What happens when you have given a hit like "Happy days" in your last outing? What happens when as a production house, you are making huge revenues by making movies like "Sivaji", "Ayan" ? What happens when you are the flag-bearer of the third generation of the biggest production houses in the state? - Expectations build up and with those expectations came AVM's "Leader". Leader was supposed to be Diwali but various non-filmy reasons led to its postponement
What added weight to the movie was its positive title and it releasing in the time of a political maelstorm adds to the gloss of the movie. A movie can sustain itself only when it has some story happening on a nice thread. Leader does that - atleast for me! With the insurgent demand for a separate state, it was hoped that "Leader" would have a few words on the issue. It veered clear of this issue and came out with a protagonist, who looked the perfect fit for the role
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It does not matter when you are coming from a filmy family, you are bound to have some expectations mounted on you. Ask Allu Arjun, whose first movie was hyped to the skies with the sole reason being, that it was the 100th movie of K.Raghavendra Rao. Now imagine what kind of hype this movie would have had as it came out from accomplished names. First of all, RaNa must be commended for picking a different script as his launch-pad. It was a double-edged sword, as if it would have been a flop, critics would be circling above him and if it was a hit, the same critics would praise him as the next Superstar. What mattered more to his family was that he was in safe hands
Coming to the movie it starts off with the death of CM and RaNa's entry scene in the movie could be as subdued as possible, which is surprising in Tollywood. Famous star-sons are meant to make their entries in style and pomp. RaNa all through the movie, underplays his part and comes off with his head held high
What added weight to the movie was its positive title and it releasing in the time of a political maelstorm adds to the gloss of the movie. A movie can sustain itself only when it has some story happening on a nice thread. Leader does that - atleast for me! With the insurgent demand for a separate state, it was hoped that "Leader" would have a few words on the issue. It veered clear of this issue and came out with a protagonist, who looked the perfect fit for the role
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It does not matter when you are coming from a filmy family, you are bound to have some expectations mounted on you. Ask Allu Arjun, whose first movie was hyped to the skies with the sole reason being, that it was the 100th movie of K.Raghavendra Rao. Now imagine what kind of hype this movie would have had as it came out from accomplished names. First of all, RaNa must be commended for picking a different script as his launch-pad. It was a double-edged sword, as if it would have been a flop, critics would be circling above him and if it was a hit, the same critics would praise him as the next Superstar. What mattered more to his family was that he was in safe hands
Coming to the movie it starts off with the death of CM and RaNa's entry scene in the movie could be as subdued as possible, which is surprising in Tollywood. Famous star-sons are meant to make their entries in style and pomp. RaNa all through the movie, underplays his part and comes off with his head held high
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