Superstar Mahesh Babu is currently busy with the shoot of his next, Sarileru Neekevvaru. Directed by Anil Ravipudi, the first schedule of this movie is currently underway in Kashmir. A few army sequences are being canned on Mahesh, Rajendra Prasad, and Murali Sharma. It is already known that Mahesh will be seen as Army Major Ajay Krishna in the film.

From the past few days, it is being reported that Mahesh will be seen in two different looks in the film. In his last film Maharshi, Mahesh was seen in three different looks. But we hear that he will be maintaining a single look in this film and will only change his getups throughout the proceedings.

Sarileru Neekavvaru features Rashmika Mandanna as the female lead. Lady Amitabh Vijayashanti is making a comeback after a long time, with this film. It is being bankrolled jointly by Mahesh Babu, Dil Raju, and Anil Sunkara. It is slated to release during Sankranthi 2020.

Remaking a movie from another language is a common trend in every film industry even in this era of OTT ruling the roost. Producers are in a hunt of such movies which have universal appeal or emotional content, literally. Oopiri which stars Nagarjuna is a remake of “The Intouchables” a French movie and recently released “Bharat” starring Salman Khan is also a remake of a Korean movie “An Ode to My Father”. The audience has every facility to watch the movie simply on the OTT platform but the producers might be aiming to reach that audience who don’t have that OTT facility. Samantha Akkineni and director Nandini Reddy came together for a film for Suresh Productions named ” Oh Baby” which is a remake of Korean film “Miss Granny”. This movie is releasing into theatres today. Let’s see how it works on us.

Stoy

Baby (Lakshmi) is an old lady who has all the so-called bad qualities of being old. She runs a college canteen along with Chanti (Rajendra Prasad). As an old lady, her way of caring is different and her daughter in law is affected very much mentally and health wise due to the naggings of Baby. She gets admitted into a hospital due to a mild heart stroke. The doctor advises the family to join Baby in an old age home for the betterment of her daughter in law which hurts the baby as her granddaughter yells at her telling this. She goes from there to her canteen and she gets a call from her grandson inviting her to his musical performance and it changes the life of Baby. How her life changes?

Cast and performance

Lakshmi has done a great job in the role of Baby. Her character is the crux for the movie to workout and she bettered her role. Samantha Akkineni has done a terrific job in her role. She is fantastic in every aspect and dubbing of Chinmayi to her role helped. Rajendra Prasad is superb. Rao Ramesh once again proved himself in the emotional sequence. Naga Shaurya is nice. Teja, Pragathi, Snigdha, RJ Hemanth are good. All other actors have done a good job in their roles.

Writing Department

The story of Oh Baby is different conceptually and the screenplay is good. The dialogues of the film are written well.

Technical departments

The songs composed by Mickey J Meyer are nice. He put in a great effort in composing background score. Richard Prasad has done fine work in terms of cinematography. The editing of the film could have been better. The production values are grand.

Highlights

-> Samantha Akkineni
-> Comedy sequences
-> Concept of the film

Minus

-> Too much of emotional scenes
-> Routine approach to a unique concept

Verdict

Oh Baby is a story that tells the life of older people in the family and their innate feelings. The film has a really unique concept which stands out from the rest of Telugu films. With such a concept in hand, director Nandini Reddy and writer Lakshmi Bhupala approached it in a very routine way like every other Telugu film with loud emotions and summarised dialogues. Even the revelation of new things is done so routine. This is a disappointing aspect of the film. The positives include Samantha Akkineni and her character which generates good humor with the body language and dialect. The emotional scenes are good but gone overboard may be to entice the family audience. The second half seemed a bit longer, maybe because of the conclusions. The film is not what the trailers or promos have promised and to summarise, Oh, baby is a film aimed for the family audience with a fantastic performance of Samantha Akkineni with a few surprises.

Super Star Mahesh Babu is joining hands with the successful director Anil Ravipudi for the exciting project titled Sarileru Neekevary. The film’s regular shoot is going to kick-start from tomorrow in Kashmir. The makers wanted to begin the first schedule with the shoot of the introduction song which is expected to take place on Mahesh Babu and Rajendra Prasad. A few other noted artists will also take part in the shoot.

There are already a lot of expectations on the project and the satellite rights of the movie were also sold for a fancy amount. Rashmika Mandanna is the heroine of the project. Lady superstar Vijayashanthi is playing a crucial role in the movie. Anil Sunkara is producing the film along with Dil Raju.

Sri Reddy is constantly making a buzz on the social media and is leaving no one for gaining the attention and publicity. The latest is that she has made some sensational comments on the senior actor Rajendra Prasad and it is completely unexpected.

Sri Reddy opened up on the senior actor saying that he is a mentally sick person and she also gave a warning to the actor through her Facebook post.

Sri Reddy took to her Facebook wall and wrote, “Mr.rajendra prasad mentally sick person..please join in some mental hospital immediately..i know there is no respect on woman in your dictionary ..wl give clear picture very soon about u sir..”

The post opened to a lot of negativity on Sri Reddy only as people are tired of hearing her false, baseless and time-pass allegations on the film personalities. Hope she realizes her mistake and ends it here.

Nata Kireeti Rajendra Prasad is said to be on cloud nine with his second innings. He is doing a lot of interesting movies and one of them is Mahanati. On the other side, he was conferred with a title called Kalanidhi. Sadguru Ganapathi Sachithanandha Swami has given Kalanidhi title to the actor at Mysore Datha Peeth.

Rajendra Prasad was happy about the same. Ganapathi Swamy said, “I like comedy and I am extremely happy for giving the title Kalanidhi to Rajendra Prasad. While the actor said, “I am playing a lot of versatile characters and over the years, the audiences encouraged me. This Kalanidhi title will remain special for me even though I receive many awards.” said the actor.

Former chairman of Movie Artists Association, Rajendra Prasad has made some sensational comments on the drug accused members in the film industry.

Talking to the media, he declared that some accused names like Puri Jagannath, Ravi Teja, and others belong to Grade-A but not to the B and C grades to use Drugs. He claimed that only C-Grade fellows use drugs as they have no chances in the movies, they get addicted to drugs. Even though he didn’t mean to hurt anyone, some netizens are firing at this former comedy King for calling some actors as Grade-C class. They remind that a person like Rajendra Prasad who has a stature in the society shouldn’t categorize people into classes.

Meanwhile, the cases and notices are still haunting some accused names in the Telugu Film Industry. Some are thrashing these allegations, and some chose to remain calm.

The Movie Artists Association has witnessed a change in the association president. They have elected a new president for MAA.

The previous elections of MAA had created a big sensation at that time as the normal elections seemed to be political elections. Two parties one is lead by Naresh and other leads by Rajendra Prasad have fought like a battle of exchanging war of words. Even the so called versatile actors like Naresh, Sivaji Raja, Jayasudha, Hema etc made controversial statements against rivals. After all the fussy drama, Rajendra Prasad has won as MAA president with the involvement of Naga Babu. Now as his term is about to complete, the MAA members have unanimously elected Sivaji Raja as president of MAA.

He used to be secretary to Rajendra Prasad. Now the opposition Naresh has thought it’s bad to have fights yet again and made this thing easy. This is a huge development from MAA members.

Trisha Krishnan is having an amazing career right now. She is enjoying work with a handful of projects right now. This is a good sign for her and let us see what she has in store for the new year. She has films like Mohini and thriller Sathuranga Vettai 2 in the present year. She is also going to be seen in Hey Jude. She will star in 99. Apart from all these films, the actress will also be seen in a film being made by inspiring from the real incidents of the Mumbai attacks of 26/11 on Taj hotel. Apparently, the sources have revealed that the film’s plot will revolve around a star hotel.

1818 will be directed by Ridhun Sagar, and will also have Rajendra Prasad, Brahmanandam, Ramesh Thilak and Meesha Goshal in pivotal roles. The film will be made as a bilingual film in both Telugu and Tamil languages. Thaman has been roped in to compose music for the film.

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