Proven Magnetic Presence
Forcefully Magnanimous Face Representing The World
Perfect Balance of Mass With Class
A Fitting Heir To The Akkineni Legacy
Director : Sudheer Varma
Producer : B. V. S. N. Prasad
Music Director : Sunny M.R.
Starring : Naga Chaitanya, Kriti Sanon
Story :-
Chandu(Naga Chaitanya) is a small time crook who cheats everyone and earns money for his sister’s education. One fine day, he accidentally comes across a bag full of cash which belongs to a dreaded gangster Manikyam (Posani) with whom he also shares a personal vendetta.
He steals the bag and uses the money for his personal problems. Twist in the tale arises when Manikyam kidnaps Chandu’s dad and sister and demands him to return the money. What will Chandu do now ? How will he lend back the huge amount to Manikyam ? and where does Kriti Sanon feature in all this set up ? That forms the rest of the story.
Plus Points :-
Twists and turns in the film have been executed quite well. Naga Chaitanya looks handsome and has improved a lot with his acting capabilities. He suits his role well and his chemistry with Kriti Sanon looks refreshing. The film has quite a lot of thrills which have been executed nicely. The chase scene in the climax looks cool and has been choreographed superbly.
Kriti Sanon looks gorgeous and has been used cleverly in the film. Brahmanandam is the major highlight during the last half an hour of the movie. His character elevates the film to a decent level and brings a lot of entertainment value. First half of the film moves quite breezily and has enough thrilling moments.
Posani is very good during the climax and so are his sidekicks. Production values of the film are pretty good and the way the story has been conceived is interesting. Ravi Babu is apt as a cunning police officer and brings a lot of depth to the film. Saptagiri is superb in his cameo.
Minus Points :-
This film has traces of Swamy Ra Ra and in many scenes and story set up reminds you of that film instantly. Second half gets bogged down completely until Brahmanandam makes an entry. Songs are yet another drawback of the film. None of the songs register in your mind and have been wasted in the film.
Interval bang is too simple and hurried up. Even though the thrills are good, they take too much of screen time. Certain logics are missing in the film and one can easily notice those defects. Dohchay has very less mass elements and might limit its reach mostly to A centers.
Story:
Following S.H.I.E.L.D's dissolution in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as a preemptive measure to counter a possible alien attack that happened in the past (The Avengers 2012), Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) creates a global peace initiative, which is an artificial intelligence Ultron (voiced by James Spader) that goes rogue. It decides to kill the Avengers, citing world peace. The superheroes soon discover that Ultron intends to wipe out mankind itself. Can the team save the world from the mess of their own creation?
Review:
Avengers: Age of Ultron is one heck of a superhero orgy as the mighty six - Iron Man (RDJ), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Capt America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) come face-to-face not only with the invincible Ultron, but various characters like Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). With these numerous characters put together, you can't wait for the 'party to begin' and Whedon rewards your anticipation, right from the beginning and maintains it till the end. Fangasm guaranteed.
AOU is no less than a spectacle (the opening scene in particular with the heroes in slowmo - midair as they pounce on their enemies) and you get exactly what you pay for. The unparalleled action is of epic proportions and makes the mammoth destruction shown in Man of Steel and the previous Avengers film pale in comparison.
However, unlike the previous film which was more massy, this densely plotted sequel may appeal to the geeks more. For those not acquainted with the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), getting the threads together of this layered film could be a task. So, brush up on your Marvel jargon before watching this one.
And finally the big question - Is AOU better than The Avengers (2012)? It is definitely bigger in scale and there's a romance brewing, but you miss Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his humour. If Avengers was a biryani, with all the flavours coming together seamlessly, AOU is a desi thaali, full of scrumptious dishes, but a tad in excess. It's spectacular, yet can leave you exhausted.
Imagine a situation when your electricity company says you have to purchase a Luxury Pack to use an air conditioner; you have to buy a Necessity Pack to use your refrigerator; you need to purchase a Comfort Pack to use your hair dryer or an electric trimmer.
And then they say,
"Hey, I would give you a 50% discount if you use Voltas air conditioners. But no discount if you use other brands."
How does that make you feel? Not good, right?
In a certain sense, internet is not a lot different from electricity.
Electricity companies are neutral.
They just charge us based on the number of units of electricity that we consume. We, as consumers, can use electricity the way we want to and we can buy products and favor brands that we love. It is our choice and ours alone.
So, what is Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality means exactly the same thing, but here it is about the data that we consume on the internet.
In broad terms, Net neutrality states that internet service providers (companies like Airtel, Vodafone etc.) should not discriminate the way I choose to use the internet or the brands I use to surf the internet:
For Example: I use an Airtel's post paid connection and I use the following applications...
WhatsApp: To message my friends and to never reply back :P
GMail: For my personal mail id :)
YouTube: To watch Roger Federer, over and over again.
But now if Airtel comes up and says...
"Hi, we have partnered with Hike messenger and by using Hike you can have unlimited data transfer. But we noticed that you are using WhatsApp and we have not partnered with them, so using it would result in data consumption."
and they say this too...
"Hi, YouTube will not work on your device because you haven't subscribed to the Videos Pack that we are offering.
This is in clear violation of net neutrality and Airtel (as an internet service provider) is forcing me to change the way I browse internet and also pulling me into brands which I may not really prefer.
Airtel tried doing something similar to this late last year (by charging for VoIP services like Skype, Viber etc) but TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) came into the picture and put this on hold around December 2014. You can read more about this in an external article here.
So, this was about net neutrality. What is Airtel Zero then?
[Edit: Flipkart has pulled out of Airtel Zero today. The answer was written yesterday. Please view the answer as such.]
This is basically a collaboration between Airtel and certain other companies (like Flipkart) in which the consumers (like you and me) do not have to pay for the data that they consume to use their applications (like Flipkart's app).
It is not clear as to what these other companies are, or how many of them are there, but from what it looks like, it seems Flipkart is one of them.
So, a few things would happen here:
1. An Airtel customer can browse Flipkart for free.
Flipkart would then pay a certain amount to Airtel based on the data consumed on a monthly basis.
Do notice one thing here. If you use Snapdeal or Amazon, you don't pay anything extra. But if you are using Flipkart, it is free for you.
So clearly, it seems like a benefit right.
But think again. It is not. If you love Snapdeal as a brand, you are forced to switch over.
2. An Airtel customer would have to pay for the data if they want to use a competitor's application.
Example: SnapDeal or Amazon.
You don't actually pay for it by cash, but in a way you do, because you can browse Flipkart for free, but you consume data while browsing other sites.
Why is this not good for us as consumers?
1. Forced to change brands: A lot of consumers might move to what is free rather that what they would love to use.
2. Forced to change our usage behavior: You may not be able to share a YouTube video with a friend, because he hasn't purchased the 'Videos Pack'.
3. Discourages competition: If I decide to start an e-commerce company to compete with the likes of Flipkart, I would literally get killed. I do not have the money to partner with telecom majors. And why would you download the app of my unknown e-commerce company when you can browse Flipkart for free?
4. Other companies would be forced to do the same:
Being a prominent player in the market, Airtel would set an example which other players would also have to follow.
I would be surprised if companies like Vodafone haven't already started to think about a competing service similar to Airtel Zero. So we might end up in a situation where SnapDeal would partner with Vodafone, Amazon would partner with Docomo and we, as consumers, would only get lost.
TRAI is seeking responses and your views on this. You can visit the following link to let your choice known: