Ramayya Vastavayya

After tasting a disastrous flop of 'Shock' , the director Harish Shankar never stepped back , came with a nice movie titled 'Mirapakay' and got a hit.! Then again , he was even more lucky to make a movie with Pawan Kalyan and got a hit too.! But now , apart from 'Gabbar Singh' , his previous works were all screenplay based gripping thrillers. But this flick is not of that genre. Harish tried his level best to showcase Jr NTR in the youngster look and was successful in doing so. But showing some one like that isn't enough for a movie to be a hit. It needs a story and a nice screenplay too. But , I think Harish just missed that small logic and started to concentrate too much on Tiger's look and style than the movie itself , leading to a very dry and unfinished product. The major flaw I found is with the "PROPER" introduction of characters , where Samantha's name is not known till some time in First- Half before the Intermission. And nobody even knows what NTR character's name is , except for his nickname being 'Ram'.! The dances were not of NTR's Trademark style. The music was not at all an asset. And when it comes to BGM , I'd say better forget about it.! NTR maintained his energy and sense of humor all through the First-Half whereas his dark side unfolds in the next half. Samantha was as usual , gorgeous and attractive as a show-piece is. When it comes to Shruti Hassan , It was a blunder by Harish to select her for this role , not at all apt. And upon that , Shruthi giving her own voice for her character , unbearable.! Apart from the strong One-Liners and a nice First-Half , the movie turns out a not up-to-mark entertainer. And once again our Young Tiger fails to prove himself to be a 'Multiplex Hero' as well as 'A Woman's Man'. Too much of blood-shed , not at all recommended for children. Only hard- core NTR fans will like the movie.

Saw this movie after watching Devara. This movie is the best example of how movies once were in Telugu industry. No respect for women, Villains flying into air , Paper-thin plot line and not-so-skilled co-actors. Honestly, if the film falls into the category of films because of NTR and no one else has anything to add to the film. The director thought the audience has no brains and has full of patience and then started narrating the story to the Hero. Although I must say few scenes like the NTR's monologue and Rao Ramesh's character was what made this film a film or this would have easily been the accidental video with non-sensical action. I don't even know why I have given this film 4 stars. It deserves very less than that.

I've seen so many great Bollywood movies, it only figures I'd come across a bad one. I know that Indian movies are long, but this one really did go on too long. The plot just seems to go all over the place. It reminded me of Michael Bay's "Transformers" sequels. Okay, those are still worse than this. There was way too much slow motion and dutch angles being used.

It started off sort of funny, but then just went everything. I guess some of the action was at least creative, but that's not enough to save it. The plot was that a guy fell in love with someone, but there's too many songs to really pay all that much attention to the plot. At least it looks bright. It's nice to know the most prolific producers of movies can make bad ones too. I can't say it's one of the worst films ever made, but I haven't seen "Aag". **

The first half is a complete remake of Punjabi movie "Tera Mera Ki Rishta" released in 2009 with Amrik Gill as the writer. They have made some changes to the second half. Overall the movie was too predictable, acting was OK, only the song with Prabhudeva had a good dance steps, the rest were just OK. Cinematography was good. Both Naseer and Zakir Hussain were wasted, they are such good actors but were miscast. Girish's role was done by Jimmy Sheirgill, Shruti Hassan's by Kulraj Randhawa, Randhir Kapoor's by Anupam Kher, Poonam Dhillon's by Archana Puran Singh, Sonu Sood's by Raj Babbar (who played the girl's father instead of brother) in the original Punjabi movie It would have been better if they had acknowledged that this is inspired from the Punjabi movie "Tera Mera Ki Rishta"

I don't understand how this film can be rated 5.something just like for instance the other telugu masala film Naayak which was really bad.

I enjoyed Ramayya Vasthavayya and I'm not even fond of this type of entertainer. I liked the story - nothing new but well developed, some really nice scenes. There were some funny moments without the annoying unsubtle type of humour you often have in these movies. Acting was good - good performances by Samantha and Shruti Hasaan and a really good one by NTR. Musical numbers were *very* good - great music, I actually really enjoy all the songs that are varied and highly catchy, and the choreographies of course show all the talent NTR has for dancing.

It's entertaining without being dumb. A good masala film.