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(For SI reader Guruji and other Movie-Lovers)

[U.S. readers: George Clooney's Up in the Air is now in limited release in NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and possibly at a theater near you too.]

Folks, just got out of Ritz 5 on Walnut St in Philadelphia after watching the absolutely delightful movie Up in the Air.

(Full review coming in a few hours after we get home. Hopefully the traffic on 95 won’t be that bad. See y’all soon.)

* Update *

After watching a surfeit of crappy Bollywood and Tollywood movies lately, Up in the Air (directed by Jason Reitman) amply redeems and completely restores our faith in movies as an art form.

Between the Bollywood Bachchas oops Bachchans’ Paa and George Clooney’s Up in the Air, it really was a no-brainer for us today.

Without a moment’s hesitation, we picked Clooney’s Up in the Air.

And boy what a right decision that turned out to be.

Unique Story
An unusual story with solid performances by George Clooney and his principal co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick makes the $6 we spent for the matinee show of Up in the Air a complete paisa vasool film.

George Clooney is Ryan Bingham, a Terminator.

Oh, no.

Not the Arnold Schwarzenegger kind but a Terminator of employees for corporations and bosses who lack the balls to break the bad news to their employees.

A corporate hit man. Continue reading »

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A sickening piece of unforgivable, unwatchable, unendurable, unfathomable shit.

And that’s the best we can say about this garbage a.k.a. Pravarakyudu.

Acme of Stupidity
What do you do in a South African jungle when a full-grown lion, mane and all and a fierce expression, heads toward you?

Well, if you are a pair of Telugu college teachers you embrace and start acting lovey-dovey in front of the lion.

Why in God’s name would you do that? Apparently, the King of the Forest is sensitive to romantics and leaves them alone.

So to keep the hungry lion at bay we have a song-dance Bangaram in which like a slut in heat, her legs spread wide in an inviting posture and a ridiculous costume around her waist, Priyamani goes through the motions of dancing.

Guess what?

Lion goes away. And so does our sanity.

God, how we wished the lion had made a hearty meal of both Jagapati Babu and that weirdo Priyamani.

But since it’s a Telugu movie after all, the rules of the game dictate that even the lions have to be stupid here. :(

By the way, what does our hero Sasi (Jagapati Babu) do in the meantime?

Oh, he does what he does best throughout the movie – act like a moron, often with silly-looking hats.

To believe that this 45-year-old clown is a college student is to believe that pigs can fly, Santa brings the presents on Christmas and virgins are waiting for the Muslim suicide-bombers.

Bottom line
Pravarakyudu is an incredibly fatuous love story of two college mates, who separate and ultimately come together after many years after making an ass of themselves and a monkey of the audience.

Such is the force of love of our hero Sasi (Jagapati Babu) that he leaves a job as Professor of Entomology at Harvard to come back as an ordinary lecturer of Zoology at the obscure Vardhaman College in Hyderabad to romance his old flame, now the ‘Lady Hitler’ principal Sailaja (Priyamani).

Architect of Nonsense
Just in case you are wondering who the possible architect of this vile trash is, it’s a fella called Madan.

This bozo claims credit for the Story, Screenplay, Dialog and Direction, all of it hopelessly bad.

Our guess is that this moron played the stupid lion too (yeah, the one that failed to finish off Jagapati Babu and Priyamani when it had a chance).

As if all of the above nonsense weren’t enough to drive you batty, you have that eternal irritating fixture of Telugu movies Brahmanandam playing amateur detective at the college.

Priyamani or Pee-a-Many
Besides the awful story, one of the biggest disappointments for us in Pravarakyudu was Priyamani. Continue reading »

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