in characters and characterizations.

The director banked on the taste and sensibility of regular C center audiences. It certainly goes well with that set of audiences as its being summer and viewers keep theaters busy.

There is also an underlying message to the rich in this with some comedy attached to it. On the whole, the film will bring some entertainment to the masses and the family audience, to an extent. Keeping the cost effective production in view point, it has a chance of landing in profit zone with positive word of mouth and due to the summer season.

100% Love Review: Just Pass

Film: 100% Love
Rating: 3/5
Banner: Geetha Arts
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Tamannah, K R Vijaya, Naresh and others
Music: Devisri Prasad
Cinematographer: Venkat Prasad
Story, Direction: Sukumar
Producer: Bunny Vasu
Release date: 06/05/2011

Naga Chaitanya is back after his super hit movie ‘Ye Maya Chesave’ and he has teamed up with Sukumar who is keen on scoring 100% success. Let us see how good this gets.

Story:

Balu (Chaitu) is a topper throughout his academic life and he believes in nothing but success and successful people.

In comes his ‘Maradalu’ Mahalakshmi (Tamannah) from the village to study. At the start, Balu dominates Mahalakshmi and gives her instructions. In no time, she picks up and overtakes him. In between this, she develops feelings for Balu but it is his ego and self-pride which brings problems in their lives.

What happens to Mahalakshmi love? Does Balu change his attitude? All this forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Naga Chaitanya gave a spirited performance and he is yet to come out of his blank facial expressions in few scenes. Overall, his confidence and positive body language covers up.

Tamannah has shrunk in her figure and looks a bit skinny. However, she has scored with a significant performance and justified her presence to the fullest. Of course, there are few places where she shines with her glamour as well.

Nandu comes up with a decent act and though his role is limited, he made his presence felt. He has the potential to deliver more if given meaty roles.

Naresh was natural, Dharmavarapu brought few smiles, K R Vijaya was matured, Vijay Kumar was alright. The others did their bit as required and added value to the film.

Highlights:

    * Cinematography
    * First half
    * Tamannah glamour and performance
    * Opening titles

Drawbacks:

    * Second half
    * Weak emotional quotient in scenes
    * Strong urban flavour
    * Rendering of songs not that effective

Analysis:

The film gives a very interesting punch with titles. It’s first of kind titles and one needs to watch how it went on humorously and intelligently. At the same time it gives an appeal that we are getting into a stuff that appeals for the educated crowds.

Sukumar school of thought has always been unusual and his focus has been on intense emotions and relationships. Holding the experience of working as lecturer of Mathematics earlier, he could convincingly chalk out this script with convincing college atmosphere in first half. On the other hand, he showed the flashes of brilliance by creating peppy scenes and logical comedy.

First half is good with full dose of energy along with kids, the second half fails to grip the audience at many moments due to predictable emotions and ending. The humor dose was also not up to the requirement in second half since the first half was on top. The director has kept all his energies in first half and got confused to carry on with second half. He might have taken better care as it’s just a single line story.

Coming to the music part, the pity is the lyrics are very beautiful but the singers killed them. Care must have been taken to make the lyrics audible and clear.

While the director was able to strike a chord instantly with the college going audience, he was unable to give the required maturity in the sentimental and melodramatic scenes. This may not go well with B, C center audiences for sure and may appeal to a small section of A audience.

Nenu Na Rakshasi Review: Suicidal Attempt

Film: Nenu Na Rakshasi
Rating: 2.75/5
Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
Cast: Rana Daggubati, Ileana, Abhimanyu Singh, Subbaraju, Nagineedu, Ali, Mumaith Khan etc
Music: Rahman, Viswas, Anup Rubens
Lyrics: Rahman, Vishwas
Cinematogrpahy: Anmol Rathod
Producer: Nallamalupu Bujji
Story, Screenplay, Director: Puri Jagannath
Release Date: 29th Apr 2011

Puri Jagannath is back after Golimaar. He attracted the attention of the audience with the title ‘Nenu Na Rakshasi’. The term Rakshasi was assumed to be an adamant lover by majority audience. Knowing the genre where Puri is comfortable, the audience has piled some expectations on the film. Let us see if this has met the expectations.

Story:

The movie starts with Ileana committing suicide by hanging herself to death.

Abhi (Rana) is a professional shooter. Meenakshi (Ileana) is a cute girl who works in a coffee shop. She has the typical hobby of shooting the real suicides and upload in youtube.

The reason for Abhi becoming a shooter is the deaths of his parents in the hands of a cruel gangster named Ratna (Abhimanyu Singh). And the reason for Meenakshi to record the suicides in video is similar to that of Abhi.

An inspector (Subbaraju) investigates into this anonymous up loader of videos. He has a little daughter who gets close to Abhi, being neighbor. This little girl delivers a few punch dialogues which are true and to be underlined.

Abhi falls in Meenakshi love. With the series of happenings, who remains at last will form the rest of the story. Who commits suicide? Is the lady who committed suicide in the beginning is Meenakshi? What happens to Abhi? What happens to the little girl? To know answers, watch on big screen.

Performances:

Rana looks are matchless and needless to say again and again indeed. But he has to groom his energy levels in acting, expressions and gait. There is no other way than gaining experience in doing films continuously. He has no dancing material in him and that is not a minus point at all for an actor. He can stand as great actor even though not a good dancer. All that he has to do is gaining confidence and showing energy levels in his trade mark style.

Ileana is ok with her hour glass figure but she is remembered as a rough minded lady in this film than as a Cupid arrow.

Subbaraju is perfect as Cop but he has minimal role.

Mumaith Khan appears in a special role like a vamp but preaches the materialistic way of living in a song.

Ali managed to entertain audiences with his typical histrionics. Abhimanyu Singh is ok with his villainy.

Music is the plus point in this film and songs made audiences glue to seats. Background score by Anup Rubens gave a different feel for the film.

This is a higher level script that can go well only with intellectuals. Regular audiences cannot call this an entertainer.

Plus points:

    * Music and songs
    * Production values
    * First half

Minus Points:

    * Plot
    * Screenplay
    * Characterization
    * Essence
    * Second half
    * Vulgar comedy

Analysis:

Both hero and heroine in this movie are shooters. While hero shoots with gun, heroine shoots with camera. While the hero shoots to kill the living, the heroine shoots to record the killing. It’s a pseudo thought tried to add a genuine color to it. The movie show cases cruelty in the disguise of reality. One needs to watch this movie with brain to understand that ‘reality’ and otherwise it sounds to be cruel.

This is the film made in the genre of filmnoir. The lead character in the film is Ileana with her cynical attitude on suicides. It is indeed difficult for Telugu audiences to digest such a character in a heroine. She neither opposes nor supports suicide but loves to shoot the individuals those commit suicide.

First half of the film runs well with typical characters and takes off smooth. But the second half suffers severe turbulences and audiences start getting suffocated.  Although the character introduction of heroine is shooting the real deaths, there is no convincing end for her character even with her flash back. Well, it may appeal for those minds which have undergone real suicidal tendencies and made failed attempts. What the director wants to convey is blunt and rude. There are four characters in the movie those have come out in four dimensions from the thought process of the director.

    * Live as you like and keep away the concept of sin and virtue (from the character of Mumaith Khan)
    * If somebody is paining you and bringing suicidal tendencies in you, make yourself strong. Don’t revolt on them and just live your life rudely (from the character of Surya)
    * If you feel your accomplishments are done and there is no one personal for you, then end your life (from the character of Rana)
    * Suicides are not meaningless. They have great meaning (from the character of Ileana).

This is the typical character chart and thought line incorporated in the movie on broader scale.

These ideas are indeed cynical and hypothetical. What the director is wishing by making this movie? Is he asking the Law to make Suicides legal? Is he appealing for those who are inclined to commit suicide to carry on with their act? Is he wishing to make people strong or weak?

To answer one by one, recently the Supreme Court has suggested counseling the individuals those attempt suicide but not punish them.

Coming to next question, yes, the people those are on boarder line to commit suicide will commit it for sure. They lose ray of hope in life. (Director Ji! Please recall Sri Sri song ‘kala kaanidi viluvainadi..bathuku kanneeti dhaarala thone bali cheyyaku…That song pumped hope in many hearts. They have approached Sri Sri thanking for the song that brought them back from suicidal tendency)

This film will not affect the strong people. It will affect the weak hearts by weakening them further.

This will not go well with B, C centers and A center audience try to understand the essence in this movie patiently with their heads. This is a kind of art film with commercial budget. This can be sent to film festivals and big headed critical critics may say some good lines about it out of obligations! It is a risky attempt business wise.