Duvvada Jagannadham (DJ) - DD review

Duvvada Jagannadham (DJ)
Genre: Action, Romance
Language: Telugu

Right from the poster release, audience thought it is going to be another "Adhurs". After trailer release, people compared it with Arjun's Gentleman. Let's see what exactly is DJ.

Story: Duvvada Jagannadha Sastry owns Annapurna caterings-pure vegetarian from Vijayawada agraharam (Brahmin Hamlet). His another avatar DJ cleans up the society by killing all top most criminals, with the help of FIR writer(Murali Sharma). Sastry meets Puja (Pooja hegde) in his cousins (Vennela Kishore) marriage. He falls in love with her and reveals her love with her. Puja rejects his love as she belongs to affluent family - Home ministers (posani) daughter.  In the meanwhile, his uncle Chandramohan commits suicide as he is cheated by agro industries led by royyala Naidu (Rao Ramesh). How DJ faces Royyala Naidu and how he wins love of puja forms rest of the story.

Analysis: Age old story and dialogues made DJ routine fare. Weak script and routine direction made DJ, an ordinary product. All arjun as DJ did a great job but as Sastry, he looked very ordinary. NTR has set a high benchmark with Adhurs and Allu Arjun is not impressive because of recurring dialogues (Sabhya samajaniki em message isthav etc). Allu Arjun is a great dancer and 'Seeti maar' is a perfect example of his dance stamina. Saving grace of this movie is Pooja's glamour. She looked ravishing. She danced really well. She "performed" as if this is her last movie 😀. Some sleezy dialogues may not appeal to family audience but may fare well with B,C centers. Few dialogues of Rao Ramesh are good. Subbaraju character is funny. Songs are really bad except "gudilo badilo".

Surprisingly DJ has already collected 50 crores in first 3 days and inching towards 100 crores. DJ may not appeal to multiplexes audience but may fare at B,C centers.

My rating: 2.5/5

Strictly avoid it. You can watch it during Dasara in TV's.

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Ami Tumi - DD's review

Ami Tumi - DD's review:
Language: Telugu
Genre: Comedy

Indraganti Mohan Krishna is specialist in trying variety of things. Right from his first film, he tried different genres and got success for few films. He has his unique style of writing screenplay.You don't see either blockbusters from his writings or duds. Most of them are made with low budget and makes decent revenues for producers.. Ami Tumi is a film based on comedy of errors.

Story: Janardhan (Tanikella Bharani) is a business man from Hyderabad. He wishes to marry his daughter Deepika(Eesha Rebba) to a Visakhapatnam based business man's son "Sri Chilipi" (Vennela Kishore). Deepika aka Deepa is already in love with Ananth (Adavi Sesh). Janardhan's son Vijay (Avasarala Sreenivas) leaves house to convince his lover Maaya (Aditi) and marry her. Deepu leaves her house in the guise of her maid, Kumari (Syamala) and introduces herself to Sri Chilipi as Maaya and asks his help to marry Ananth. Mean while Sri Chilipi visits Janardhan's house, mistakes Kumari as Deepu and gets shocked by her aged personality. Comedy of errors begins. Maaya has some problems with her step mother and runs away from her house. How Ananth gets married to Deepu , Vijay to Maaya forms the rest......

Analysis: First 10 minutes of the movie is damn boring and actors overact to most extent. Once Vennela Kishore enters, movie becomes interesting with his funny dialogues and wits. Vennela Kishore is the real hero of the movie. He did his life time performance. Without Vennela Kishore, this film would have been a big dud. Tanikella Bharani is good in Parts. Eesha is real good actress. She deserves more films in Tollywood. Adavi Sesh has relatively small role for a hero. Avasarala just played a Cameo. Syamala is good sometimes and unbearable in few scenes. Maaya's parents are horrible and irritating whenever they appear on the screen. I don't understand why they have to overact in every frame. Director did good job in limiting songs to two. "Ayya baboyandi" is a good number but better can be expected from Mani Sharma.

++++++++++++++
Vennela Kishore

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Predictable story-line and screenplay.
Overaction of few actors.

My rating: 2.75/5

Last words: Vennela Kishore is the bahubali of this movie.

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Mummy (2017) - DD review

The Mummy (2017) - DD review

Language: English
Genre: Action, Myth

Mummy (1999) is funnier, exciting while this mummy is darker and disgusting. This is the first dark universe film from Universal. This flick lacks a novel plot, engaging screenplay and I don't see the necessity of Tom Cruise for Mummy franchise.

STORY: Egyptian princess, Ahmenat is denied the line of succession because of birth of a son to the second wife of his father. Irked by this, Ahmenat kills his father and a new born and sells her soul to God set, who gives her a dagger with a red stone, which can bring her physical form. Knowing this, her father's priests buries her alive and mummifies her.

In present-day, Nick morton(Tom Cruise) is a soldier of Fortune. He plunders ancient crypts and sells it to highest bidder. In one airstrike in Iraq, he and his friend, Vail accidentally discovers mummy of Ahmenat. Vail is possessed by the mummy and was shot by Nick. Nick is haunted by the mummy. Ahmenat's plan is to kill Nick with a dagger and get her physical form. Meanwhile Henry Jekyll(Russel Crowe), head of secret society to hunt supernatural forces, tries to use Nick to end Ahmenat. Rest is how Nick puts an end to Ahmenat?

CASTING/PERFORMANCES: Tom Cruise is more younger and fitter. His action is normal. I felt like watching Mission impossible: mission of mummy. The characterization of Brendan Fraser in Mummy (1999) is far more entertaining. Sofia beutella is better and scary in Kingsman. She is disgusting in this movie. Mummy army is zombified. They look disgusting than scary.

+++++++++++++
Tom Cruise to some extent.
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Age hold story.
Boring story telling.
Not so exciting action sequences.

My rating: 2/5 (only for Tom Cruise)

Final touch: Avoid it.

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Wonder Woman - DD's review

Wonder woman: DD's review

Language: English
Genre: Comic, action

One character which won the hearts of audience in the much hyped, biggest flop movie "Batman vs Superman" is Wonder Woman. And also trailer of wonder woman which released few months ago raised expectations. Wonder woman didn't let down the expectations of audience.

Diana, Amazon princess of Themyscira. raised among the women warriors of Amazon, who think their primary responsibility is to save the world from Ares, god of war. Her mother, Hippolyta doesn't like her to be a warrior but she is secretly trained by her aunt, Antiope, general of Amazon warriors. Things change when a British spy, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), chased by German army, crash lands in the ocean of all woman world, Themyscira. Diana comes to know world is inflicted with war, where millions of innocent lives are taken away. Diana aka wonder woman leaves with Steve to find Ares, kill him and save the world. How does she find Ares? Who is Ares?  These questions are answered on the big screen.

Gal Gadot (wonder woman) is ravishingly beautiful. The innocence of the character added more beauty. Her expressions and action sequences are really good. Chris pine acted well as companion to Wonder woman. They share good chemistry on screen. Villains are not powerful as in other super hero movies but the screenplay of the movie never lets you feel it. Humorous conversations added fun quotient throughout the movie...BG score is awesome.

++++++++++++

• Conversations between Wonder woman and Steve Trevor.
• Beach fight between Amazon army and German army.
• Wonder woman taking down Germany army to save a village.
• Sacrifice of Steve Trevor

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• Quick paced animations lacked clarity in few scenes.

If you haven't watched already, get your tickets.

My rating: 4/5

Last words: Best DC movie till date.

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