Jags Reviews

PANJAA
Panjaa is a stylish action entertainer, with good entertainment, action sequences, love story, comedy and more than anything Pawan's Performance, but story & flashback can be much more gripping.
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Story: Jay (Pawan Kalyan) becomes orphan, as some baddies kill his family. Jakie Shroff gives him gun & asks him to kill them, when he was in childhood. From then Jay forms the right hand for Jakie & becomes powerful in Mafia world. Tanikella Bharani is an important member of Jakie's group. One day, Jay meets Sarah Jane Dias, who comes to look after his GreenHouse, to look after the plants over there. Ali is Jay's friend, who looks after the Jay's GreenHouse till then. As days pass, Jay falls in love with Sarah, who stays away from his hometown, as she was instructed by her brother, SubbaRaju, as he frightens that she might be killed by a local goon, who was arrested by Police when Sarah files a case against him. Meanwhile, Anjali Lavania, a club dancer & part of Jakie's group, wants to marry Jay, who denies her & sees her only as friend. Adivi Sesh, who is son of Jakie, kills her as he want her, but she avoids him & stays in Jay's flat. This makes Jay kill Adivi Sesh. Atul Kulkarni is another gang leader who is against Jakie. Meanwhile Sarah leaves to her hometown. A series of murders/action episodes result in Jay to go to Sarah's hometown, which reminds of his childhood memories. There. Paparayudu (Brahmanandam) is a SI. A series of comedy scenes follow between Pawan & Brahmi. Bharani aplys double game between Jakie & Kulkarni for money. Jakie kidnaps Sarah to take revenge & Pawan saving her forms the climax, followed by title song.
Highlights:
- All action sequences, pictured stylishly
- Pawan-Brahmi comedy scenes
- All songs, especially Paparayudu song for Comedy
   & Pawan's mass dance movements
  and title song for Pawan stylish dance moves
- Pawan poses for photo
   beside Chiru's cut-out, in same manner
- Pawan mannerisms & style

Plus points:
- Pawan's entertaining performance [style + comedy   +  fights + dance + unique mannerisms
  + acting in love scenes] & new look
- Vishnuvardhan's stylish direction
- Females leads glamour
- Production values
- Visual grandeur
- Songs & background music

Minus points:
- Lag in many scenes & slow pace at times
- High expectations on movie
- Comparison with recent blockbuster of another hero
- Sleek storyline

Final Point & BoxOffice Verdict:
Pawan Kalyan, who has been through a series of flops in recent years scores a HIT with Panjaa, but not BLOCKBUSTER!!


For those who want to analyze how this moves fares when compared with other bug stars' recent movies [Dookudu (Mahesh), Oosaravelli (NTR) ] below is the hierarchy.
Oosaravelli < Panjaa < Dookudu [In-terms of collections, if the collections of Dookudu team are believed]

Rating: 3/5
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SOLO


SOLO -  SOlid LOve story: One time watch movie!
Solo is a movie depicting how a SOLO (Orphan) becomes no more a SOLO (gets family by marrying a girl having joint family)
With some SOlid LOve story, hilarious comedy in some scenes, sensible sentiment/dialogues towards end, SOLO turns to be just a decent movie. 
Looks wise Nara Rohit is superb, except that he can become a bit more slim. In acting he needs to improve his body language & ease of acting.
2nd half is a bit dragging & tight screenplay would have made the film much more entertaining.
Can watch it once without much expectations.
Rating: 3/5 

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Oh my friend
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Oh my friend: A youthful musical entertainer with predictable old story, in lines with Chiru's 'Idhari mitrulu', and some scenes which remind 'Nuvvekavali'. Good performances by lead roles, very good music/cinematography and sensible sentiment/climax well supported with Dil Raju production values & publicity make this movie a hit, in spite of missing novelty in script & slow paced second half.
Rating: 3/5
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Mogudu
Mogudu: Dramatic dud :(
Severe torture wit sentimental overdose n illogical silly scenes. Don't dare 2 watch d film. Expected atleast some entertaining scenes from KrishnaVamsi.
Except noteworthy cinematography in some scenes, skin show from leads roles [Tapsee, Shradda Das, GopiChand ;)], some meaningful dialogues and one stylish fight, everything is rubbish.
Rating: 2/5
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7th Sense

Story & Analysis:
After Gajini, Surya-Murugudas-Harris Jayraj combo’s much awaited movie has took a very interesting story-line. It starts with the historical backdrop of Boudhadharma, a south Asian & Indian who went to China and preached how to cure a deadly disease & taught Martial arts to people over there. The story-line switches over to scientific research over DNA in present and the concept of Hypnotism added in both past & current scenes.

 Plus points:
- First 20 minutes of movie
- Surya & Sruthi Hasan’s screen presence
- Excellent Cinematography

Minus points:
- Unnecessary/Senseless graphics in many scenes
- Lack of comedy/entertaining scenes
- Except a couple of songs, all songs & most of the background music is unimpressive/irritating/mistimed
- Many unrealistic scenes
- Hypnotism not shown in realistic way

 
Final point/Verdict:
‘7th Sense’ ends up to be SENSELESS movie, in spite of interesting historic story-line & some great Cinematography. Poor direction, unrealistic narration, weak entertainment, ineffective graphics/music become the spoilsport. ‘7th Sense’ again proves that bad narration of story kills the story itself, nullifying all positives in story & great work done by technical team.

Rating: 2.5/5
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Pilla Jamindar
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Oosaraville

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Dookudu
Superb comedy entertainer. Can watch once and enjoy it, in spite of weak script and slow screenplay in 2nd half 
Rating: 3.25/5
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Gambler
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 Kandireega

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Badrinath
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NenuNaaRakshashi
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Mr.Perfect

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Teen Maar
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Dongala Mutha