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Maanas
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Username: Maanas
Post Number: 390
Registered: 08-2006
Posted From: 203.197.249.150
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 8:55 am: |    |
Naaku ee review baaga nachindi
http://www.fullhyderabad.com/scripts/profiles.php3 ?section=Movies&name=Stalin&ID=4033
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Touchmaytapel
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Username: Touchmaytapel
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2006
Posted From: 167.127.24.25
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 8:26 am: | |
Robert Mugabhe no leka E-da -Amin lanti edo oka popular dictator(physocs) peru pedatharu...Sathruvula palita xxxxx. |
Andhrawala
Desanike Pedda Bewarse
Username: Andhrawala
Post Number: 9714
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 192.58.204.226
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 8:08 am: | |
Next movie Lenin avvocchu.
Parchuri Soadharlaki kaasthantha Communism background vundhi. ee maatau Stalin ani pettindhi vaale |
Hemanth
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Username: Hemanth
Post Number: 20579
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.196.167.82
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 7:45 am: | |
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Andhrawala
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Username: Andhrawala
Post Number: 9713
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 192.58.204.226
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 7:43 am: | |
Hemu,
Maro JC ani nuvvo leka Fullhyd vaado seppakkarledhu.
Saakshaathu TI.com lone JC tho equal ani rating iccheru.
JC got rating of A and so is Stalin. Andharivaadu got rating of A-. So valla opinion prakaram kooda movie is better than Andharivaadu but equal to JC |
Jonny
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Username: Jonny
Post Number: 1867
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 220.238.111.77
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 7:41 am: | |
antha levello chiranjeevi gurinchi rasina neeku teliyatleda hemuga? |
Hemanth
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Username: Hemanth
Post Number: 20576
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.196.167.82
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 7:37 am: | |
oka range lo kummesadu cinema ni assala. |
Hemanth
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Username: Hemanth
Post Number: 20575
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.196.167.82
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 7:32 am: | |
Sometime in the ‘80s, there was an also-ran film called Hero Hiralal, starring Naseeruddin Shah. Just for a minute in that one towards the end, Amitabh Bachchan comes on screen in a rare guest appearance, to give a lift to Naseeruddin Shah. He then addresses you with a few charming words assuring you there will be a happy ending, and is gone.
It was an inconsequential walkon for Bachchan, but it was heart-breaking for a star-struck generation. It was so thrilling to get a glimpse of Bachchan, the God Himself, in that film of far lesser stars, and so disappointing when he left in a minute, you were suddenly desperate to see a full film of his. The real thing.
It seems to happen all the time to you with Chiranjeevi.
Grab this: Sunil stops his dance in the middle of the opening song of Andala Ramudu to salute a Chiranjeevi poster along the way, and breaks into adulatory prose about “annayya”. Lawrence dedicates Style to unabashedly singing paens of Chiranjeevi. Venkatesh, a huge star himself, spends half his time on stage at Richard Gere’s AIDS initiative at the Lalitha Kala Thoranam, praising Chiranjeevi who is to come later.
And for newer actors in smaller films, it seems de riguer to refer to the “Mega Star” in some way. From Uday Kiran to Navdeep and Sai Kiran and, of course, Allu Arjun, they have all done it. And finally, there are whole movies with titles like Seenugaadu Chiranjeevi Fan. And a film just out called Dongodi Pelli introduces its hero as being a “real” Chiranjeevi fan.
All of this makes Chiranjeevi almost mythical. And a whole film casting him, almost too good to be true. So when it is out, it is not just a movie – it is meeting a need.
It is, like we said, the real thing.
So it’s hard to say if you will like Stalin. To understand that, try answering this: would the feeling of being in the Sanctum Sanctorum at Tirupati be the same if you could just stroll in and out whenever you wanted, as opposed to the effort of being in an 8-hour queue now?
Take Chiranjeevi out of it, and Stalin is a below-average drama. But you cannot take Chiranjeevi out of Stalin, for Stalin is not a movie that casts an actor. It is 3 hours of Chiranjeevi. Just as you do not compare apples with oranges, you do not compare Stalin with movies.
Stalin comes at a time when Chiranjeevi has had 2 average films in the last 2 years and just 2 hits in 5 years after Indra in 2002 (Tagore and Shankardada MBBS). The Chiranjeevi fever appears to be at an all-time high. It obviously has something to do with 9 months of all-hype and no-Chiranjeevi. That factor itself may help the film be a hit, even if very few will return to theaters to watch this a second time.
Stalin (Chiranjeevi) is an ex-Army Major, who quits the Army for certain reasons and settles down to social service in Hyderabad. He helps handicapped people write exams, he saves young girls from the flesh trade, and he helps couples in love get married. He has just one request of people he’s helped – that they pass the favor forward. They should in return help 3 others, and ask those 3 to help 3 others.
One day he roughs up some goons who hurt a beggar girl, and that snowballs into a huge issue which puts him in direct confrontation with the home minister himself. However, Stalin is all-powerful, and needs no brains to handle the crisis – he can just beat up any number of goons. The last fight sees him single-handedly beat up about 200 (no exaggeration) armed and well-built goons. The last people we knew capable of that lived circa 3000BC, and all fought in the Mahabharata war.
He then lands in hospital due to an injury he sustained while in the Army that’s aggravated now, and lakhs of people turn up to pray for him when they realize (through TV channels) that he is the one who started the 3 favors movement, which has spread across the state. Needless to say, he lives.
Stalin is a well-intentioned film, but is disastrous on structure and logic. Chiranjeevi has huge mass-following, and it is quite commendable that he is trying to use that to spread good. But wanting to spread good is not an end in itself – the execution needs thought for the effort to work to the greatest extent possible.
As a film, Stalin is much lesser than a professional effort. The film tries to be both a Rudraveena and a mass-potboiler at the same time, and can deliver on neither. The screenplay is poor, there is too much craving to have all the formula elements, there is too much preaching in the first half, the choice of heroine is disastrous and there are huge gaps of logic.
The film has a mother-daughter fracas, a completely half-baked romantic angle, a hero vs. super-villian theme, an Army Indo-Pak war flashback, a social thread, a comic track, and 6 songs (including an item song, but no Nenu Saitam), thus trying to be something for everyone.
Then, the first half-hour is poorly written and too preachy – it assumes the audiences stopped growing up in 1960. A hero doesn’t tell people to be good or bitch that they are not – he just sets personal example.
Then, glaring mistakes like a handicapped (handless) girl who goes outside the gate of a college in Uppal to ask passersby for help to write a test, but is doing that at Nagarjuna Circle on Banjara Hills (yes, we all know it is 5 minutes’ walking distance), and is back in 10 minutes in the classroom at Uppal.
Or when this girl commits suicide just because she cannot get someone to write a test for her – she’s perhaps never heard of supplementary exams. Someone who is that weak mentally would have committed suicide much earlier because of that handicap.
Or where Chiranjeevi has a very old heart problem that will aggravate when he gets over-stressed, but which hurts only in the end, even if he has been in many similarly difficult situations all through the film.
For God’s sake, this is a Chiranjeevi film, and they have access to all the money in the world – couldn’t they care for the small things?
The fights are ridiculous – be they the one in a 6-floor mall where Chiranjeevi beats up some 20 armed goons by the time the lift reaches the top floor (normally 30 seconds), or the one at the end where he cripples (repeat) 200 people. Chiranjeevi is just Superman, and doesn’t show any intelligent handling when confronted with difficult situations – he will just beat up as many people as you can send.
Trisha has a cumulative of 10 minutes in the film outside of the songs. She’s talented, and a coffee shop scene is quite well-enacted, but whosever brilliant idea it was to pair Trisha with Chiranjeevi should be given a special Nandi this year for creative casting.
There is no other performance that gets much scope – this is a Chiranjeevi film. So Sunil, Khushboo, Sarada are all dwarved. The songs are just average. There are some dialogues that really kick you, but they are few and far between.
What works for Stalin is the ending - where a crowd of a couple of lakhs turns up at the hospital to pray for him. It moves you, and might make you forget all the flaws and speak positively.
Chiranjeevi is a exceptionally talented actor who increasingly puts himself in the hands of exceptionally inept scriptwriters and directors who can spell the word "formula", and nothing much else. Their brief seems to be, he has an image, write scripts to suit that. What formula films do Rajnikanth, Mamooty, Kamal Hasan, Aamir Khan or SRK do? They’re all 40+.
Chiranjeevi hasn’t had a single standard mass movie that’s been a hit since Indra – Tagore and Shankardada, the only hits, were unconventional scripts. The lesson is clear – mass films aren’t working, and younger directors and avant garde scripts deserve a chance with him.
On the whole, Stalin might have been a landmark film with more focus, thought, and care for small things. It still has the potential to impact several people, simply because of Chiranjeevi’s reach and appeal.
And what's with the names, by the way? Stalin had some 14 million people killed. And Hitler, 6 million people. Let's hope Chiru's next film is called Mandela. |
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