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Movie Review
Debut director Arun has selected a good story with a good script but fails to impress with narration. Though the subject - how greed for money can ruin one's life - is a good theme to deal with, the narration is too slow and many times lengthy keeping you guessing what the director wants to say. The story does not move an inch in many sequences. There is also a need to trim the movie by at least 15 minutes removing some absurd sequences. The director has failed to capture the drama in many sequences effectively.

The story has three heroes - Kabira (Srimurali), Bujji (Srikanth) and Shankara (Akul Balaji). All of them are after money for one reason or the other. The drama begins when Srikanth loots a bank and escapes in the taxi driven by Shankara. Before fleeing, two persons were killed by him in the shooting. Shankara comes to know of the money in the bag and tries to kill Bujji for the money to aid his mother's medical treatment. In the drama that follows, the money bag reaches Kabira who had just come out of the jail. He is in love with Maggie ( Rekha). He kills her and takes away the money bag from her. At last, Kabira, Bujji and Shankara come together and realize that money spoils peace of mind. Another drama breaks out here when Shankara tries to kill Bujji. The twist is that one of the two persons he had killed in the bank was Shankara's lover Milky (Aishwarya Nag). The rest is a drama.

While Akul Balaji's expressions are perfect, Srimurali and Srikanth have done justice to their roles. Aishwarya Nag is stunning with her glamorous looks, Shravya shows promise in acting. It's the debuant music director Vani Harikrishna who wins your heart with some excellent tunes. Cinematography by HK Dayananda is okay.

Rajendra Karanth has proved his talent in his very first movie with good script and narration. He has handled the comedy sequences very
well without giving any room of slackness. Though some dialogues seem to have a double meaning, there is no vulgarity in them. Perhaps,
Karanth could have done a better job of the climax which looks chaotic with too many characters.

The story highlights of how a blind director makes a Kannada movie without revealing his handicap. Manu ( Ramesh Aravind), a film director, is selected by producer Prabhu (Rangayana Raghu) to direct a movie called Kathriguppe. But he becomes blind as he could not face the tension of making the movie. Fearing that he would lose the job, he never reveals his blindness to anyone. He has his assistant Ranganni Ravishankar Gowda). There are excellent comedy sequences like Manu addressing the heroine looking somewhere, approving the shots without looking at the monitor, selecting costumes for the lead roles, etc. But one fine day everyone comes to know that he is blind. Though upset with the turn of events, producer Prabhu tries to cash in on his blindness by making announcement that a blind director is directing his movie. The story takes a curious turn when suddenly Manu regains his eye sight. But that does not help him as he had to act as the blind director so that the publicity he got for the movie is not lost. How does he do it? It is full of comedy sequences.

Full marks to Ramesh for his excellent performance as a blind director. Ravishankar Gowda is equally good in giving life to his
comic character. Harshika Poonacha has given a matured performance, perhaps the best in recent times. Camera by JG Krishna and music by Ramesh Ramanathan pass the muster.

Yash, the Rocking Star of Sandalwood, is back with Googly after Yogaraj Bhat's superhit movie Drama. He has joined hands with director Pawan Wadeyar of Govindaya Namaha fame, the factor which generates more expectations from audience on the project. Well, these things would pull the audience to the theatres in the first weekend but the success, as always, depends on the quality of the product. Now, without wasting time, I'm getting into the serious business - reviewing. Googly is a romantic comedy movie targeted mainly towards youths and Yash fans. The film has a good comedy scenes, lively story and good performances from the lead stars. But the drawback is, it appears like the movie caters to the specific age groups and people. Nonetheless, entertainment is guaranteed all through the movie. Hero is injured and he is admitted to hospital by a girl named Swathi (Kriti Kharbhanda), who is into tears looking at him, in Mangalore. Soon we are told that he is a business tycoon Sharath (Yash). But he needs blood, and she decides to donate her blood in order to save him. A flashback opens up with the heroine, a medical student, coming to Bangalore to participate in the World Economic Form. We are told that Yash doesn't like girls, but believes in love. However, he pretends as if he hates love. While the girls ignore him for the same, Swathi likes his strange behaviour and starts liking him. As expected, he too falls in love. Both of them delay to confess their love. However, the story takes a twist when the hero sees his leading lady talking to other person. This creates a difference and they part ways. The remaining part answers how they come together again.





Surprising Googlies Director Pavan Wadeyar has blended comedy with various commercial elements to churn out a good love story. More importantly, there are enough surprising googlies in the movie. He has written wonderful one-liners, which would definitely go well with youths.

 Full marks To Yash Full marks to Yash, who has come out with flying colours. His acting is simply brilliant and he wins the audience heart with his wonderful comedy timings. His dancing and fights add value to the project. Well, is he getting typecast? Well, let the audience decide it. His co-star Kriti Kharbanda tries her best to match him up.

Technical Not only the hero, but even audience will fall in love with her for her cute expressions and smiles. Her chemistry works well with Yash. Ananth Nag, as always, does justice to his role. Technically, the movie is good. Two songs of the movie are nice to hear and background score by Anoop Selin is praiseworthy.

Verdict: Verdict: Googly for those who are young at heart and who love this genre movies.

Movie Review
A good movie needs a good script and the director should be able to give life to the script with a lively narration. But director Saikrishna Kudla does not impress you either with the script or the
narration. Chella Pilli is a chaotic movie which neither conveys a message nor entertains you. Except for Vijaya Raghavendra, who has to some extent taken the responsibility of carrying the story forward with good performance, others look silly with their performance.

The story revolves around Hemanth (Vijaya Raghavendra) who busts a drug mafia. The situation is set when drug lord Anwar asks Pachhu to handover some drugs to a person. They hide the drug in a doll. But the doll goes missing. How does Hemanth bust the drug mafia? We also have a romantic track with Hemanth and Diya (Aishwarya Nag) falling in love with each other, which lacks seriousness. It would have been better if the movie was trimmed by half an hour.

Aishwarya Nag has done a good job with her expressions. Shobhraj looks like a joker in his roel as a police officer. Former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda appears in a scene where he opens a mall and gives a speech. Cinematography by PC Ravee is okay. Music by Mikku Kavil is not good enough to retain the tunes in memory.

The story has a princess falling in love with a music teacher, but is engaged to another boy against her wishes. She fights to get back her sweetheart but does she succeed in it? Though the story is very simple, director Roopa Iyer has given it an artistic touch in every sequence making the best use of heroine Shriya Saran's beauty and acting talent. Every scene is pleasing to the eyes.

The story revolves around Chandramathi (Shriya Saran), a princess, and Chandrahasa (Prem), a music teacher. The duo falls in love with each other. But the princess is engaged to Arya (Ganesh Venkataraman), settled in the US, against her wishes. She is not at all impressed by the US culture and tries to contact Chandrahasa to express her feelings. In another development, Chandrahasa promises his father that he would forget Chandramathi and allow her to marry Arya. But on the wedding day, the story takes a dramatic turn which ends on a happy note.

Full marks to Shriya Saran for her excellent portrayal of the princess. She impresses with her expression and dialogue delivery. Prem is superb as a music teacher and has given life to his character. Srinath shines as Shriya's father. Music by Gowtham Srivathsa is impressive. PKH Das has done an excellent work with his camera.

Movie Review
Director Preetham Gubbi, one of the talented directors in Sandalwood, could have done a better job of the romantic story with some lively sequences. He has also taken the risk by introducing a couple of new faces who have shown some promise. Though the director has prepared a good script, the narration is dull and boring.

The story is about three friends - Preetham (Likhith Shetty), Yogi (Krishna) and Umesh Shetty (Vinayak Joshi). Yogi and Umesh accompany Preetham to meet his girlfriend Maya ( Soniya Gowda) in Malaysia. But he is surprised to see her in the close company of another boy Paul Mathew, a local resident. Disappointed with Maya's attitude, Preetham decides to return to India. The director gives a twist to the story here with Preetham getting engaged to Milana (Milana Nagaraj). Milana too likes him but Preetham has his reservations for her. Meantime, Yogi and Umesh succeed in finding their partners in Radha (Kavya Shetty), a yoga teacher, and Liky, a Chinese salesgirl, respectively. While yoga teacher refuses to accompany Yogi to India, the Chinese salesgirl is found dead in an accident. But the director gives a happy ending to the story.

Among the heroes, only Vinayak Joshi impresses with excellent performance. Likhith Shetty and Krishna have a long way to go to prove as actors. While Milana Nagaraj excels with good expressions and dialogue delivery, Kavya Shetty and Soniya have given lively performances. It is HC Venu who has given life to the narration with his brilliant camera work. Shaan Rehman's music is okay.