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Banner: Satya Sai Arts

Casting: Sneha Ullal, Allari Naresh

Music: Vasant

Producer: KK Radha Mohan

Direction: Sitarama Raju

INTRO:

The ‘king of comedy’ is back to entertain one and all with his yet another memorable role. Undoubtedly, Allari Naresh is a producer’s actor and a minimum-guarantee hero, besides being a treat to viewers. Further, he is riding the success wave this year even as his last releases Aha Naa Pellanta and Seematapakaiearned good returns from the box-office. And then, he is pairing with sultry Sneha Ullal for the first time, who is famous for her skin show and sensuous romance.

PERFORMANCES:

Naresh leaves us groping for words to describe his hilarious act. He truly deserves the moniker – the ‘Gen-Y Rajendra Prasad’. Now running for touching the 40-mark as regards the number of films, the actor is synonymous with great comic timing and proven performance. This has markets expanding widely for him even in Kollywood. In Madathakaja, he puts up a great show with awesome dialogue delivery and is unmatchable. Sneha Ullal looks sizzling hot. A lookalike of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, she is known to woo the public and spreads out glamour like anything. However, she needs to improve on acting, essential ingredient to survive in the industry.

Subbaraju tried his hands at comedy this time and carried off his role with care. He does justice to the character. But then, I would want him to see as an angry man more than a comedian since he is tremendous portraying negative shades. Ahuti Prasad, Prakash Reddy, Chalapathi Rao and Jeeva did what they are told to. In all, everyone is passable.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:

Cinematography is decent to consider. Songs are shot unusually well and sound tuneful when pitched against Naresh’s others movies. Bangkok is captured with charisma. Vasant’s music sense needs to be applauded and the album can be rated the best after Seematapakai. Background score is agreeable. Story is not new though and imbibes confusion comedy like Kandireega and Dookudu. Guess it’s in vogue now. But then, screenplay does magic irrespective of the fact that it draws similarities with Naresh’s other works. Dialogues are a treat and big asset for the flick. Direction is expected yet handled decently.

PLUS-POINTS:

Naresh, Jayaprakash Reddy and Dharmavarapu’s comedy

Screenplay, Dialogues and Comic narration

Spoofs by Ali

MINUS-POINTS:

Routine story

Lack of logic

Few boring moments in first and second halves

Whole movie is like a spoof

Lengthy climax

ANALYSIS:

Every release of Allari Naresh guarantees the pre-requisite ingredients needed for a family to come down to theatres. They are all embraced by universal audiences and Madathakaja falls in the same category. He is clever enough to take up only those scripts that help him sustain his track record. Well, it’s true that he often shines in performance-oriented roles as well that fetch him awards. And this time, the actor depended on confusion comedy, which only brought victory to the makers. Given the budget of the flick, the theme goes well. Dialogues are a rage in this recent offering and a real plus-point too. Jayaprakash Reddy’s accent gave boost to the dialogues. His punches are added advantage. The other comedians are the other heroes along with Naresh.

VERDICT:

Allari Naresh’s films are meant to be watched without expecting logic and this is no exception. When all the sensibilities and logics are put aside, the funny conversations that the film owns make it a best pastime to pursue. The B and C centres are sure to go crazy for the actor. It certainly doesn’t disappoint you and in fact establishes Naresh as a safe hero for small time producers time and again. Have fun!

Madatha Kaja Movie Rating: 3/5

The much awaited movie ‘Dookudu’ has finally hit the screens and it appears that it is bouncing with a bang. Box office pundits are predicting that ‘Dookudu’ will turn out to be the biggest hit in terms of collections history of Tollywood. As such, the openings have shown thumping collections.

So far, the highest collections in this year have gone for ‘Mr Perfect’ followed by ‘Kandireega’ and then ‘100% Love’. Even ‘Badrinath’ to an extent made some collections. Going by the current trend, ‘Dookudu’ will beat all of them comfortably and runs ahead to beat all time industry hits Pokiri and Magadheera. Thanks to long vacations.

Among the upcoming straight films, the only competition ‘Dookudu’ has is in the form of ‘Oosaravelli’ and ‘Rajanna’. There is also ‘Srirama Rajyam’ but it will not fit into this genre of banging the box office. For now, the coast is clear till the next two weeks for ‘Dookudu’ and since the talk is positive, it has all potential to become the highest collection maker of the industry because of 80 percent of theatres were occupied by it.

Already the trade reports are coming from Guntur, Vizag, Nellore and Tirupathi that Magadheera record is going to be broken by Dookudu within first 3 days.

Coming to the figures, Magadheera made a gross of around Rs 4.5 Cr in USA and now ‘Dookudu’ is expected to make Rs 6.5 crore very comfortably.

At home, the first day collection itself was around Rs 7-8 Cr which is whopping and crossed the first day collection of ‘Magadheera’. Even though Oosaravelli gets hit talk, it can lift the advantage of vacations just for 4 days. But Dookudu is enjoying the advantage from release date Sep 23rd to Oct 10th.

Mahesh Babu’s potentiality is proved again.

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