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11:05 am - Blabber bites/Bytes :-)There is a lot that needs to be penned..err..typed...First and foremost...RGV ka AAG/Aggi...Man that was an awesome picture..It is certainly one of the best movies I have watched off late[;P]...It proves me correct again...Ramu is obsessed with self and he is headed into an oblivion...Sooner or later am gonna get out an ad for the obituary of a now extinct entity called RGV's creative mind...The movie, termed to be a homage to an yester years classic called Sholay stops no less than being a sacrilege commited in the name of reverence. The real culprits being RGV and the MD Amit Mohile...The loud and ear barring BGM is more for people with impaired hearing...You end up getting a head ache

I first fell in love with RGV's movies when I was about a 7-8 year KID. Shiva with all of its new wave techniques and an excellent screenplay and power packed performances from Nag and Raghuvaran coupled with breath taking cinematography of S.Gopala reddy had me going mad over one engineer from Vijayawada and his movies...Kshana Kshanam with its great plot and style of narration coupled with Keeravani's music made me a film buff...You migh not believe if I say, there was a time when all that I wanted to do is get into films. I attribute this to RGV partially...The movie Gayam where the two geniuses RGV and Mani worked together for the first time taught me a couple of things about the screenplay, motages and the effect a great BGM has...Never thought Jagapathi babu could emote and can give such an effective performance...Though many of his movies or rather scenes in many movies are heavily inspired by the God Father had something new to offer...Be it a spoof, be it a comedy or be it a gangster movie, every RGV film had something or the other to offer...All these films had some points in common...Technical brilliance, tight, rather interesting and immersing screenplay and a zeal to experiment...RGV was a humble being surrounded by a lots of talented people who had a common point binding them together..passion for the cinema...Then Cinema was the ultimate motive and no single person was greater than that....

But down the line, the movies started being a bit pretentious. Some loose talk and comparisions with KJo and yashraj started. Mockery, making pun and references to what not...focus shifted gradually...A honest attempt would still be there underneath...but more as a memory to a glorious past rather than being the soul of the film...The factory...Movies taken aside and the passion replaced by the PR strategies... He started feeling that the name RGV would sell the film and the basic elements and plot just took a backseat...RGV got obsessed with tecnicality to a point where he forgot the art of story telling. There were some parts in the movies that followed that remind us of Vintage RGV...The total hospital scene in Sarkar and the scenes that follow KK's death...The end of razaq etc...Sriram Raghavan, Anurag Kashyap, Shimit started moving out. This might have nothing to do...but now the factory is more of the RGV of PR..The RGV of Marketing. People started talking about the statements and interviews rather than movies...

RGV please comeback to Hyderabad...Just start a video library just like the good old days...Just do a simple introspection of the movies that came out of your stable...Take a break and strike back...We want the RGV that inspired kids like me to develop a strong liking for movies... I want not to be a spectator for a genius in downfall but be a spectator for some revival..just like the phoenix from the ashes... It just takes you a moment to agree that the content that is coming out of you is more crap and bulsshit... A moment more to bring out the movie maker in you...Bury the factory mentality...

Now that I have ranted a lot about the debacle called Aag...wait did I? Yes all that was put in there is exactly what AAG does not have...no power packed performaces...no plot...no BGM...no soul on the whole...A review of AAG you might ask...I would say only onething...Reviews are given for movies and not for a snapshot of the movie...the 2.5 hours of torture does throw a couple of moments with all the performances and stuff which still remind us of the talent that has gone wayward...In short to summarise...AAG is a production of the Vizag unit of the Factory...(Vizag has one of the biggest mental Asylums in AP)...

Enough of movies... Read this book Shantaram recently...Man that is a very good book...Much similar to Pappilon...but still better... Try laying hands on it bookophiles...you will not regret...Books...Movies...what next??

Music...The latest albums am hearing to are Happy days, Hello - premistara, Chandamama and Chirutha... Happy days from Shekar kammula and Micky J. Meyer has some really good music and micky shows that he is one of the hopes for the next gen Tollywood music...but it would be too soon to comment...All the three films he has composed the music are the youth films...His next venture should tell us how diversified is his tune bank... Chakri surprises me with his new album Hello-Premistara...this has some pretty good numbers... I would recommend this...KM Radhakrishnan has given some pretty good tunes to Krishna Vamsi's next venture Chandamama... Chirutha has some okay numbers..they would sink well after we watch the video...Some foot tapping numbers... Eagerly waiting for All the 4 movies... Am sure that Shekar is gonna rock for the fourth consecutive time... KV..Man all the best..We want to see you back in your prime with this movie...

Lots happening in life...Not all of that is clear...I am now at a junction from where I have several different ways to take...Am confused about the right path...Till the next time...Cheers,Suman...