Apocryphal Stories !!!

At the audio function of Dammu, Rajamouli appreciated Boyapati Sreenu for sticking to the action/mass masala genre. In his words “I have drifted into movies involving graphics and Vinayak has dabbled with comedy. The only director, steadfast in his belief with action movies, is [Boyapati] Sreenu” An avid Telugu movie fan has become intelligent these days. He knows what to expect from a director based on his previous work. On that level, Boyapati Sreenu has managed to satiate the expectations of a lot of people. Not just the fans. If the movie doesn’t connect with the normal crowds, he can always hide behind the words “But, it was made for the fans” Fans: This word is bane for the industry. In the morning, before going out for the movie, I was chatting with a friend of mine and asked him, if he plans to watch the movie. He said ‘No’ and said it would be a torture to sit through the movie. Fair point, but a few weeks ago, when I said that a movie was bad, and it starred his ...

Robin Bist and Vineet Saxena. Do these names ring a bell? Yes, they were the pillars for Rajasthan in  the Ranji Trophy win, this year. Which teams do they represent in IPL? Vineet, doesn’t have a contract and Bist is listed to play for the Delhi Daredevils If this is the plight of players in a winning team, imagine that of the players from the plate league. One of the biggest advantages, while playing in IPL, is hobnobbing with the best players in the world. Citing the examples above, the players have been failed by the system, unless Robin Bist is learning the technique of switch hit and paddle scoop from Kevin Pietersen and Dilshan respectively. The established players can certainly teach the local players the technique, but the vision and the execution has to flow from that particular player’s brain. It is actually shocking to see a few esteemed heads taking the side of IPL ( not T20 internationals). From the other side, the grass doesn’t seem too green on the IPL side ...

There is a dialogue in the movie “Nuvve Nuvve”   where Tarun says that a father should expect the son to climb from the eleventh step, if the father himself has climbed ten steps. Sampath Nandi, the man who joined Posani Murali after Trivikram took the dialogue too seriously. He thinks Ram Charan will take off from where his father left the reins First things first, there is nothing in Ram Charan that points towards a secure superstar future. Part of the lure of a superstar is, salvaging a downright bad film to a decent film. Ram Charan fails to salvage the movie. Period. Credit to him, that he actually agreed to act in Racha. He must still be ruing the last 15 minutes of that movie ‘Orange’. It seems, he didn’t learn the lessons imparted to him by that movie. If the stories are to be believed, 3 crores were spent on the Bamboo fight sequence. From my side, I would put it down as an apocryphal story. If it is indeed true, there would be a reputation that would be precede Ram C...