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Movie: Friday (Independent Film) - 2025 Director: Anand Karanam Producer: Mani Serenades Cast: Arjun Jawabnavis, Surya Vamsee, Shashidhar Gopinath & Monica Busam Music: Nitish John Cinematography: Simhachalam Alyana Editor: Praneeth Kumar Language: Telugu Streaming Platform: YouTube  3/5 An Uncanny Yet Intriguingly Captivating Experience  01. All about 'Friday' & the genre. Friday - an 43 minute no genre independent film directed by Anand Karanam casting Arjun Jawabnavis, Monica & others is a very uncanny, too strange yet interesting backdrop for a film with this limitation on platform, budget & genre too.  It's generally about a struggling IT professional Prabhakar (Arjun Jawabnavis) who's bad at work nor having a great personal life too. He suffers from a typical anxiety & insomnia - which is directly affecting his work-life balance. In a parallel world we have an unsuccessful or somewhat unsatisfied maniac filmmaker Guru (Surya Vamsee) who's a...

Movie: Marco (2024) Director: Haneef Adeni Production: Shareef Muhammad  Cast: Unni Mukundan, Siddique, Jagadish, Kabir Singh & Others Music: Ravi Basur Editor: Shameer Muhammad  Cinematography: Chandru Selvaraj  Language: Malayalam  Release Date: 20/12/2024 Censor: 'A' (Loads of violence & brutal scenes- NOT FOR FAINT HEARTED) 1/5 Another Noxious Animal in the Market 01. Plot & all about Marco . It's the same old revenge -mass, action, vengeance drama with loads & loads of violence & bloodpools. Strictly not for faint hearted or who can't stomach violence, blood, body chopping scenes. Marco is simply a vengeance story of Unni Mukundan as Marco Peters avenging on Russel (Kabir Singh) who killed Marco's step brother Victor in a brutal way ofcourse. Why Ruassel killed Victor & why Marco is avenging him is something to watch for in the film. Siddique is Gorge Peter who's the head of Adattu family & Marco is his adopted brother. To know f...

Series: Harikatha - Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge (2024) Director: Maggi Cast: Rajendra Prasad, Sriram, Divi & Others Music: Suresh Bobbili Cinematography: Vijay Editing: Junaid Siddique  Censor: A (Violence, Disturbing Scenes, Gruelling Content) Language: Telugu  Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar Release Date: 13/12/2024 3.5/5 'A Jigsaw of Balancing Epictale & Suspense on One-Side & Blandness on Other Side' 01. Plot. Harikatha - Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge is a suspense thriller series that concentrates on supernatural powers, epic references, mythology & above all a typical message. This series with actors listing from the veteran Rajendra Prasad to Sriram is a good blend of nice performances & concept but still lies on a bland side due to the lack of freshness in story backdrop.  Harikatha is all about a revenge story planned by a group of people in Araku village set back in 1980's. Series starts with a gruelling murder scene & has many such scenes to conti...

Movie: Lucky Baskhar (2024) Director: Venky Atluri Production: Sithara Entertainments Cast: Dulquer Salmaan, Meenakshi Chowdhury & Others Music: G. V. Prakash Kumar  Editor: Naveen Nooli Cinematography: Nimish Ravi Language: Telugu  Release Date: 31/10/2024 Censor: U/A 3.75/5 "151 Minutes Rollercoaster Ride Into Baskhar's Notorious Life" 01. All about Lucky Baskhar. The new Telugu language film ' Lucky Baskhar' directed by Venky Atluri & starring the most talented Dulquer Salmaan, Meenakshi Chowdhury in lead roles is in theatres making noise already, so let's dwell in now.  Lucky Baskhar is basically a documentary or more or less an autobiography of a 'Common Middle Class Indian Man' Baskhar Kumar who's a normal Bank cashier & who suffers to support his family with his very little income that he gets. One day he gets that messed up & screwed up with his life, debts & income that he decides to plan something illicit that gives hi...

Movie: Devara Part-1 (2024) Director: Koratala Siva Production: Kalyan Ram Cast: Jr. NTR, Jahnvi Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan & Others Music: Anirudh Ravichandran  Editor: A Sreekar Prasad Cinematography: R. Rathnavelu Language: Telugu Censor: A Streaming Platform: Netflix  Release Date: 27/09/2024 2.75/5 Great In Parts, Fades Away Towards The End 01. All about Devara P1. Jr. NTR's much awaited Devara coming with the SSR sentiment has created alot of buzz but how far it succeeded to break the curse is to read along. Koratala Siva known for typical stories & a template writing has come up with yet another commercial flick with loads of action & violence.  Devara is all about few villages located aside to the 'Red Sea' also known as Errasamudram & the customs that those localities follow. The cinema has a great writing in terms of screenplay & story for almost the entire first half. Devara (Jr. NTR) also as Vara is there to safeguard the village like his ancest...

Movie: Saripodhaa Sanivaarm- 2024 Director: Vivek Athreya Producer: DVV Danyya Cast: Nani, Priyanka Mohan, SJ Surya & Others Music: Jakes Bejoy Editor: Karthik Srinivas Cinematography: Murali G Release Date: 29/08/2024 Censor: U/A (Violence) Streaming Platform: Netflix 2/5 Outdated Plot with Pomp, Colour & Extravagnza 01. All about Saripodhaa Sanivaaram. Vivek Athreya after some light hearted emotional-comedy ventures like Brochevaarevarura, Ante Sundaraaniki- dwells into a complete out & out action mass entertainer- Saripodhaa Sanivaaram with a new concept & screenplay. This Nani starring action film is all about what the trailer summed up to. There's a hero with some starnge policy of storing all his anger like a reservoir in all the weekdays with an exception to Saturday, what he actually does to that anger & to those people on whom he's angry on Saturday is something to watch for in the film. Like usual, the plot offers nothing new- it's the same old...