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Cast: Mahesh Babu, Sj Suriyah, Rakul Preet Singh Music: Harris Jeyaraj Direction: AR Murugadoss Shiva (played by Mahesh Babu) is working in Intelligence Bureau. His job profile is to tape phone calls of criminals but he likes to listen to the conversations of the public. He has even created a software that will alert him when someone utters words like ‘help, fear’ during their phone conversation. Shiva loves helping unknown people and in fact he wants to do only this desk job rather than high paying senior posts. Other than these there is nothing much in his character. “That one call come on April 28 th “, is the dialogue that Shiva tells to describe us that the call is going to start the story of the film. The problem is that this dialogue comes after 30 minutes of the opening scene. What until then? The same usual hero intro song, actress introduction, a duet song and fill the rest by yourself. But once the antagonist character starts to reveal (am talking only a

Cast: Vishal, Vinay, Prasanna, Andrea Music: Arrol Corelli Direction: Mysskin Thupparivaalan (Detective) is directed by Mysskin and Vishal plays a Sherlock Holmes type detective named Kaniyan Poongundran (an ancient Tamil poet). He wakes up from his bed, runs around his house frantically blaming lack of case to solve. An old woman comes to complain about her lost husband, to which Kaniyan answers in a way Sherlock would. You will get a few more Sherlock references but let’s set aside the fact that Kaniyan resembles Sherlock as Vishal has pulled off his role brilliantly and there are many things to concentrate. In the first scene a lightning kills a father and son, later a police officer gets killed by stroke and a small kid meets kaniyan complaining that someone has killed his pet dog. The wonderful narration ties all these unrelated scenes making it an interesting tale to watch. All these small knots tie as a big knot which is later loosened by Kaniyan. When kid

Cast: Vijay Deverakonda, Shalini, Rahul Ramakrishna, Music: Radhan Direction: Sandeep Vanga When the film gets over and while you walk out of the theatre have you heard a few people saying “It’s a normal same old story” (No one did for this film). Arjun Reddy is such a film with same old story. Arjun Reddy (played by Vijay Deverakonda, about whom I will talk in a while) is a topper in his medical college and a short tempered guy with zero anger management. He meets a first year girl, Preethi (played by Shalini) and they fall in love. What happens to Arjun after his love failure is what explored in a unique way. So this not a film that you can expect every year. This is a film that has a beautiful narration enthralling you for 3 hours. The initial scenes when Arjun frequently visits Preethi are a little surprising as Preethi never utters a word whenever he visits her. You start thinking what kind of love it is. But the love that Arjun has on Preethi is explained in