Actor Srihari Died at Mumbai Lilavati Hospital

Srihari known for his powerful performances on Tollywood silver screen is no more. He passed away at Mumbai's Leelavathi Hospital. Srihari was suffering from liver problem for quite some time. Srihari was popular as Tollywood's real star and he with is dialogue delivery, different variations and modulations, death defying stunts spellbound all.

Born on 15 Aug, 1964, Srihari started his career as stunt master before undergoing transformation as villain, character artist and hero. Some of his popular films include Rajakumarudu, Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana’, ‘Brindavanam’, ‘Magadheera’, ‘Dhee’, ‘King’ etc. He also appeared as a hero in films like ‘Police’, ‘Ayodhya Ramayya’, ‘Balaram’ etc.

Srihari married actress Disco Shanti and he has two sons and a daughter. He started Akshara Foundation, in remembrance of his daughter who died at the age of just four months. Srihari's last film was Police Game. He won Nandi award for his performance in Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana.

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Toofan Movie Review

Rating: 1.5/5 stars

Star cast: Ram Charan, Priyanka Chopra, Srihari
Producer: Mahi's Entertainment, Director: Apoorva Lakhia

What Is Good: Ram Charan’s Performance, oomph factor of Priyanka Chopra and Mahie Gill

What Is Bad: Script, No Entertainment values, Music, BGM and failed to reach the tops of the original

Boring Scenes: Prakash Raj and Mahie Gill seducing conversation and Songs

Watch It or Not?: Thoo”fan” only for fans

Story

Vijay Khanna (Ram Charan Teja) is aggressive and honest police officer gets constantly transferred due to nervy ways of amending the hoodlums. In his 5 years of service Vijay gets 22 transfers record. He takes the charge in Mumbai and starts investigating a murder mystery of Collector. In this process of solving the murder case he meets up with Mala (Priyanka Chopra) main witness in murder case and Sherkhan (Srihari) an illegal dealer. As Mala refuses to help Vijay in this case Vijay assures her safety and shelter Mala. Impressed with Mala, Vijay unknowingly falls in love with her. As things going in-between Teja and Vijay, Vijay joins his hands with Sherkhan for his honesty. Rest of the film falls how Vijay take care of Oil Mafia and stop Rudhra Prathap Teja (Prakash Raj) for illegal business.

 StarPerformances

After watching epic performance of Superstar Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer, it hard it reimagine some other doing the same job. But must say Ram Charan has brought his acting experience and given an okay job. Actor should have worked on his wooden expressions in important scenes. Most of the other characters hardly hold any potential. Mahie Gill seems to exist for no reason. Priyanka Chopra is a NRI and acts so silly that she flirts explicitly with ACP Vijay in front of his subordinates. Prakash Raj continued his conventional villain-ism with Teja’s character. Tanikella Bharini is good in his role. Srihari failed to reach the mark of veteran Pran’s character in Zanjeer. It’s a director’s fault as he allots little screen space. Some characters take the screen for so long while some others don't even get the privilege of expressing their true nature and intentions.

Direction, Music & Technical Aspects

Apoorva Lakhia remaking Zanjeer keeping its essence was not an easy job, it was even tough job to select cast to impress an immortal performances. The story by Salim Javed appears to be very niggling. But thrilling narration could have made this story interesting is missing in this film. Apoorva has failed to engage audience, as there are many loop holes that left blank. Like, Priyanka was attacked only once even though she was the main witness for murder and she roams freely, Director failed to Justify Tanikella Bharini’s character ends it suddenly, Sherkhan never gets attacked even though he rejects Prakash Raj’s offer. A powerful characterization for main leads was missing in this film.

Analysis

There could be any number of reasons for sweeping this film off, and the slow paced manner in which the story unfolds, does play a major discouragement. Songs with the manner in which they have been integrated into the tale, simply should not be there. The Telugu lyrics don’t sync well with the Hindi tunes. There is the script too that is a depressant, and it has very few heart pumping moments. Especially the meow scenes between Mahie and Prakash Raj are horrible. The film is relatively short and has a running time of just more than two hours, and a further twenty minutes could easily be trimmed out, that could have made it much crisper. Director should have taken extra care on music of this film; even background score of the film is very loud. Cinematography by Gururaj R. Jois is middling. His action action episode shots are well framed. Vijay blasting a colony of Teja’s followers with Car reminds us of Badboys chase sequence. Production values of Mahi’s Entertainment, Flying Turtle are grand. On the whole, a sequence of garbled – doltishly funny - ho-hum - unnecessary scenes make Thoofan a movie you can blithely miss, certainly a harsh remark. But then, the movie doesn't show you any mercy.

Bottom Line : Thoo”Fan” only relief for fans!

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Aadi Shankara for Oscars?

Writer JK.Bharavi dared and took a bold step to buck the trend and came with devotional entertainer Adi Shankara, a biopic on great indian saint. The film which was released couple of weeks back is doing well with class viewers and analysts appreciating the performance of the stars.

If everything goes well the film will go to Oscar screening. Buzz is Tollywood Producers Council decided to recommend the film for oscar screening bouyed by the response the film is getting.

The film starred Kaushik Babu as Adi Shankara and many top stars like Nagarjuna, Mohan Babu,Srihari,Saikumar,Suman,Sriramachandra,KamaliniMukherjee,Meena,Roja,Kamna Jethmalani,Rohini,Tulasi,Tanikella Bharani and others. Chiranjeevi's voice over is the added advantage for the film.

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