I saw STALIN....

Now..the right eye ball stares at you..."into " you, screaming through a knocked off glass window ...and the left one follows...and

He’s the one and the only one,
Stalin’s got the evil on the run,
Stalin, Stalin’s got the nerves of steel,
Mess with him and you will know the feel.
goes the background.....thats a tinge of chiranjeevi for you....(the only "spoiler" here)

I was home. Mentally relaxed and a trifle tired physically, then came the news from my sisters....saying that we're heading for Stalin. Fine. We went to PVR's at hyderabad central, sitting among the so called "civilized"(I don't understand the term...) crowd. The only thing which i regret sitting there, watching people around trying to suppress their hyper excitement one (read it as a typical telugu guy..) would always experience with a chiranjeevi film...


Okay coming to the point straight....no one watches chiru these days just for entertainment. Its more like the kind of message the star tries to put across, they see. So, in the message perspective it was a home run. The message was clear.straight.up-front.Even a layman could relate to it.Its again a stellar from the vintage...vintage chiru, really what amazes me is his usual leg shaking act with such ease and aplomb at 57.It has all the typical commercial elements to hook up the mass. It's a typical telugu flick, again no gravitation, no friction, as usual, 100's of guys disappearing into the air with a single push or a kick(i kno i was echoing the obvious). However, we're all familiar to these matrix stunts in every other film.

A significant thing one could notice through out the flick is, the clear intentions about political ambitions of the star through the d side kicks indirectly or directly hiself in some situations. So the signal is clear and strarght here too.

Music isn't appealing too....but it would scrape through (again a chiru flick).Coming to the other characters, there's nothing much of trisha as expected, just for the namesake and songs and glamour (they say so).And there are several other side kicks, always searching an excuse to elevate the lead throughout. The film ends on a conventional note, hero emerging undefeated. Over all, it's a watchable chirannjeevi film,very much, unless you check up with a critical eye.

Review of ANGELS AND DEMONS

Angels and demons… another slickly written fast and fleeting nerve wrenching thriller churned out by Dan Brown. I would discuss briefly about it without any “spoilers”. This is the first Robert Langdon’s (a Harvard University symbologist) thriller (the other one being “davinci code”) based on the speculations about the resurrection of an ancient brotherhood called ILLUMINATI which was extremely powerful back in the day.

Robert Langdon fears incredible horror with the murder of the scientist who has created the state of the art technology called “antimatter” and being imprinted on the chest with an ambigrammatic(a word which would look the same when reversed it 180 degrees) pattern of the word “Illuminati” at his personal chamber in Switzerland.

The whole of New York City could be lit up for a day with a magnitude of just a single drop of “antimatter”, or even could destroy everything about a kilometer radius with the same. When a vulnerable amount of “antimatter” is being stolen from a famous scientific laboratory in Switzerland, it then reinforces the speculation of the renaissance of the dangerous group Illuminati and about the fears of what they might do with the vicious technology.

From here on the Robert Langdon strides on with a beautiful lady to study and sweat out the details about the weird and peculiar symbols related to the murder and the disappearance of the technology which would burst out and destroy everything if not replaced back in the laboratory within 24 hours. Until what started in a cosy bed at his home heads off somewhere into the Vatican city of Rome.

I’ve enjoyed the book comprehensively from start to finish. I would say this is a very good prescription for someone who’s looking for a real racy page turner with substantial twists and turns and all the interesting facts and research elements which one would usually find in Dan brown’s thrillers.