Abhimanyu

Jeevi rating: 3.25/5
Punchline: Kalyan Ram excels
Genre: Love
Can kids watch this film? Yes (no vulgarity and no violence)
Banner: Sri Rock Line Movies
Cast: Kalyan Ram Nandamuri, Spandana, Suhasini, Showkar Janaki, Pavan Malhotra, Ali, Venu Madhav, Sakuntala, Raghunadha Reddy, Benarjee, Ananth & Rajitha
Story: Dinesh Babu
Dialogues: Chintapally Ramana
Music: Mani Sharma
Lyrics: Chandrabose
Cinematography: V Srinivasa Reddy
Art: Music
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Fights: Ram Shetty
Executive Producer: K Sai Baba
Presenter: C Aswini Dutt
Producer: TN Venkatesh
Direction: Mallikharjun A
Release date: 12th November 2003

 

Story

Abhimanyu (Kalyan Ram Nandamuri) is a college going student and his mother Janaki (Suhasini) is a physically handicapped lady. Jaleel Khan (Pavan Malhotra) is a landlord at Cudappah, who hates the word called love. Sairabanu (Spandana) is his daughter who wants to do her further studies in Hyderabad. Jaleel Khan is not comfortable with that idea, but sends his daughter to Hyderabad with a firm instruction that she should concentrate on studies and avoid indulging any other activities.

Sairabanu - with her guardians (Ali & Rajitha) - rents a place which is in the first floor of Abhiram's house. Sairabanu & Abhimanyu's introduction starts with teasing and slowly the forbidden thing happens. They fall in love. And Jaleel Khan comes to know about it and takes his daughter back to Cudappah.

When Abhimanyu visits Cudappah to meet his love Sairabanu, he comes to know that there is a remote connection to his family and Sairabanu's family. The rest of the film is all about finding the connection between the two families and then marry his lady love with the permission of elders from both the sides.

Artists Performance

Kalyan Ram Nandamuri: Kalyan Ram Nandamuri has excelled in each and every department with his measured performance by getting into the skin of the character. He exhibited good comedy timing, excelled in fights, shown great ease in dances, improved his dialogue delivery and transcended in emotional scenes. And at the same time, he never dominated any of the proceedings gave priority to story and narration. More importantly, he is looking very glamorous in 'Abhimanyu' compared to his debut film. He it appeared more apt when he said 'Maa vamsamlo andaru andagaalle' in this film.

Others: Spandana suited well the role of Muslim girl. She is spontaneous as well. Pavan Malhotra is terrific as the righteous Muslim father in that getup and he is good as usual. Suhasini excelled as the mother of hero and she gave a sensible performance in emotional scenes. Showkar Janaki played the sympathetic grand mother of heroine and she had an important role in climax when she convinces Pavan Malhotra. Venu Madhav provided good comedy as a buddy of hero. After a long gap Telangana Sakuntala got a different role.

Technical Departments:

Story: Story of the film is little different. It's a love story with a backdrop of undercurrent religion and family conflicts.

Screenplay - direction: The work of the director Mallikharjuna - a protégé of Puri Jagannadh - is neat. The character of hero has shades of three religions because he is born to a Christian father and a Muslim mother and he is brought up by a Hindu mother. He also made the film without hurting sentiments of any of these religions. Narration of the film is little slow, but the execution is pretty smooth. Mallikharjuna handled the sentimental scenes in the film with authority.

Dialogues: Dialogues by Chintapally Ramana are good. He wrote good humorous and emotional dialogues. There are quite a few dialogues referring to Nandamuri vamsam as well. One particular mass dialogue that impressed everybody is -

Rowdy student: Nuvve kaadu, mee nanna, mee taata vachina nannemi cheyyaleru.
Kalyan Ram: Nenu ninnu kottaananuko chastu batukutaavu. Ade maa nannani taluchukoni kottanante okka debba tho chastav. Ade maa taatani taluchukunnanante kotte lopale chastav'

Music: Music by Mani Sharma is good. He used western instruments (rock & metal guitar) for the first two songs in the film. And his skills in giving background music are excellent. We realise the greatness of Mani Sharma's re-recording when you watch the re-recording of some films done by a few new music directors.

Other departments: Camera work by Srinivasa Reddy is impressive. He enhanced the looks of artists with his camerawork. Fights by Ram Shetty are good.

Production: Producer Rock Line Venkatesh has done a good by producing the film with high production values. Presenter C Aswini Dutt's Midas touch also helped the film.

Analysis: First half of the film deals with love story. Interval bang is the separation. Second half deals with hero fighting back to marry his lady love. First half is decent. The tempo in second half gone down a bit. But the lead scenes to climax and the climax are shot well. There is tremendous response in theater when Suhasini asks hero to go fetch back the heroine in climax. Just the way Aswini Dutt's 'Student No.1' gave lift to career of NTR (Jr), Abhimanyu film would be giving lift to Kalyan Ram's career. Abhimanyu is a minimum guarantee film that has fair chances to become hit with right kind of promotion.

Naga Chaitanya

Naga Chaitanya is an Indian film actor who stars in Telugu films. He made his debut in the 2009 college film, Josh. His second film was, Gautham Menon's Ye Maaya Chesave with his portrayal of a love-torn film director winning him critical acclaim.

Early Life and Family

Naga Chaitanya was born on 23 November 1986 to actor Akkineni Nagarjuna and his first wife, Lakshmi Daggubati. Naga Chaitanya's paternal grandfather, Akkineni Nageswara Rao is one of the stalwarts of Telugu cinema. His maternal grandfather, Daggubati Ramanaidu, is a producer in the film industry whilst his maternal uncle, Daggubati Venkatesh is also one of Tollywood's lead actors. Naga Chaitanya's cousins, Rana Daggubati, Sumanth Yarlagadda, and Sushanth are also film actors. His step-mother is actress Amala Akkineni and his half-brother is child actor Akhil Akkineni.
Naga Chaitanya was born in Hyderabad, but moved to Chennai with his mother after his parents split. He received schooling at the PSBB School in Chennai, during which he often visited his father in Hyderabad. He played the guitar and drums occasionally for the PSBB school band. He was then sent to an acting school in Mumbai, and subsequently to Hollywood Studios in California (USA) to learn dance and fights before he made his debut.

Career

Following in his family's footsteps, Naga Chaitanya's debut was widely anticipated. After several rumours regarding his debut, during the audio launch of his father's King, Chaitanya was introduced to the film world where his debut film was launched. Josh, directed by newcomer Vasu Varma and produced by Dil Raju, featured him alongside fellow debutant Karthika Nair, daughter of Radha, with his role drawing comparison with his father's character from Shiva. However upon release, the film fared averagely at the box office and received negative reviews from film critics, although Naga Chaitanya's performance secured him the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for South Indian films.
Prior to the release of his first film, he signed his second film with Indira Productions, which was to be directed by Gautham Menon and featured music by A. R. Rahman. Ye Maaya Chesave released in February 2010 to unanimous positive reviews with the film being dubbed as a "classic" by reviewers, with comparisons drawn to his father's romantic film, Mani Ratnam's Geethanjali. Critics also praised his on-screen chemistry with debutant actress Samantha, as the film went on to become a commercial success at the box-office. This was the Telugu version of the Tamil film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya. He also made a cameo appearance in the Tamil version.
His next movie was Sukumar's 100% Love with Tamannaah Bhatia has gained success in the box office. His next movie Dhada with Kajal Aggarwal directed Ajay Bhuyan released in August with huge expectations was a colossal failure. His next movie is Bejawada produced by Ram Gopal Varma. This movie released on Dec 1st 2011 and received negative feed back and remained as a one of the disaster in his career. Naga Chaitanya is currently working with the Director Deva Katta' for the movie Autonagar Surya. This movie stars Samantha who has already worked with Naga Chaitanya in Ye Maaya Chesave. Naga Chaitanya is often referred to as the youngest male actor in Telugu.
Now he accepts Linguswami's recent directorial tamil film titled Vettai, to remake in telugu, which features Sunil as his elder brother.

Filmography

As Actor
Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes
2009	Josh	Sathya	Telugu	Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut – South Nandi Award for Best Male Debut
2010	Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa	Himself	Tamil	Guest appearance
2010	Ye Maaya Chesave	Karthik	Telugu	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actor
2011	100% Love	Balu	Telugu
2011	Dhada	Vishwa	Telugu
2011	Bejawada	Shiva Krishna	Telugu
2012	Autonagar Surya	Surya	Telugu	Filming

Prabhas

Prabhas Raju Uppalapati (born 23 October 1979) (Telugu: ప్రభాస్ రాజు ఉప్పలపాటి), popularly known as Prabhas, is an Indian film actor in Telugu cinema.

Prabhas was born to U.Suryanarayana Raju and Siva Kumari. His family is from Mogalturu village in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He is the third of three children. He is the nephew of former telugu actor and star Krishnam Raju.

Career

Prabhas started his movie career with Eeshwar in 2001. In 2003, he was the lead in Raghavendra. He gained popularty in 2004 with M.S. Raju's film, Varsham opposite Trisha Krishnan.He followed with Adavi Raamudu and Chakram. In September 2005 he made the film Chatrapathi, opposite actress Shriya Saran. Chatrapathi was followed by Pournami, Yogi and Munna, Bujjigadu, Billa and Ek Niranjan. Darling came out in 2010 followed by the release Mr. Perfect. Rebel is set to release in 2012. 

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Co-star	Notes
2002	Eeshwar	Eeshwar	Sridevi Vijaykumar
2003	Raghavendra	Raghavendra	Anshu & Shwetha Agarwal
2004	Varsham	Venkat	Trisha Krishnan	Winner, Santosham Best Young Performer Award Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
2004	Adavi Ramudu	Ramudu	Aarthi Agarwal
2005	Chakram	Chakram	Charmi, Asin
2005	Chatrapathi	Sivaji / Chatrapathi	Shriya Saran	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
2006	Pournami	Siva Kesava	Trisha Krishnan, Charmi
2007	Yogi	Eeshwar Prasad (Yogi)	Nayantara
2007	Munna	Munna	Ileana
2008	Bujjigadu	Lingaraju (Bujji)	Trisha Krishnan
2009	Billa	Billa / Ranga	Anushka Shetty, Namitha
2009	Ek Niranjan	Chotu(Niranjan)	Kangana Ranaut	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu)
2010	Darling	Prabha (Prabhas)	Kajal Aggarwal, Shraddha Das	Winner, CineMaa Awards Best Actor (Jury)
2011	Mr. Perfect	Vicky	Kajal Aggarwal, Taapsee Pannu
2012	Rebel	Krishna	Tamannaah, Deeksha Seth
2012	Vaaradhi	Rajesh	Anushka, Richa

Awards

Movie	Status
Varsham	Winner	Santosham Best Young Performer Award
Chatrapathi	Nominated	Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award
EK Niranjan	Nominated	Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award
Darling	Winner	Cine Maa Best Critic Hero Award

Vaaradhi

Vaaradhi
Directed by Koratala Siva
Produced by V. Vamsi Krishna Reddy, Pramod Uppalapati
Written by Koratala Siva
Screenplay by Koratala Siva
Story by Koratala Siva
Starring Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Richa Gangopadhyay
Music by Devi Sri Prasad
Studio UV Creations
Release date(s) November 3, 2012
Country India
Language Telugu


Vaaradhi (Telugu: వారధి) is an upcoming Telugu film written and directed by debutante Koratala Siva.The film stars Prabhas, Anushka Shetty and Richa Gangopadhyay.

Ram

Ram Pothineni (Telugu: రామ్ పోతినేని, Rām Pōtinēni; born in 15 May 1988) is a Telugu and Tamil film actor.

Website: www.heroram.com

Personal Life

Ram is the son of Murali Pothineni, the brother of noted film producer Ravi Kishore Pothineni, Popularly known as Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. He was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, but was brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling at Chettinad Vidyashram, Chennai. He is fluent in Telugu and Tamil.

Career

Ram made in debut in 2006 with Devadasu and the film went on to become a blockbuster, running for 175 days in over a dozen centers. His second film was Jagadam, directed by Sukumar and did not do well at box office but received critical acclaim . He then appeared in Ready alongside Genelia D'Souza directed by Srinu Vaitla with the film becoming a large success and prompting remakes into other Indian languages and taking him to the Big league.
In 2009, he had two releases, Maska and Ganesh Just Ganesh , movie is full of love and humor but not successful for box office. Maska had one of the biggest opening at that time collecting 2.5+ crores on the opening day and recovered its investment within the first week itself. In 2010, Ram had only one release, Rama Rama Krishna Krishna, produced by Dil Raju and directed by Srivas. Ram's next film Kandireega is another biggest Blockbuster of 2011 and Ram proved to be the man of the masses along with his lover boy image. Now he is currently shooting for Endhukante Premanta with Tamannaah, directed by Karunakaran and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2006	Devadasu	Devdas	Telugu	Winner, Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut
2007	Jagadam	Seenu	Telugu
2008	Ready	Chandu	Telugu	Nominated, Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award
2009	Maska	Krish	Telugu
2009	Ganesh	Ganesh	Telugu
2010	Rama Rama Krishna Krishna	Rama Krishna	Telugu
2011	Kandireega	Srinivas aka sreenu	Telugu
2012	Endhukante... Premanta!	Arjun	Telugu	Post-production
2012	Yen Endraal Kaadhal Enben		Tamil	Post-production Tamil Debut

Siddharth

Siddharth (born 17 April 1979) is an Indian film actor, who primarily acts in Telugu films. He occasionally works as a playback singer and screenplay writer as well. After his business management studies, Siddharth chose to work in film making and worked as an assistant director before making his acting debut in the 2003 Tamil film Boys. In the subsequent years, he has worked in many Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films.

Siddharth was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He studied at DAV Boys' Senior Secondary School, Chennai and Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree from Kirori Mal College, New Delhi. Siddharth was part of the reputed theatre group of the college, The Players. He was also president of the college's debating society and attended the World Debating Championships. He went on to complete his MBA in 2001 from S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai.

Career

Siddharth has stated that direction was his "ultimate dream". After finishing his education at age 21, Siddharth landed the role of assistant director for Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal. The script writer of that film, Sujatha, were insistent that Siddharth auditioned for S. Shankar's Boys which would feature five debutant actors. After consulting with Mani Ratnam, he met Shankar, auditioned, and got the role of Munna. The film was a moderate success in Tamil but the dubbed version in Telugu gave Siddharth an opening in the Telugu film industry. Siddharth then appeared in another Tamil film, Mani Ratnam's Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004), after which he would shift focus and concentrate on Telugu-language projects. His first direct Telugu project, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana released in early 2005. The comedy-drama film, marking the directorial debut of choreographer-turned-actor Prabhu Deva, became a commercial blockbuster as well as a critical success, with Siddharth winning his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Santhosh,  a playful NRI, who fights for his love. Siddharth, subsequently, also ventured into the writing forum as well as the singing forum as he wrote the screenplay for his next Telugu film Chukkallo Chandrudu (2006) directed by Siva Kumar and sang as a playback singer. He next debuted in Bollywood as part of the critically acclaimed blockbuster Rang De Basanti which also starred Aamir Khan. Siddharth received the Star Screen Debut Award for his role as Karan Singhania in the film. Siddharth's final release of 2006 was Bommarillu, directed by then newcomer Bhaskar. The film, revolving around a father-son relationship, received critical acclaim and garnered box office success, too. He worked with director Vishal Bhardwaj and Oscar winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro on a short film titled Blood Brothers, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival as part of Mira Nair's AIDS Jaago project.
After the above average grossing Aata in 2007, Siddharth took a sabbatical and did not have a release for 20 months. In 2009, his Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam opposite Tamannaah received good responses from critics and audiences. Siddharth played the lead role in debutant director Anand Ranga's Oy!, which achieved box office success despite mixed reviews. His first release of 2010 was Striker, his second Bollywood venture that portrayed the life of a carrom player. It became the first Indian film to be released in theatres and on YouTube on the same day. His other release that year was the Telugu film Baava, a village-based romantic family entertainer, shot in places like Palakollu, Razole, Rajahmundry and Hyderabad. His first release of 2011, Prakash Kovelmundi's fantasy epic Anaganaga O Dheerudu was produced by veteran K. Raghavendra Rao. He was next seen in the Tamil-Telugu bilingual 180 by Jayendra, which performed poorly at the box office. His third release of the year was Oh My Friend, directed by debutant Venu Sriram, which opened to mixed reviews but went on to garner positive response. In 2012, Siddharth first starred in the bilingual romantic comedy Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (Tamil) / Love Failure (Telugu), based on the same-titled short film by Balaji Mohan, which fetched critical acclaim. He has signed up a Tamil film to be directed by an associate director of Vetrimaaran.

Producer

Actor Siddharth started his production house Etaki Entertainment in 2012. His first production venture was the bilingual project, Kadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Eppadi / Love Failure.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Film	Roles	Language	Notes
2002	Kannathil Muthamittal	Bus Passenger	Tamil	Uncredited role
2003	Boys	Munna	Tamil/Telugu	ITFA Best New Actor Award
2004	Aayutha Ezhuthu/Yuva	Arjun	Tamil/Telugu
2005	Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana	Santosh	Telugu	Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
2006	Chukkallo Chandrudu	Arjun	Telugu	Also writer
2006	Rang De Basanti	Karan Singhania	Hindi	Star Screen Best Male Debut Nominated—Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
2006	Bommarillu	Siddharth (Siddhu)	Telugu	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
2007	Aata	Sri Krishna	Telugu
2009	Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam	Siddharth (Siddhu)	Telugu
2009	Oye	Uday	Telugu
2010	Striker	Suryakant Sarang	Hindi
2010	Baava	Veera Babu	Telugu
2011	Anaganaga O Dheerudu	Yodha	Telugu
2011	180	Ajay Kumar (Mano)	Telugu
2011	Nootrenbadhu		Tamil
2011	Oh My Friend	Chandu	Telugu
2012	Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi	Arun	Tamil	Also producer
2012	Love Failure		Telugu	Also producer
2012	Winds of Change	Shiva	English	Filming
2012	Chashme Baddoor	Jomo	Hindi	Filming
2012	Untitled Nandini Reddy Project		Telugu	Filming
2013	NH4		Tamil	Pre-production

Playback singer

[hide]Year	Title	Language	Song(s)
2006	Chukkallo Chandrudu	Telugu	Everybody, Edhalo Epudo
	Bommarillu	Telugu	Appudo Ippudo
2007	Aata	Telugu	Ninu Choostunte
2008	Santosh Subramaniam	Tamil	Adada Adada
2009	Oy!	Telugu	Oy Oy
2010	Striker	Hindi	Bombay Bombay, Haq Se
	Baava	Telugu	Baava Baava
2011	Oh My Friend	Telugu	Maa Daddy Pockets, Sri Chaitanya Junior College
2012	Kadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Eppadi	Tamil	Parvathi Parvathi, Ananda Jaladosam
	Love Failure	Telugu	Parvathi Parvathi, Happy Heart Attack