Deva - Gods own Saviour !!

They say when you pray with true devotion and heart,god listens to your prayers,is it true? Do God listen to prayers from the bad forces on earth too? Can he give boons to the people who want the bad to win over the good? That forms the crux of my story and this very point has driven me to come up with the entire episodes of this saga which i named as "Deva - Gods Own Saviour !"

The story begins in the 17th century when kings were ruling the people.Deep in the forests of "Indrakailadri",Deva a loyal resident of Kingdom "Garthapura" ruled by the king "samaraveera" is being hand cuffed and chained by king pashupathi.Deva is completely tortured and is being tied to the logs and dragged on the knees.Soldiers of pashupathi take him to the king.Deva is accused for hiding the sivalingam.Deva is further tortured and is threatened to death if he doesnt tell the King on where did he hide the "siva lingam".king pashupathi gives Deva one more day for him tell the truth and prisons him in his kingdom.On the very night,deva escapes from the kingdom of Pashupathi and tries to reach his own kingdom.King pashupathi knows about this and attacks deva on his way.After a lot of struggle Deva leaves his life and dies on the banks of River krishna.Saints of garthapura knowing this will crement the body of Deva and will give him the power of immortal soul.They will pray to Lord Shiva that when ever a bad force tries to take an advantage of God,Deva will be reborn and protect the people from that to happen!!!

Now In the modern era where kingdoms have become districts and kings have become politicians,One such politician is "Prajapathi Naidu".Naidu hails as a member of parliament from the city of vijayawada and his dream is to become the chief minister for the state of andhra pradesh.He tries many ways to get into this position and he is on the plans to see how can achieve his goal.

Karthik,is a normal guy who lives in the same city.Karthik has his own life.He is a well educated and well trained musician.He works at a local karate club to teach the students on the forms of martial arts.Karthik has a beautiful family where his parents work as teachers in a local school and his sister studies in the college.Karthik doesnt care on whats happening around him,all he bothers is about his family.One day when karthik goes to pick up his sister from college,he watches a guy getting killed on the road by a group of men.Karthik being the usual self,doesn't bother about what is happening but when he watches that the men who killed the guy are going inside the same college where his sister is studying,he gets curious.Karthik tries to gather all the information about the guys and finds out that they work for a local politician named "Prajapathi Naidu".

Karthik tries to forget these incidents which happened at this sisters college,but he is afraid with the fact that his sister would be effected with all these incidents.Karthik decides that he would collect all the required proofs on what exactly is happening with the college students and how they are helping the political leader.On finding out,karthik would know that the guy who was killed is none other than a son of famous archeologist in the city "Prof Anant Kumar".Karthik will not be able to get hold of the professor as he would be missing in his house.Karthik now tries to find out the where abouts of the professor and he would come to know that the professor was last seen going in a car with a bunch of guys wearing white dress.Karthik decides to find out the missing professor.

When karthik chases down the address of the car in which the professor was taken,he will come to know that the car is being owned by the famous politician in the city "Prajapathi Naidu".Karthik tries to find out the professor in the house of the politician and he finds out that the the professor has been locked inside the basement.When he hears the conversation between the professor and prajapathi naidu,he finds out that professor is being asked about the location of a siva lingam located in the forests of "indrakailadri".

karthik being curious about the siva lingam,gathers information from the local temple priests on the importance of the siva lingam.Karthik will know that the siva lingam was once known as the famous "sarpa lingam" in the 17th century.Priests will tell him that the siva lingam was once destroyed by a king named "Samaraveera".karthik also knows that the priest who works for "prajapathi naidu" dies on the same day when the professor was kidnapped.On finding out,he will come to know that the priest was killed by "prajapathi naidu".The priest son would tell him that his father was working for prajapathi naidu and he gave an adivice to prajapathi naidu to find and worship the siva lingam which was once called as "Koti Sarpa Lingam" to attain his desire to become the chief minister of the state.

Karthik find out evidences on prajapathi naidu from various sources he meets from the past few days.He tries to defend and escape to hyderabad to submit his proofs to the chief minister of the state against prajapathi naidu.Naidu's men will come to know about this and they attack Karthik.They throw his body into the river where he strikes with the underwater stone to remember his past !!!

Back to the 17th century,In the kingdom of "Garthapuri" which was situated near the banks of river "Krishna" in the souther part of india there lived a king called "Samaraveera".The king was an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna and the people in his kingdom used to pray,perform and celebrate the Righteous traits of the lord.The King,Kingdom and its people were living happily with so much prosperity and wealth with the blessings of the Lord Krishna.The distict of Garthapuri became so famous for its prosperity that the kings and their kingdoms near by started to feel jelous about it.Till the time came,when a king named "Pashupathi" who is an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva eyed on the Garthapuri district.

Pashupathi was so attracted to the district's wealth that he started to look at all the means to conquer it.He tried so many ways to defeat the king but he was in vain.Pashupathi then finally met his asthana rushi "Sri Maha Nanda Swami" to get an advice to conquer King Samaraveera's kingdom.The maha rushi suggested pashupathi that in the hills of himalayas there exists a "Koti Sarpa Lingam" which is made up invincible pearl.He also suggested him that the shiva lingam is so powerful that anybody who prays to the lingam for 11 consecutive days without food and water will get "aakalasakthi" with which he can achieve what ever he wants.Pashupathi being the greedy king as he was asked his kingdom men to be in search for the Koti sarpa lingam.Little he knew that he was about to conquer what he has never imagined.

In the kingdom of "Garthapuri",King samaraveera came to know from his spy's that that King Pashupathi is seeking devine help to conquer his kingdom.He pleaded to his kingdom loyal saints to suggest him the remedy of this problem.The saints prayed to Lord Krishna and went through the "Garthapuri Kala patra" which told them that there is somebody born to save their kingdom and he name is "DEVA".

Deva is born in a middle class family in the kingdom of Garthapura and his parents live in forest to make their livelihood.While growing up deva happens to help a saint who gets injured while travelling in the forest.Feeling so pleased with what deva does,the saint accepts Deva as his student and considers him the gods own child.The saint gives a special power to Deva that when ever a bad force tries to take the help of God for attaining success,Deva would turn into a force which would stop them from attaining immortality.Being an ardent student of the saint Deva learns all the forms of arts and becomes a vedic scholar.In the course,Deva's guru passes away.

The saints of "King samaraveera" will come in search of Deva and asks him for help.Deva remembering his guru's blessings,obliges and starts his journey to stop "king Pashupathi" from getting to the "Koti Sarpa Lingam".With his skill and cleverness,Deva finally reaches to the himalayas before the King Pashupathi gets hold of the koti Sarpa Lingam.He takes hold of the Lingam and hides the lingam in the midst of big hills and mountains where nobody can ever get into.When pashupathi knows about this,he takes control of Deva and prisons him to know the location of where did Deva hide the sarpa lingam.After many trails,Deva never comes out with anything on the sarpalingam.In this process,king pashupathi tortures deva but all his efforts will be wasted as deva nevers open up with any information.One fine day,Deva escapes from King pashupathi and when he is on his way to the kingdom of garthapura,pashupathi attacks on him and in the process Deva gets injured.Deva would eventually be killed on the banks of River Krishna.Saints of garthapura knowing this will crement the body of Deva and will give him the power of immortal soul.They will pray to Lord Shiva that when ever a bad force tries to take an advantage of God,Deva will be reborn and protect the people from that to happen!!!

Karthik comes to life again,remembering the fact that he was once known as Deva and he was the gods own saviour.Now karthik responsibility lies in saving the "Koti Sarpa lingam" from prajapathi naidu.Karthik knows that prjapathi naidu would eventually come to the location where he had initially hidden the siva lingam.karthik travels inside the forest to reach to the place where he hides the siva lingam.Prajapathi naidu finds him and come in search of sivalingam.Karthik fights with prajapathi naidu, kills him and his assistants to win and save the siva lingam once again.karthik realizes that the place where he has hidden siva lingam was once mountains but now turned into a bare land allowing people to find out the geographical location of the siva lingam.He decides to locate a new place to hide the siva lingam.This time karthik uses all various skills to hide the siva lingam in the forest with protection from all the four elements of earth.He uses batuva caves (land) as the place to hide the siva lingam.He uses krishna river (water) as the barrier to pass to reach to the caves.He uses fire as the catalyst to eradicate the signs of the caves.He uses the air to implant arrow weapons for whoever coming near the siva lingam.He hides the Siva Lingam Once again !!!

Karthik lives with the fact that he has to protect the siva lingam from bad guys to make use of it till he dies and he knows he will be born again when ever there is a harm for the people !!

~Sudheer

The Unknown - Working Title

Last week,one night i had a rough sleep and in the process i had some scary dreams.I had various dreams and i normally tend to remember my dream very well when i get up.In the same process i was able to construct one scary story from one of those scary dreams.I thought if developed well,it could be a very interesting Hollywood movie.Here how it goes !!!

We all know that environment disasters are so dangerous and out of a big list them,Meteorite or meteorites are very dangerous when they come in contact with the earth.In short a meteorite is originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface and it can cause major disasters.One such disaster happened when few years back a meteorite named "Liquihoba" dropped on the land of "High Line park" in the city of New York.The specialty of this meteorite is that it is a combination of liquid minerals with a life imposing ingredient called "Liquid pro-V".There was a big damage caused by this fall and the pit that was created by the meteorite was so huge that the the liquid "Pro-V" penetrated deep into the soils of "High Line park".People believe that under the fourth layer of soil there exist a species of insects called "black crop insects" which solely live on the vegetation that is under the soil.The life imposing liquid "Pro-V" went so deep into the soil that the "black crop" insects started to feed on the minerals that flowed through the meteorite.

The liquid had a special trait that it makes the tiniest creatures to a larger than life creatures with special powers.The same happened and with a short time the "Block crop" insects became huge with alien powers and they started to emerge from the soil as giant insects.

By seeing the larger than life insects,United States of America anti UFO organisation started to explore the origin of these creatures and they found out that the liquid that got penetrated into the soil through meteorite was the reason for these giant creatures and they also found an interesting fact.Guess what ? They found that the same meteorite got broken into 521 pieces when it was travelling to earth and each piece fell into various places in the world.They also understood that the same liquid is going to give birth to various other creatures which could harm the existence of the human on earth.

Did the liquid give birth to other giant creatures in the world ? Were all the creatures harmful to the mankind and Was the liquid "Pro-V" taken from the meteorite used to help destroy the same creatures? How did this all end ? This forms the crux of this story.

Interesting haa? I was shocked to know that i have dreamt about all this when i got up from my sleep.Its unfortunate that i couldn't sleep for longer to see the end of this story.When i did post analysis of this dream,i came to know that this is called dream interpretation !!! I am sure this dram is not going to leave and Iam sure to be incepted with this story in my future dreams and Iam somewhere confident that i can complete this story !!!

Coming soon with the second half !!!

Orange Audio Review

Orange (2010)

CAST: Ramcharan Tej, Genelia, Shazahn Padamsee

Director : Bhaskar

Producer : Nagendra Babu

Music Director : Harris Jayaraj

Its been months that i waited for a musical album to release this badly and the time has come.Yes ! Orange - Third movie of Mega power star "Ram Charan Tej" is finally out ! This movie comes with a crazy combination - One it comes from RCT who is freshly out from the success of stupendous hit Maghadheera,second there is director Bhaskar (baaski) who delivered superb yet meaningful entertainers like bommarillu and parugu,third its from the "MEGA" production house anjana productions who gave us hits like rudraveena,trinetrudu and baavagaru bagunnara and last but not the least the music for this movie is scored by none other than Harris jayaraj who is famously knows for his haunting melodies.With this kind of combination,obviously listeners will have a tremendous expectations and lets see how the audio fared ?

1.Ola Olaala Ala - ☆☆☆

Artist(s): Karunya, Ranina Reddy

Lyricist: Surendra Krishna, Kedarnath Parimi

Harris Jayaraj is known for starting songs with catching interludes or chorus bits thats stay with you and there you go,the first song of the album starts with a male interlude.This song is a sweet melody that expresses the boys feeling when he falls in love.You will get surprised when you hear to karunya's voice in this song.He sounds different,trendy and modern.He suits to the mood of the song and the chorus adds the necessary peppiness to it.Though the beat is foot tapping,its only good at parts.The new lyricists Surendra krishna and kedarnath are not upto mark and its just normal.Lines like

"Theluskunnadi konchame,aa koncham lone entho nachchave" are good.

The female chorus at times interrupts the flow and it doesnt go well with the song.The best parts of the song are its melody and the way karunya renders it,Listen it to the feel it carries in the last one minute !!

2.Chilipiga - ☆☆☆☆☆

Artist(s): Karthik

Lyricist: Vanamali

Just as you get little disappointed with the opening number of the album,here comes a great melody again.If you can ever wonder how is it possible to make a song with just a guitar,simple orchestration and one great voice,this is the song !! This song again talks about feelings of a guy who is in love,Though the theme may be same,the way harris presents this song is worth an applaud.The tune of the song is so simple that you would instandly fall in love with this number.Lyrics by vanamali are not so exceptional but karthik once again proves that he is at utmost ease in singing these melodies.The musical saxphone piece is outstanding in the song.I really loved the way harris mixed karthik's voice with the female chorus at the very end of the song and as you feel that you really love the number,it comes to an end and trust me you want to hear it again !!!

3.Nenu Nuvvantu - ☆☆☆☆

Artist(s): Naresh Iyer, Nadeesh

Lyricist: Vanamali

As you trying to come out from the mood of chilipiga choostho song,you are presented with yet another great number by the maestro.This time its a breezy melody which talks about a guy explaining to a girl that he is a good lover to her.Sometimes it strikes me real hard the way harris comes up with endless melodies with a very simple orchestration,I think thats when you call a person gifted in music ! I felt naresh iyer was the best choice for this song and he sang this song to utmost perfection with minor pronunciation glitches (exemted for the great singer he is).As always harris trusts on his guitar players,his traditional rythm and a impressive chorus makes this song a pleasent hear.I really liked the way the following lines were written and composed in the song

"Oka sari choosi nenu valachaana,nannu veedipodu ye maguvu ayyina premisthaane entho gaadanga"

"Naa prema lothu lo munigaaka,nuvvu paiki thelave sulabhanga,praanalu ayyina istha yekanga"

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Though harris again uses his nature of mixing the main voice with the chorus of the song,we dont get bored and it adds to the beuty of the song.My personal favourite of the album !!

4.Hello Rammante - ☆☆☆☆

Artist(s): Vijay Prakash, Devan

Lyricist: Rama Jhogaya Sastry

When chilipiga and nenu nuvvuantu takes you through soft melodies,hello rammantu is a fast pacy number which talks about a guy who is immersed in love with a girl.Vijay prakash who sang the very famous "Hosana" from YMC rendered this song and i thought he was the perfect fit for the mood of the song.Though the song has a good tune,the lyrics and the instrumentation is cluttered at parts.Vijay who is originally of a Kannada decent should have had better pronunciation of telugu than the regular Tamil singers but simple mistakes like "chali" instead of "cheli" and "nonnu" instead of "nannu" would have been corrected.Music is simple throughout the song with just a single drum rythm on the background and guitar riffs here and there throughout.The song starts on a good note but goes on a very high tune in the middle and ends suddenly.This song may impress you only because of the strong vocals from vijay prakash.

5.O Range -☆☆☆

Artist(s): Benny Dayal

Lyricist: Vanamali

When it comes to telugu commercial movies,producers tend to add mass numbers to a simple melodious album.This song comes in this genre and it adds the necessary beats to attract the mass audience to this album.Sung by Benny dayal who comes from the AR Rehman school of singers and who is famous for singing some of the good numbers for meastro does a decent job in this song.The music is simple in this song and the lyrics are very normal,espicially the hindi lyrics are not at all up to mark.The song starts on a very normal mode and it gets good as it progresses,thanks to the arabic feel benny gives to his songs.I like the way the following lines were composed in the song

"Ne veyyi sarlu premistha,ne gunde lone prema undi"

"Ne Kotta cherithe ne raastha,naa love lo life undi"

as it sounds different and unique to your ears.I would have loved this song if there were better lyrics and of course a more organized orchestration throughout.On a whole a decent number.

6.Rooba Rooba -☆☆☆☆

Artist(s): Shail Hada, Chinmayee

Lyricist: Vanamali

If you think you are getting bored with the last two songs in the album,Harris comes up with yet another composition that grows on you as you hear it.The way this song starts,it remembers us of many of those pritam numbers in hindi and we also heard a similar song "Kannire olikanu le" from the movie thakita thakita which starts with the same guitar melody.I think harris would have made so many numbers with the same melody but he sounds unique each time and he scores again with this number.Sung by shail hada who is famously known for the title song of "Saawariya" has done a good job in the song.Lyrics are not upto mark again and i really dont like the way lyricists these days are mixing the hindi lyrics on telugu songs and the same happens for this song too.The orchestration is good in parts,mainly the way the guitar melody was introduced with the chorus in the middle of the song.Shail hada is sincere in his rendition and this song grows with the listener and its a good hear.

On the whole,coming with great expectations -ORANGE audio is mixed bag of everything.It has good melodies which can grow on you when you keep listening to them but at the same time it has some numbers which can easily draw back your patience and make you to not listen to the audio.Till date i felt its not the best works of harris jayaraj and Iam sure ORANGE audio would have been much much better if harris would have been a telugu speaker and if he would have used telugu singers.Lyrics are always a problem in telugu albums and the same repeats in this album with some songs being an exception.My picks in the album are "Chilipiga","Nenu Nuvvu antu" and "Hello Rammantu".On a last note,ORANGE is a CD to keep and listen in future for sure.Enjoy Music

Leader Audio Review

Its been a while that i came back to my blog to write an audio review.I had been busy in various other activities and i could not get time to come into my blog.I never stop listening to albums be it Telugu,Hindi,Tamil and Kannada.Iam always on my way for new audio albums.Recently I came across two of such good albums in TELUGU which made me to log into my blog again and review them.I hope i will come with good reviews on both of the albums.Starting with the first one,LEADER was one of the most awiated movies in 2009 just for the reason that it is the launch pad movie of "RANA" son of famour suresh babu of suresh productions.Leader comes from Shekhar kammula and Mickey J Mayor who gave us the famous and fabolous Happy Days.Mickey in my opinion is one of finest musicians in TFI right now and he is a perfect blend of classical,melody and western music.Leader on his way falls to the same pattern of music he scored for HAPPY DAYS and he scores and scores big time.Lets see how did the songs fare.

1.Ma Telugu Talliki - Late Sri Tanguturi Surya Kumari - ****

It takes a lot of guts when somebody tries to remix old patriotic songs.I consider this song from the late tanguturi Ranjya Lakshmi who was an yesteryears actress,singer and also a nephew of Freedom fighter tanguturi prakasam as the national anthem of andhra pradesh.I was pleasently suprised after hearing this song as i thought this could be the best way somebody can remix a patriotic song.Mickey used chorus singers to add freshness to the song and also the famous chinese heavy bell music to add the patriotic feel to the song.One more thing which i liked about this song is the way they kept the original voice in the original music without any manipulation.One of the finest numbers of the album and hats off to shekhar to make us remember of this song.

2.Avunana Kaadana - Naresh Iyer,Shwetha Pandit - *****

When it come to music of Mickey,you cant escape from a haunting melody in his album.This time it comes in the form of this song.Sung by Naresh iyer and Shweta pandit this song talks about a couples feeling when they are in love.This number gives a semi classical feel in a poetic way.Naresh Iyer is a perfect choice for this number and i liked his clear pronunciation of poetic telugu words in the song.Shwetha pandit who does a good job this time too.I feel she is an unlimited source of talent in our country and the last time i liked her very much in a telugu song was in a movie bhaghareetha for a song "OO Prema".We would like to hear more of her in telugu.Lyrics of this song by Veturi aron the other hand does a wonderful job though she did not get much scope to sing.Lyrics are neat as it is and they are poetic and yet simple to understand.Over all a very good melody and easy to hum.

3.Vandemataram - Nakash Aziz - ***

Sometimes when we hear songs of an album,we get to feel and see the movie in its music.Leader is one such a movie as there is a an underlaying pattern of patriotism and a urge for social improvement in all the songs through its music and lyrics.The old Vandemataram song which was written by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay is our is our indian national song.It meant "I do Homage to my mother" .That song talks about true spirit of our nationalism and this song from leader talks about the current situation of our nation.A very nice composition and i though nakash did well for this first telugu song.Nakash Aziz hails from mumbai and he was indian idol 2 contestant and i remember anu mallik in one of the episodes even saying the he sounds exactly like AR Rehman and i even i felt the same way when i heard this song.Though lyrics are inpisring but nakash does not do well in the way he pronounces them.I thought somebody like Karthik or KK would have done more justice to this song.Over all a good song and a better choice of singer than nakash would have made this song a big hit.

4.Rajasekhara - Swetha Pandit - ***

Just as when i thought i wanted to hear more of swetha pandit,i came to this number which was sung by her.Though the song is not that good,the singers voice give some hope to the song.The song is somewhere between a melody and a quawali and it talks about a girl who is fascinated about a guy.I did find some similarity in tune of this song to the Avunana Kadana song of the same album.Lyrics are pretty tough in this song as there is a ride from poetic words to plain telugu words.Swetha does a good job but she could have been more clear in her pronounciation.I think thats a classical problem when the music director and singer is non-telugu and a lyricist is a out an out telugu poetician.On a whole a good number but not enough impressive.

4.Hey CM - Sunitha Sarathy - ***

I always felt there is an uncanny resemblance in the music of Mickey to that of AR Rehman and he always proves me right in each and every album.This song is a perfect example of how mickey can sound similar to AR Rehman.There is an use of strong piano,trumpets and saxo which we normally dont hear in other composers in telugu.Rehman is an expert in these kind of songs which is based on female vocals and also stessing on the "Opera"tic feel while singing the song.Mickey does compose this song well but somehow there is no enough feel to make the song a good number.Lyrics are good as usual by Veturi but Sunitha who normally sings for Rehma sings this song too and her voice is good but her pronounciation is bad at times when she says words like "Parvah Ledhu","Dachinda","dooram".Better feel and improved stress on the words would have made this song a good number.No recos from me but can be heard couple of times.

5.Sreelu Pongina - Aditya, Kranthi, Krishna Chaitanya, Sashi Kiran, Siddharth - *****

Mickey comes alive in this song and this song is one of the best songs in the album and my favourite.One thing i like in mickey is the way he gives chance to the budding singers of telugu film industry.Krishna Chaitanya and Sidharth and other singers in this song are the ones who participated in ETV padutha theeyaga and other such programs and Mickey gave the same team songs like "Jill Jill Jinga" from HAPPY Days and "Kalasalo" from KBL.This time they rock in this song.They sound awesome in their chorus voice.Sreelu pongina is a short and yet wonderful patriotic song which praises about our great political leaders.I personally feel that all the singers in this song have a great future and i would like to see other composers like mani sharma,devi sri prasad giving more chances to telugu singers than singers from other states.Lyrics by Veturi are wonderful and inpspiring and the way mickey used the famouls bamboo flute to get the patriotic feel is amazing.Thanks to mickey for giving chance to budding telugu singers and of course for composing this number.

6.Instrumental - Mickey J Mayor,Balesh

Krishna Ballesh is one of the few best shehnai players in india and iam glad to see him play this instrumental of Maa telugu Talli ki in LEADER.I got inspired when i heard this instrumental song for the first time.Krishna Ballesh learnt shehnai under the guidance of the world renowned Shehnai Maestro Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan.He is the leading Shehnai Artist from South India & has spanned over 15yrs of popularity for his appealing shehnai, he has played for film recordings for famous Music Directors and for some light music live shows for Maestros like M.S.Viswanath, Illayaraaja, A.R.Rahman, MM.Keeravani, Shyam Joseph, Anu malik, Hamsalekha.Over all a treat to hear this song from Ballesh as this album ends with a master piece.

Well,Leader is one such music album which gives a pleasant and thrilling experience and i should say its one of best albums of 2009.Mixed with right qoutients of melody,patriotic feel and good music,i would certainly recommend this album on to the racks.My picks are Avuna Kada na,Vande Mataram and Sreelu Pongina.

Sudheer