"Rajneeti" Movie Review

"Rajneeti" is barely watchable with an intriguing plot of political rivalry between two families represented by lot of actors who saw better days. Before you realise that there's a lot of overdone plot, and needless deaths and over-simplified political undertones and utter lack of innovation in script and storytelling, you can find better pastime in trying to correlated all the characters in the cast with the who's who of Mahabharata. I could count nine characters. Prakash Jha delivers a below-par performance as there's nothing novel about the movie. Arjun Rampal is thoroughly convincing while Ranbir Kapoor comes up with another fine performance. Katrina Kaif  - much ado is more about her resemblance to madamji. But its not all that groundbreaking. There's neither "Neeti" nor "Rajneeti" about the movie but mindless violence at a numbingly slow pace.

"Vedam" Movie Review

"Vedam" is a rare treat by Director Krish which packages the gist of scriptures - human values that matter most amidst poverty and plenty through five characters who see life through five different perspectives. But all the five characters played by Nagayya (Textile weaver), Anushka (prostitute), Manoj (Rockband guitarist), Manoj Bajpai (Muslim who thinks he is treated like a terrorist) and Allu Arjun (Cable Raju who lives in slum but lives it up by lying about his lifestyle for a good cause - wooing his rich girl friend). All characterisations are done with lot of conviction and care and though the movie is lacking in entertainment, it is hard-hitting and touches your soul at times with humanity in each frame, without dialogues that sound didactic. Within 150 minutes, Krish makes his points succinctly well with enough justification in story, characters and their worlds which converge in a climax which is a bit violent. Allu Arjun outshines everybody but there are some good cameos by Posani Krishna Murali and Brahmanandam which stand out. Keeravani scores a lifetime high note in this movie with rich compositions and impressive background scores. Krish presents his movie with level-wise script and that itself is a great innovation for Telugu cinema. He also does great justice as a dialogue-writer and a screenplay-writer.He has endeavoured to give a rare delicacy to Telugu audience not used to having such storylines in commercial format. Its going to be talked about for a long time.