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Nagarjuna’s Shiridi Sai Movie Review – 3.5/5

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Rating: 3.5/5
Banner: Sri Sai Krupa Entertainments Pvt. Ltd.
Cast: Nagarjuna, Srikanth, Sneha, Kamalini Mukherjee and others
Cinematography: S. Gopal Reddy
Art: Sri.Bhaskar Raju, Srikanth
Editing: Shravan
Music: Keeravani
Producer: A.Mahesh Reddy
Screenplay- Direction: Raghavender Rao
Dialogues: Parchuri Brothers
CBFC rating: U
Release date: 06-09-2012

Synopsis –
There have been several prior depictions on the life and times of SADGURU SAI BABA on celluloid in quite a few languages. But why this version stands out is, for its unique approach, presentation, uses of technology, and of course portrayal of Baba by one of the greatest actors of our times – Shri NAGARJUNA. The film has been directed by one of India’s most successful directors – Shri K.RAGHAVENDRA RAO. Producers of the movie Shri Mahesh Reddy and Shri Girish Reddy have set up rich production standards.
Nagarjuna as Shiridi SaiShirdi Sai Baba is widely accepted as the 6th incarnation of Lord Dattatreya. At a tender age of 16yrs Baba arrived at the village of Shirdi. He was found wandering about outskirts of the village, and was often seen sitting under a neem tree eating leaves. After a brief stay there, he disappeared for a long period, only to suddenly reappear to a muslim- Chand Patil. Patil was searching for his lost horse, and Baba leads him to his horse. Thrilled, Patil asks him to travel with his entourage for a marriage in his family.
The moment he sets foot in Shirdi, miracles begin to happen. Baba decides to stay in Shirdi. Baba makes a dilapidated mosque his home. More and more people became his devotees and started tidying up the place. The mosque soon became a holy place and Baba named it DWARAKAMAI, where everyone irrespective of their caste or creed was welcome.
Devotees used to bring him food every day. But he preferred to go around the village begging for alms. When asked why Baba begs for food, when he could create anything with his powers, he says by doing this he was taking away all the sins committed by people. Through this he also made people realize the importance of “anna daanam”.
Baba believed in celebrating URUS and SHRI RAMA NAVAMI together with muslims and hindus thereby teaching everyone communal harmony.As the story unfolds, many more significant and interesting aspects of Baba’s life are narrated in a captivating manner.Right from the British officer- Wales- clicking Baba’s only existing photo- to Baba’s soul travelling the three worlds in 72 hours- to the Nagpur multi-millionaire Booti proposing to build a Krishna Mandiram in Shirdi- right down to Baba’s Mahaasamaadhi.
All devotees of Shirdi Sai Baba would be overwhelmed with happiness and be blessed by watching this masterpiece.

 Performances:
Nagarjuna proved the actor in him portraying the role to perfection. His radiant eyes, subtle expressions, the pain and joy in his actions prove that Nagarjuna lives the role and has poured oodles of devotion into the whole act.
Srikanth as Dasaganu, Sri Hari as Wales, Brahmanandham as Sandeham, Kamalini as Radha Krishna Mai, Shiyaji Shinde as Bhatia, Sharath Babu as Mahalsapathi, Tanikella Bharani as Bhooti, Vinaya Prasad as Bayijya Bai are good in their roles.


 Positives
Nagarjuna’s action
Climax sequence
Keeravani’s Music and BGM
Situational Songs
Screenplay, Direction and Cinematography
Technical aspects

Negatives
Over make up in some situations
Slow paced story
unnecessary Comedy track

Analysis
Shirdi Sai takes into a different mood and world right after the beginning. Director tried to give some clues about the origin of Shirdi Sai, which is still a mystery. Story moves along at a quick pace with nice usage of songs at the right places.Sai Baba’s teachings about life are uplifting. His confrontation with Nanavali (played by Sai kumar) is one of the best scenes in the film. There are some good dialogues in this scene. Despite the weak comedy track, first half impresses with neat orientation.

Second half is even better. Director makes sure that this half is wrapped up within an hour and hence the audiences don’t get bored at all. There are some touching scenes in this hour. Climax sequence is the best of the lot.Shirdi Sai will appeal to the target audience and has good chances to make good money at the box office. Watch it if you are devotee of Shirdi Sai

Verdict:
Given the budget and huge popularity of Sai Baba in AP, ‘Shirdi Sai’ can be a commercially viable venture. On the other side, audiences will easily flow down to theatres with bliss-ful expectations to watch the miracles and life of Sai Baba.

Congress MPs surprise unity

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Congress MPs many times faced flak for not working for the cause of the state of Andhra Pradesh and people many times at many forums blasted them for selling the interest of the state for their vested interests. They felt that though Congress was presented with 33 loksabha seats, all those MPs are spineless and will not even open their mouth in front of their High Command as shivers ran down their spines. They ask these incompetent MPs to learn from their counterparts in TN and UP who forget their differences when it comes to state interests.
Seems the negative poll predictions are scaring these MPs as all of them who are divided across various regions in a rare show of unity tried to fight for the state on farmers issue. Agricultre Minister Kanna Lakshminaraana drove home the dire state farmers are and now Seemandhra MP Kavuri Samba Siva Rao spoke to T forum convener Ponnam Prabhakar and both along with all the MPs flew to Delhi and met Union Agriculture minsiter who cleared 6 lakshs tonnes of fertilsers for the state. Kanna Lakshminarayana recently wrote letter to all MPs about the fertilisers issue and even gave representation to all union ministers.
However when nothing happened Ponnam Prabhakar realised that a officer at Union Agriculre Ministry is working against AP and if not taken to task stae will be at loss, immediately called Kavuri Sambasiva Rao. The two MPs along with G.Vivek, Rajayya, Ananta Venkatrami Reddy, Botsa Jhansi met Union Minister Bansal and explained facts. The minister took the official to task and solved the matter.

BJP turning tables on Telangana

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BJP bouyed by the poll surveys which puts it ahead of Congress in the next parliament elections is planning to turn tables on other parties on Telangana issue. It decided to go aggressively on Telangana statehood demand and with TRS chief KCR still waiting for signals, TDP’s Naidu still in dilemma and Congress blackened by coal scam, the party plans to strike gold with the agitations driving home the point in the hearts of Telangana people.
The party’s senior leader Advani even apologised for not giving the state in 1999 and reasoned out coalition compulsions trying to put blame on TDP. The party is promising formation of Telangana with in three months of it coming to power. In the three day protest march for Telangana the party even stormed the house of PM Manmohan Singh. Political analysts feel whether or not its policy may find favor, it will surely force other parties come up with some decisive decisions in the run up for next elections.
Now that KCR revealed that his Delhi trip has nothing to do with Telangana statehood, BJP has nothing to lose and can go all out in exposing TRS chief’s double standards. It has to be seen what decision BJP’s aggressive posture on the issue will force from indecisive Congress led UPA govt drowned in scams.

KVP secret deal with Jagan?

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The relationship between KVP and Late CM YSR is known to everyone. Many times during YSR regime opposition parties alleged that KVP used to behave like extra constitutional authority and said that he had hand in all the scams. However after the death of YSR, much to the surprise of all, KVP chose to be with Congress and become the right hand man of Sonia Gandhi even when YSR’s son Jagan was ill treated and was subsequently made to leave the party. It was a shocker for all YSR’s supporters as YSR many times hailed KVP as his soul.
Many allege that KVP in order to save himself from all the cases his hobnobbing closely with Sonia and getting his things done. Even now in Congress YSR baiters like Hanumantha Rao and others hurl abuses at KVP saying KVP is having a secret pact with Jagan and that was the reason why he is still in Congress and working in a way that will be advantageous to YSR Party.
They allege that none will believe Congress High Command policy of hailing YSR and sending Jagan to jail on corruption charges. Many suspect KVP’s hand is there in this dubious policy of high command which is made fun even school going kid.

DSP’s radical music to Mahesh Babu

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Highly energetic music director Devi Sri Prasad has had a great 2012. He scored two big hits this year with ‘Gabbar Singh’ and ‘Julayi’.His latest album Damarukham is all set to release early next week. He is also composing music for Mahesh – Sukumar movie. He had asserted fans that he’s trying something radically different to woo all the music lovers and hope people woild welcome the inniovative tunes. “For Sukumar-Mahesh Babu film,am trying smthing radically different! Trying to make it a very unique sounding album.!!Hope U wl all love it.! (sic)”, Devi posted on his microblogging site.

Kodi Rama Krishna to direct a Multilingual

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Sources say that the Veteran director Kodi Ramakrishna is currently busy with film on Puttaparthi Sai Baba which is a multi lingual. Sources tells us that the ace film actor is planning to make a Telugu-Tamil-Malayalam-Kannada multi-lingual film. He reportedly roped in Sonu Sood and Lakshmi Rai in key roles while Arjun Sarja will be seen in other important character.
Well, if this film materializes, then surely, it will be a unique feat by a Telugu film director. More details on this film are awaited.

Rajendra Prasad’s heart attack due to rumours

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It is not due to some rumours, the actor had suffered a heart attack. The heart attack news of the actor itself is a rumour. A popular Telugu website run by a senior producer had reported that the actor suffered heart attack and was admitted to Care Hospital. They even went on to report that an angioplasty was performed on him and is recovering.
However, when contacted, his secretary Nagaraju, clarifies, “Rajendra Prasad was suffering from severe stomach pain and was admitted to a private hospital in Banjara Hills. It’s just a minor issue and there is no cause for worry now. He is on bed rest now and will be discharged soon.”

Damarukham audio release date confirmed

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The audio release function of Nagarjuna’s Damarukam will be held on September 10 in Hyderabad. The shooting of the movie is complete. The last song of the movie was shot on Nagarjuna and Charmi in the special set erected in Annapurna 7 acres, with which the movie shooting is complete. The movie will hit the screens on October 12th.
Devi Sri Prasad has composed the music for this socio-fantasy film, which has 10 audio songs.This would be Devi’s 3rd audio this year after blockbuster musical albums Gabbar Singh and Julayi.
Damarukam is directed by Srinivas Reddy and produced by Dr Venkat under RR Movie Makers banner. Cinematography is by Chota K Naidu.Anushka is once again pairing opposite Nagarjuna. Damarukham is said to be the costliest movie in Nagarjuna’s career with ample CG work.

Nayak wraps up Europe schedule

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The unit of Naayak had completed the shooting of three songs including the famous ‘Subhalekha Rasukunna’ from the movie in the beautiful locales of Iceland and Greece. Two of the songs were shot on Kajal and one on Amal Director VV Vinayak had shot two more duet songs on Charan and Kajal Aggarwal in exotic locations of Greece and will return to Hyderabad in couple of days.
The audio of the movie will hit the stores in December. The movie is doing tremendous business even before the completion of the shoot. Record prices are being offered for the movie from all the areas. The makers are planning to release the movie for Sankranthi, 2013. Kajal Agarwal and Amala Paul are acting as the female leads. VV Vinayak is directing the movie while DVV Danayya is producing the movie under Universal movies banner.

Movie on Anna Hazare

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Popular Bollywood director Prakash Jha is planning a movie on the anti corruption movement led by Anna Hazare with the motive to fight corruption. Ajay Devagan and Kareena Kapoor will play the lead roles. Prakash Jha will be directing the movie and Bollywood Super Star Amitabh Bachchan is expected to play important role in the movie.
The movie is tentatively titles ‘Satyagraha’. Prakash Jha is know to make several controversial movies. His recent film ‘Aarakshan’ was banned from release in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Lets see if ‘Satyagraha’ meets the same fate!

Nag-Mahi’s new found love

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The heading may be misleading and some may even mistake it for Nagarjuna, Tollywood Manmadhudu might be in love with Bollywood beauty Mahie Gill. This is not their fault as the moment one read or hear about word ‘Love’ they tend to think about only females.
However King Nagarjuna is in love with Team India Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Many may wonder what was common between them which resulted in this new found love, then here is the answer. King Nagarjuna and Dashing Dhoni have one thing in common and that is bike racing. While Dhoni always zooms past in Ranchi in sophisticated bikes, Nag does that in his films.
Nag is so smitten by bikes that he along with MSD is entering into partnership and are all set to compete in bike racing championships. They have already formed a team of ‘MSDRN-Racing Team India’ and will be competing for top honors in FIM super sports world championships. The championships have 17 races and they are making their debut in 10th race. Dhoni-Nag team comprises of bike riders Florian Marino of France and Don Linput from Britain. Dhoni’s manager Arun Pandey will be Managing Director and Nagarjuna will be the Director for the team.

Hero worship at New heights !

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Film makers do films keeping in view of fans the particular heroes have. Movie analysts and film critics may criticize them for neglecting other sections of movie lovers but however film makers are of the opinion that unless until the aspirations of fans are not addressed to it would be difficult to achieve even breakeven in film making. Sometimes one feel that there is reason and point in their saying as fans are the only one who compete with each other to watch a film on first day first show itself while others take time before making decision to watch the film on theaters. In between they go through various analysis, film reviews before arriving at the final decision.
While this is not the case with fans as they watch the film for their stars without bothering about reviews and other things. Fans hero worship at its height was noticed recenly during Srimannarayana audio success meet where they did not allow the function to go properly till Natasimha Balakrishna addressed them. Similar is the case of ‘Sitamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’ which was shooting near Dilsukh Nagar. Numerous fans of Prince Mahesh reached the shooting spot which resulted in traffic jam. Police were forced to request film makers to cancel the shooting. Even ‘Cameraman gaganto Rambabu’ faced the same problem while shooting at Sarathi Studios. Puri Jagannath and Power Star Pawan Kalyan had to face storm of fans tsunami at Sarathi Studios and had to shoot the scenes only during late nights.

Movie lovers’ changing mindsets ?

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For long it has been difficult to dissect the mindset of movie lovers. Many movie analysts and film critics used all their intelligence and tried their best to dissect but failed miserably. Many feel this is also similar to mentality of voters during elections who puts all renowned psephologists to shame.
Earlier during the golden era of tollywood movie lovers used to appreciate films which depict their realistic lives on silver screen. They used to appreciate movies with tragic endings. However their tastes changed with the passage of time and after some time people started appreciating films where heroes used to enact unbelievable stunts and do things which are not possible for normal humans.
Movie lovers used to see themselves in their favorite heroes and feel as if they were romancing stunning beauties, performing breath taking stunts and doing daring dances. This trend continued then after sometime they started appreciating mass masala entertainers where hero used to thrash villains black and blue knocking living daylights out of them. However passage of time made them fedup of bloodshed on silver screen and also sorrowful tales.
This resulted in them look for lighter vein comedy which can be noticed with the success of films like ‘Dookudu’, ‘Gabbar Singh’, ‘Sudigadu’ and ‘Eega’. All this shows that film makers should keep a close watch on changing tastes of movie lovers and make films accordingly.

Kajal Agarwal baffles all with her statements !

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Cute beauty Kajal baffled all by saying that she is ready for lip locks and even sporting bikini exposing her erotically beautiful body on silver screen for movie lovers to enjoy. It stunned all as she is not bereft of opportunities and in fact she is having eight films opposite top heroes. Kajal went on to become Tollywood Princess Mitravinda opposite ‘Magadheera’ Ram Charan before casting her spell on Allu Arjun in ‘Arya-2’, Prabhas in ‘Darling’ and NTR in ‘Brindavanam’. Prabhas once again fell for her in ‘Mr.Perfect’ along with Mass Raja Raviteja in ‘Veera’ and Naga Chaitanya in ‘Dada’. CHerry as ‘Nayak’, Prince Mahesh along with Sukumar, Mass Raja as ‘Sir Ostaru’, Cherry once again in ‘Yevadu’.
Many wonder when she has so many top offers what was the need for her to get ready for glamor treat. Analysts feel though Kajal is sitting pretty she knew that she can not ignore other beauties like Samantha and Tamanna who is breathing glamor fire next to her. Already Tamanna is giving sleepless nights turning red hot in rain songs and Samantha is also getting ready to give glamor treat soon. Kajal is not a fool to ignore them and she is well aware that not being proactive will spell dooms day for her.

KCR family rule in Telangana !

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Fight for Telangana seems to be reaching final stage and already all political parties are vying to take credit for the formation of the state. Many times some rapid developments at Delhi led to speculation that something or the other will come out in favor of Telangana, but every time it happens Seemandhra representatives step up the gas and impress upon Govt not to go ahead with T-formation.
For the present however TDP seems to be out of favor in Telangana region and Congress T MPS are once again planning to enact T-drama in Delhi, where they will roar in front of media like lions but turn out cats in front of Sonia. However people are no fools to believe them. Currently BJP is in full swing with its T-Dharna at Delhi and even trying to barge into the residence of PM Manmohan Singh. It is certainly creating ripples when KCR and TRS is maintain stoic silence.
However many feel that ultimately entire credit for T formation will go to KCR no matter whether he speaks or sleeps. But allegations are flowing thick and fast from opposition, that KCR will turn Telangana his jagir. Many allege he is not interested in Telangana region but interested in making Telangana his family property. They say KCR and his family that includes nephew Harish Rao, son KTR and daughter Kavitha will be taught a fitting lesson as people are fed up with his policy of elections, collections, secret meetings, secret pacts.

HC times out parties ‘BC’ game !

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State of Andhra Pradesh is witnessing BC game by all political parties and when the game was about to reach climax, honorable High Court intervened suspecting foul play in the whole game and ordered time out. It all started with TDP chief promising 100 tickets to BCs in the next elections. Just when all BC leaders started felicitating Naidu, YSRCP leader Vijayamma called for 100 seats for BC’s in the state assembly. BCs suddenly started drifting towards her when Cong after taking on Babu by promising 200 party tickets, made a ‘U’ turn with its chief Botsa Satyanarayana promising seats according to their population.
In the same fervor Congress Govt planned to take on entire opposition in local Panchayat Raj elections promising more seats for BCs. However HC poured cold water on Congress Govt plans and also on the aspirations of all political parties by ordering reservations should not cross 50% at any cost. According to HC orders there will be cut in BC reservations by more than 10 percent. Court asked Govt to submit report to election commission and then proceed with elections in 3 months time. This now put Govt in a bind and gave another ammunition to opposition parties.
Already BCleaders and its unions are up in arms and warned they wont take any reduction in their reservations. It has to be seen where this BC political game leads to.

Babu’s ‘political’ unemployment scheme

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TDP supremo Chandra Babu is like a magician. He has many tricks in his bag and can pull out all at a time or one by one baffling his political rivals. He can even claim that all the schemes implemented by his political rivals are his schemes and can even come out with dates to give credence to his claim. Many times he said all free schemes implemented by YSR belongs to him and cite the examples of free power, fees reimbursement and many others.
Now he is coming with a promise of unemployment reimbursement in which Babu’s ‘political’ unemployment scheme unemployed youth would be given some amount monthly. This promise he made in the last elections but however none believed him. He is once again renewing the offer to unemployed youth promising them certain amount monthly if voted to power.
Some of his rivals and those in the party are heard commenting that instead of promising schemes for voters it is better Babu announces similar scheme to politically unemployed leaders in various parties so that there will be inflow of leaders from various parties to TDP. They even say that the new promise will act as a tonic as TDP is being written off in all political forecasts in next elections.

Powerful Sonia behind Power Cuts !

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Many wonder what was the reason behind entire country and especially Andhra Pradesh suffering froma cute power cuts. A close analysis reveals startling facts and needle of suspicion points out to all powerful Sonia Gandhi’s hand behind power cuts. Even more surprising is Union Govt did not even implement Supreme Court orders of 1993, asking Centre to provide uninterrupted power supply to Country’s tourists spots Agra, Fatehpur Sikri which fall under World tourisim heritage.
Sonia held a closed door meeting with SP chief Mulayalam and from then on Amethi Constituency started getting uninterrupted power supply on special orders from UP CM Akhilesh Yadav. Along with Amethi, Rae Bareli also will have no powercuts as per CM directions to UP Power Corp ltd. Rahul Gandhi represents Amethi while Rae Bareli belongs to Sonia. Apart from that Akhilesh’s wife Dimple’s constituency Kannauj, Ajam Khan’s Rampur, Mulayam’s Mainpuri and Sephai in Ittava where Yadav’s family resides have special status. Agra is also suffering acute power problem. So all this shows that Sonia to have power in her constituency is making people of AP suffer miserably.
But AP cong leaders and Govt blame the entire problem on T- movement and shortage of rain fall and other petty reasons taking public for a ride.

Yeto Vellipoyindi Manasu (2012)- Audio Songs

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Suriya joins NTR

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Suriya had now joined Young Tiger NTR as the brand ambassador of Malabar Gold, a leading jewellery group. Suriya will endorse the brand in Tamil Nadu while NTR is already endorsing it in Telugu. The actor had recently launched an initiative of providing educational scholarship to girl students in Tamil Nadu.
Through this initiative the group will provide scholarship worth Rs 2 crores to 10,000 students. It must also be noted that Suriya is providing scholarships for students through his charity organization, Agaram foundation.
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