Thank God for the second half when the tempo picks up considerably from a sedate first half.
Otherwise, Vedam would have been yet another crappy, boring Telugu film unwatchable by humans.
Eschewing the familiar and insane claptrap of asinine youthful romances, Vedam trots down a different path with its five different stories.
Of course, the different stories and their characters intersect at some point, as they must, and here they do in a violent crescendo at the hospital toward the end.
By the way, our repeated prayers to the almighty must have been heard because that irritating clown Brahmanandam, beloved of the Telugu people, only has a itsy-bitsy role in the film.
Here are the five different stories making up Vedam:
* There’s the whore Saroja (Anushka) keen on escaping from her madam and going off on her own.
* We have the cable guy Raju (Allu Arjun) besotted with the rich girl in Jubilee Hills.
* The rock star Vivek (Manoj Manchu) with his dreams of a music-troupe and indifferent to his mother’s hopes that he’ll follow in his late father’s footsteps and join the army.
* Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpai is cast as a Muslim Rahimuddin suspected of harboring terrorist sympathies.
* Finally, there are the desperate weavers who owe money to a local money-lender.
This idea of deploying multiple stories and tying up the strands at the end is hardly a novel idea in movies, be it Hollywood or even in Indian films.
But it sure marks a welcome relief from the familiar Indian drivel of amateur love-stories like Arya 2 or cop-stories like Singam.
We guess much of the credit for straying from the familiar track should go to Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi a.k.a. Krish, the director and writer of Vedam.
Here we are once again in the theater to watch Telugu flop crap star Allu Arjun.
This time for his new film Vedam
Did we not get punished enough with Varudu and Arya 2 that we should go and watch yet another Allu Arjun film.
Wriiten and directed by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi, Vedam also features that voluptuous babe Anushka Shetty, Manoj Bajpai and Manoj Kumar Manchu.
Music is provided by that plagiarist Keeravani.
Good crowd at the theater.
There must be easily over 125 people at this theater on the East Coast.
God, have mercy on our soul.
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Vedam Review – Second Half Salvages Film
9.35PM
Intermission time.
Boring shit. Boring.
Five different stories.
They haven’t intersected yet. Presumably, they will now that all the characters are in Hyderabad.
Allu Arjun – nothing extraordinary.
Anushka as the whore Saroja is alright.
(for SI blog reader Araj)
Classy Telugu film?
Ha ha ha. 
Now, now, don’t laugh, Schmucks.
A classy Telugu film is not a contradiction in terms though many of you may have been conditioned to think so by seeing the likes of Allu Arjun, Nagarjuna, Jagapati Babu et al making asses of themselves and monkeys of yourselves.
No, it’s only 4:23PM on the East Coast and we are not sloshed either.
At least, not yet. Let’s wait for sun-down before we start paying obeisance to Bacchus, shall we. 
A Miracle, Guys
At the review request of a longstanding SI blog reader, we drove down to Anil Ambani’s crappy cinema theater MovieShitty in Edison (NJ) Saturday to watch the Telugu film Prasthanam.
Voila, miracles do happen! They do, really.
Amidst the vast desolate Tundra of crappy Telugu films, Prasthanam stands out for being a watchable film.
No classic but most certainly worth the $85 in tickets, food, gas, snacks and toll!
Family Drama or Political Drama
Featuring all round fine performances, the movie (written and directed by the NRI Deva Katta) is a family drama set against the backdrop of politics.
Initially, we thought it a political drama but as the lengthy movie progressed we realized it was more of a richly-layered family drama neatly wrapped within the shell of politics. And that’s a smart move because one of the major follies of Indian movies, particularly Telugu and Tamil films, is that they often tend to focus a lot on one element (usually love) jettisoning all else overboard as extra baggage. Such a ritualistic practice, besides serving to make our movies seem uni-dimensional in a complex, multi-dimensional world, also shows them up as silly and amateurish.
There’s plenty of drama in every family and certainly endless theater (both of the violent and comical kind) in Telugu Nadu politics. In the hands of a talented film-maker like Katta, the two dramatic forces converge in Prasthanam to create a visually compelling tableau with crisp dialogs.
For those of you think who are deluded into thinking that only a Varudu, a Kedi or the new vacuous looking in-girl of Tollywood Kajal Agarwal can create an adrenalin rush to keep you glued to the screen, you ought to see the brisk-paced Prasthanam.
Darling kadhu, Parama Daridram idhi (horrible nonsense).
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the stinking garbage torch has been passed in Tollywood to a new Telugu movie Darling, conceived in Hyderabad, midwifed in Switzerland and killed aborted in Araku. (Thank you, JFK)
Folks, there’s absolutely no reason for this piece of bullshit Darling to ever see the light of the day, except that a bunch of retards had more money than they knew what to do with and less competence than they should have had to make a watchable film.
That dung like Darling, supposedly a romantic film, gets made and then gets released in theaters worldwide amidst so much hype is testament to the complete abdication of all sense of taste, that is if the people living in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh ever possessed any.
From the early scene of two kids performing on stage to the final chase by the villains in a convoy of cars, this wannabe romance, directed by a half-wit called A.Karunakaran, screams nonsense.
The shallow amateurish story in its essence – that is, if you dare call this fig-leaf crap a story – is that of a just out of college young man Prabhas (Prabhas) pining for his childhood sweetheart Nandini (Kajal Agarwal).
Never mind that the duo were young children when they parted, the girl off to Switzerland but of course speaking Telugu with nary an accent. Guess, Telugu must be the national language of Switzerland.
The so-called twist in the story as narrated by our hero Prabhas to the local rowdy (Mukesh Rishi) adds nothing of value to the story. Zilch.
Just stupid meets bizarre.
Stupid Fights
As is par for the course in Telugu movies, there are fights galore in Darling.
All of it comically stupid, of course.
In one fight scene at the beginning of the film, Prabhas vanquishes a small army of evil-looking ruffians as he walks along a busy road with his mother and a lady relative without the duo even realizing he’s dispatching a bunch of knife-wielding thugs.
Telugu film actor star Allu Arjun woke up this morning to find pee flowing all over his face.
No comprende?
You see, Allu Arjun’s latest crap-show Varudu is at the receiving end of critics’ ire.
Here’s what a sample of Indian movie critics had to say on the movie (sure, some of them do note some positive points but the tone seems to us to be critical):
GreatAndhra:
It is a laudable thought to come up with a presentation of an authentic Telugu wedding but the difference between a thought and getting it onto the screen is like chalk and cheese which is evident here. Gunasekhar has missed the way to do ‘Varudu’ impressively…..
Gunasekhar failed not just in the narration but also in conveying anything to the audience. His focus to bring about visual appeal looked more but he neglected the fundamentals like a strong script, deep content, and attention towards details. Cinematic liberties were used to the fullest and there were some absolutely ridiculous scenes which perplexed the audience at many points. Gunasekhar has always been revered as a brand and not just a director but it is with regret that he has lost it…and that too big time.
OneIndia:
The posters and trailers of Varudu evoked lots of expectations and hype. However, all the expectations were proved wrong with the director once again utterly failed in translating his ideas on the screen properly….Despite a lavish spending, the film failed to give anything worth to the audiences, nor it had a good message that traditional marriages are the need of the hour.
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