Ullasanga Uthsahanga

Finally I got to lay my hands on the DVD of Happy last night. I thanked Allu Aravind inside my heart for finally releasing a DVD from Geeta Arts Banner. Watching this movie reminded me of the director Karunakaran.

Karunakaran the Tamil born director who has never directed a Tamil film so far has only one hit Tholi Prema to his credit. He followed it up with Yuvakudu which was a youthful entertainer. This film will serve as a best example where the whole film goes down just because of the CLIMAX. The last 30 minutes of the film does not gel with the rest of the film. Karunakaran seems to be carried away with the Kargil war at that time and tried to infuse kargil point into this entertainer.

He then made Vasu which again was a decent entertainer but Venkatesh was a complete miscast. It would have definitely fared better if it had anyone else other than Venkatesh. You simply can not watch venky in ¾ ‘s and Gotti.

Then he re-united with Pawan Kalyan after Tholi Prema and made Balu. This had a very bad script which was used umpteen number of times before. Then came Happy with Allu Arjun. This has a nice story with an interesting screenplay.

Karunakaran’s strength lies in his ability to chip in sweet nothings which leaves a strong impression on you even after you walk out of the theatre. This one aspect is good enough to make any movie HIT. But he also seems to mess up the climax as seen in Yuvakudu and Happy which leaves the audience curse him when they walk out of the theatre and finally making the film a FLOP.

Now to prove his mettle he is coming back with vengeance with a film titled Ullasamga Utsahanga with a new hero and Sneha Ullal, an Aishwarya Rai look-alike.

The music director is GV Prakash (nephew of AR Rehman) who’s pretty famous now in Tamil Nadu. I will talk about him in detail later.

I sincerely wish he gives us a breezy entertainer and make us leave the theatre Ullasanga Uthsahanga.

Ab Kya Hoga Kaaliyaa ??

Here is an interesting observation.

Allu Arjun had acted in 5 films so far. Out of them 4 were hits. Only Happy flopped. I personally liked Happy a lot after Arya. It was a nice movie with subtle emotions (Except for the climax). I still wonder why it didn’t do well.

He had a new heroin in 4 out of these 5 movies. Lets take a look at them.

1. Gangothri – Aditi Agarwal
2. Arya – Anuradha Mehta
3. Bunny – Gowri Munjal
4. Happy – Genelia
5. Desamuduru – Hansika

Except for Genelia all the others were new faces. Every time he paired with a new face, the movie is a HIT. The only time he paired with a known heroin i.e, Happy, movie was a FLOP. This tells me that the movie will be a FLOP if he does not pair with a new heroin. Now we hear that in his latest movie, produced by Dil Raju and directed by Bhaskar of Bommarillu fame, he is pairing with Priyamani of Pellaina Kottalo fame. Ab Kya Hoga ???

P.S: You can also observe that though his movie with new heroins were HITS, none of the heroins could survive in the industry. Antey Cinema or heroin, edo okatey batukuntundhaa ???