King Telugu Movie Review

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Idlebrain - 3/5
Greatandhra - 3.25/5
Bharatstudent - 3.25/5

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Jeevi rating: 3/5 Punchline: three or one Genre: Drama Type: Straight Banner: Kamakshi Kala Movies Cast: Nagarjuna, Trisha, Mamata Mohandas, Srihari, Deepak, Geetha, Brahmanandam, Sunil, MS Narayana, Krishna Bhagawan, Jayaparakash Reddy, Ajay, Surya, Chandra Mohan, Sayaji Shinde, Venu Madhav, Master Bharath, Fish Venkat, Duvvasi Mohan Music: Devi Sri Prasad Cinematography: Prasad Murella Editing: Varma Art: Prakash Fights: Ram - Lakshman Story: Gopi Mohan & Kona Venkat Dialogues: BVS Ravi Screenplay - direction: Seenu Vytla Producer: D Sivaprasad Reddy Release date: 25 December 2008

Review

(disclaimer: contains spoilers) Story King (Nagarjuna) belongs to the royal dynasty of Coimbatore. He has a doting mother (Geetha) and a loving brother (Deepak). He has three brother-in-laws who are after the blood of the king in order to get a share in their property. In this scenario, King gets killed when he visits Dehradoon for a project work. Bottu Seenu (Nagarjuna) is a local mafia man in twin cities who does settlements. Gnaneswar (Srihari) is an innocent don of the city. Bottu Seenu falls in love with an aspiring singer Sravani (Trisha). But Sravani is of a soft type and she likes soft guys. Hence Bottu Seenu takes the avatar of a software engineer to impress her. The rest of the story is all about whether King is killed or not. Artists Performance Nagarjuna donned three roles of different dimensions. Among the three, Nagarjuna impresses with the mass character of Bottu Seenu. Nagarjuna should be appreciated for acting in some self-deprecating scenes (like Brahmanandam beating Nagarjuna's legs). Trisha’s character has two shades in the film and she is cute.Mamata Mohandas is not the second heroine of the film. She played an important character. Srihari is cool as an innocent don who has a thing for drawing horrible paintings. Brahmanandam donned the role of a music director. His character has stark resemblance to that of a popular music director in Telugu film industry. The shot in which he poses as a guitarist for Srihari's painting is hilarious. Sunil's role is nice as the guy whose identity is stolen by the hero. Technical departments Story: Story of the film is the potpourri of various films. 1. The basic plot of sibling rivalry is taken from Hindi flick Race. 2. The heroine – Srihari aspect is taken from Dhee 3. The spoofs in second half are done on Chandralekha and Chandramukhi. Some of the shots like bullet trajectory (Wanted film), hiding gun in loo (Godfather) and beating the legs of a paralyzed person (Simhadri) too sound inspired. Screenplay – direction: Seenu Vytla is an expert in screenplay. But the screenplay of this film is both good as well as bad. Good because the screenplay is extremely complicated. Bad because the finesse is missing. The director could not evenly distribute the twists in the film. He has one twist coming in interval. And he let all other twists come in the last 15 minutes of the film. The best thing I liked in the screenplay of the film is the thread of hero stealing the identity of Sunil. It is beautifully written, but was not used to the maximum extent. The concept of fetish for painting horror images was already done in Seenu Vytla’s ‘Anandamanandamaye’ film. It is more effectively used in this film (especially the three drops scene).Direction of the film is adequate. The director could have made Srihari character little serious as he is shown as a completely innocent man. The film needs a lot of trimming in second half from the moment the gang enters King's palace. Other departments: Music of the film is average. The songs that interested me were King title song and Bammardi. The cute walking of Nagarjuna in a beach song shot in the nice. Kelli Dorji enacted the role of the rapper in King title song. The much touted 8-heroine song does not impress. Some of the steps in this song were adapted from OSO song. Background music of the film should have been better. Cinematography is adequate. Dialogues by Ravi fits the bill. Some dialogues like 'King gelavadu. Gelipistadu' are good. Few dialogues like 'King ni pattukovadam kastame kaadu, asadhyam kuda' (Hindi Don's dialogue 'Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahin na mumkin hai') are clichéd. Editing should have been crisper as there is lot of lag in the second half. Production values for the film are good. Analysis: First half of the film is alright. Second half should have been better. The climax of the film looks contrived. The plus points of the film are Nagarjuna and a few 'Seenu Vytla' kind of comic moments. The weakness is unevenly distributed content in the film. We definitely expect a better film from Seenu Vytla for the kind of talent he possesses. We have to wait and see how audiences embrace it.

Source:Bharatstudent

Movie Review:King Rating :3.25/5 Banner :Kamakshi Kala Movies Cast :Nagarjuna, Trisha, Mamta Mohandas, Srihari, Brahmanandam, Jayaprakash Reddy, Arjan Bajwa, Sayaji Shinde, Krishna Bhagawan, Geetha, Dharmavarapu, Chandramohan and others Cinematography: Moorella Prasad Music: Devisri Prasad Producer: Sivaprasad Reddy Director: Srinu Vaitla Released Date: December 25, 2008

Story: A routine tale, the story begins with a backdrop of a royal family and in that lives King (Nagarjuna) who is the messiah for the entire family surrounded by greedy brother in laws (Jayaprakash Reddy, Sayaji, Krishna Bhagawan) who want to see his end and take away his property. As they expect, King is considered to be dead since he is shot and the family is not made aware of this. Location changes and reaches Hyderabad where boddu Sreenu (Nag again) is a local goonda who believes in doing good. In this, he finds resistance from Gnaneshwar (Srihari) but both come to an understanding. Meanwhile, Sreenu chances upon Shravani (Trisha) and falls in love with her, he discovers that Shravani is the sister of Gnaneshwar and he plays a trick posing as software engineer Sharath. Meanwhile, King's family is keen on locating him and so is his arch rival Bhagat Singh. Finally, they come across Sreenu and take him as King. But beneath all this, there is a major masterplan involving all of them since the killer of King is yet to be found out. How all that happens forms the rest of the story. Presentation: The director has come out with a predictable story but what makes it special is the presentation and the narration. The dialogues were perfect, the script was written almost neatly and the screenplay was well executed. Full marks go to the music and songs that were really melodious and the camera department that caught the action sequences with some real good angles. Costumes deserve a pat for a very elegant arrangement and wear. Editing could have been crisp during the second half but overall it was well done. Nagarjuna has come out with his performance like a cake in the walk but what impresses about him is his look and style that has not faded despite his age. Trisha was sweet and carried out her role but it must be admitted that Mamta was really hot, she has some real enticing oomph that is hard to miss. Srihari has come out with a fabulous performance while the others like Jayaprakash Reddy (good), Arjan Bajwa (okay), Geetha (Elegant), Sayaji (simple), Krishna Bhagawan (average) did their bit. The comedy team comprising of Brahmanandam (effective), Venu Madhav(good) and others were alright and added value to the film. Conclusion: Though the story has been somewhat predictable and went on safe lines without much of experiment, the real trick lied in the screenplay and the way the whole thing was arranged. While the first half takes off to a flying start though the first few minutes were a bit jarry, the second half culminates into a complete climax but then the length got a bit too long. The mass audience will surely like the concepts of 'Chandramukhi' and the special song with eight heroines and overall the film will turn out to be a successful venture due to its dose of entertainment and glamour presence. Bharatstudent Verdict: Entertaining and well taken, can be watched.

Source:Greatandhra

Film: King Rating: 3.25/5 Banner: Kamakshi Kala Movies Cast: Nagarjuna, Trisha, Mamta Mohandas, Srihari, Brahmanandam, Jayaprakash Reddy, Arjan Bajwa, Sayaji Shinde, Krishna Bhagawan, Geetha, Dharmavarapu, Chandramohan etc Music: Devisri Prasad Story: Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan Art: AS Prakash Editing: MR Varma Cinematography: Prasad Moorella Screenplay,Direction: Srinu Vaitla Producer: Sivaprasad Reddy Release date: 25th Dec 2008 The last big movie of the year 2008 arrived today. The expectations have been big on this film for several reasons. The most vital factor that boosted up expectations is the direction by Srinu Vaitla who made big hit 'Ready' this year. Let us see how far the film reached expectations. Story: King alias Chandra Pratap Varma (Nag) is the son of Raja Varma (Sobhan Babu). He becomes the heir of a large estate fatre the death of his father, where his uncles and aunts also live with him along with mother (Geeta). King faces a peril in the form of Swapna (Mamata Mohandas). That stands up to be a suspense element in the narration. Who is Swapna and why she becomes a danger point for King? What happens to King? On the other hand Sravani (Trisha), an aspiring singer catches the eye of a guy whose name is Bottu Seenu (Nag), a goonda. What's the link between Bottu Seenu and King? That forms another layer in the film. And last but not least, Sravani falls in love with a software engineer Sridhar (Nagarjuna). Is there any link between Sridhar, Bottu Seenu and King other than the similarities in looks? That's another layer all together. 'Gnan anna' aka Gnaneshwar (Srihari) portrayed the role of Sravani's brother. Rest to be watched on screen to unleash this knot. Performances: Nagarjuna's magnitude is seen fully on silver screen. His grace pulled the attention of entire audiences. It sounds a wonder to know he is 50 now. There are no signs of that age on his face or body and he is looking 20 years younger to what actually the time claims. His performance in three different shades is hilarious and entertaining. He left his starry airs aside and performed up to the role as demanded (like getting bruises from Brahmanandam). That should inspire many younger heroes as well. And coming to dances, he has performed in his trade mark style. Trisha is with full of elegance and the credit should be given to costume designer and cinematographer. She hasn't exposed anything big but touched the senses of audiences. Mamata Mohandas looked voluptuous and witch-like as per the demand of the role. She once again proved her mettle as complete artiste with own voice for dubbing. And coming to the most publicized eight-heroine song, except Genelia everybody looked hot (Anushka), romantic (Trisha), lovely (Priyamani), refined (Kamna), sexy (Mamata Mohandas), spicy (Sneha Ullal) and chubby (Charmy). The costumes used for Genelia are inferior when compared to others in that song. That made the difference. Brahmanandam once again tickled the audiences with his role as music director Jaya Surya. He has been the vital factor in Srinu Vaitla's films since 'Dhee'. Master Bharat also brought laughs with his role but that is not in the length of his role in 'Ready'. He justified in a small role in this film. Jayaprakash Reddy also made his presence well with his Rayalseema style of dialogues. Sayaji Shinde and Krishna Bhagawan also portrayed in their trade mark style on negative side. Sri Hari deserves very good mention in this flick. He worked really well as supporting artiste. He portrayed action and comedy in right doses. His hilarious role will be remembered as Painter Gnaneshwar for sure. Coming to technical aspects, cinematography by Moorella Prasad is fantastic. The costume designer also deserves great mention. And the story writers Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan once again grooved in their names for the characters of Sayaji Shinde and Krishna Bhagawan, like they did with their earlier films. All in all, this Srinu Vaitla's show although inspired from different films (Chandramukhi, Chandralekha, Shankaradada Zindabad etc….), stands to be unique and a wholesome family entertainer. Analysis: The movie takes different twists and turns but no where strains the audiences. A laugh is promised at every 10 minutes on an average. Although the length of the movie seems to be long in second half, audiences don't get bored. Even the songs made the audiences sit in theaters by the blend of their right music and interesting choreography as well as costumes. First half runs with ample humor while second half too does the same with added comedy. Many films start rolling on mind's screen while watching this flick and that should be understood as parody-like inspiration by the director. Interesting Comedy Tracks: Srihari's painting episodes Brahmanandam-Trisha casting couch TV Show with Brahmanandam Nagarjuna's Chandralekha and Chandramukhi parody Best Scenes: Bullet scene (although inspired from Hollywood flick 'Wanted') Action sequences It's a wholesome entertainer from Srinu Vaitla but here is one suggestion for him. He should change the style by not incorporating similar elements like that of his 'Ready' and 'Dhee'. There is risk as people may get bored watching similar comedy tracks again and again. The movie undoubtedly appeals for masses and entertains families.