Good things happen to those who are good. Chintakayala Ravi is the perfect example of this. Starring Venky Mama, Chintakayala Ravi, a modest man from a modest middle-class family, is a man who seems to have nothing in his life. After coming to America as a student with the money to pay for his tuition, Chintakayala seems to have lost it somehow, which is what he tells his friends. However, Chintakayala doesn’t tell this fact to his family back in India. Does it work though?

For the while, yes. Chintakayala Ravi convinces his family back at home that he graduated and works for a software company for about 5 years. In reality, he works as a bartender at a bar that seems to have the same name as another software company nearby, which helps convince his parents even more. Chintakayala Ravi therefore leads a difficult life, as he still is trying to redeem his software job or even education to make up for all the time lost. Managing his job and family responsibilities become too difficult for Chintakayala, especially as his younger sister is getting married soon and has to use his money to fund it for the family. He still leads a humble life while being good and helping everyone, which leads to people taking advantage of him. This in turn causes Chintakayala to lose even more money. Eventually, with the little money he has left, he buys the plane ticket back to India to hopefully find a solution there while his sister’s marriage is going on.

Pressures increase however when all his relatives begin asking Chintakayala for help and ask him about the US, as he is the first one in the family, and one of the only ones from the village, to move to America. He somehow manages to keep the secret for time, mainly due to the fact that there’s another software company there. However, the truth finally gets revealed when one of his friends accidentally mentions Chintakayala’s bar. The whole family gets confused and almost upset with Chintakayala, as they assume Chintakayala lost the money, to which Chintakayala doesn’t argue. 

However, suddenly when the marriage is about to get canceled, a millionaire comes to the wedding and tells the family what really happened. When Chintakayala came to America, he saw a man suddenly collapse on the floor while walking out of the airport. After moving him to the hospital and personally staying with him, the doctor requests immediate surgery. After surgery, the man is still unconscious and will be for a while, but someone has to pay the bill. Because no one knew the man, Chintakayala offered to pay for hospital bills with his own tuition money. That man turned out to be a millionaire.

In the end, Chintakayala was offered free education and a guaranteed top management position in the software company that is owned by the millionaire.

Sometimes, everyone just needs a break in life, especially when you fail in something. Instead of immediately trying again, you need that break to sort of regain your thoughts and reflect, which in turn will most likely help you in the long run when you try again. That is what the movie Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi tries to show.

Starring Vishwak Sen, Abhinav Gomatam, Venkatesh Kakamanu, and Srinivas Voletey as the protagonists, Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi is a movie about a group of friends who had to separate themselves from each other due to unfortunate circumstances. Initially after college, the group of friends made a short film in hopes that they would enter the film industry. However, the short film fails as one of the actresses they casted suddenly runs away. With the group in despair, especially Vishwak Sen, they immediately try to complete another short film. However, that short film fails even worse, leading to a great loss of money and embarrassment with their families. As fights ensue with the friend group, they decide to separate and live on their own, leaving all the good memories with each other behind.

After a series of events after years the friend group somehow meet each other and decide to catch up at a bar. There, Vishwak Sen, who was initially the most hesitant about the movie, brings up the short film again. They collectively decide to do a short film together and submit it to a film festival. However, midway through the shooting of the short film they somehow fail again. This time, they decide to instead wait for the next film festival to take a break and properly plan the next short film without getting too emotionally involved so that they don’t end up like last time. They take a vacation where they have fun and try to get inspiration for their next short film.

Eventually, they decide to remake the first short film they ever tried making, as they were the most collaborative during that time and the only reason they didn’t complete it was due to the girl leaving. After casting a friend from college as the actress, they go through the shooting. Though some parts of the shooting got difficult, they managed to pull through and even get ranked in the film festival. The friend group enters into the film industry successfully, and they even have the opportunity to sign a deal with one of the top actors, Vijay Devarakonda. In the end, the movie shows a message to have patience and just simply take a break in life.

Sometimes, it’s important to stay humble in life no matter how high you go. If you forget to be modest when you become successful, your own success might bring you back down. That’s what happened to Prabhas in Mr. Perfect, a 2011 telugu film.

In the movie Mr. Perfect, Prabhas came from a very humble background in a small village, where his father had barely enough money for basic necessities for him and Prabhas. One day as a child, Prabhas was playing with some kids when suddenly, an older classmate bullied Prabhas. The bully told Prabhas that he was allowed to do that to him because he was richer, which made Prabhas angry but also lit a spark in him. Prabhas thought that the only way to do what he wanted was to become powerful and get rich, which is what he sought out to do.

Prabhas then worked hard for the next several years to land a high paying job in Australia, where he leaves his family and friends to work and earn money. After Prabhas works there for some time, earning much money and status along the way, he gets an invitation from his father to attend a festival event in his village in India. Though initially reluctant, Prabhas agrees to go for the sake of his father, where Prabhas agrees to stay for only 3 days. Once Prabhas reached there however, Prabhas was always on his laptop doing work, not going out and celebrating in the village. Though Prabhas and his father somewhat bonded on the last day, Prabhas still leaves immediately after those 3 days.

Back in Australia, Prabhas gets the chance to get a top managing position in his company. To confirm his position, Prabhas has to attend another 3 day event of his boss (who he’s never actually met before)’s festival event. Prabhas immediately goes without hesitation. At the event, everything seems to be going there. However, the boss reveals in the end that Prabhas won’t be getting that managing position because of his character towards his father and village. It turns out that Prabhas’s father and his boss came from the same village and were good friends. Prabhas’s father also had the opportunity to go to Australia and work in the same company when Prabhas was a child, but chose not to for the sake of the village. Prabhas then realizes his mistake of forgetting the people he loved and tries to fix it. I will leave you guys to watch the movie to see how he tries to fix the issue and if it works in the end.

Is it really true that anyone can do anything? We have seen special cases of common people rising to the top in their careers or social life. We have also seen many people who try to rise to the top but end up falling even farther than what they were originally at. The movie Rangasthalam shows both sides of a failure and a winner.

Rangasthalam, starring Ram Charan, is a movie about a village in the 1980’s that is ruled by a corrupt and dangerous person. This leader, known as the sarpanch, is someone who uses violence to get what he needs. Initially, the sarpanch was a nobody who no one even cared about. After seeing the power of violence, the sarpanch rose to power in such a way that ensured no one else would contest against him in upcoming elections. After many years of ruling, another common man, named Kumar, decides to run against the sarpanch in hopes of change. As a common man with good morals, Kumar gains support of the villagers quickly. However, as the story progresses and tensions rise, Kumar mysteriously dies.

However, this story’s protagonist isn’t Kumar. It is Kumar’s brother, Chittibabu, played by Ram Charan. Chittibabu is a very simple man who doesn’t know much about anything going on. However, when Chittibabu’s brother dies, Chittibabu does everything he can to seek revenge. Because Chittibabu is considered lower than the common man, it becomes very difficult for him to even know where to start. Many of the villagers hint that it must have been the sarpanch that killed Kumar and Chittibabu should just leave it. Adamant to seek revenge, Chittibabu goes to a higher official, who everyone respects, which the sarpanch works under. However, Chittibabu discovers a shocking truth about this higher official and sarpanch, leading Chittibabu to carefully plan his attack. The way Chittibabu does it is very interesting, so I’ll leave you to watch it.

Though this isn’t necessarily a story about a common man rising to power through a means of intelligence and hard work, it shows how life is sometimes. There will always be people rising and falling. In a sense, the sarpanch, Kumar, and Chittibabu have broken out from their cage and gone above. However, Kumar, who is deemed as the one who deserves to be at the top, ends up being the one who falls in the end. Therefore, this story puts out an interesting point: good vs bad and its effects on rising in life.

Have you ever lied to a loved one for a good cause? Whether it was a white lie or lying to protect them, a lie may always cause trust between two people to be harmed. One such movie, Duvvada Jagannadham, shows the comedic but message-oriented way of what lying to loved ones, even for a good cause, can do.

DJ tells the story of a Hindu priest named Duvvada Jagannadham. As a Hindu priest, DJ is a very orthodox person who does not even say bad words or things to other people. He always has to be good-natured and be the man of God. However, DJ once saw an innocent person get beat up for something they did not do. DJ then had no choice but to fight the bad people. Once DJ’s father found out that his orthodox son had gotten into a fight, he immediately made DJ take an oath to never fight someone again. This oath was in the form of a bracelet that was tied to DJ, which DJ may never untie. As time went on and age progressed, DJ witnessed many wrongdoings in his town. The pinnacle of these events included a child being beaten up by a gang of men. Frustrated that he was not able to do anything, DJ questioned God why he wasn’t allowed to do the right thing. Then, out of circumstance, the bracelet got caught onto another person’s clothing and fell right off. DJ, noticing this was a sign, decided to do the right thing and fight, as it wasn’t DJ who took off the bracelet.

Realizing that DJ has been given an opportunity to do the right thing, DJ and his friends decided to help the town out, as his friends would take the bracelet off when DJ’s father wasn’t around. When the bracelet was off, DJ would then take advantage and fight all the wrong people in the town. DJ keeps this a secret to everyone but his friends so that his father doesn’t find out and the bad guys don’t know DJ’s secret. This trend continues until the main villain, to whom DJ has been causing a lot of trouble to, finds out DJ’s secret. Through a series of plans made by the villain, DJ is forced to reveal his secret to his father. The rest of the story is for the audience to watch. This story therefore is a really good lesson of the importance of how keeping secrets and lying, even for a good cause, may cause harm in the end.

Known enemies are better than unknown friends. Sometimes it is hard to understand this statement and implement this phrase into our own lives, as it is much easier to trust those who are nice to us as opposed to those who aren’t. However, this statement is best exemplified by the recent telugu movie Waltair Veeraya, starring Chiranjavee and Ravi Teja.

Waltair Veeraya is a story about a local gang lord named Waltair Veeraya, who is a part time fisherman, and his fight to stop a large-scale drug lord. As a local gang lord, Veeraya doesn’t indulge in morally wrong acts, as he does not commit murders or life-threatening crimes. In fact, the people of Veeraya’s town even consider Veeraya as their own police officer rather than a bad gang person. However, problems start to occur when an actual police officer, Vikram Sagar, comes to Veeraya’s town on the note that there was drug smuggling going on.

Vikram Sagar and Waltair Veeraya are step-brothers who never got along from the start. The fact that Vikram became a police officer while Veeraya became a gang leader didn’t help their relationship get any better. Because of this, Sagar doesn’t fear Veeraya and his influence when investigating the drug case in Veeraya’s area. However, Sagar also doesn’t suspect Veeraya as the main crime lord, as he knows Veeraya’s morals and knows he won’t stoop to such a level. What both Veeraya and Vikram don’t know is that the problem is due to Veeraya’s right hand man. Due to the enmity between Veeraya and Vikram, Veeraya gets distracted and doesn’t suspect his own members of the gang, as Veeraya tries to mess with Vikram the whole time with regarding the drug problem. This ultimately caused many losses on both Veeraya’s and Vikram’s side. By disregarding the problem, the main drug lord rose to power and brought down Vikram and his police force. After all the great problems caused, Veeraya realizes his mistake and tries to take down the now international drug lord.

This movie shows an underlying principle of how important trust is. The movie shows how trust doesn’t have to be with someone who you get along with. That trust can prove to be very beneficial when you come across situations, not necessarily on the same level as drug problems, that require careful confidence in trustworthy people. Just like in the case of the movie, sometimes people who may be nice to you may not be nice to you for the sake of good friendship, as the people might just be trying to use you. That is why I believe this movie embodies that idea very well, and I encourage you all to watch this movie.

When someone says a person is family-oriented, that person can be considered a person who thinks for the well-being of others. However, have you ever met someone who has an obsession with their family? In the case of Suri, this person has an obsession with his father. From an infant to adulthood, Suri would not let go of his father. When his father got a small mosquito bite, Suri called 911 and made his father stay in the hospital for 3 days.

Suri’s father is an honest government official. Because of his honesty and unwillingness to fall to corruption, Suri’s father gets transferred a lot to various areas around India. At the latest transfer however, not only does Suri’s father not accept the bribe from a politician, but he also reports the politician to people in higher power. The politician gets angry and tries to get revenge on Suri’s father. For a man like Suri who wouldn’t let even a fly land on his father, Suri not only wanted to stop this politician from harming his father, but also wanted to harm the politician for even thinking about harming Suri’s father, as undeserving of any hate, Suri’s father, is an honest government official.

Suri and the politician get into many problems: fights, chases, clashes, etc. Suri’s father suggests they just transfer again, but Suri wants revenge on the politician. However, the story turns whenever the politician unexpectedly harms Suri’s mother instead of the father. It is not as if Suri does not care for his mother, but Suri’s father thinks otherwise. Suri’s father tells Suri to leave the house, as Suri is now a danger to the family. Destroyed, Suri does in fact leave for some time. Because the climax of the movie is incredibly good, I will not tell the rest of the story so you guys may watch it.

This story brings into question the problems of emotional attachment. Though it is good for someone to work for others, such as parents providing for their children, to what extent should someone be attached. For example, many teenagers complain that their parents are too involved in their lives. The parents respond saying that they don’t want their children to go in the wrong direction in life, as they have faced many of the world’s problems when growing up. That is why I find this movie, though very exaggerated and satirical, a good way to show a balance between attachment and independence.

Most people believe it is possible to do anything, under any circumstances. However, can a dog say “meow?” For Raja, yes. Raja is a blind man who does not let his disability get in the way of anything. Despite his shortcomings of not being able to use eyesight in catching criminals, Raja and his mother try everything to get Raja into a police uniform.

After much convincing and proof that Raja can in fact work as a police officer (while Raja has in fact passed the written exams), Raja’s mom helps Raja to get a job in the police station. However, Raja is only given the position to cook food for other cops. However Raja’s chance shines when he meets a girl named Lucky, who is currently under police watch due to her father, another respected police officer, being killed by gang members.

Because the other police members are busy with their lives and keeping this girl safe, Raja is the only one who has the ability of getting to know the girl personally. Raja does, as the job of cooking is not something that is time consuming. When doing so, Raja becomes close with the girl and even makes her get out of the depression from losing her father. At the same time, Raja has incredible selective hearing skills, as that sense was enhanced due to no eyesight. Using this selective hearing, Raja while hanging out with Lucky was able to discover that bad people were in fact following Lucky everywhere she goes, despite being on police watch.

After the rest of the cops finally understand this mishap from being unable to identify Lucky’s followers, they finally let Raja take over the Lucky case. Raja to everyone’s surprise states to go back to Lucky’s hometown where Lucky’s father was killed. Raja states that if the solution to every problem was running away, then no problem would ever get solved. Once arriving, Raja spends the next couple of days mapping out the area by foot, getting a sort of spatial awareness of the environment he’s in.

Sure enough, the gang members attack, but because of Raja’s spatial awareness, he is able to get the gang members to chase them all the way to a warehouse. When all the gang members are in the warehouse, Raja turns off the lights, allowing them to enter Raja’s world. From there, Raja easily defeats the gang members, as none of them have experience fighting in the dark like Raja does. Though a little exaggerated, the movie shows that if you have a disability, you’re not supposed to let that get in the way of your dreams as you have other gifts that can be focused on in reaching your goal.

Warning: the following blog has sensitive issues such as sexual assault

Do you believe in second chances? For something as simple as stealing a cookie, maybe you would say yes. What if the cop had just released dangerous criminals who continued to wreak havoc, would you still give the cop a second chance?
The movie Temper shows a man who has committed such a mistake, and the movie highlights how he works to correct that mistake.

Daya was raised without parents, and growing up on the harsh and corrupt streets, he learned that the best way to live life was to take advantage of others and do everything and anything that would benefit himself. To do so, he became a corrupt police officer, taking bribes from common thieves to big ministers. Daya doesn’t discriminate against different delinquents. After transferring to one of the most corrupt cities in India, life was good for Daya as illegal money came in left and right for Daya. At the same time, Daya was able to get a girlfriend by using his powers as a police officer to influence volunteer organizations that the girl partakes in to help Daya look like an active volunteer. One of the illegal tasks Daya had to do was release some prisoners that are the central minister’s brothers. Those brothers then went on to sexually assault a girl for 3 days and murder her in the end. The movie turns around when Daya finds out that the girl was Daya’s girlfriend was bestfriends with the girl who was murdered.

After watching the victim’s mom come to the police station everyday for justice for her daughter, Daya finally decides to become a good samaritan. He realized the mistake he had done in letting the criminals go. However, it is hard for the police officer who indirectly caused the atrocity to reverse convict the criminals, especially when there is limited evidence for the case.

In the end of the movie, Deva finally convicts the wrongdoers by claiming that Deva himself was part of the group, and that they all committed the crime together. Deva then created false evidence to show that he was at the crime scene also. When the court has no choice but to convict the whole group, even though they secretly know Deva is innocent (at least in terms of physically committing the crime). However when a constable investigating the crime scene finds hard evidence that suggests that the criminals did not include Deva, Deva is saved in the end. This movie suggests that if someone truly realizes their mistake and works to fix it, then a second chance is deserved. However, to what degree can this mistake happen?

How often do you forget things? How important are the things you forget? For example, do you usually forget small things such as where the remote is, or do you forget big things such as important meetings? What if I told you that there was a man who forgets big and small things all the time, whose name is ironically Lucky.

Bhale Bhale Magadivoy shows the story of Lucky and the complications of his life due to constant short-term amnesia. For example, Lucky once accidentally went all the way to work without his shoes. He once gave his credit card to a banker and walked out of the bank immediately without his credit card. When Lucky’s boss at work gets into an accident and needs Lucky to donate blood, Lucky forgets about the boss until his friend reminds him. Lucky arrives just in time when the boss was about to go into a fatal condition. When Lucky asks his friend if he made it on time, his friend states that the boss had plenty of time and even played cards while waiting for Lucky!

When a girl who Lucky finds attractive catches onto Lucky and asks him what the problem was, Lucky simply tells her that he’s a philanthropist, who gives away his money to people who need it. As Lucky and the girl fall in love with each other, Lucky encounters a huge problem due to his absent-mindedness. A couple months back, Lucky had an important meeting with the girl’s father (before Lucky even met the girl). As you may guess, Lucky missed the meeting, ruining his reputation with the girl’s father. However, when the girl introduces Lucky to her parents, Lucky has no recollection of meeting her father, so it becomes surprising to Lucky when the girl’s father immediately rejects him. After the girl’s father tells the girl Lucky’s true personality, which the girl doesn’t know because Lucky told her he’s a philanthropist, the girl also is angered by Lucky for not telling the truth. The rest of the comedic movie shows how Lucky tries to convince the girl and her parents to accept him.

Though this movie is just a comedic representation of someone with a problem of forgetting everything (which is not medically accurate in how amnesia works in the real world), the movie does bring up good points about mistakes. Taking the important meeting example, it is not as if Lucky intentionally wanted to miss the meeting. At the same time, in the real world, it is important to not miss big events. For example, if you were a surgeon who forgot about a surgery, that would be fatal to a lot of people. Therefore, it is important to consider your honest mistakes and the degree to which you make them.