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Jalsa Movie Rating: 4/5
Punchline: more comedy.Love/Action
Type: Straight
Banner: Geeta Arts

Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Ileana, Parvati Melton, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Prakash Raj, Mukesh Rishi, Sivaji, Brahmanandam, Ali, Sunil, Dharmavarapu

Music: Devi Srii Prasad
Cinematography: Guhan & Rasool Ellore
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Bhaskarabhatla & Ramajogaiah Sastri
Action: Vijay
Editing: Srikar Prasad
Dialogues - story -screenplay – direction: Trivikram
Producer: Allu Arvind
Release date: 2 April 2008

Review

Story

Sanjay Sahu (Pawan Kalyan) is a happy-go-lucky type youth. Bhagyamati (Ileana) falls in love with him and Sanjay accepts her proposal after waiting for a while. Meanwhile, the men of Damodara Reddy (Mukesh Rishi) -a factionist operating from a jail - keep hunting for Sanjay Sahu. The rest of the story is all about why Damodar Reddy is after Sanjay and how Sanjay reacts to it.

Artists Performance

Pawan Kalyan: Pavan Kalyan is extremely energetic as Sanjay Sahu. He did fresh dialogue modulation to create good humor. Everybody had a doubt about Pawan Kalyan performing to the Trivikram's punches and I must say that Pawan Kalyan excelled in getting the Trivikram dialogues right. He did not mind uttering satire on his 'pulla kallu'. He also did fights really well. Pawan Kalyan is looking dashing in Che Guevera get-up during his naxalite days.

Mahesh Babu: Mahesh Babu should be commended for giving voiceover to the narration of the film. It is a very good gesture by Mahesh Babu and this kind of culture augurs well for the Telugu film industry. Mahesh Babu did it in his usual style with an undercurrent wit.

Heroines: Ileana did the role of confused and dumb girl. She is alright. It is a passive role for such a vivacious actress like Ileana. Parvati Melton is sexy to the extent that she dominated Ileana in all the scenes where they were together. Kamalinee Mukherjee did a cameo and she is good. Actor Sivaji did a small role.

Others: Brahmanandam will have you in splits again in the second half of this film for some time. Mukesh Rishi is very good as a villain with a different get-up. Prakash Raj is ok as the father of the heroine. Sunil is nice. Ali and Dharmavarapu are adequate.

Technical Departments:

Story - screenplay - direction: The basic storyline of the film is wafer-thin. It is a love story of a reformed naxalite who is forced to confront a bad man. Trivikram excelled in dialogue department and penned many episodes catering to comedy segment. But as a script writer, he failed to do justice to the texture of the film. The film is pretty neat in terms of the comedy department. But he could not fix the narrative into any one particular genre. The screenplay should have been better. The director who made hero reveal about his downtrodden past and social commitment through the dialogues before interval could not match it with the characterization of hero in the second half. Trivikram did very good in technical aspects in terms of sets, camera angle etc.

The following scenes are pretty impressive:

1. Pawan Kalyan antics while meeting Prakash Raj with proposal for twice.
2. Pawan Kalyan splitting milk with Brahmanandam
3. Pawan Kalyan giving 10 rupees note to Brahmanandam. (best comedy thread in the entire film)

The following scenes seem to have got inspired by some other films

1. Mukesh Rishi calling off hero assassination at the last minute (Bill calling Elle Driver back when she is about to inject poison in the body of Uma Thurman)
2. Pawan Kalyan – Prakash Raj jungle episode (Noman's land and Kabul Express)
3. Sivaji's food allergy (Hitch film)

Other departments: Dialogues are superb. Music by Devi Sri Prasad is very good. Background score is also nice. All the songs are picturized in an attractive manner. However, Jennifer Lopez song appears to have been inserted just for the sake of Parvati Melton. Jalsa title song is placed during the climax of the film instead of the beginning. Cinematography is very good. Editing is cool. Fights are composed well. Production values of the film are extravagant.


Analysis: First half of the film is packed with nice entertainment though there is no story. The second half should have been better. The plus points of the film are Pawan Kalyan, hilarious dialogues and rich technical values. The negative points are screenplay, naxalite element and excessive runtime. There is no justification to the title 'Jalsa'. On a whole, you may consider watching Jalsa for the comedy episodes in the film.

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Will Jalsa beat Pokiri!

Lo and behold, Jalsa is very clearly spicing up the filmy atmosphere. If the film meets the huge hype created, then surely the producers of Jalsa will laugh all thier way to the bank. The question that arises now is, how much will the film garner, will it be bigger than Pokiri? Will Jalsa surge ahead pushing back Pokiri's collections?

The film will be hitting screens on April 2nd. The craze and hungama is mounting with each passing day. Newspapers are carrying special pullouts and news channels are beaming programs. Trade pundits predict now that if the film gets talk in the range of 'above average' to 'hit', Jalsa will redefine the Telugu film's potentiality. Some further add that if there is any film that has potential to beat the record set by Mahesh Babu's Pokiri that collected more than Rs 50 Crores, it ought to be this extravagant Jalsa.

Pawan has not had any hits of late. His last hit film was Khushi. But Pawan's films never ran on loss, his so-called dud collected between Rs 15 to 20 crore. "If a flop film collects such revenues, imagine if Jalsa gets hit talk what would be its range. I am sure it will beat Pokiri's records," said Srinivas, a fan.

It remains to be seen whether it would cross the collections of Pokiri that made the entire nation sit up and notice our Telugu Cinema potentiality.

Interestingly, Mahesh Babu too has a role in this film as he lent voiceover to the movie. So in a way he will be sharing the credit too, if it breaks the records. Lets hope Jalsa breaks the records and also Pawan's jinx.

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Will Jalsa beat Pokiri!

Lo and behold, Jalsa is very clearly spicing up the filmy atmosphere. If the film meets the huge hype created, then surely the producers of Jalsa will laugh all thier way to the bank. The question that arises now is, how much will the film garner, will it be bigger than Pokiri? Will Jalsa surge ahead pushing back Pokiri's collections?

The film will be hitting screens on April 2nd. The craze and hungama is mounting with each passing day. Newspapers are carrying special pullouts and news channels are beaming programs. Trade pundits predict now that if the film gets talk in the range of 'above average' to 'hit', Jalsa will redefine the Telugu film's potentiality. Some further add that if there is any film that has potential to beat the record set by Mahesh Babu's Pokiri that collected more than Rs 50 Crores, it ought to be this extravagant Jalsa.

Pawan has not had any hits of late. His last hit film was Khushi. But Pawan's films never ran on loss, his so-called dud collected between Rs 15 to 20 crore. "If a flop film collects such revenues, imagine if Jalsa gets hit talk what would be its range. I am sure it will beat Pokiri's records," said Srinivas, a fan.

It remains to be seen whether it would cross the collections of Pokiri that made the entire nation sit up and notice our Telugu Cinema potentiality.

Interestingly, Mahesh Babu too has a role in this film as he lent voiceover to the movie. So in a way he will be sharing the credit too, if it breaks the records. Lets hope Jalsa breaks the records and also Pawan's jinx.

Read More

Will Jalsa beat Pokiri!

Lo and behold, Jalsa is very clearly spicing up the filmy atmosphere. If the film meets the huge hype created, then surely the producers of Jalsa will laugh all thier way to the bank. The question that arises now is, how much will the film garner, will it be bigger than Pokiri? Will Jalsa surge ahead pushing back Pokiri's collections?

The film will be hitting screens on April 2nd. The craze and hungama is mounting with each passing day. Newspapers are carrying special pullouts and news channels are beaming programs. Trade pundits predict now that if the film gets talk in the range of 'above average' to 'hit', Jalsa will redefine the Telugu film's potentiality. Some further add that if there is any film that has potential to beat the record set by Mahesh Babu's Pokiri that collected more than Rs 50 Crores, it ought to be this extravagant Jalsa.

Pawan has not had any hits of late. His last hit film was Khushi. But Pawan's films never ran on loss, his so-called dud collected between Rs 15 to 20 crore. "If a flop film collects such revenues, imagine if Jalsa gets hit talk what would be its range. I am sure it will beat Pokiri's records," said Srinivas, a fan.

It remains to be seen whether it would cross the collections of Pokiri that made the entire nation sit up and notice our Telugu Cinema potentiality.

Interestingly, Mahesh Babu too has a role in this film as he lent voiceover to the movie. So in a way he will be sharing the credit too, if it breaks the records. Lets hope Jalsa breaks the records and also Pawan's jinx.

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Jalsa advance booking hungama all over state

Vijayawada: It is increasingly becoming tough for the leaders particularly from the ruling Congress to 'contain' the fans of matinee idol Chiranjeevi ever since reports on his likely entry into the politics hit the headlines.

In a fresh bid to keep Chiranjeevi fans cheering, the Congress leaders are vying with each other to take lease of the theaters where the Pavan Kalyan-starrer 'Jalsa' would be released. "It is a new trend. Earlier, they used to take tickets in large scale for a show or two. But blocking the entire theatre for a week is surprising," admitted an exhibitor Venkateswara Rao.

Vijayawada east legislator Vangaveeti Radhakrisha reportedly blocked the tickets in Sailaja theatre completely for one week and Kankipadu legislator Devineni Nehru is also said to be negotiating with the exhibitors. Sources said Nehru's son is leading a fan club of Chiranjeevi with a support base of a few hundred youth in the city. Interestingly, the pressure on the TDP leaders is also mounting. "The youth are demanding that they should get some tickets at any cost. With theatres are blocked by ruling party leaders, it might be difficult for us to get some tickets. So, we too might have to block a theatre or two," admitted a TDP leader.

The film produced by Allu Aravind is scheduled to be released on April 2 in about 15 theatres in the city. Interestingly, the fight in Guntur, appears to be more with almost all the leaders entering into agreements with the producer straightaway.

According to sources, Allu Aravind, who himself manages Krishnamahal theatre, has leased out it to an enthusiastic industrialist Tulasi Ramachandra Prabhu. Prabhu's son is aspiring to jump into politics once Chiranjevvi launches the party. "He is said to have paid Rs 7 lakh to the producer to block tickets for all shows for one week," a Chiranjeevi fan said. Guntur II legislator T Venkata Rao booked Naaz theatre for the first week, while Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao's family took another theatre Hariharamahal into their fold with a sole aim of keep the Chiranjeevi fans happy.

Mayor Kanna Nagaraju, entered the fray in the final moments and has started negotiating with the distributors of the Swamy theatre. "It is a clever ploy by the producer to encash his brother-in-law's craze to make his investment safe," observed a former censor board member. Normally, the producers would not interfere once the rights of distribution had been sold out. However, in the case of 'Jalsa', Aravind is reportedly directly dealing with the leaders even after giving away the rights.

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