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+/- Review : Disco Raja

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Also read - Celebrating 15 years of Shekhar Kammula's Anand -   https://synccinema.blogspot.com/2019/10/celebrating-15-years-of-anand_27.html

+/- Review : Sari Leru Neekevvaru

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    Synccinema Wishes All our Readers  Happy Sankranthi Also, Read - Sankranthi Special Movie Reviews- Ala Vaikuta Puram Lo -  Darbar - 

Synccinema Quickie - Ala Vaikunta Puram Lo

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Ala Vaikunta Puram Lo (AVPL) - Trivikram works on his mastered genre, a Family Drama. But, with a compromise. AVPL has its heart filled with positivity and happiness. It gets evident right from its rolling titles and Allu Arjun interesting first shot that the movie is going to take a ride - lighter and merrier, making a perfect festival release. After all, it’s for the bonding and family that we meet and greet on a festival day, which is exactly what AVPL firmly has in its pockets for the audience. Talk of subtle yet generic, everyday Heroism (with a hint of humour) – Trivikram nailed these parts with his writing. Talk of dysfunctionalities and expressiveness of truths in middle-class person -Trivikram again nailed it with his writing. Trivikram’s juggernaut and USP are in his writing powered by his cheeky yet catchy direction.   “Trivikram, since his earlier days of  Nuvvu Naaku Nachav,  has been making Family Dramas apart from his few movies l...

Synccinema Quickie - Rajni's Darbar

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Darbar – Murgadoss deals a Thuppakki style Action Thriller with Petta-Esque Rajni elements . Making a “Rajni” film and directing Thalaiva has become a challenge this decade, with Rajni not even registering a fruitful hit post-sci-fi  Enthiran (Robo).   It’s not always that Rajni only is enough for the film to be shouldered. His vintage hits like  Thalapathy, Narasimha  etc would tell that it requires a story at its core with melodramatic and heroic highs and lows in which a persona like Rajni would be the centre and prime taking a journey for his glory at the end. The last time this was perfected was in  Sivaji: The boss,  which released more than a decade ago. Petta,  Last Sankranthi was a feast for fans of his old school mannerism but felt subdued due to its tectonic shift in both its halves. When the first half was all Rajni blazing, the second half was Karthik Subbaraja’s story cosmos with Rajni merely in it. Both of them didn’t ...