Written on 8:26 PM by Mrudula
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Cast:
Raj Babbar
Usha Bachani
Arjan Bajwa - Maanav
Madhur Bhandarkar
Harsh Chhaya
Priyanka Chopra - Meghna Mathur
Manini De
G.K. Desai - NRI Bajaj
Kitu Gidwani - Anisha Roy
Mugdha Godse - Janet
Karan Johar
Kiran Juneja
Arbaaz Khan - Abhijit Sarin
Ashwin Mushran - Rohit Khanna
Suchitra Pillai-Malik
Kangana Ranaut - Shonali Gujral
Chitrashi Rawat
Rohit Roy
Samir Soni - Rahul Arora
Mukesh Tyagi
Synopsis:
‘Fashion’ is supposedly all about the world of models, fashion designers and modeling agencies along with a few gays and drug dealers thrown in for good measure. As you know by now, it’s the eventful journey of a small-town middle class girl, Meghna Mathur, who dreams making it big on the ramps and thus moves to Mumbai. (Mr Bhandarkar, I am not sure if Chandigarh is a small town.) Meghna’s rise, fall and rise are what this movie portrays.
Priyanka Chopra aka Meghna Mathur – The story starts in Chandigarh. Priyanka’s portrayal as a middle-class girl from Sector 17 in Chandigarh is not really effective - possibly because she dresses and behaves like a diva rather than a mousy, shy Punju girl outfitted in a jhatak salwar.
She is perfect as a fashion clotheshorse that has oodles of oomph. She transforms from a seedhi-saadhi ladki to a smoking, drinking and sex-indulging model who trades in ethics and attitude for arrogance and money. She moves from a nobody to a somebody – somebody who loses sense of who they are, and possibly their sanity, in the world of arc lights and magazine covers.
Kangna Ranaut aka Shonali – Kanga plays the battered druggie supermodel to a T. This is perhaps because she has had enough experience playing this type of character in two of her previous movies. I seriously believe she needs to now on to ‘meaningful roles’ as they call it. Shonali brought to mind two models in real life – model Gauhar Khan who turned into a drug addict and moved out of the modeling circuit to come back after 2 years and rise to the top again. Model Gitanjali Nagpal who moved from being model to druggie and finally, beggar! She was found on the streets rejected by her own family and is now hopefully rehabilitated.
Mugdha Godse aka Janet Sequeira – A B grade model who never makes it big but marries a gay designer and lives a happy life. For a first-time actress, she has acted well.
Direction – Madhur, as always, has ensured that everything is authentic about his subject – from the models, to the choreographers, to the clothes to the designers. He has even ensured that the Vogue cover shoot is the original Priyanka cover as is the Sunsilk ad.
The journey of Meghna Mathur seems authentic enough but I think Priyanka’s status as a star overshadowed the character she played. Maybe a newcomer would have made more of an impact.
What you are left with at the end of this movie is that the fashion business is just that - a business. There’s hardly room for relationships and as long you have your looks and retain your sanity, you will be ‘fashion’able.
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Written on 3:21 AM by Mrudula
Cast: Varun Sandesh, Swetha Prasad, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha, Ahuti Prasad, Rajitha, Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh, etc.
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues: Sreekanth Addala
Camera: Chota K. Naidu
Art: A.S. Prakash
Choreography: Sobhi Paul Raj, Pradeep Anthony, Balabhaskar
Fights: Sayeed
Music: Mickey J. Meyer
Lyrics: Sreekanth Addala, Anantha Sriram, sirivennela Seetarama Sastry
Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh
Co-producers: Shirish, Lakshman
Producer: Dil Raju
Direction: Sreekanth Addala
CBFC Rating: U
Date of Theatrical Release: October 9, 2008
Summary:
A 'tender' love story of the lead pair and the love between parents and children.
What's it all about?
Balu (Varun Sandesh) is the son of loving parents (Prakash Raj & Jayasudha) who hails from Rajahmundry. His father Vishnumurthy gives him love and nothing else! He joins in a junior college where Swapna (Swetha Prasad), the daughter of a strict father (Ahuti Prasad) and an over-concerned mother (Rajitha) from Gajuwaka (Vishakhapatnam), joins too. Naturally, they fall in love. How did their love get to be known to their families? How did their families react? Does their 'love' stand, or is it just infatuation?
Performances
Cast:
Varun Sandesh is just okay. He doesn't have the looks that suit a junior college student. At least, his moustache could have been trimmed off better! Even while the director chooses his friends who're actually in their teens, the hero appears older than his role. Swetha Prasad, on the other hand, carries the right looks for her role, and is at much ease on the screen. She's expressive too and emotes well in various moods of the film. Prakash Raj appears in the role of the hero's father, which is a toned-down, over-caring version of his 'father roles' in Parugu or Nuvve.. Nuvve... or Bommarillu; only here, he provides his son the freedom that was lacking in Bommarillu. Jayasudha again appears on his side, after Bommarillu, and gives controlled performance as the hero's mother ; she's particularly good in the scene where she shares her feelings with Prakash Raj after Varun Sandesh talks aloud and leaves. . Ahuti Prasad is at ease in the role of the heroine's father, and has an interesting characterization. Rajitha is good and natural as the heroine's mother. Brahmanandam appears in a relatively short role as the principal of the junior college, and provides some comedic relief, but has more of a serious role in the film. Rao Ramesh, the grand son of Rao Gopala Rao who shot into fame with the role of a naxalite in Gamyam, delivers the goods as a lecturer with a positive outlook, but his character could have been etched better; it reminds the young professor's role in Chetan Bhagat's popular novel Five Point Someone. Most of the rest of the cast is new, and have done their job appreciably nevertheless. Some of the hero's friends and heroines' friends have a natural instinct in acting and may make it big in future.
Bottom Line:
Kottha Bangaaru Lokam is a thin story line that reminds of several films of the past in its treatment, with several aspects requiring more care than is shown. While the idea of (yet another) love story in junior college is not appreciable, the film's first half provides ample entertainment towards the youth, like Happy Days that was released just about a year ago, and can make the film a commercially successful venture. On the whole, the film is a youthful entertainer that has some drag, twists and turns towards its journey to the rather different climax.
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