Chintakayala Ravi Movie Review

Film: Chintakayala Ravi
My Rating: 3.5/5
Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
Music: Vishal Sekhar
Editing: Sreekar Prasad
Lyrics: Chandrabose
Producer: Nallamalupu Bujji
Screenplay Stoy: Kona Venkat
Direction: Yogesh
Release Date: Oct 2nd, 2008
Cast: Venkatesh, Anushka, Mamata Mohandas, NTR (special appearance), Lakshmi, Prakash Raj (voice), Sayaji Shinde, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Sunil, MS Narayana, Chandra Mohan, Pradeep Sakti, Bharat (child), Ali, Arti Chabria, Venu, Nikita etc

My Review:

Story:
Chintakayala Ravi (Venkatesh) works in a bar in USA and pretends to his sentimental mother (Lakshmi) back in India as if he is working as a software engineer leading a fancy lifestyle in USA. His mother sets up a girl called Lavanya (Mamata Mohandas) as Ravi's match. Lavanya asks her New York buddy Sunita (Anushka) to find out the conduct of Chintakayala Ravi. The rest of the story is all about what happened between Ravi, Lavanya and Sunita.

Performances:

Venkatesh: He did his trademark comedy and sentiment in the film. He is excellent. Anushka: She is nice in the role of the main heroine. Mamata Mohandas: She is good in this film compared to her earlier outings in Telugu film industry. Lakshmi impresses in this film like she did for Murari film. Comedy by Sunil as Pendurti Babu is satisfactory. Child artist Bharat did well in the climax of the film though his character is underdeveloped. Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav and Srinivasa Reddy are adequate as the friends of hero. Arti Chabia did an item song. Ajay did a completely different role convincingly. Ali's character is like an extension of her Nachmi character in Chiruta film. Nikita is very cute with her own dubbing. Venu did a vital yet small role. NTR sizzles in 'Shava Shava' song and entertains the crowds. Prakash Raj gave voiceover to this film in the initial scenes and in the climax and his narration is an asset.

Technical Side:

Story of the movie is nice and predictable. But the backdrop of USA offers some variety. Direction by Yogesh is partly OK. He could able to introduce and establish all primary characters well. But he could not run the story with interesting narration in the middle of the film. But he manages the climax decently. He handles some of the humor scenes well. However there are a few inspired comedy scenes like exam scene (Mr. Bean series), kitikilu 2008 (windows 2008 Telugu version forward mail) etc. There is some toilet humor too. Narration of the film is slow.

Other Sides Of The Movie:

Music by Vishal Sekhar is an asset to the film. Bagunde Bagunde followed by Enduko is the best on the screen. Mani Sharma scored background music. Dialogues by Kona Venkat are good. A couple of dialogues like 'akkada (USA) sanduko vanda software engineers vuntaru' and 'aavida data whorehousing (data warehousing) lo work chestundi' are entertaining in the first half. Cinematography by Ravindra Babu is good. He shot the USA part very well. The visuals are rich. Nallamapulu Bujji should be appreciated for spending good money on budget to make a film with rich visuals and sound by hiring the best of technicians and cast for the job.

Final Analysis:

Movie was good. First half an hour of the film is pretty good. It slows slow down after that and the film takes up again from the last song. The strong points of the film are Venkatesh and mother sentiment. On the other side, the latter part of the first half and the former part of the second half should have been made in an interesting way. The mother sentiment and the marriage ambiance towards the climax could attract the Venky's strong base of family crowds. On a whole, Chintakayala Ravi is an ok film if you can excuse bit of screenplay glitches in the middle of the movie.

Big Hero's White Beard Worries

Age is something that no man in this world can overcome and the superstars who come up with impossible feats on the screen are no exception to it. One such concern that has now gripped one of the senior stars of the industry is none other than Victory Venkatesh.

Apparently, there is news that Venky has been getting white beard and that is but natural given his age. He is 48 now. However, the star is not too pleased about it and is trying to look at ways and means to keep it out of bay. Shaving everyday may not be a good idea after all since that would have not made much of a difference.

Folks close to him are advising him to come up with a natural beard and an equally relevant.

character and perhaps make the audience get used to his new look just like he usually does. For now, Venky is worried about it and given his street smart thinking, he will surely come up with a solution for it. He appeared with a dyed beard in a TV interview but caught odd in the eyes of viewers.

From Poultry To Pawan Kalyan's Producer

You might have heard of real estate people getting into films or industrialists, politicians trying their hand at producing films but here is one guy who hails from the background of a poultry and today he is a producer who is coming up with a movie that will be having the most powerful star in the lead.

His name is Ganesh Babu and he has often been seen in side roles and comedy roles in many movies. It is heard that he has made a lot of money through his hatchery business and later on he also moved to the land business. It was through both of these that he went up to the tunes of crores and now he has become capable of producing a film.

Now, here is the interesting part, he has announced a venture that will be having Power Star Pawan Kalyan in the lead and it is heard that the production knowledge Ganesh has and the other tricks of the trade he learnt during his apprenticeship with Rasi movies Narasimha Rao, Pawan is impressed and has given his nod.

Sexy Aditi Sharma

The recent release 'Gunde Jhallumandi' starring Uday Kiran and the Bollywood beauty Aditi Sharma was not that great a success but then it managed to save face with some average to fairly okay collections. While some part of the credit goes to director Madan, the major part of it has been going to the heroine Aditi Sharma.

Interestingly, she is being termed as a sexy girl and while the truth is there is not that great a sex appeal in her when compared to the other starlets that we have around, Aditi seems to have got some labels that may not stick with her appearance after all.

In this process, the man who has been craving for a success is unable to say much since the credits have been taken by his leading lady. We are talking about Uday Kiran who was desperate for a good result and though it has happened to an extent, the entire credit has gone to Aditi. Folks attribute it to the kind of word of mouth and then the eventual sexy stills that the girl posed for that went in her favor.

Ravi Teja's Brother Created Nuisance

Ravi Teja's brother Raghu is known for acting in B-Grade films. Freshly a complaint was filed on him in Jubilee Hills Police Station by the management of Food World. The Food World personnel said that drunken Raghu created big nuisance in the Food World and also roughed up the security guard who tried to control him. The incident happened on the night of Tuesday as mentioned by the Food World management in their written complaint to the police. We have to see how this issue will be settled. Sources say that an outside the court settlement is possible.

Parvathi Melton

Red Wine Beauty Raves with Hot Looks

She is smart, suave, tall and confident and has got the most intoxicating pair of eyes that will fill your system with the power of red wine. The only name that comes to mind when we think of pure delight, she is none other than Parvati Melton and folks are yet to recover from the major holocaust she created with her oomph and style in the film 'Jalsa'.

Now, Parvati is standing on a litmus paper as she has got the most awaited opportunity of her life. The angel of beauty is all set to pair up with none other than 'Prince' Mahesh Babu for his forthcoming venture and this is being ably handled by the experienced and highly talented Trivikram Srinivas.

Speaking about it, Paro said that she has been working hard to get her best looks for the film and for this, she has been doing a lot of yoga and has been visiting the spas for a longer time. The truth remains that Parvati's natural beauty is good enough to make millions drool so with this special effort, yet another Tsunami of beauty is coming to strike you, so beware folks!!!

News Reader's Nude MMS

The regular scandals of actresses, college girls and their nude pictures or scenes through MMS or internet is quite common but then the news that a person from the media is actually involved in a steamy scene and the MMS is making rounds must be quite an attention grabbing thing.

There is news that a hot MMS is currently making rounds all over and the clip contains a news reader of a prominent news channel. The man in scene is said to be a stout one and though some say he is a well known person no confirmation on that end.

However, there are those who also say that all this is just the product of some morphing geek and there is no element of truth in it. Truth or not, the MMS has become the hottest rage and the news reader has already quite a beautiful lady in the eyes of the viewers.

Anushka And Gopichand Become Cooks

Just when folks were trying to figure out what exactly is the situation between emotional hero Gopichand and the voluptuous beauty Anushka, here is something that might just raise their brows. It is heard that soon the duo will be seen together in the small screen for a special program.

The program is titled 'Maa oori vanta' and this will be telecast on the popular ZEE Telugu channel. Both Gopi and Anushka will be seen coming together as cooks and would be preparing some delicacy for the audience's knowledge and understanding. While the talk is they are appearing as part of a publicity gesture towards their ongoing movie 'Souryam', here is another side to it.

The sparks between the duo is said to be on a high these days and there are those who say that the program must be titled 'Maa inti vanta'. Reliable sources also claim that both Gopi and Anushka are also planning to get a home together and it sure looks like they are heading towards a direction.