AOR is a rare Telugu movie that'll make Hitchcock proud. Maybe am playing it up a bit, but Anukokunda's got class. Director Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's style reminds me of Ram Gopal Varma when he'd just made Shiva. Clearly, I missed the Aithe flares somewhere or else I would've found AOR much earlier.
Told with all modesty, coming from AP, AOR tells a story from a young woman's perspective. Sahasra (Charmy), a budding singer goes to a party with a friend and gets drugged. She wakes up two days later at her home; the next thing she knows is people in the streets are out baying for her blood. How she unravels the puzzle with the help of a suspended cop (Jagapathi Babu) and a Cabbie (Shashank) is told very grippingly.
Chandra Sekhar introduces half a dozen interesting characters, uses them very effectively in the story and rounds each one of them pretty well. What's more impressive is that the Director never loses his humour even in the middle of a tense moment.
A must watch. The DVD version has some decent subtitles.
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Another reco. for a good gult movie would be Anand, got intersting music too.
rare desi movie?
will check it out.
Hey are you going to blog oftener in 2006?
"AOR is a rare Telugu movie that'll make Hitchcock proud"
Mmm... chaala interesting...
Hemanth: I saw this about two months ago and wanted to write about it then. Missed somehow. And again was reminded of it when I read this posted by someone linked on Desipundit, about date rape and the date rape drugs...
Awesome movie actually. I am looking for Aithe as well.
hemanth, i watch charmee's movies for different reason :-). missed this one.. the plot sounds somewhat similar to ' anakanaka oka roju' (JD & Urmila)
very rarely you get to see such movies.. do you remember RGV's 'money'? ( * Renuka Shanane + JD + paresh rawal)
Zero - that movie is Money....one of the best comedy 'desi' movie, a must watch too (hemanth add this to ur list)
checked out the movie after reading your review and was totaly impressed.
Taking a break from bloggin I guess.
There was the serial whose script was based on a work of Anuradha Ramanan about date rape on one of the Tamil channels a couple of years back. Great stuff - given all the constraints face while making TV serials. But I can't seem to remember the name. If I am not mistaken, the model who acted as the date-rape victim is called Megha Rajan (in real life) - at least her last name is Rajan.
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Surya: Wasnt Money remade in Hindi as Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega?
anti - I just googled on that, yep it is. and Money itself is a loose adaptation of 86's Ruthless People.
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