A sickening piece of unforgivable, unwatchable, unendurable, unfathomable shit.
And that’s the best we can say about this garbage a.k.a. Pravarakyudu.
Acme of Stupidity
What do you do in a South African jungle when a full-grown lion, mane and all and a fierce expression, heads toward you?
Well, if you are a pair of Telugu college teachers you embrace and start acting lovey-dovey in front of the lion.
Why in God’s name would you do that? Apparently, the King of the Forest is sensitive to romantics and leaves them alone.
So to keep the hungry lion at bay we have a song-dance Bangaram in which like a slut in heat, her legs spread wide in an inviting posture and a ridiculous costume around her waist, Priyamani goes through the motions of dancing.
Guess what?
Lion goes away. And so does our sanity.
God, how we wished the lion had made a hearty meal of both Jagapati Babu and that weirdo Priyamani.
But since it’s a Telugu movie after all, the rules of the game dictate that even the lions have to be stupid here. 🙁
By the way, what does our hero Sasi (Jagapati Babu) do in the meantime?
Oh, he does what he does best throughout the movie – act like a moron, often with silly-looking hats.
To believe that this 45-year-old clown is a college student is to believe that pigs can fly, Santa brings the presents on Christmas and virgins are waiting for the Muslim suicide-bombers.
Bottom line
Pravarakyudu is an incredibly fatuous love story of two college mates, who separate and ultimately come together after many years after making an ass of themselves and a monkey of the audience.
Such is the force of love of our hero Sasi (Jagapati Babu) that he leaves a job as Professor of Entomology at Harvard to come back as an ordinary lecturer of Zoology at the obscure Vardhaman College in Hyderabad to romance his old flame, now the ‘Lady Hitler’ principal Sailaja (Priyamani).
Architect of Nonsense
Just in case you are wondering who the possible architect of this vile trash is, it’s a fella called Madan.
This bozo claims credit for the Story, Screenplay, Dialog and Direction, all of it hopelessly bad.
Our guess is that this moron played the stupid lion too (yeah, the one that failed to finish off Jagapati Babu and Priyamani when it had a chance).
As if all of the above nonsense weren’t enough to drive you batty, you have that eternal irritating fixture of Telugu movies Brahmanandam playing amateur detective at the college.
Priyamani or Pee-a-Many
Besides the awful story, one of the biggest disappointments for us in Pravarakyudu was Priyamani.
To think this whacko won the Indian national award for acting boggles the imagination.
The woman can’t dance. By God, the woman certainly can’t act.
Not convincing as a student. Not effective as a principal. Not in the least impressive in the romantic scenes.
A more apt name for this weirdo would be Pee-a-Many considering she copiously peed all over this movie.
Are we so starved of acting talent in India that we hand out awards to such as this wastrel.
As we’ve said in the past, putting lip-stick on a pig does not make it a pretty girl or a good actress last we checked.
You Call this Music
To describe the cacophonous drivel in the movie as music would be a sacrilege.
Here are some of the lines for the Gaalamesi Pattina Chepa song performed to the most atrocious dance:
I am your C A N D Y…Her booty is bigger than a Mercedes Benz. Baby, baby, baby she’s my best friend
As for the dances, if what we saw on the screen represented the dance form then we are Zeenat Aman!
The picturization for all of the songs is just plain awful or a repeat of what we’ve seen before in a gazillion Indian movies.
Do Not Watch
There’s not a single element in this garbage that’s not a testimony to mind-numbing crudeness.
Guys, Pravarakyudu is a sick piece of shit that begs you to show it the middle finger.
Waste not your time or money on junk such as this.
We want our $10 back!
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Can’t stop laughing my head off, and can’t believe you went to watch this in the first place.
Some times, the titles give it all away.
You should’ve skipped this one, but then we wouldn’t have had this wonderful review 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Antha ma-karma (all our fate). 🙁
You can see Priya’s fine performance in Paruthiveeran!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
There’s no way it can be the same retard.
Pee-a-Many’s mother must have had twins, who got separated when they went to the circus.
The Pravarakyudu gal must have been raised by the circus clowns. That’s our analysis based on the clown’s non-acting in this trash.
LOL!!!!!!!!
Where do you find the inspiration to write such imaginative derogatory remarks? Loved it!
P/S: I believe this is what happened when the lion saw the 2 nincompoops break into dance.
Lion thinking in his head: What the fuck are these two clowns doing? Is that a woman….oh my God…what the hell?? Ewwww…. For the sake of my sanity and reputation, i better leave these two morons before they kill me with their eye sore performance and dumb ass lyrics.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Un’Fu**ing’Believable Trash, we tell ya.
These are the dark ages for Tollywood.
@SI: Antha ma-karma (all our fate).
Ah, stop blabbering.
Looks like you are in a generous mood to throw your money watching trash telegu films. Most of the Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada Movies are thrash (Isn’t this what you said to us a few blogposts ago???)
If you were so desperate to watch good Telugu movies, you should have watched movies like Bommarillu (2006).
Maybe a few of SI’s telegu fans would help you in identifying good films. Stop wasting money!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: If you were so desperate to watch good Telugu movies, you should have watched movies like Bommarillu (2006).
Hey, we’ve seen the Tamil version of Bommarillu called Santosh Subramaniam
2. You write: Most of the Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada Movies are thrash (Isn’t this what you said to us a few blogposts ago???)
We thought we said most Indian movies are trash. Why are you leaving out Hindi movies. They are no better.
Awesome review!
That’s how the state of Telugu industry is nowadays.
Sad that Priyamani got that bad a role. (all for front benchers sake! )
Anyways, Priyamani is way (a 1000 times I would say) better than that expression less, only good for sexy teacher kinda roles ( in that documentary movie called Happy Days ), unable to talk, actress pyaari bengali babe called ‘Kamalini Mukherjee’. No wonder in that slightly decent movie called ‘Anand’ no man cared about her, instead they liked her friend in the movie. 🙂 .
Also, I think a national award for an actress is given for a ‘specific movie’ not for ‘acting in general’. 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: Sad that Priyamani got that bad a role.
Let’s be clear. That non-actress Pee-a-Many picked the role.
2. You write: Also, I think a national award for an actress is given for a ‘specific movie’ not for ‘acting in general’
Maybe so. But it’s hard to believe this imbecile Pee-a-Many has any acting skills at all given the way she peed all over this movie.
3. We haven’t seen Anand or Happy Days.
On another note, I find it quite amusing that you go to these Gult movies even though many has said that they are not worth watching in general.
I list some reasons out of which a few might have prompted you to taste the shit of these movies.
0. You just felt like going to a Telugu movie.
1. You like reviewing movies because that’s your job.
2. You like the sweetness of Telugu, as they say.
3. You have no time to watch awesome Telugu, Tamil
movies as you feel there can’t be any awesome
Tamil and Telugu movies.
4. You believe you are crucifying yourself by
watching a Telugu movie, thereby you will save the
mankind from spending their money on those movies.
You think “I’m SI, the Redeemer of the Movie Goers”.
5. You are pissed off with your life and you want
something to hate, abuse creatively, write
imaginatively so that you over come your
frustration. (That’s what I do generally)
6. Any body, who gets pissed off with your review and
it’s ultra creative personal attacks on artists,
writes something against you, which further pisses
you off and you imaginatively abuse her/him/it and
you feel happy by that very astounding victory.
7. You are an angry old man owning a blog and as nobody
can f*** with you, you want to f*** the world by
writing reviews of Telugu movies.
8. As you live in USofA – which is in kind of bad
phase now- you watch Indian movies, so that you feel
proud about your country (i.e USofA) it’s movie
culture, it’s genius minds etc. (This cannot be a
possible reason because no d*** in the Universe
wants to compare USA with India in any matter,
except hypocrisy)
9. You know an entity called Twig lists a few possible
reasons for SI watching Telugu movies and you have
a chance to prove to the world that his reasons are
all absolute trash. 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Happy Hours started early at your neighborhood bar today?
2. Oh, well. We’ll grant that No-4 (of your various reasons) comes pretty close to the truth.
BTW, what does the Bible say:
Truly, we’re God’s sacrificial lamb on the unholy altar of Tollywood, sent down so that all ye earthling readers of the SI blog may find redemption. 😉
@SI: “non-actress Pee-a-Many”
Bet you would never say this, if only you watch Paruthiveeran!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Rumor has it that the non-actress Pee-a-Many’s mother had twins who got separated when they went to the circus and that Pee-a-Many was raised by the circus clowns.
Could that ridiculous rumor ring true? 😉
2. Seriously, Netflix still doesn’t have Paruthiveeran.
The only Priyamani movies Netflix stocks are Thirakkatha (2008), Pellaina Kothalo (2007) and Athu Oru Kana Kaalam (2005).
OMG, just realized that Pellaina Kothalo also features the same Jagapati-Priyamani horror pair. 🙁
Priyamani either does really bad roles or really good roles…
Thirakatha was her other good movie apart from Paruthiveeran…
And I think you should buy the DVD of paruthiveeran rather than wait for it to come onto Netflix. I saw somewhere that you were planning to buy Aayirathil Oruvan, well if thats the case, you might just as well buy paruthiveeran, cuz i personally thought that it was a lot better than AO.
Here’s a nice scene to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZfO9lEr7iM
And a nice song to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTK-XvPljrA&feature=related
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Watched the two videos in your above links.
It does not change our opinion that Priyamani is mediocre shit.
Very affected performance (particularly the first video).
Now, don’t go off with that spin about her receiving a national award. As we’ve said ad nauseum, ad infinitum awards mean nothing in Incredible India.
A typist once won the Padma Shri, according to this Times of India story. We won’t be surprised if they give the Bharat Ratna to the ‘Best Wanker’ one of these days. 😉
offtopic :
when will u watch amitab’s PAA movie ?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Dunno.
We just consulted our Kili Josiyar (parrot-astrologer) and he predicted we’d watch some nice movies soon.
Isn’t that wonderful news? 😉
I thought Pee-a-many’s acting was overrated in ParuthiVeeran.. it seemed amateurish.. but easily her best performance, which is not saying much.. her acting in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangalal_Kaidhu_Sei is etched forever in my memory.. as one of the worst or the worst I have ever witnessed.
I think she single-handedly sank the film.. ARR’s music was supposed to buoy that movie, but she was too much for ARR to handle.
her name (along with all actors/actresses from 2000+) besmirches this formidable list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharathiraja#List_of_film_artists_introduced_by_Bharathiraja..
Bharathiraja also gave Kamal, Rajini, Sivaji, Sathyaraj etc. their (arguably) career-best roles. Why he chose her is beyond comprehension.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: I thought Pee-a-many’s acting was overrated in ParuthiVeeran.. it seemed amateurish….her acting in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangalal_Kaidhu_Sei is etched forever in my memory.. as one of the worst or the worst I have ever witnessed. I think she single-handedly sank the film..
At last, a kindred soul. 🙂
@SI: What do you do in a South African jungle when a full-grown lion, mane and all and a fierce expression, heads toward you?
Well, if you are a pair of Telugu college teachers you embrace and start acting lovey-dovey in front of the lion.
Ha ha ha, I missed this sentence while reading the post the first time around, fuckingly funning 😀
Can’t stop laughing, let me check Youtube now to see this shit 😀
SearchIndia.com Responds:
😉
Suggest you watch “Thank you for smoking” to soothe your frayed nerves. Heard that “Up in the air” is of a similar kind. Has been getting good reviews.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We never thought the day would arrive when we’d follow your suggestion. 😉
Lucky you.
Update: Watched Up in the Air. Coincidentally, when we saw your comment we were already in the theater waiting for Up in the Air to start.
There you go again.
You seem to have a taste (and stomach too) for bad movies.
You are also an optimist who is not discouraged by your previous (mostly unpleasant) experiences.
I renew my ‘farmaish’. Watch and review the following
1. Golmaal
2. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Watch and review the following
We will. We will.
haha funny stuff about the circus lions in the movie.
Talking about National award winners, look at some of the past winners like MGR, Karisma Kapoor, Mithun… not exactly the pantheon of thespians.
Have you seen ‘The Ghost and the Darkness”, if you have you will “enjoy” Chiru’s Mrugaraju. Check it out.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
The Ghost & The Darkness? No, we haven’t seen the movie.
But being the gluttonous readers that we are, we are familiar with the story of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway line and the heavy human toll it extracted.
How do you watch such movies selectively? Did you see Magadheera btw.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Some movies we watch by preference…others as a result of theater-proximity.
2. No, we haven’t seen Magadheera.
hahaha u express ur rage the same way as i do….lot of such shit movies made these days.
i always wanted to start a blog like this but somehow feel even that’s a waste of time. these dumb asses will never change. and our over rated actors…..how’bout aish who is a no good actress herself is popular all over the world. gosh….what did god write in her fate….
There are quite a lot of pee-4-money females out there in our indian industry…..
if they produce such terrible films why the hell do they ask audience to stop piracy
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. True, it’s hard to believe that things will change much in the Indian movie business because a large section of the audience likes such stuff.
2. As for Ash, it’s no secret that she can’t act to save her life.
3. BTW, the page views on the SI blog for what we consider good movies are invariably much lower than for the trashy ones!
@SI: “Page views for reviews of trashy movies are invariably greater than the ones for good movies”
This is infact a corollary of this law:
Its much more fun to read the review of a bad movie than see it, likewise, its much more fun to see a good movie than read its review.
So speaking strictly in an economic/business sense, SI is as dependent on Bollywood(in its current state making trashy movies) as the Bachans. 😀 Wow, Truth can sting!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: So speaking strictly in an economic/business sense, SI is as dependent on Bollywood (in its current state making trashy movies) as the Bachans. 😀 Wow, Truth can sting!
Stupidity is not a crime. But flaunting one’s stupidity is.
If blogs (Bollywood or otherwise) were such a wonderful business opportunity, every Patel, Nair, Iyer, Singh, Reddy, Sengupta and Gowda on the planet would’ve hopped on the bandwagon.
Time you stopped sniffing the ether.
Now, don’t ask us why we spend time on the blog if the end of the cave is still only a black-hole. As Pascal wrote:
No, Pascal didn’t put that smiley.
2. You write: Its much more fun to read the review of a bad movie than see it,
Maybe, maybe not. Even if true, only half the story for explaining higher page-views for trashy movies.
Bad movies in India usually feature big-name stars and that prompts users to search for these (often favorite) stars’ movies than for other films.
A Pee-a-Many likely has more fans than a Tabu or a Gul Panag.
I decided to watch the Bangaram song, just to have some fun. Guess what, the song sounds very much like Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack”… You can watch it here: http://www.spike.com/video/justin-timberlake/2758029
Wonder what JT would say about his song’s power to tame lions, not to take away anything from the lovely college couple 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: I decided to watch the Bangaram song, just to have some fun. Guess what, the song sounds very much like Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack”…
Un’fu**ing’believable. Are you monitoring us or what?
You see, as you were writing the above comment we were writing the following post: Pee-A-Many’s Defense of Her Thieving Buddies
2. We have the original SexyBack song in our collection ($1.29 at Apple iTunes for those interested).
The heart has its reasons, that reason does not know.
Yup.
And the “big-name star” theory is a much better explanation although the irony of SI depending on Bollywood is very attractive;)
I liked these too:
“Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.”
“Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.”
To top it off, “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Yes, Pascal said a lot of interesting things.
Makes us want to read him in the original.
2. You write: although the irony of SI depending on Bollywood is very attractive
The false irony may have its allure but the more prosaic reality is that we are not.
The choreography off late in all Indian movies is so disgusting that I have a vomiting sensation after each song. An Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuwhTmM_QGQ
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We experience a similar sensation when we see our stars dancing.
when are you gonna review Iruvar ? If at all, your are gonna review vettaikaran 🙁 then keep iruvar after that…will be a good first aid or the best first aid 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Iruvar? Soon, sweetie.
BTW, we plan to review the Vettaikaran trailer later today.
Right now, busy watching
yourour Tabu’s Premavalambanam video (the one you posted after this comment).@SearchIndia: The state of Telugu movie reviewers.
“http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/07/south-review-pravarakhyudu.htm”
–what the f?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
A mature love story? Ha ha ha.
This is what happens when the reviewer eats too much avvakai pickle. 😉
The brain gets clouded.