Starring: Vishal,Arya,Madhu Shalini,Janani Iyer,ambika and others
Director: Bala
Producer: Kalpathi S Aghoram
Banner: GK Film Corporation
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Rating : 2.5/5.0
Vaadu Veedu Story:
Movie begins with the trade mark scenes of Bala. Walter (Vishal) and is the step brother of Dhandala Swamy(Arya). The brothers have a celebration time in their village living life in their own way but don’t maintain good relationship on each other as they have more ego rifts. Walter aspires to become and actor while his brother Swamy wants to turn as a petty thief.
Both Walter and Swamy work near one Jamindar (G M Kumar), who is a rich and influential landlord in the village. He sacrifices all his wealth for the villagers and commands their respect in return. One day Jamindar gets snubbed by a forest ranger and he decides to take revenge on them. As Walter and Swamy are very close to him he takes the help. In order to take revenge on the forest ranger the brothers block the way of and attack him. In the meantime Police rush to the spot but both escape from the spot.
Swamy falls in love with Madhu Shalini while his brother Walter loves a lady constable (Janani).
Meanwhile, Jamindar comes across a man (RK) a cattle smuggler who smuggles aged cows (incapable of providing milk) and sells them to buyers in Kerala for the sake of consumption as beef. The cows are purchased in accordance to its weight and ensure that they get more money, the sellers force the aged cows to consume thick layers of mud mixed with water as it would look hefty.
On knowing this Jamindar informs this to the Blue Cross and police and gets him arrested. But RK comes back and tries to revenge on Jamindar. How he takes revenge on the Jamindar? Will Vishal and Arya are able to save their Jamindar?
Performances:
Vishal, who has done mostly mass entertainers proved his mettle with this distinct film Vaadu Veedu. He has given an outstanding performance in the role of Walter. Vishal as squinted eye boy and also a transgender has delivered his best as one can watch his effort in each & every scene of the movie. The film will surely be a land mark film in Vishal’s career.
Arya has done his best with his dialogues and the humor part done by the film is an added flavour to the movie. All his hard work shows up in the film and has given a tough competition to Vishal in terms of performance but his character is on par with Vishal’s role.
Actress Madhu Shalini as the love interest of Arya did her role well and she looked apt for the role. Janani Iyer the new comer did perfect justice to the role of innocent police constable.
R.K excelled in the role of baddie and he is the perfect fit to the role. G. M. Kumar evoked outstanding humor and he is the big plus for comedy scenes. Ambika and Jaya Prabha as mothers to Vishal and Arya respectively have done a great job. Suriya’s cameo is one of the highlight in the movie.
Technicalities:
The best part of the film is Bala’s direction which is terrific and outstandingly brilliant. He should be appreciated for characterization and appropriate casting. But unlike Bala’s earlier outings Vaadu Veedu lacks in story. Though the characterizations and their establishment in the film are outstanding, the film falls short due to its thin story line. However Bala’s creative orientation in visualizing shots engages the audiences to the screens.
Background score and re-recording by Yuvan Shankar Raja is terrific but the songs are okay. Vishal's intro BGM is Yuvan's treat to the masses. Screenplay is good most of the times. Dialogues are mediocre. Cinematography by Arthur A. Wilson is top-class while Editing could have been more compact. Screenplay is the main plus point of the film. Action sequences are true to reality and effective.
Analysis:
First half of the film is outstanding while the second half has some dragging moments with very slow pace. However the director got back his pace in the pre climax. The last 30 mins of the film is effective again.
Vaadu Veedu doesn’t stand on par with Bala’s earlier films (which were much appreciated) in terms of its story, but over all the film is packed with humorous scenes. Vaadu Veedu can be enjoyed as a time-pass entertainer; it gives you a different experience watching a different film.
Allu Arjun is continuing his hits in Kerala. His latest film Badrinath is doing well at box-office.As per the trade reports Badrinath has collected around Rs. 67 lakh in Kerala in just three days. This is on of the biggest collections to any dubbed film. The number is even bigger than some of the super hit Malayalam star’s film.
On the other hand two other straight Malayalam films released along with Badrinath, but the combined collections of both of these films in first three days is not even even half of Badrinath. The distribution and promotion cost of Badrinath is Rs 1.20 crore if the movie continues for next one more week with same collections, the movie reaches break even and can be considered as commercial hit.
In-spite of divide talk on first day of release, Badrinath has done good business at box-office. As per the trade reports Badrinath has collected around Rs 6.52 Crore in Andhra Pradesh and Rs75 Lakhs in Karnataka. This is highest grosser in Allu Arjun's career.
The movie has already collected around 15% of budget on first day. As per the trade reports the collections might increase on Saturday and Sunday, then falls drastically because of divide talk among audience.
Senior most producer and poet MS Reddy (also known as Mallemala) wrote his autobiography with the title ‘Idi Na Katha’. He didn’t use any filter in unleashing the experience he faced with Jr NTR in it.
In a chapter he said that Jr NTR is very arrogant and gives no respect for elders.
“I made first film with Jr NTR. That is ‘Ramayanam’ when he was a kid. But later I also thought to make first film with him as hero. But he did that on Usha Kiran banner. Even then I tried to make a film with him after that. He could come to my office after following up to listen to a story. As soon as we decided to start, Subbarami Reddy has come to meet me. I said that I will talk to him and come back in a few minutes. But when I returned, Jr NTR left the office. He did not respond when I called as well. When I enquired I came to know that he was hurt for making him wait. “Who is Reddy to make me wait”, was the line Jr NTR uttered when my people called him”, he wrote in his book.
After reading this a journalist asked him why he wrote about a popular hero so directly and is it not sounding one sided. As a reply to that he said on phone, “Jr NTR is a waste fellow. He feels like demigod. What ever he has seen that is maximum. He cannot see bright future in coming years. I can understand how he might have behaved with many other old people in the state, with the experience I had. The curse of older people those have faced trouble from him will not leave him. If you feel I wrote only my view one sided, why do you ask me again? You call Jr NTR and ask about this incident”.
Indeed, this is a new angle in Jr NTR never known to people. Don’t know why MS Reddy is firing him in this degree. The version of Jr NTR also must be listened in this case.
Right now MS Reddy’s autobiography ‘Idi Na Katha’ is rising many eye brows. Indeed, its not just about Jr NTR but he mentioned about many others as well.
Ram Charan Tej's new film Racha was launched on 12th June in Ramanaidu Studios.Racha will be directed by Sampath Nandi and producedby Super Good Movies banner.Tamannah is playing the
leading lady in the film.Several Tollywood celebrities attended the
launch event and conveyed their best wishes to the Racha team. Rachaa Movie Launch
Once again Chiru share few things regarding his upcoming 150th movie. He expressed this film shooting will start from February 2011 and will
be release in October 2011. And according to Film Nagar sources Anushka is the main lead, Priyamani or Vimalaraman do the second female lead.
VV Vinayak directing Chiranjeevi 150th film.
Ram Charan Tej is producer for this movie,and the title of the movie is Adhinayakudu.
