Krishna Kiran's

This 144.30 minutes movie has proven yet again that a skilled director can get the maximum out of his cast.  The film opens up with the mandatory caution on smoking and drinking with Nani's voice saying "Mandhu, cigarette traagakandi - pothaaru - hero aina, villain aina". That sounded good and natural with the required fun element and the message.  The storyline by David Nathan is good and the screenplay by Mohan Krishna Indraganti added a touch of thrill and suspense right till the last minute. The film opens with two young, good looking women as co-passengers aboard an international flight sharing their love stories to pass time during the course of the flight. Surabhi and Niveda Thomas played these two characters as Aishwarya and Catherine respectively in a neat manner with the latter stealing the show by virtue of her role. How their love stories evolved was captured innovatively and youthfully by the director. The first half of the film takes the audience till the do...

Today I met a well educated young women in her late 20s who came to see me at my office for some official transaction. After I heard from her, what she did for a living, I felt quite impressed and couldn't help sharing it here as I realised that she is one of those unique persons whom we rarely come across. I also came to know that there is something called a Gandhi Fellowship program offered by an NGO. I am not going to dwell about what this fellowship is all about.  When every kid wants to pursue engineering or medicine or join leading institutes and get into well paying jobs, there are some who walk a different path to make a change in the life of others and she is one of them. They are really in small numbers which I realised are in 10s to be precise. What impressed me the most was that,as part of the fellowship program, she lived in a slum for one complete month with just two pairs of clothes and Rs.200 in the pocket. Nothing more and nothing less. She had to live like a slum ...