Krishna Kiran's

Remington typewriter As I sat waiting at the office of a friend, a practicing advocate, my eyes were attracted to this object called typewriter sitting silently in one corner of the room. As I kept looking at it, several thoughts went through my mind about this instrument that taught typing to millions across the world ever since it was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1800s. The QWERTY keyboard which we find on all computers and latest touch screen mobiles is thanks to him. The silent electronic machines that technology has brought in pushed the rhythmically sound making typewriter to a corner. At least a typist job Most parents in the middle class homes (mine included) of India always encouraged their children to go and learn typing at a local type institute so that they could find a job at least as a typist in some private firm or a government organization because the job of a typist is secure, they felt. I never went to learn typing because I never wanted to b...

Audience have high expectations when a successful director/writer comes out with his new film with another successful young hero in the lead. The expectations go up manifold when there is a huge star cast too. Writer-cum-director Trivikiram  upped his own benchmark and that of the industry with his last hit and also some of the previous ones. There is a saying in English that reads “Too many cooks spoil the broth”. The same applies to this film in a different manner “Too many stars spoil the scene” and here is the why of it. The story is nothing new and basically is driven by a challenge thrown at the hero. Out of total length of 162 minutes, the movie goes very slow for the first 80 minutes with some excitement in the last 5 minutes of the first half of approximately 85 minutes. The story revolves around how Viraj Anand(Allu Arjun) gets challenged at various points in his life when he had to decide between values and money. He prefers to choose the path of values as learnt ...