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Vakeel Saab (2021)
Overacting at its best
This a disastrous remake of Pink. The mature acting of Amitabh Bachchan is replaced by overacting of Pavan Kalyan. Instead of depicting the legal case, the dialogues and aggression are set to create a larger than life figure to influence the electorate.
Love Story (2021)
Addresses an important social issue
The story is another version of the regular social agenda of love and marriage between an upper class girl and lower class guy. The movie deserves credit for addressing the issue of child sexual abuse by a family member. By using killing to deliver justice or closure, it failed to create the impact made in Monsoon Wedding (2001).
Sridevi Soda Center (2021)
Not an uplifting experience
The story is regular social agenda of love and marriage between an upper caste girl and lower caste boy. But the ending is very gross as it turns to murder and suicide to give a 'message'. A disturbing movie not expected from Sudheer Babu who was seen to be entering the league of good actors with movies like V and Sammohanam.
Bheemla Nayak (2022)
Rana's acting rocks and the rest is PR for PK
This is an utterly poor re-make of the 2020 Malayalam movie Ayyapanum Koshiyum. Only the role of Danny played by Rana Daggubati is worth watching. Otherwise, the entire movie is silly. When one watches the original Malayalam version, Telugu moviegoers would understand how big stars like Pawan Kalyan and scriptwriters like Trivikram Srinivas are taking them for a ride with overacting and unrealistic roles. It is a pity that Indian electorate and fans give so much public space to actor-politicians based on movies which project larger than life persona.
Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1 (2021)
The movie isn't about a coolie but made to suit Allu Arjun's stardom
Pushpa is a wonderful entertaining mass movie. The spectacular rise of a coolie, born out of wedlock, just doesn't end. Its a roller coaster ride with our hero Allu Arjun winning against all obstacles - he can single-handedly bash up any number of police officials and enemies, strip an IPS officer to underwear, marry his love, convince an MP to make him head of smuggling syndicate, buy anyone and anything he wants with money. Except for the climax which fails to set up a suspense to keep fans waiting for Part 2, all looks good for an average fan.
But it falls apart when you start analyzing the story. The personality of Pushpa at the start has some unanswered questions. Who are the ones helping him repay a moneylender and why? Why would any moneylender lend to Pushpa's family knowing what Pushpa is like?
Allu Arjun's antics in hiding or securing red sander is funny. In the first instance, they just lift the wood up and the police are blind to it. In the second instance, when everybody is running for their lives, Allu Arjun jumps on the lorry with last piece of log as if it is a pencil and then flies the lorry. A honest and dedicated Police officer decides to thrash Allu Arjun instead of searching the area, all to the advantage of Allu Arjun. Then of course, the great transport by river, where everything simply falls in place. In the great fight where Konda Reddy and Mogileshu die, blindfolded and hands-tied Allu Arjun comes out on top as expected. Allu Arjun can run and fight in the forest with his face covered and hands tied while escaping the trees, snake, attacking men and bullets. You expect a touch of reality in a multilingual movie involving director Sukumar and star like Allu Arjun, but Allu Arjun plays a Balayya who is slim and can dance better.
The love story is trivialized to young girls normalizing taking money for a smile and kiss. Two top actresses have danced to item songs in skimpy clothes and vulgar moves for gross lyrics which repulse people of taste. 103M views for Oo Antava on Youtube tells a lot about movie goers and why such songs are part and parcel of most movies today.
There is no leader without friends and followers. Allu Arjun has no family background, only one friend and endless big shot enemies. In real life, CMs are changed because of disgruntled party MLAs, caste and cash equations. Yet, new comer Allu Arjun is appointed as syndicate head in the face of stiff opposition from seasoned members. The meteoric rise of Allu Arjun is just ridiculous.
'Taggedele' is the catch phrase of the movie along with his tilted shoulder, sitting posture and beard wiping move. I hope people dont imitate the arrogance in real life. With zero humility, you cannot survive in this world, leave alone rising up in life. There are many real life instances of rag to riches story but none of them are based on pure arrogance and one man muscle strength. Taggala, taggi naDavala, coolieoDayna leda MP ayna, or else you will learn life's lessons the hard way.
The movie has glorified arrogance, deforestation, smuggling, corruption and misogyny. The movie isn't about a coolie but made to suit Allu Arjun's stardom. The coolie in the movie isn't real. Pushpa may not be flower, but the movie definitely treats its spectators like flowers.