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MANTRA MUSIC REVIEW

MANTRA is quite an enchanting title. But the moot point here is… Is it an enchanting music album for you to buy? So, read on to compare your taste to my taste…

MUSIC is by ANAND for all the tracks.

TRACK 1: MAHA MAHA
SINGERS: MADHUMITHA, NOEL, SEAN
LYRICS: BHUVANACHANDRA
RATING: 0

REVIEW:
I will start the review of this track called MAHA MAHA with the ORIGINAL CREDITS…

ALBUM: MONKEY BUSINESS
ARTISTS: BLACK EYED PEAS (One Of My Favourites)
TRACK: MY HUMPS
RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2005

You can even preview it on MP3.COM

This is a classic case of PLAGIARISM. But, these are unfortunately the ways of our Telugu Film Industry. We as audience are solely responsible for this. We take everything and anything with CHALTA HAI attitude. This song MAHA MAHA (MY HUMPS) is so poorly COPIED that it gives me jitters. Every BEAT, RHYTHM, NOTE, VOCALS, ORCHESTRATION, SYNTHESIZED LOOPS and even some LYRICS have been tried to match to the original. The only part that is well executed (COPIED) though was the rapping probably by SEAN. The credits of this album MANTRA on the inlay of the CD are like a PUZZLE… WHO-IS-WHO? I just guessed it was SEAN. Anyway, this track is already a HIT in Telugu. Why shouldn’t it? In any case, as of today, Telugu Music Industry is one of the most CORRUPTED and probably LEAST in QUALITY. Everyone from DEVI SRI PRASAD to MM KEERAVANI… from MANI SARMA to CHAKRI… from RAMANA GOGULA (GOLA GOLA) to MICKEY J MAYER (Notebook, Happy Days) have been copying time and again without any hindrance. So, I don’t blame this new comer ANAND entirely for this situation. But finally every crew member including the singer Madhumitha, who in her tryst to imitate the original vocals by FERGIE pronounces some words too garishly, need some serious beating on their HUMPS.

TRACK 2: OOHALLONA
SINGERS: SUCHITRA, NANI
LYRICS: ANAND
RATING: 0.25

REVIEW:
Please forgive me… But once again, I will start by giving the ORIGINAL CREDITS…

ALBUM: MINNALE(TAMIL), REHNA HAI TERE DIL MEIN (HINDI), CHELI(TELUGU)
MUSIC: HARRIS JAYRAJ
TRACK: ZARA ZARA in HINDI & MANOHARA in TELUGU

This track OOHALLONA starts identical to MANOHARA with light strings of the acoustic guitar. The sultry voice of Bombay Jayashree has been well mimicked by Suchitra. The lyrics by ANAND are really commendable. But a famous Musicologist RAJA has pointed out that the word MADHUKARA referred to the lover (HERO), in fact means BEGGING. But truly speaking I don’t mind a just a single mistake… but cannot bear when the whole CORE(SOUL) of the original song is being lifted. Though I gotta admit that this song is not a NOTE-NOTE copy from the original. It is more like a continuation of the original Manohara. Harris Jayaraj would have liked it as a sister song of Manohara in the same album. But after all said, this song is enjoyable.

TRACK 3: MANTRA THEME
MUSIC: ANAND
RATING: 1.5

REVIEW:
This track is the theme of the movie. And quite surprisingly it stands out with very much aplomb. It not only uses some Gothic chants of the old Christian churches… but blends them with some soothing, rhythmic beats to make it the best track of this album. Percussion is also well done and synthesized. Really hats off to even try some thing ORIGINAL and YET GREAT.

TRACK 4: RENA RENA
SINGERS: ANAND, NOEL
LYRICS: ANAND, NOEL
RATING: 0.5

REVIEW:
This track is not a COPY. That is quite an achievement. But, it is not a great track. Originality does not do wonders for ANAND here. He along with Noel tried to mimick ADNAN SAMI and JASSI GIFT to the extent that it is almost unpleasant to ears. Unnecessarily, overdone in the vocals… that takes away from the nice light Qawali-ish chorus. But it gets some points just for being original. Lyrics are nicely manipulated to give a fresh feeling although they are not.

TRACK 5: DOLE DIL DOLE
SINGERS: GEETHA MADHURI
LYRICS: NOEL
RATING: 0.5

REVIEW:
Geetha Madhuri does a great job to elevate this ordinary tune and routine orchestration to a level that it feels like a well composed song. She superbly improvised the song with some synthesized vocals here and there. Her voice is sultry and also matured at the same time. But the high pitches in this track are not well controlled on the table which seem garish at times. Anyway, this track too gets some points along with Rena Rena. Lyrics are passable.

TRACK 6: MAHA MAHA REMIX
SINGER: HARSHIKA
RATING: 0

REVIEW:
This track is just a finishing touch to the already plagiarized album. This remix version of the first track adds some more commercially available synthesized loops and with some more copied loops from various sources. Altogether a DUST-BIN material.

MY OVERALL RATING: 2.75/10

RATE THE MANTRA AUDIO

MY OPINION IS THAT THE TRAILER IS NOTHING SPECIAL IN TECHNICAL TERMS. But it was never technical value that makes a BLOCKBUSTER out of Bala Krishna’s movies.

Just by watching this trailer… I PREDICT THAT OKKA MAGADU WOULD SHATTER ALL RECORDS SET BY HIS EARLIER FILMS. THE REASON IS QUITE SIMPLE. YVS HAS ABUNDANT COMMERCIAL SENSE. THAT IS WELL PROJECTED IN THE TRAILER. THE FIERCE COMPARISON WITH A LION IS ENOUGH FOR BALA KRISHNAs FANS TO MAKE THIS MOVIE A BLOCKBUSTER. I REST MY CASE.

RATE THIS TRAILER

CALL CENTRE MOVIE STILLS

SHERINs PROFILE

ORIGINAL NAME: SHERIN SHRINGAR
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/05/1985
ZODIAC SIGN: TAURUS
PLACE OF BIRTH: BANGALORE
HEIGHT: 163 cms
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: DARK BROWN
EYE COLOR: BROWN
MOTHER TONGUE: TELUGU
LANGUAGES KNOWN: TELUGU, TAMIL, KANNADA, HINDI AND ENGLISH
EDUCATION: BALLET WINS COLLEGE, BANGALORE
PARENTS: FATHER-ALI; MOTHER-YASHODA
DEBUT MOVIE: THALLUVADHO ILAMAI (TAMIL), JUNIORS (TELUGU)
HOBBIES: COMPUTERS, SINGING, ACTING
AMBITION: TO BE THE BEST IN ANYTHING SHE DOES

FAVOURITE COLOURS: BLACK & WHITE
FAVOURITE ACTORS: RICHARD GERE, SHAHRUKH KHAN, VIKRAM, VIJAY
FAVOURITE ACTRESSES: CATHERINE ZETA JONES, KAJOL, SRIDEVI
FAVOURITE FILMS: SETHU, KAASI, TAMIZHAN, DEVDAS, MOONDRAM PIRAI
FAVOURITE DIRECTORS: MANI RATNAM, STEVEN SPIELBERG, SELVA RAGHAVAN, SANJAY LEELA BHANSALI
FAVOURITE SINGERS: KAVITHA KRISHNAMURTHY, SONU NIGAM
FAVOURITE FOOD: PANEER
FAVOURITE HANGOUT: CAFE COFFEE DAY
FAVOURITE SPORTS: CRICKET, SWIMMING
FAVOURITE AUTHOR: SIDNEY SHELDON
FAVOURITE CARTOON AS A KID: JOHNY BRAVO

When a celebrity does something wrong that should not have been done being role models to many of their fans, then the media could be right in exposing their wrong doings. But when it is just a matter of love, marriage and relationships, then it is something that could be kept as her own private affair. There is nothing wrong in covering the whole event of her marriage. But it is beyond crushing HUMAN VALUES when a reporter starts questioning her past life even before leaving the her marriage venue.

Well, AARTHI AGARWAL married UJWAL KUMAR at ARYA SAMAJ in Rani Gunj of Hyderabad in the presence of her immediate family. UJWAL KUMAR, a native of JHARKHAND, is said to be an employee of MORGAN STANLEY in USA. No one from the film fraternity were informed or invited to the wedding. But that is her very personal issue. So, it would not be appropriate for any media to make an issue out of nothing. Especially some overzealous TV channels have taken the MORALITY levels abysmally low that in general the morality and generally acceptable PRIVACY levels are coming down among the PUBLIC too. And that is a very sad thing to happen.

I sincerely wish a lot of HAPPINESS and LUCK in AARTHI AGARWALs life.

So when he completed 32 years in the film industry on November 22nd, Demi-God of Tamil Cinema RAJNI KANTH himself came all the way from Chennai and met his beloved friend Mohan Babu. They met on shooting location of Sree Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures latest film, starring VISHNU in the direction of P VASU at Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. Rajni Kanth greeted Mohan Babu, who informed the latter about the film’s development. Rajnikanth also interacted with the members of film unit, who expressed their joy that their meeting is a perfect example of true friendship for over three decades. He also blessed Vishnu on this occasion.

Mohan Babu made his debut with SWARGAM NARAKAM on November 22nd, 1975. Since then he has just risen through a plethora of characters ranging from Villain to Comedian to a Hero. His recent film is YAMADONGA. I can just wish that Legendary Actors like MOHAN BABU and CHIRANJEEVI make more MEANINGFUL and ENTERTAINING movies keeping their age in mind and abstaining from cheap CINE-POLITICS.

Meanwhile, to give you all an idea… Here is what I think… While Beauty Queens might become leading actresses, not all of them make it and just remain as ALSO-RANS. There are extraordinary exceptions such as AISHWARYA RAI and PRIYANKA CHOPRA. But Beauty Queens like LARA DUTTA, DIYA MIRZA and SUSHMITA SEN have remained just as ALSO-RANs. There are Beauty Queens like DIANA HAYDEN who are charming but not in a conventional way and clearly did not fit in the filmdom. And lastly, there are Beauty Queens like YUKTHA MUKHI who just FRIGHTENED us to death with her EYE-GLOBES. So, where does SINDHURA GADDE fit among them?

Beauty is a SUBJECTIVE matter and is very unique to everyone of us… So, I am not going to debate over that. But when it comes to the CINEMATOGRAPHY, the movie camera has its own mind… completely oblivious of the conventional STILL PHOTOGRAPHY. It is quite an easy task to hide the NOT-SO-GOOD looks of anyone of us through STILL PHOTOGRAPHY. I think you all know the reason why we approach a GOOD STILL PHOTOGRAPHER for taking our snaps meant for MATCH-MAKING.

So, here are some good STILL-PHOTOGRAPHS of SINDHURA GADDE:

Well, she looks BEAUTIFUL here… But if I were the CASTING DIRECTOR or DIRECTOR of the movie SANGAMAM, I would not cast her at all.

For the reason… check some more NON-STILL-PHOTOGRAPHS:

Now, what do you think? Is she gonna make it? Well, I think PRODUCERS are simply wasting their valuable time and money. As for RASOOL ELLORE, he is just lucky to have another chance of directing a movie. I think you all know that his earlier 2 movies OKARIKOKARU and BHAGEERATHA were FLOPS. He is an excellent CINEMATOGRAPHER. But he has to prove himself with a great movie and not just a half-baked opportunistic movies like SANGAMAM. Why am I even saying this even before the movie’s release? The reason is simple… He is clearly trying to make use of SINDHURAs BEAUTY QUEEN TAG and not making any sincere effort at film making. Lets wait and see if he proves himself…

As for SINDHURA GADDE, I PREDICT with my gut feeling that Sindhura won’t make it into the FILM DOM. She won’t frighten us like Yuktha Mukhi, but won’t even be an ALSO-RAN like Lara Dutta or Diya Mirza. She will end up like Diana Hayden… Charming but not made for Tinsel town… I am really happy that a Telugu girl is being considered, but is she worth it? I don’t think so. Telugu or Non-Telugu… one should be worthy enough to entertain us if they belong to the film industry. Only one thing can save her now and prove me wrong… she should be damn good an actress like NANDITA DAS or KONKANA SEN.

Finally, JUST 4 FUN…

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