CHIRUTHA MOVIE CREDITS:
CAST:
LEAD ACTOR (Ram Charan): 0.5
LEAD ACTRESS (Neha Sharma): 0.25
REST OF THE CAST (Ashish Vidyarthi, Prakash Raj, Ali, Dharmavarapu Subrahmaniam, Brahmanandam, M.S. Narayana, Surya, Pragathi, Sayaji Shinde, Venu Madhav, Tanikella Bharani, Daniel Balaji and others): 0
STUNTS (Vijayan): 0.25 (For the first fight in jail)
ART (Chinna): 0
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Shyam K. Naidu): 0.25
EDITING (M. R. Varma): 0
CHOREOGRAPHY (Raju Sundaram, Nobel): 0.25 (For the first song)
LYRICS (Sirivennela Sitaramsastry, Viswa, Bhaskar Bhatla, Kandikonda): 0.5
BACKGROUND MUSIC/SCORE (Mani Sharma): 0
MUSIC (Mani Sharma): 1
PRODUCER (C. Aswinidutt): 0.25 (For the premier show at Prasads)
BANNER: Vyjayanthi Movies
STORY/SCREENPLAY/DIALOGUES/DIRECTION (Puri Jagannath): 0/0/0/0
CBFC RATING: U/A
RELEASE DATE: 28, September, 2007
KALCHAs RATING: 3.25/10
PERFORMANCES:
RAM CHARAN: Well, Ram Charan is a revelation… He has Pluses and some Minuses. As for the pluses are considered… He is a great dancer like his father Chiranjeevi, he has an athletic body like Allu Arjun… He has the ease in his body language like Pawan kalyan. He is at his best when it comes to stunts… Ram Charan has a rhythm when it comes to dances and fights and it can only improve from here on… He has a deep Baritone in his voice that is very manly for his age… (Especially, when you consider Puri’s brother Sai Ram Shankar now-a-days, tortures us with his Unmanly voice…) Ram Charan is good looking from sideways…
Now a few minuses… He is not that great looking straight and up close. His jawline is too bulky… And when it comes to his performance, he is still camera shy… but that will fend off with experience and he really needs to work on his dialogue modulation. Great voices like his, need careful modulation…
So, as for my prediction… He would(should) develop his own mannerisms and style in the future… I have a gut feeling that he will be one of the Pillars of the Telugu film industry in the years to come. Like there were Chiranjeevi, Bala Krishna, Venkatesh and Nagarjuna in the past… Ram Charan, Mahesh Babu, NTR, Ram, Allu Arjun, Prabhas will stand as pillars for the Telugu film industry in the years to come…
NEHA SHARMA: The heroine Neha Sharma is an obvious scapegoat… if the film fails at the box-office. I’m not saying she has done a great job… but she hasn’t done a bad job either. She was given the role of a rich spoiled ultra modern girl and she has done enough justice to the role that Charan’s fans will hate her for insulting Charan in the movie (Which the character demands).
As for my prediction goes… I don’t think she has a bright future in Tollywood… because, although she is sexy and has an Oomph factor, she isn’t beautiful enough or homely looking girl to sustain in Tollywood in the long run… Because 90% of Tollywood heroine roles demand those qualities from a heroine…
OTHERS: Others??? Who…? There are ‘n’ number of forgettable roles to portray for others… In fact, though Ali’s transvestite role evokes some cheap humour, his character is one of the cheapest roles he has portrayed in his career… There are no other good or bad performances to even mention…
BACKGROUND MUSIC/SCORE: Mani Sharma has rendered very lackluster background score… There is no theme, richness, exhilaration or anything else that should be… In fact very cheaply he copies and extensively uses Rishi Rich’s track “My eyes on you” in the first half…
MUSIC: The only department from Chirutha that scores full marks is music. Mani Sharma has given the best possible tunes he could for this uninspiring movie…
CHOREOGRAPHY: Despite the tremendous potential of Ram Charan when it comes to dancing skills, the choreographers completely failed to bring the best out of him… as except for the first song none of the others are good enough…
STUNTS: Vijayan completely failed to deliver a memorable fight sequence except for an O.K. fight sequence in the jail… Ram Charan has an agile body and Vijayan could have made use of his agility to compose some memorable fight sequences… which he didn’t. Vijayan should really rent/buy Hollywood slick flicks Bourne series of films to learn how to compose man to man fight sequences…
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Shyam K. Naidu has done a shoddy job. Except for a couple of night shots in the island that the lead pair are trapped… nothing else is good enough… let alone breath taking.
EDITING: In general, editing is done to show us what the director of the movie shot but may fail to show the audience… As Puri Jagannath didn’t shoot anything good enough to show the audience… Varma remained jobless… So I don’t blame him.
PRODUCTION: Except for the Grand Premier of Chirutha that was organized in Prasads which is a first in Telugu film industry there is nothing else to show us the rich production values that were being publicized about…
STORY/SCREENPLAY/DIALOGUES/DIRECTION: The screenplay pattern and the story of Chirutha is so pathetic that it makes me sick again after Vijayadasami. Puri Jagannath churned out… what can at best be described as… “Copied, Pasted, Tore off the script, Pasted the pieces back in a haphazard manner and then finally forgot the story itself…” or “One pathetic scene, one song, one fight and the rhyme goes on…”
Well, if you are still interested in the story… “Hero’s father(Surya) witnesses a murder by Mattu Bhai(Ashish Vidyarthi)… and so, young hero(Puri Jagannath’s Real Son) is forced to witness his father’s murder and in the process his mother gets injured severely (There are ‘n’ number of Indian movies with the same flashback or opening… so no point in picking one…). Now, to save his mother he needs money for the surgery. So with some help from Tanikella Bharani’s character, the young lad owns up someone else’s crime and goes to Juvenile Prison (In Gangleader, Chiranjeevi owns someone else’s accident and goes to jail…). After he is bullied for some time by the inmates, the young hero fights for his rights (Again, ‘n’ number of Indian movies have these sequences…) by eating an egg from someone else’s mouth… literally (To the director’s credit, this is a first… in our films…).
The hero (Ram Charan) who should be longing to see his mother strangely settles scores with the inmates and extends his jail term every time he does that. And more strangely he is released out of jail along with his buddy (Venu Madhav) on the same day, same time… (Nice facility…) As soon as he is out he starts inquiring about his mother’s whereabouts. In the process gets to know she is resting in peace and before he cries over her grave to his heart’s content, the scene changes and he asks for work from Tanikella… And quite strangely despite being a baddie (revealed later… as if we didn’t know already), he offers a job in a travel agency in Bangkok (Quite a great job in a great city for a jail returned…).
Meanwhile, the hero and his buddy get almost hit by heroine’s car while she cleans the footpath mess with her car as a broomstick (Yeah! daily routine of the rich spoiled brats… in our movies since 1970s). Gotta tell you something here… as soon as the hero hits the window shield of the heroine’s car, he starts falling in love which can be understood as love at first sight… but the problem is that he never actually sees the heroine’s face as she instantly looks away in fear… (or did he fell in love with her hair or back…?). And then in another scene the heroine strangely never knowing her friend’s brother, comes and closes the hero’s eyes mistakenly… (must be a super fast girl… otherwise, who does that to an unknown person?). And now the strangest thing happens as our hero suddenly starts talking in well accented English… in fact through the rest of the movie and even gets the job as a guide in Bangkok (as if he knew Bangkok as his backyard… which is jail) for his English speaking skills (Must be an English medium jail…).
Very conveniently, heroine visits Bangkok with her friends and more conveniently lands in the same travel agency the hero is working in… Then starts the heroine’s brashness… and strangely she never recognizes him from the earlier meeting when she closes his eyes despite having seen him up close (must be medium term memory loss). The rest is straightly and blatantly copied from Kaho Naa Pyar Hai which in turn was copied from an English movie Blue Lagoon. During the climax fight, hero beats up many goons very easily in one of the worst composed fights… in the so called hunting by Chirutha Puli. And then very strangely and yuckily hides himself in the mud and plays a peek-a-boo with the villain who was much older than all the ones that he just beat up… (copied from Predator and which was completely uncalled for…)
Finally, I know every fan would hate me for this… but I recommend after watching the movie please get some pain killers on your way home… The headache is really unbearable… Once again i reiterate that it is Puri Jagannath that has ruined Ram Charan’s debut movie…
BEST DIALOGUE: When offered money in exchange of freedom, Young Charan says to the Police Officer - “Bhayam Vestundi…”
FUNNIEST DIALOGUE: Before the prolonged climax fight, Prakash Raj tells Ram Charan - “Velli Nee Pellanni Techchuko…”
WORST DIALOGUE: Prakash Raj in the process of warning his daughter - “KUTURU Kante KUKKANU Penchukovadam Melu.”
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