Union Budget 2013 – What is costlier and What is cheaper?

Finance Minister Chidambaram has presented the Union Budget for 2013 – 14. Here are some of the main highlights of the budget

*. Service Tax on Film Industry scrapped.

*. Cigarettes, Mobiles, Imported Luxury Cars, SUV’s, High Capacity Motorcycles, Set Top Boxes, DTH Services and Hotels to be costlier

*. Leather goods, Books, Footwear and Readymade garments will be cheaper.

*. Surcharge of 10% on persons who earn more than Rs. 1 Crore

*. New Sea Ports in Andhra Pradesh and Bengal.

*. No Change in Income Tax Slabs

*. TDS of 1 % on land deals over Rs. 50 lakh

*. 3000 km of road projects to be approved

*. Additional IT exemption of 1 lakh for taxpayer taking 1st home loan worth upto Rs 25 Lakhs

*. Excise rate, service tax rate unchanged

*. 4.5 % increase in Defence Budget at Rs. 2.03 trillion

*. Clean drinking water and sanitation projects allocated Rs. 15,260 Crores

*. Allocation of 1,400 Crores for fluoride affected areas

*. FM Radio in all cities that have a population of 1 lakh or more.

Naayak (the leader) Review

 STORY

 In Bengal a group of innocent men were kidnapped and planned to killed and then the powerful hero intro(typical Vinayak's style) saves the men. Movie goes to Hyderabad  Cherry (chran) works as software engineer. who in order to save his uncle Jilebi (Brahmanandam) falls into trouble with local don Gandipeta Babji (Rahul Dev). He accidently meets Gandipeta's sister (Kajal Agarwal) and falls in love. In the meantime, Ashish Vidyarthi  (CBI Officer) searching for the killer in Bengal and  hyderabad  When the CBI officer follows to Haridwar to arrest Cherry, sees Nayak ( Charan) attacking Rawat (Pradeep Rawat) during  Khumba Mela. CBI officer then arrests Nayak leaving Cherry. Why Nayak is on a killing them  and how Cherry helps  Nayak to succeed in his mission forms the crux of the story.

Performance

Ram Charan did a tremendous job as a soft lover and an angry young man. His dancing skills are superb in first song (Lai la o Lai la...). His dialogue delivery and modulation are excellent in this movie. He did justice to both the roles.

Kajal Agarwal looked glamorous and did well in the first half. Amala Paul is limited to couple of scenes and did not have much to offer. Unfortunately, both the heroines are restricted to songs and dances.

Brahmanandam in the role of a bachelor uncle is at his best as Jilebi. The comedy scenes between Hero, Heroine and Brahmanadam are excellent. Other attraction for the movie is comedy by Jayaprakash Reddy. He gave a swell performance and his dialogues are hilarious. M. S. Naarayana is OK as lip reading specialist in CBI office. Posani Krishna Murali brings laughter in the intense second half.

Pradeep Rawat, Dev Gill, Ashish Vidyarthi did their bit. Kota, Sudha, Surekha Vani appear in limited roles. Rajeev Kanakala appears in an inspiring role. Venu Madhav, Raghu Babu, Fish Venkat tries to add comedy.

Technical

Director V V Vinayak, who is known for giving a commercial treatment to social subject, has chosen a routine story which has nothing new to offer. He chose a simple story and weaved an entertaining screenplay around it. Akula Shiva dialogues are plus to the movie. Editing by Goutam Raju is good.

Thaman background score is good. Four of six songs are good which includes ‘Shubhalekha Raasukunna’. Chota K Naaidu cinematography is asset to the movie.

Choreography and action scenes are composed well. Production values are high.

Analysis:

The first half of the film is fantastic  with the right mix of comedy, action and romance. Tempo is very fast. Second half starts with a serious action and violence and  director adds comedy between by Posani Krishna Murali the chocolate episode. It will be the big asset to the second half. charan’s performance  biggest  asset for the movie.

Final Talk

‘Nayak’ is an entertaining film with loads of comedy and action. Go and Watch Nayak. It is definitely Cherry’s pongal treat.

Ratings: 3 ½ stars

Damarukum Review

Cast and Crew:

Banner: R. R. Movie Makers 

Directors : Srinivasa Reddy 

Producer : Venkat 

Cinematography : Chota K. Naidu 

Editing : Gautham Raju 

Music: Devi Sri Prasad 

Cast : Nagarjuna, Anushka Shetty, Ganesh Venkatraman

Dhamarukam story starts  with graphics, main story is thousands of years ago a fight between the god and the demon’s and the Gods destroy all the Demon’s except Andhakaasura, and vows to take revenge and finish of the Gods, The only way Asuras can get back their lost glory is that Andhakaasura should marry a gril (Anushka)who has a powerful  Jatakam and sacrifice her on the eve of a complete Grahanam , so he prays for Lord shiva  and make him Happy and gets his blessings. Malli (Nagarjuna) lost his parents by Andhakasura  and Malli hates lord Shiva. He lives  with his younger sister who is not able to walk she  takes treatment  in an hospital where  Maheshwari (Anushka ) works as doctor.  Malli and  Maheshwari  fall in love each other. And the rest of the story is did Andhakaasura  takes revenge or failed

Nagarjuna  as Malli done his job well. But director should hav been taken care  in Nag’s  mannerism , body language , dialogue delivery bcoz u  remembers   his previous movie like Ragada ,King .He looks awesome in songs specially Nesthama Nesthama .

Anushka as Maheshwari  looking gorgeous , The story revolves around her character but their was no scope to act. Her chemistry with Nagarjuna  was awesome  specially in songs .

Ravi Shankar as Andhakaasura perfect for the role. His dialogues are perfect  in every scene. In some scenes he dominated  Nag

Prakash Raj as Lord Shiva gud , Brahmanandam and his comedy gang are not hilarious, Ganesh Venkataraman  done his part well. Others are adequate. 

Music by Devi Sri Prasad is an asset for the film. The back ground score elevated the scenes. Two songs Nesthama Nesthama, Kanya Kumari  I like. Shiva Shiva Sankara song  BGM awesome.

Dhamarukam is a package with lavish technical values with interesting story but director failed  in narrating story on screen without strong screen play and it is predictable and presenting main leads (nag,anu), 1^st half should have been more better. 2^nd half gud, but can be better, climax is the heart ot the movie with awesome graphics.

Final word : Dhamarukam is a one time watchable movie. Don’t go with high expectations, else you will enjoy the movie

Ratings: 2 ½ stars

Prabhu’s Review: JAB TAK HAI JAAN(Romance)

Prabhu’s Review: JAB TAK HAI JAAN(Romance)

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher, Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh
Director: Yash Chopra
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Music Director: A R Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Producer: Aditya Chopra

The film is the best traditions of a Yash Chopra romance and his style of taking can be seen in every frame. Movie starts in Ladakh,

Shahrukh enter as Major Samar Anand Bomb Defusing Squad of the Indian Army who plays with death at every step of his life. He had successfully defuse ninety-seven bombs and is on his ninety-eighth one when the film begins. Badshah of Romance Shah Rukh Khan has once again shown his romantic angle in this movie with two shades both are handled with easy. He is indeed, the man to watch out for.

Akira Rai (Anushka Sharma) is a twenty-one year old intern, dying to get placed with the Discovery Channel. She dives into the freezing cold waters and she cries for help Major Anand sitting on the banks save her & cover his jacket. She found samar anand’s dairy in his pocket ………..and flash back starts. Anushka was perfect for the role. 2nd half she looking awesome & performed well

Samar’s love Meera (Katrina Kaif) girl who dislikes ‘brown, boring’ Indians and dreams that someday she’ll be married off to some white(gora). she make friendship with samar for learning music and they both fall in love each other. She always seriously promises to Jesus, samar met with bike accident where samar hurts badly. To keep her promise & to keep samar alive meera tells samar to be far away. Rest of the story how she meet samar & married him. Katrina Kaif as the NRI Meera does a pretty good job of playing the girl who is torn between loves and promises

AR Rahman’s music in the film somewhere seems underused. The songs ‘Challa’, ‘Ishq Shava’ and ‘Saans Mein’ are a delight to the ears.

Go watch ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’. You can thank the Kings of Romance once you’re done with the film…

Ratings: Four stars