Talented director Mahi V Raghav made his debut in the industry with the film Paathashala. But it was horror comedy Aandho Brahma which brought him fame. Recently, he came up with his third directorial venture Yatra, which was based on the Padayatra of YS Rajashekhar Reddy.

Now, Mahi’s fourth film has been announced earlier this morning. Titled as Syndicate, it will be produced by one of the top production houses of Telugu film industry, PVP Cinemas. The production house has announced the news through their official Twitter handle. 

“Happy to announce our next project with director @MahiVraghav titled #SYNDICATE. An action-drama rolling soon… Stay tuned for more updates!#PVPCinema.” More details regarding this new project are expected to be announced soon.

Taapsee Pannu, whose latest film Anando Brahma turned out to be a successful outing for the actress, reveals an interesting thing about the film. Taapsee Pannu hasn’t charged a single penny for the film and has, instead, struck a deal with the producers in the profits of the film while the film was being made.

This risky step could have landed Taapsee in troubled water but the actress’ belief in the content of the film worked out, and the film went on to become a profit reaping project. When Taapsee heard the script and found that there was no scope for a leading hero in the film which is the major force for the films budget and feasibility, she decided that she did not want to burden the film with her remuneration as it can become difficult to market it.

Anando Brahma is not a women centric film, but an ensemble cast and yet Taapsee decided to not charge for the film and wait for the profits. And this gamble paid off, as the film opened to great reception and is earning some good collections at all centers. Taapsee also has a Bollywood release now, Judwaa 2, featuring alongside Varun Dhawan in the film.

Movie Name	Anando Brahma
Movie Cast	Taapsee Pannu,Vennela Kishore,Srinivas Reddy,Rajiv Kanakala
Director	Mahi V Raghav
Music Director	Krishna Kumar
Production Company	70 MM Entertainments
Release Date	August 18, 2017

Sentiment, a word that is overheard among the circles of film industry. After the humongous success of Anushka starrer Arundhathi, many movie came with the same formula. Some worked and some not. Prema Katha Chitram came with adding humor element to horror element which became a super success at box office and many innumerable films came in that genre in which some failed miserably at box office while some become super success. Latest addition to that list is Taapsee and Srinivasa reddy starrer Anando Brahma, which is a being directed by Mahi V Raghav, who earlier directed Paatashala, produced by Vijay Chilla, Shasi Devireddy. Let’s see how it works on us as it is releasing today.

Story

An NRI (Rajeev Kanakala) who is based in Malaysia decide to sell his ancestral property as his parents died. The real estate agent who is hired to sell this property creates a rumour that the house is haunted by ghosts as he thinks it fetches him good amount of commission from NRI. A bar waiter (Srinivasa Reddy) comes into a deal with that NRI that he would prove that rumour is false and make the easy way for selling the property after hearing it in his bar. The NRI agrees to that and bar waiter along with his three friends (Vennela Kishore, Tagubothu Ramesh and Shakalaka Shankar) takes up the mission. Did they complete their mission? What is Taapsee role in that? How they do it form the rest of the story.

Cast and performance
Taapsee is good in her role and she looked good on screen. She doesn’t get much to perform in this movie. Srinivasa Reddy is superb in his role and he made audience go crazy with his mannerisms and witty dialogues. He is definitely one of the backbone for this movie. Thagubothu Ramesh is good as usual in his routine drunkard role and he managed to impress and make audience laugh with his role. Shakalaka Shankar is nice and the way he imitates RGV and the way he performed in the scenes is superb. He is entertaining mostly. Vennela Kishore is humorous and he is good with his expressions. Rajeev Kanakala got a good role after a long time and he played it with so ease and conviction. All other actors are good to the extent of their roles.

Writing Department

Story of this Anando Brahma is good and simple. Screenplay is written good and it is nice in the second half. Dialogues are situational as well as witty.

Technical Departments
Songs composed by Krishna Kumar are good and he did a nice job in scoring background score and elevated some scenes. Cinematography by Anish Tarun Kumar is nice and he has shot some eye appealing visuals for this movie. Editing by Sravan Katikaneni is good and he did a fine job in maintaining a crispy cut. Art department handled by Rama Krishna and Monika did fine job. Production values are good.

Highlights
Srinivasa Reddy
Unique concept and screenplay
Hilarious second half

Minus
Slow first half

Verdict
Anando Brahma which impressed audience with its trailers and poster is now in theatres giving a superb hilarious and roller coaster ride to audience. This movie has good content which is lacking in many big budgeted movies. Directed Mahi V Raghav did a nice job in handling this movie. He do not waste any time and directly jumps into the story and the way he introduced the characters and their backstories are nice. After the introduction of all the characters in the first half, second half makes audience laugh continuously and all the actors on screen succeeded well in making that. Although makers released music album of the movie, there are no songs in the movie. To sum up, Anando Brahma is a promising film made with a very less budget.