Don Seenu Review

After watching KICK nearly a week back i was eager to watch his movie after i came to know that it was being produced by the same producer. Nearly 6 days back on msnindia website got to see the first images of the movie. Today morning while passing by the theatre realised that the movie got released. So the movie freak always thirst and never sleeping devil inside me woke up. I went to office but it was back of my mind that i must watch the movie today. I left office at 6:30 PM and went directly to hall to buy a ticket saw the long queue and lost any hope of getting a ticket. I decided to go back to room check out online if i could get a ticket but what a fate i have power went off. I quickly changed and rushed back to the theatre and i was luck got the First Call ticket.

Now about the movie. DON Seenu.. Someone said whats there in the name. But this movie is all about name and the name is in the title itself its DON.
Let me start by telling about the our hero. Ravi Teja plays the role of Don Seenu. Long back in 2006 a movie in Tamil was made in which Suriya played the role of a fan of Thalaivar Super Star Rajnikant. And for the first time in Tollywood we have a character who imitates and try to live the life of a famous actor on screen. When Ravi Teja's IDIOT got released i always felt he imitated Big B a lot. His dialogues, his body language, his style resembled a lot with Big B. Don Seenu is just the true reflect of the same. In this movie Ravi Teja is a big fan of Big B and in the first shot we can see the kid watching 1978 DON movie. He get tattooed his name DON SEENU on his arm like "Meera Baap Chor hai" style. These small trivial things send you on a laughter ride all through out the movie. In few instances Don Seenu blabbers the lines of Big B's hit movie but he doesn't understand the dialogue meaning but he still uses them. Ravi Teja has once again delivered an action packed mass masala movie. He truly did what he is best at acting for the crowd. I had tough time to catch up dialogues because the crowd was a pakka mass crowd whistling every time Ravi Teja is on screen and the sound quality in the theatre was pathetic.

About the heroine Shriya. Frankly speaking i was disappointed. After giving some good performances in Santosham and Tagore she vanished from the Tollywood industry for five years. And this movie was her comeback movie. In my opinion she looked pathetic. In all the scenes she had too much make-up and her idea of wearing skimpy to appeal the crowd was the most useless trick. Her role in the movie doesn't worth mentioning much. Over all i will rate her character as 1.5 or 2 on a scale of 10.

Now coming to the other roles. You have a whole set of comedians starting from Ali to Brahmananda the whole gang of Kick movie are present in this movie also. They keep entertaining you without making you feel that you are off the track. You also have few other role played by SriHari, Manoj Manjrekar, Sayaji Shinde and Katuri ( the lady of Annamayya) makes a comeback.

Music was bad nothing much to hum after watching the movie. But the background score was nice imitating some of the Old Big B movie songs and james bond background. It was entertaining.

Finally i will say watch this movie if you want to have a good nice laugh and if you want to see how it would be if someone start imitate big actors on screen. And a must watch movie if you a fan of Ravi Teja an his full blown one man show kind of movie. In every frame and scene you will find on Don Seenu and the story behind Don Seenu making.

Have fun.. Enjoy and i am sure you will have a nice good time...

DON DON DON...

Tere Bin Laden

It has been more than 10 days since i have watched a movie in the theatre. After Inception & Maryadaramma i got stuck at work closing the reports and sitting late nights to prepare them didnt get time to watch movies. Today i some how decided to catch up with a movie but i was in a dilemma which movie either Once Upon a time in Mumbaaai or Tere bin Laden. I checked in the net and realised there was a show of Tere Bin Laden at 8:05 PM and if i dont go today than wont be able to see it in theatre as by Friday the movie will be showning in morning only. So i left office at 7:20 PM. I started my bike drove at a speed of 70 km/hr took the route of via Old airport road-Yemalur-Bellandur-HSR Layout. My bike start crying once again because of my rash driving. After waiting at the signals and cutting through traffice I reached my garage size room at 7:55 PM dropped my bag, took bike documents and rushed to the PVR Cinemas. I reached the ticket booking counter at 8:10 PM and rushed to Audi 2. The movie has started and i was late by 10 mins. In 5 mins i realised i didnt miss much, also realised that the choice of the movie was perfect.

There are mainly two kind of movies one where you have good songs or cast or big budget or big promotions. The second category of movies are one where you have a new cast, low budget or less promotion but a based on fresh new idea. This movie Tere Bin Laden falls under the second category. I just loved the idea of this movie. These kind of movies are Off Beat movies. They are rare and come only once in a while.

The movie is sent in the background of Pakistan. The whole story of the movie revolves around a young man (Ali) who is working as a reporter for a very small channel. Like every young person he too has dreams and his dream is to go to USA but has tough luck always. One day he goes to a village to report the news of Rooster Cocking competition. There he comes across Bin Laden. He believes that he has unearthened secret and will be getting $25 million. He goes back to the Laden's village just to confirm if he is the real Laden or not soon realises his name Laden's real name is Noora and he grows hen and sell eggs in the village. This Laden doesn't speak Arabic and is scared like a rat. From here the funny part of the movie begin and take us on a laughter ride. This movie is nice leg pulling ritual of US attack on Afghan and Osama hunt.

I dont want to spill out the whole story in this blog and ruine the fun of the movie. I will recommed you to watch this movie. These kind of movie are more worth watching than the crappy big budget movies like Raavan. Watch this movie only if you have a good knowledge of Hindi else you will miss the fun. The whole fun in the movie lies in the dialogues and the way Noora and Ali speak. The cast in the movie also has the girl Sugandha Garg of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na fame as Zoya the make up artist. Let me end this my telling you the moral of the story Short Cuts in life can never fetch you positive results. In the end our Laden marry his lady Zoya. The role of Noora played by Pradhuman Singh i guess can be nice start to a bright carrer for this young if he continues to act in these kind of.

World wouldn't have been the same without the real Laden or fake Laden

Do watch this movie.. I liked it you and sure you will also like it..