'Mahesh Kaleja review

Prince Mahesh Babu’s 'Mahesh Kaleja' has arrived with several anticipations. The last time Mahesh Babu appeared in Telugu movie was for Athidhi.  Hence, seeing him on the big silver screen and 'Mahesh Kaleja' review is the much awaited word and understandably so for film lovers.

So let’s uncover to read the 'Mahesh Khaleja' movie review. GK (Prakash Raj) is a business tycoon and plans to establish a plastic factory in Paali village. He discovers that the land in Paali has Iridium (worth more than gold) through a researcher. For that, Hence, GK plans to get his son’s marriage with Tanikella Bharani’s daughter Subhashini (Anushka) so that their business can prosper unlawfully.

And GK tries to evacuate the people in Paali (through a superstition) so that he can acquire Iridium land. Cut across, Seetharama Raju (Mahesh Babu) is a cab driver. The plot unveils as how this nowhere related Seetharama Raju saves the lives of the 534 people in Paali.

Writer turned Director Trivikram Srinivas is known for his candy floss and humor quotient, but he unveils a different fairy-tale in the form of an action entertainer Kaleja. It’s Mahesh Babu all the way in Khaleja, which turns out to be an average film.

Mahesh Babu’s characterization is being shown in a completely different dimension. Trivikram once again comes up with an attractive script that aptly suits Mahesh Babu. In fact, Mahesh Babu has not done such a unique character thus far in his career. Mahesh Babu shoulders the responsibility and carries the feel of his character very well in this narration.

While the conflict point and plot were reasonably strong, the screenplay and pace in which the story took off was not as expected. However, since the lead protagonist being Mahesh Babu, the strength in the conflict point was not badly affected who carried well.

Mahesh Babu’s action sequences were well made and he does with Bachchan-like naturalness. Having said all these, Mahesh Kaleja is certainly not a film that should be made with a whopping budget of 40 crores and short in 3 years. Trivikram once again carries the same humor dimensions with Sunil, Ali and Brahmanandam.

However, all the giddiness in the plot does not dilute the big bang. Trivikram Srinivas manages to sustain the subtlety element in the first half, which is exciting and humors (Like he earlier did in Nuvve Nuvve and Athadu). But the second half could not accommodate the same pace. There should have edited the second half, which would have increased the tempo.

Amidst huge ticket-stub flinging and loud cheers, Mahesh Kaleja manages to create a decent persona to watch. Mahesh Babu is very handsome and elegant. His stylish looks and trendy costumes once again make him a teen heartthrob. True to his image of Prince Charming, Mahesh Babu mesmerizes with this on-screen presence.

His action episodes are great and his body language is very energetic. Anushka, as a demure damsel, is attractive. Her essential impishness fits the role to the T (tee). However, she needs to improve her expressions in emotional scenes. Rao Ramesh does well as a foreteller – almost the same character like he did in Magadheera. Shafi also did well as Rao Ramesh’s disciple.

Prakash Raj and Thannikela Bharani are adequate. Yash Bhatt has done a phenomenal job - The camera angles tight close shots, lighting effects and camera movements. His cinematography is on top, gritty and classy. Mani Sharma’s music was not great except for two songs - particularly the Om Namo Siva Rudraya song is absolutely brilliant.

But re-recording in action episodes is good. The action sequences of Peter Heins are spell-binding. Editor Sreekar Prasad perhaps could have done a better job in the second half where the actual plot would be unveiled. It’s a tough call nevertheless for him.

All things considered, Mahesh Kaleja turns out to be an average movie. With gigantic expectations and surge in the fan base, Mahesh Khaleja comes with huge expectations, but the screenplay and the pace, coupled with an unnecessary song in the second half makes it a typical movie. But boy, watch out for Mahesh Babu’s characterization.

Yeddyurappa sacks two more ministers

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday dropped two more dissident ministers from his Cabinet.

The dropped ministers are Minister for Municipal Administration Balachandra Jarakihole and Minister for Fisheries Anand Asnotikar.

With this, the number of dissident ministers dropped from the ministry since Wednesday has risen to six.

Earlier,Yeddyurappa dropped four ministers including (Textiles Minister) Venkataramanappa, (Minister for Agricultural Marketing) Shivaraj Thangadagi, (Youth Services and Sports Minister) D Sudhakar and (Animal Husbandry Minister) P M Narendraswamy.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party has asked senior leader Venkaiah Naidu to intervene. He has been rushed to Bangalore to help resolve the issue within the state government.

Naidu is expected to mediate between Yeddyurappa and the rebellious MLAs, who have withdrawn support from the government.

Nineteen MLAs on Wednesday handed over a letter to the Governor, withdrawing their support. They are reportedly unhappy over the recent Cabinet reshuffle in which six new ministers were inducted.

Following, the withdrawal, the Governor has asked Yeddyurappa to prove his majority by October 12.

Despite the crisis, Yeddyurappa seemed confident and said he'll prove the majority by October 11, a day ahead of the Governor's deadline of October 12.

"I talked to the Governor... the house will meet on October 11... the MLAs who have gone out of town will be back soon. I am confident of proving majority, " said Yeddyurappa.

In the 224-member Assembly, BJP and independents together had the strength of 123 members. With Wednesday's developments it has been reduced to 104 members. The BJP now requires the support of 113 members to prove its majority.

The BJP earlier had 117 MLAs including the Speaker, followed by Congress 73, JDS 28 and independents six.

Delhi can host Olympics, says Sheila Dikshit.

Delhi can host the Olympics - the greatest international sporting event, says Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, deriving confidence from hosting of the Commonwealth Games and seeking to put behind the controversies surrounding it.

Notwithstanding cynicism associated with the build-up to the Commonwealth Games, Dikshit pointed out that Delhi has already developed world class stadia and other infrastructure and the city is now "confident" of hosting Olympics.

"Yes, I think so. Yes, we can. We are confident (of hosting Olympics)" she said in an interview, when asked whether the city would be able to host the biggest sporting event.

Her assertion assumes significance as questions had been raised by some quarters whether India has the capacity and capability to host a mega sporting event like the Commonwealth Games in which 71 countries are participating.

However, Dikshit made it clear that the decision to host the Olympics rests with International Olympic Committee and Government of India.

"That's not a decision for me to take. We naturally feel more confident but the decision will have to be taken by the Olympic committee... Then Government of India has to say (take the decision)," she said.

The Indian Olympic Association and the Sports Ministry have been at loggerheads on bidding for the 2020 Olympics.

Despite the controversy-marred build-up to the Games, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge last week had said India has set a "good foundation stone" for an Olympic bid in future. Explaining her confidence about the city's capability to host the Olympics, the 73-year-old Chief Minister said Delhi now has 15 top class stadia which were of international standard, besides other world class infrastructure.

"Look at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium and any other stadium. They all are absolutely world class. Nobody is complaining about the venues. No player is complaining. Everything was ready before start of the Games," she said, terming criticism in the run-up to the event as "premature".

Dikshit said the Tyagraj stadium, venue for netball events, built by the city government is one of the best stadia in the world.

"We built the stadium from scratch. It is now one of the best stadia in the world," she said.

Spread over an area of 16,000 square metres, the Thyagaraj Stadium has been built with the latest green building technologies and eco-friendly material. The stadium is India's first eco-friendly sports complex.

Asked about the cynicism and delays in some of the projects, Dikshit said the criticism was "premature" and media went a "little overboard" in criticising the preparations.

"Everything is ready before the Games. If you had made it six months earlier or 10 months earlier, they were not going to be used anyway... Now we got maximum number of athletes among all the Games," she said.

She acknowledged that she had gone through "anxious moments" when there was widespread criticism and questions were raised over the preparedness as India's image was at stake but asserted that she never lost hope.

Dikshit, who is the Chief Minister for the third consecutive time, equated preparation for the Commonwealth Games to winning elections.

Telangana issue: BJP seeking to regain its lost glory in AP

The BJP is seeking to regain its lost glory in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh by vigorously taking up the cause of a separate state as well as issues relating to people in the region. Telangana was once considered a stronghold of BJP with a sizeable number of its senior leaders like Ch Vidyasagar Rao and Bandaru Dattatreya making a mark even at the national level and working as union ministers in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

The national party''s influence, however, waned gradually after it aligned with the Telugu Desam Party in the late 1990s. Luck did not favour BJP even after it snapped ties with TDP and raised the Telangana slogan again after 2004.

In the 2004 and 2009 elections, the BJP had to be content with just two seats each in the state Assembly while drawing a blank in Lok Sabha. The state party president G Kishan Reddy is representing Amberpet Assembly constituency in the city here and Nizamabad seat was represented by Lakshminarayana.

While the party has not much base in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, its influence has eroded significantly in coastal Andhra after it started espousing the cause of Telangana. BJP leader from coastal Andhra M Venkaiah Naidu too has become an advocate for bifurcation of the state much to the chagrin of the party rank and file in Andhra-Rayalaseema regions.

V.V.S.Laxman

At his sublime best, VVS Laxman is a sight for the gods. Wristy, willowy and sinuous, he can match - sometimes even better - Tendulkar for strokeplay. His on-side game is comparable to his idol Azharuddin's, yet he is decidedly more assured on the off side and has the rare gift of being able to hit the same ball to either side. The Australians, who have suffered more than most, paid the highest compliment after India's 2003-04 tour Down Under by admitting they did not know where to bowl to him. Laxman, a one-time medical student, finally showed signs of coming to terms with his considerable gifts in March 2001, as he tormented Steve Waugh's thought-to-be-invincible Australians with a majestic 281 to stand the Kolkata Test on its head. But even though he had another wonderful series against the Australians in 2003-04 with two centuries, one of them involving a back-from-the-dead, match-winning, 300-plus partnership with Kolkata ally Rahul Dravid at Adelaide, he hasn't quite managed the consistency that could have turned him into a batting great. Between dazzling and sometimes workmanlike hundreds, he has suffered the frustration of numerous twenties and thirties and has lost his place in the one-day side. Nothing, though, has deterred him from tormenting his favourite opponents with silken strokes and piles of runs: in the course of the double-hundred at Feroz Shah Kotla in 2008, he became the second Indian batsman after Tendulkar to score more than 2000 runs against the Australians.


Full name Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman

Born November 1, 1974, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Current age 35 years 339 days

Major teams India, Deccan Chargers, Hyderabad (India), Lancashire

Nickname Very Very Special

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Education Little Flower High School, St. John's School

India says is now third highest carbon emitter

Jairam Ramesh's comments come as negotiators from nearly 200 governments meet in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin. The U.N. talks aim to reach

agreement on what should follow the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol, the key treaty on climate change, which expires in 2012.

Indian per-capita emissions are still low but demand for energy is rising as the middle-class buys more cars, TVs and better housing. Much of that energy

comes from coal oil and gas, the main sources for planet-warming carbon dioxide.

But Ramesh said India's rush for wealth could not come at the expense of the environment.

Officials said his comments are the first time a government minister has said India has overtaken Russia as the third-largest source of greenhouse gas

emissions.

"We will unilaterally, voluntarily, move on a low-carbon growth path. We can't have 8-9 percent GDP growth and high-carbon growth," Ramesh told reporters on

the sidelines of a conference in the Nepalese capital.

"It has to be low-carbon 8 percent, 9 percent growth and that is the objective that we have set for ourselves," he said.

Poorer nations are now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and many big developing countries have taken steps to curb the growth of their

emissions but say they won't agree on absolute cuts, fearing this will hurt their economies.

India weathered the global financial crisis better than most, and is setting its sights on economic growth of almost 10 percent over the coming years. Its

economy currently grows at around 8.5 per cent.

"We are the third largest emitter of the greenhouse gases in the world ... China is number one at 23 percent, the United States is second at about 22 percent

and India is number three at about five percent."

GREENER PATH

In India, any talk of a low-carbon economy was once seen as politically very risky, given the economic costs involved. But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in

January asked a panel to begin charting a path to a greener economy. The report is expected by the year-end.

Although India has announced a new climate plan which identifies renewable energy, such as solar power, as a key element, coal remains the backbone of energy

supply in a country where almost half the 1.1 billion population has no access to electricity.

"The gap between the second and the third (highest emitters) is very very high, but nevertheless we need to be conscious of our contribution," Ramesh said.

The fraught U.N. talks have been hobbled by lack of trust between rich and poor nations over climate funds, demand for more transparency over emissions cut

pledges and anger over the size of cuts offered by rich nations.

The risk of the talks stalling is so great that the United Nations has stopped urging nations to commit to tougher pledges to curb carbon emissions, fearing

further debate could derail already fraught talks on a more ambitious climate pact.

Anand Mahindra donates USD 10 mn to Harvard University

Mumbai, Oct 4 In one of the "largest gift" for the Harvard''s Humanities Centre, the University today said that its alumnus and Mahindra and Mahindra''s

Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Anand Mahindra, has given it USD 10 million in honour of his mother Indira Mahindra. The University has claimed that the

grant was the "largest gift" for the study of humanities in Harvard''s history and would advance the unique interdisciplinary collaborations led by Centre

Director, Homi Bhabha, a statement said.

Mahindra had graduated from Harvard in 1977 and earned an MBA degree in 1981. "This remarkable gift is a significant affirmation of the importance of the

humanities and the central place of the liberal arts in the University," Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History''s President, Drew Gilpin Faust,

said.

Faust said that the grant had come at a time when it was vital to bring a humane and critical perspective to the urgent questions that confront the world.

"To address complex problems in an interdependent world, it is vital to encourage the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in an

international setting.

I am proud to be part of the intellectual legacy of India''s contribution to global thinking across the arts, culture, science, and philosophy. "I am

convinced of the need for incorporating social and humanistic concerns into the core values that inform the world of business and have sought to do so with

tremendous support from my peers and colleagues at work and beyond," Mahindra said.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday the country could not have high economic growth and a rapid rise in carbon emissions now that the nation

was the number three emitter after China and the United States.