Cast : Prince, Sri Divya, Kanna, Sai Kumar, Hasika etc
Story , screenplay and dialogues : Maruthi
Director : Maruthi
Music : JB
Cinematography : Prabhakar Reddy
Producer : Bellamkonda Suresh
Banner : Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
Release Date : November 11, 2012
Story :
‘Bus Stop’ movie is set in a colony backdrop and the story is all about current generation youngsters and their lifestyle. Lead actor in ‘Bus Stop’ movie, Srinu(Prince) is deeply in love with his tenth classmate Shailaja(Sri Divya) and his friend Kanna(Kanna) is crazy about Seema(Hasika). Srinu wants to marry Shailaja, but Shailaja’s family thinks otherwise about their relationship. Does Srinu marry Shailaja ? Will Shailaja’s parents accept their love ? All these must be watched on the big screen
Analysis :
First half of ‘Bus Stop’ movie is filled with loads of entertaining episodes with high dosage of double meaning dialogues. Director Maruthi has given equal importance to each and every character and almost all the artists were given enough time on the screen to entertain the audience. Director Maruthi has taken a lot of care especially with the screenplay part and that is the reason audience will not get bored of any scene in the first half.
After a rib tickling episodes in the first half, Maruthi changed the genre in the second half and added sentiment. Though most of the scenes in the second half are predictable, lead actress Sri Divya, Kanna and Saikumar Pampana have rendered good performances. Climax of the ‘Bus Stop movie is heavy but the message conveyed must be appreciated.
Director Maruthi has once again chosen the same genre like he did for his first film ‘Ee Rojullo’. Maruthi has added loads of sexual humor in the dialogues and after seeing the movie, one can definitely say that the director’s target audiences are only teenagers. But going ahead, Maruthi should definitely come out of this adult comedy genre as his ‘Ee Rojullo’ and ‘Bus Stop’ have got the same type of adult comedy. Maruthi’s dialogues are additional asset for the film and they are definitely going to hit hard for the teenagers. Performances by the all the artists were good and the director succeeded in getting 100% output from each and every character. Songs picturisation is good and the fate of ‘Bus Stop’ movie purely depends upon the way makers promote the film, as there is no other Telugu film lined up for a release this week(Until Nagarjuna’s Damarukam gets a final release date).
Performances :
Prince is good looking and his performance is good. Sri Divya has given wonderful performance and so did Hasika. Hasika not only excelled as a naughty girl but entertained the audience with her dance. Kanna did a very good job and his performance in the second half can be appreciated. Sai Kumar Pampana is the major asset for the movie and his dialogues received good response from the audience. Murali Krishna (DMK) has given satisfactory performance as the father of Kanna. Rao Ramesh has given good performance and some of his dialogues will definitely hit hard to the youngsters.
Technicalities :
Screenplay and dialogues provided by Maruthi are excellent and JB has composed good music for the film. Cinematography by Prabhakar Reddy is nice and the film has been mostly shot with Canon 5D system. Production values of Lakhshmi Narasimha banner are good.
Positives :
Dialogues
Youthful story
Artists performances
Negatives :
Predictable story line
Final Word: Watch Bus Stop movie if you like adult comedy entertainers.
Hyderabad, Nov 11: Hardly before the controversies over ‘Women in Brah Ready’ subsided, fresh controversy arose over the just released film ‘Bus S Students organizations SFI and DYFI have launched agitation, demanding said had too many double meaning dialogues and obscenities. Students have raided the Sandhya theatre at the RTC cross roads and torn burnt an effigy of the film makers. Alleging that the censor board has tot warned that they would stop screening of the film all over the state from tension at the Sandhya theatre as students raided when producer Bellam unit members were watching the film. Police rushed to the spot and arrest
New Delhi, Nov 10: A 20-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her boyfriend here after being abducted by him and his two friends, police said. One of the accused has been arrested.
The girl was abducted by the trio accused in a car from west Delhi's Shahbad Dairy around 5 p.m. Friday and was allegedly raped by her boyfriend Sonu, 22.
"The accused later dropped her at a secluded place threatening her of dire consequences if she told anyone," said a police officer.
"One of the accused Ashvini alias Ashu, 20, has been arrested and the hunt is on for the other two," the officer added.
Sonu is an ex-classmate and boyfriend of the victim. He abducted her with the help of Rinku, 20, and Ashvini and raped her, added the officer.
As expected, the censor board came down heavily on the film and ordered a straight 45 cuts. The producer of the film Bellamkonda Suresh was shocked with it and in no time he approached the Review Committee. He had reportedly expressed shock over the way the entire series of cuts have been given.
So now, it is heard that the review committee has shown some mercy and ultimately gave ‘Bus Stop’ a clearance with just five cuts. Bellamkonda might be breathing a sigh of relief but then the film was due for release on November 9th and this fell into jeopardy due to the censor issue.
But now, the news is confirmed that it is releasing on 11th Nov.
Neelakanta’s upcoming film Chammak Challo is going to be his first experiment with romance. So far, he has made off beat and slightly different films like Show, Mr Medhavi and Virodhi and now he’s dabbling with a conventional romantic entertainer. The film has a tagline ‘Love Lo Logic Ledu’. Varun Sandesh, Sanchita Padukone and Catherine Teresa are playing the lead roles in this film. Vennela Kishore, Srinivas Avasarala and Chinmayi Ghatrazu are playing important supporting roles and Brahmaji will be seen as Varun Sandesh’s father. The film’s audio is going to be launched on November 10 at Ravi Narayana Reddy Auditorium. Kiran Varanasi has scored the music and Ranganath Gogineni has cranked the camera. The film will hit the screens soon.
Richa Gangopadhyay was in for a big shock recently after rumours began doing the rounds about her marriage. Several gossip sites have been writing about her alleged relationship with photographer Sunder Ramu for quite sometime now; however, the actress categorically denied all rumours about her relationship with Sunder Ramu. A leading newspaper has quoted her saying that they are just good friends and that she has no plans to get married anytime soon.
Meanwhile, Richa recently wrapped up shooting her part in Thenkasi for Prabhas’ upcoming film Mirchi. She’ll soon start shooting for Nagarjuna’s next film titled Bhai. Apart from these two films, Richa is also part of Ravi Teja’s next film titled Sir Vacharu. From opting out of Allu Arjun starrer Iddarammayilatho to refuting rumours about her marriage, Richa Gangopadhyay has had a hectic week already.
It is heard that those girls who are passing out of colleges have discovered a new way of getting jobs. They are going to the famous social networking site Facebook and tracking which company CEOs are there. Some are targeting the HR managers of different companies and making friends with them.
They are approaching them directly and ‘entertaining’ them in the way they wish and getting jobs. Of course, not all girls are doing this but some girls are reportedly not hesitating to go to any extent to get a job. In this process, few fakes are projecting themselves as HR guys and taking advantage of few girls in the name of jobs.
Reports have that Nayantara's complete romantic scenes are said to be chopped by Censor Board for overdose of glamour. In some scenes, director tried to bring out romance by using double meaning dialogues and they are also axed. Cleavage scenes, naval displays and waist shows in songs are asked to either blur down or completely remove them. Without them, can Nayantara jump into elite bandwagon of super sexy starlets like Tamanna, Samantha and Kajal is a big question. Censor Board is said to be completely strict with this picture after looking at the recent issues of Rambabu and Denikaina Ready.
On the other hand, fights in KVJ are asked to reduce their intensity by 50%, which is another ridiculous idea given by Board. With all these conservative rules in place, can Rana-Nayan's latest offering stand commercially strong is something we have to wait and see.
It is not a secret that Bhumika Chawla husband Bharath Thakur is Yoga guru for Anushka. But not many know that he also controls her properties in Hyderabad.
Anushka is among those actresses who get paid about Rs.1 Cr per film. The lanky actress has reportedly left it to Bharath’s responsibility to collect her remuneration of film she acts and maintain them. It’s also heard that even Anushka’s personal expenses also will be settled by Bharath’s office.
It is reported that Bharath is not just collecting the remuneration, but investing them in real estate in the actress’ name.
Bhumika is not in her prime and Bharath Thakur incurred huge losses in production house and Cine Magazine. Should we say Bharath is acting as a manger to his student Anushka? Who knows !!!
Santiago, Chile, Nov 9: A video advertisement meant to create awareness on breast cancer has created furore in Chile as it focused on cleavage of young women as they work, exercise, breastfeed -and even during sex. The campaign urges men to encourage female friends and relatives to have their breasts examined frequently to prevent breast cancer. However, anti-breast cancer groups refused to support video claiming it 'objectifies women'. The groups criticized the video stating that women were treated in the video as sex objects.' The campaign, called 'For the love of t**s', is meant to persuade men to encourage their wives and girlfriends to have their breasts examined. Critics in Chile say the footage, which includes a couple apparently having sex and a mother breastfeeding a baby -objectifies women. The 45-second video has been viewed by 409,000 people online. It features women in the office, at home, in a swimming pool, the shower and even the bedroom. And it ends with the written message: 'If we like them so much, we should look after them. Encourage a woman to have a breast examination.' Gonzalo Baeza, creative director with the agency responsible for the video, Lowe PORTA, said: 'The aim of the ad is to get men to encourage their wives, friends and relatives to examine their breasts.' But Ana Cox, from the anti-breast cancer organisation 'Yo mujer' (I woman), said they refused to be linked to the campaign.Women were filmed doing every day activities, such as a playing with a pet dog, taking a shower, swimming, and even having sex. Ms Cox said the advertising agency offered to put Yo Mujer's logo on the ad but that 'after studying it we didn't accept, because it was using the woman like an object. 'Personally I think anything that encourages women to examine their breasts is good, but we couldn't go with that idea.'Initially the advert was reported to have been funded by Chile's ministry of health. But the ministry denied any link to the campaign after controversy arose.
A man suddenly turned violent causing a mid-air scare by raising islamic slogans and threatening to harm the aircraft on Mumbai-Delhi IndiGo flight.
Mursalim Shaikh (41), a second hand car dealer, unusual behavior caused panic situation inside the aircraft. The flight had taken off from Mumbai at 3.45 pm on Wednesday. After an hour Shaikh started abusing the aged lady in his back seat and when an air hostess asked him to sit properly, he lost his temper and slapped her. He then waived a cellphone to the passengers, said 'sabko dekh loonga' (I will teach a lesson to everyone) and started threatening with loud shouts. Co-passengers swung into action to pin him down when Shaikh tried to enter the cockpit.
The passenger was handed over to CISF at around 6.13 pm. Police have lodged a case of criminal intimidation, assault and threatening the crew against Shaikh and he will be produced in Dwarka court in Delhi Today.
"I am apologizing if my role had hurt any individual or the community. In the recent past, I have deliberately cut down playing such roles," said Brahmi to Brahmin Sangham leaders who appealed him not to be part of the films which degrade their community.
In a major setback to Mohan Babu, the committee appointed by state government to review the film has declared that there are few objectionable scenes in the film. "We have seen the film and discussed thoroughly about the objectionable dialogues, scenes and song sequences in it. A report will be submitted to the government on Sunday," says a committee member.
Brahmin community heads had demanded a ban on the film for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments. Seems like, the controversy may come to an end now with few cuts based on committee's report.
Movie : LUCKY
Rating: 2.5/5
Cast : Srikanth, Meghana, Roja, Brahmanandam and others
Directed by : Hari
Produced by : Rajeshwari
Banner : Raja Rajeswari Pictures
Music : Sai Karthik
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Hero Srikanth's latest film Lucky is out in theaters now. Srikanth has been out of form since very long and was completely out of buzz prior to Mahatma. Understandably Lucky movie released with zero hype around it. Considering Srikanth's track record as a centurion hero, Lucky is a notable film as far as Telugu cinema is concerned. Check the details of Lucky.
What is it about?
Lakshmi Narasimha who is fondly known as Lucky (Srikanth) is a unhappy man who is not satisfied with his job or his family. He hates women as most of the women in his life only torture him. He gets a special power of knowing what women think and then his perspective changes.
Performances:
Srikanth simply sleep walked through the role. He is believable as a man in mid thirties despite being older. His performance in the scene where he compares women to wifi network is hilarious. Meghana has nothing much to do except for looking admiringly at Srikanth. There are few popular actors in the support cast. Roja is alright as the strict lady boss.
Brahmanandam has been wasted. AVS is fine. Tagubothu Ramesh and others didn't have sizeable roles to make an impact. Sana didn't look like Srikanth's mother and it has been confessed by Srikanth himself.
On the Technical Front:
Dialogues are not up to the mark. This film is intended to be funny most of the times. But poor writing didn't help the cause. Cinematography is strictly okay. The methods that are implemented are mostly outdated. Music is mediocre. Sai Karthik didn't compose a single impressive tune. Director Hari failed in the writing department itself. He could have made this a laugh riot. Despite having good concept on hands, he failed to translate it into a decent film.
Analysis:
Lucky is a blatant copy of 2000 Hollywood romantic comedy 'What Women Want'. The main plot has been lifted from that film and director added few commercial elements to suit our tastes. However, he has failed miserably with pretty bad writing.
Except for few scenes which are genuinely hilarious, Lucky is a badly made movie. First half is fine with few good laughs, but second half mostly runs on dramatic mode. Terrorism angle given to the film was an utter failure. Those scenes were so stupid that its impact might give an impression that watching Lucky is sheer waste of time.
Despite having fair chance to make this a good entertainer, director couldn't make use of talented star cast. Saying so, Lucky is far better than Srikanth's films like Ranga the Donga etc. Poor openings suggest that Lucky may not be so lucky on the commercial front. You may wait for the home edition if you are planning to watch it.
Verdict: Phew, Srikanth's Bad Luck still haunts!
Film writes who always on the hunt for new subjects found one in ‘wife swapping’. Here the protagonists swap their wives not for sexual pleasure, but for the love.
As per the ‘novel’ script, Aarya is deeply in love with a girl while Jai and Nayanthara are inseparable lovers. In a weird turn of events, Jai marries the girl who was earlier in love with Aarya and Arya marries Nayanthara. Both the couples live as ‘married couples’ for the sake of the society but there is hardly any physical intimacy between the quartets. Jai and Aarya meet up and discuss the pathetic plight of their respective lives and decide to ‘swap’ their wives leading to a happy climax.
A R Murugadoss is producing this Rom-Com movie titled ‘Raja Rani’.
Observers say that Nayan who is already facing ire of woman organisations for breaking the marriage of Prabhu Deva will sure land in trouble for acting in ‘wife-swapping’ script!!!
Puri Jagan's latest outing with stylish hero Allu Arjun, 'Iddaru Ammayilatho' is making quite a noise regarding its heroine selection. Wide eyed Amala Paul is confirmed as lead girl long back, but the question is about the second fiddle girl. Strikingly bold Richa Gangopadhyay is the first option, who was later replaced by sensuous Taapsee. According to latest grapevine, Nani-Krishnavamsi's 'Paisa' movie heroine Catherine Tresa has finally signed the dotted line to play this role.
Well, both Richa and Taapsee have opted to lose 3-4 projects for the sake of this flick, but finally both got hard blows. Let us hope these two pretty beauties will come up with much more exciting projects.
After losing morale and a penchant to earn easy money, some Software engineers from the Hitech-City are taking up this route. It is revealed that rich married woman whose husbands stay away somewhere in the other part of the world are buying these boys for nights by shedding huge money. The call-boy den owners are running a website with information about all the available boys, and payments are accepted only through credit cards. As the call-boys are software engineers, they have easily created this hi-tech setup very easily to earn easy money.
'While politicians are doing prostitution with democracy, and raping our system, why should we worry about these innocent male prostitutes?' asks popular writer Posani Krishnamurali. But he finally condemned the acts of call-boys.
Kangna Ranaut was a dazzling sight at the Blenders Pride Fashion Tour 2012, held at the Hotel Grand Hyatt in Mumbai, when she walked the ramp for designer Gavin Miguel.Kangna was little nervous but showed didn't miss to show her oomph and sexiness on ramp.
The Fashion girl worea white maxi gown.The added glamour element to the ensemble was the cut of the dress: the low neckline and ripped below the thigh was so provacatiing.
But perhaps she showed off more skin than she intended to. Wardrobe malfunction or not, looking Kangna was a eye feast to many at the event. What about You?
Ever since curvaceous Arabian horse Anushka Shetty debuted as super hot seductress in Nagarjuna's 'Super', this pair started teasing youths of Tollywood. Though they got only a couple of instances to sizzle, this time their on-screen magic is turning more lights on. With producer RR Makers' Venkat confirming that 'Damarukam' is going to hit theatres at any cost, expectations are on a rise about Anushka's sizzling quotient in the flick. A talk is doing rounds that our Sweety has shown her oomph factor again in this flick. It is heard that there is a lip kiss in this flick between Nag and Anushka and that takes place below the sea. This underwater song is going to be a part of a song but not any particular scene. However insiders stated that there is a small peck on the lips but not a French style kissing session. Let us wait and see about the this most speculated lip-kiss of Tollywood between a never-ageing romantic hero and a teasing beauty.
"We don't have to settle for gasoline at $4, we don't have to settle for unemployment at a chronically high level, we don't have to settle for 47 million people on food stamps."
"We have fewer people working today than we had when the president took office... We have not made the progress we need to make to put people back to work."
After delivering some good movies, this director turned a 'budget' master and became the man with an iron touch. He is none other than Gunasekhar, the man behind superhit 'Okkadu' and superflop 'Nippu'. Reportedly Gunasekhar is going to reveal about curvaceous Arabian beauty Anushka tomorrow. From quite a time, there is a huge buzz that this director got a producer now to make another big budget extravaganza. This will be the story of Rani Rudrama Devi of the Kakatiya Dynasty. It is much hyped that Anushka will be playing the lead role in this flick as she has already done such a role in 'Arundhati'. Wait till tomorrow to know what exactly Gunasekahr will reveal about the in and out of Ansuhka. On the other hand, Anushka is going to prove her hotness again with 'Damarukam', says RR Movies Venkat who stressed that the film is hitting screens on November 9th at any cost.
Hyderabad, Nov 5: Telangana Nagara Samiti leader Nagam Janardana Reddy has given a shock to the TRS chief KCR by making it clear that he would not join a party that was poised to merge in the Congress.
Talking to the media after BJP leaders including Kishan Reddy and Bandaru Dattatreya met him here on Monday, Nagam said he was confident that BJP-led NDA would create Telangana state. Stating that Congress was the number one enemy of Telangana, Nagam said statehood to the region would not be a reality until that party was finished. He said the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh would have understood the sentiments of people if he was directly elected by the people.
Though he has also made it clear that he was not joining BJP, his statement about not joining TRS and expressing confidence on BJP was being regarded as a step towards joining the party at a later date. Nagam said he would work closely with all parties committed to Telangana including BJP. He said he would tour the Telangana districts from November 23. BJP has announced its support to this Yatra. BJP state president Kishan Reddy has also said that they had not invited Nagam to join the party. He also said that his party would work with Nagam.
The state government has constituted a committee to review the film and submit a report on November 10. The committee headed by IAS Officer Sahani attended the screening of the film Today and suggested few changes to the producer. "We have asked the producer to remove the word Brahmmanism from the title and also insisted him to chop off few objectionable scenes, for which he readily agreed and also given a written statement. We will submit the report to the government within two days," says the committee member Chandravadhan.
With 'A Woman In Brahmanism' getting clearance, the makers are planning to release it anytime soon. This controversy has given a huge free publicity for the film and the openings are expected to be good.
In a shocking development, an actress has attacked a director with chappals at a press conference on Saturday conveyed to promote the film 'Kotlallappo Kai'. Kannada actress Nayana Krishna and her family suddenly disrupted the press meet by hitting director Rishi with footwear and abusing him with foul language, alleging that he had cheated her of Rs 8 lakh. The director flew from the place immediately with the help of the unit members and later lodged complaint against the actress in the nearby police station. According to the actress, "Director Rishi borrowed Rs 8 lakhs from me by promising that he would return the amount as soon as possible. However, he didn't pay the amount and coming up with cooked up stories every day". According to the director, "A few youngsters including me and the actress have joined hands to produce a film. Few weeks back, she demanded me to return her money or to give away the rights of several areas which is worth over Rs 1 crore. I refused to give the rights and told her she will get her money back after the release of the film".
The top league of heroines is captured by Samantha, Tamannah, Kajal Agarwal and they are also making their moves into Bollywood. This leaves us with the second layer of heroines and two names have been figuring quite prominently in that. They are the duo of Taapsee and Anjali. However, who among the two is better, is the discussion. Taapsee started her career as a second female lead and slowly she is getting into solo lead. Recently, when she was approached for a second heroine role for a Tamil movie, Taapsee reportedly rejected it. Meanwhile, Anjali has got the potential to do solo heroine roles but she is underrating herself and is still finding comfort in doing second female lead. Actually speaking, Anjali is on top of Taapsee because she has the right native sex appeal, the immense acting potential and above all, a pleasing attitude which goes well for the cine circuit.
When Mahesh Babu is onscreen, it is very hard to focus on anyone else so usually the heroines tend to get sidelined. Of course, they make their presence felt with their own visual feast wherever possible and when Mahesh is not in the frame. But here is one girl who seems to be rubbing shoulders with the prince aptly.
Her name is Kriti Sanon and she happens to be the new find of director Sukumar for his new movie with Mahesh. Kriti is a regular in the TV circuit and is part of many ads and commercials. This is her first stint with cinema. The talk among media circles is Kriti looks good and is acting very well too.
If this is true then Tollywood would have got one more beautiful and talented actress to fill the top league heroine drought. From her end, this sure is a dream start for Kriti because she gets to pair with the number 1 superstar and is getting groomed under the most talented and demanding directors.
Brahmin associations who got beating from Mohan Babu followers the other day have retorted today with a stone pelting act on Hero Manchu Vishnu. Surprisingly Telangana lawyers have also joined Brahmins to attack Vishnu at HRC office.
Manchu Vishnu went to Human Rights Commission office today to file a case against Brahmin associations saying that they tried to intrude into their house the other day when his mother and sister are alone. However, Brahmin associations also approached HRC to file a counter suit against Vishnu that his followers have seriously injured Brahmins physically. Also they demanded the ban of 'Denikaina Ready' movie, the epicentre of all these issues. However, Telangana lawyers shouted harsh slogans against Vishnu and restricted him in filing a petition with HRC. When Vishnu tried to leave in his car from the spot, Brahmins and Telangana lawyers hurled stones at his convoy. It took a while for Vishnu come out of the tense situation and leave safe.
Telangana Advocates warned that they will make Manchu Vishnu leave Hyderabad if the hero's behaviour is the same. Vishnu stated to media that he will continue his legal fight against these Brahmin associations and T-lawyers, and accused that someone is intentionally making this issue from the back.