VELLINGIRI TREK 2017

This post contains only photos of my recent trip to vellingiri, the information about the trek is in this post On March 4 2017, we went for this trek, this time we stayed whole night on the top and we found a beautiful spot where we can camp, here are the few pics from the trek

people who went to this trek, before poondi temple

To see this view point you have cross the trisool fence on the seventh hill and walk for some 5 minutes, it is a very good place for night camping

This is the route the view point in the previous picture

first trek with vesti

The same view point, if you are lucky you can see the bed of clouds under you

night time view from 4th hill

we slept beside a big rock which shielded us from cool breeze, we reached 5th hill by 8.30 pm, played some cards, slept until 3 am, got up and reached 7th hill by 5.30 am(took bath in small pond at 6th hill).

view of AADHI YOGI statue near isha temple from 4th hill

Aadhi yogi temple near isha temple

GOUTHAMI PUTRA SATAKARNI

Generally a war scene means you expect a lot of aerial shots, fast moving shots showing entire war location, but in this film there are lot of close up shots, with a great back ground score and editing the crew created the war environment in theater.

Instead of showing the entire life of the king, director concentrated on his two major wars and the dream of satakarni. The three things that stood out in this film are BGM, EDITING and DIALOGUES...almost entire war scenes happen with out dialogues, there wont be any inspirational speeches in between the war, everything was conveyed using BGM and the editing work in war scenes is excellent. BGM in this film elevated every scene and dialogue to another level.

 Coming to the dialogues, there are lot of good dialogues, and the way balayya delivered them is mind blowing. The scene where he explains shriya how important his son is to him, the scene where he tells his dream, the pre interval dialogue, the scene where he explains about the greatness of mother, the climax dialogues, etc...all are goose bump scenes, with his dialogue delivery he created so much power in theater, it is good to see him in a good film....

Coming to the negative points of the film, first thing that comes to my mind is HEMA MALINI, i dont know why they picked her for mother character, she just does not suit to the character....similarly all the side characters who played small kings, their acting is so poor....second thing is make up of balakrishna, i felt they should have taken a little more care on his makeup, the wig does not suit to him at all...

Overall it is a very good film...if you have not watched it...watch it....

VANGAVEETI

STORY: vadu vedni champadam, eedu aadi champadam, champadam, champukodam(this guy killing, that guy killing, both killing, both sides killing).

Did i like anything in the film: Nothing, only scene i felt like watching is the murder of vangaveeti raadha, other than that nothing.

What did i not like in the film:

• lot of things,  camera angles in the first 30 minutes of the film, it did not work for me, i could not able to concentrate on dialogues
• RGV's voice over, half of the film is covered with his voice over, he made a 2 hour film out of 22 years story, in that process he skipped lot of incidents which he tried to summarize using voice over. but because of this method, i could not able to feel anything, it is like he is begging audience to feel the emotion, feel that this guys is a great rowdy, this is a very sensational murder...he is simply saying audience instead of showing them. his voice over made me feel VANGAVEETI like a documentary.
• Slow motion shots in the climax, almost entire climax shot in slow motion, i slept for some 15 minutes, a loud bgm woke me up.

What did i learn from this film: voice over can be used explain what character is feeling, to give introduction, to explain a situation, but showing it is always effective and difficult than saying it.



This is not a film, it is a documentary with out interviews or video diaries.....its up to you to watch it or not watch it.

Saaham Swaasaga Saagipo.....watch it for Rahman..

For RAHMANIACS like me, this film's first half is like eating a full andhra meals with all the varieties served with extra love. ALL the five songs in the album comes in the first hour of this film. It is like Gowtham memon saying to me "You liked the first song, wait i will create a beautiful moment to serve you second song....here is the second song...njoyy"...the moments GOUTHAM MENON created to place these songs and the way he picturised them are so beautiful, every time the song started, there was a huge cheering in theater and all the rahmaniacs like me hummed the song.... listening RAHMAN's songs back to back in DOLBY ATMOS sound with great visuals is itself worth the ticket.....

Some people liked the second half, some did not like it...i liked it, overall it is a good film with some beautiful moments in first half and some thrilling moments in second half...

PREMAM TELUGU

DISCLAMIER: i have watched the original premam 'n' number of times, so this opinion is going to be a biased one.



Watching a remake after watching its original is like watching a girl in a new dress(makeup, hairstyle). Some times she looks better in her new dress, some times worst. With out any second thought i like this PREMAM in her old dress(malayalam) only....but this new dress looks ok to her..she is not ugly...

First half of Premam is really boring, here Naga Chaitanya's teenage character over emotes in every scene, but compared to the first half second half looks better. According to me the most important scene in premam is the one where the hero meets teacher character after her accident, here in this Telugu version they did not spoil the scene, they pictured it nicely. Another important scene in the film is teacher's dance scene...here in this version...shruthi hasan is the teacher, when she dances, it was like some one got possessed and dancing very hard(she dances with loose hair, all her hair flies while dancing giving you a feel of ladies dancing in front of temples).

Over all the film looks ok ok ok.....i cannot speak for the people who have not watched the original, but if you watched the original, i am 100% sure that you wont like this film....

P.S: During interval a guy sitting in front of us called his friend, and explaining his friend about the first half. It seems he watched the original premam, he did not like how they remade few scenes in first half, so he is explaining each and every scene and scolding the director for spoiling the scenes he liked, so original premam loverss....better dont watch this filmmmm....other who did not watch the original....please go and watch it.........