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V arudu Kavalenu - Strong Belief ultimately gives good results, like for the boy and girl here. Varudu Kavalenu successfully carries forward the rare tradition of having unparalleled conviction in making a truly enjoyable family entertainer. The same family entertainers which have that unresisting owning quality for our Telugu Audience. The same family entertainers which are marred for few peculiar and repetitive issues when made by  Trivikram  in recent times. Those chirpy sidekicks, quirky comedy, rich production value and most importantly not losing out on what makes a movie palatable to the audience whose mother tongue is Telugu. Characters in  Varudu Kavalenu  talk words like architecture and  gudi , not in the same scene/context. Characters in  Varudu Kavalenu  talk words like project report and  sree rama koti . Again, not in the same scene/ context.  It's not only about highlighting the variety in topics or words that conversations ar...

  R epublic - A Film by “A man who understands human nature” I sat through the entire end credits of the movie while it was making a grim extension to its point by slapping me on my face about Democracy and how it works? And Why, Where it doesn’t work?. Immediately as the final frame ended, Sid Sriram’s embellished  gamakas  crawled into my ear as he picked up “ Maguva… Maguva..” At that moment, my mind veneered into the  cinematic  world of easy solutions, fervent actions and binary characters. A world where it is only right or wrong. In a world where there is only one moral compass and only one unified eye to view what’s good and what’s bad. I suddenly felt nostalgic of the amorality by a choice world of  Republic , of the grey by greed world of  Prasthanam.   Here the hero is well educated, a genius in fact, and is well mannered, especially when it comes to being an Indian Citizen. He’s, in a word, coming of age white knight. He’s a hero who’s ...