i got a mail from one of my blog visitors, i m staright away posting it here.
Think about REVIEWS before you write -- Srikanth Kondeti
Dear 123Telugu Editor n OTHERS,
First of all, Thanks for your +ve reviews on Magadheera.
I just read about new feature of HIT or PHUT program.
I would like request Shyam Prasad Reddy(I guess the owner of 123Telugu is him) to cooridinate with other people like Jeevi, Sirasri, Ganesh, Sunitha Chow, Prabhu (all reviewers) to STOP review concept. I am not sure how easy that would be in this Internet world? But I am really NOT favor of reviews.
Though its a good or bad review it should not effect the Viewer's mind before they are goto Theatres.
I strongly oppose the concept of reviews. I know that Jeevi had put big impact on Reviews though his reviews in Idlebrain were good. He came with the new concept which is good when the time of Idlebrain launch. But that idea eventually KILLING the Cinema Industry. For the God sake, Telugu people are movie lovers and still going for movie though some times movie got bad reviews like Gopi Gopika n Godavari.
WHO ARE YOU GUYS(Reviewers) decide the movie fate? That should come from the people. There are several bullshit movies which I thought went as Blockbusters and some of them which I thought very good movies bombed at Box office. So movies fate should be decide by PEOPLE and NOT by the ONE or TWO persons.
For EX: (This is NOT reviewers fault)
Gharshana(Tamil remake from Kaka Kaka) -- Very good one become flop
Chandramukhi (Certainly doesn't required Rajni for that) -- Become good hit
SankarDada Zindabad (very good hit in Hindi) -- become flop though it didn't change anything in Telugu
Yamadonga n Vikramarkudu( D graded Comedy romance) -- Became hits
Even in Magadheera (I heard that comedy is bad)
So I am NOT blaming the idea of HIT or PHUT idea by 123Telugu.com. This should ERASE totally from all the sites include Idlebrain.com, GreatAndhra.com, AndhraCafe.com, AndhraVilas.com, CineGoer.com and rest of the sites.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM IF REVIEWER DOESN'T LIKE THE FILM. BUT THAT SHOULD NOT EFFECT MENTALLY TO OTHER VIEWERS/READERS WHILE THEY WATCH THE MOVIE.
LET US NJOY OUR FREEDOM OF THE MOVIE with our own mindset.
You can say if you are NOT care about reviews, why do you Read our websites? Thats CORRECT from your angle. But as a movie lover(I can say better as Oka Cinema Picchodu), I couldn't resist myself to stop watching movie websites. So Excuse me.
Please take +ve side of my intention though I use harsh words.
People say in US, Why do we need to spend $10 per Ticket if movie is BAD?? Thats why Reviews are required. IF YOU ARE DAMN ABOUT MONEY, WHY DO YOU WATCH MOVIE. BETTER DON'T WATCH by depending on Movie Reviews.
Though I am living in USA since 2005, I Strongly OPPOSE THE CONCEPT of REVIEWS because I LOVE CINEMA. CINEMA SHOULD LIVE FOR NEXT GENERATIONS.
Already we are in the situation that we could NOT able to see 100 DAYS anymore in this world. May be in future(20 years later), there will be 25 DAYS CELEBRATIONS if movie becomes SUPERHIT or 15 days celebrations if movie becomes HIT... I guess this will happen if there is Biased Reviews.
Fortunately MAGADHEERA got very good reviews. Otherwise what would be the Fate of Producer? I don't mind about Allu Aravind...(as he got enough money). I CARE ABOUT BUYERS n DISTRIBUTORS who will be on ROADS due to this BIASED REVIEWS..
I am not blaming all the sites are giving Biased Reviews. But I know couple of sites does that.
I HATE REVIEWS idea.... Better STOP these from ALL THE SITES.
Note: (The Impact)
When Yesterday first review about Magadheera(posted by GreatAndhra) came out, I came to know my friend who is distributor's friend here in VA, massive 500 tickets sold online within just 1-2 hours after the review. That really makes the IMPACT.
As movie is +ve, Its appreciated. What would happen if its -ve???
BIG REQUEST:
PLEAE DO NOT POST ANY REVIEW AT LEAST IF MOVIE IS BAD. THANKS TO JEEVI YOU ARE DOING THAT SO. I remember when you did first time for BALU(PawanKalyan movie) as I am aware of. You didn't post the review for a while. At least that is better option.
THINK ABOUT ONE MORE TIME.
PS: I am not connected to any form Cine Industry but I am Movie Lover. (Mainly very big Fan of Chiru and hence fan of Pawan Kalyan, I love him as person more than Chiru)
Thanks & Regards,
Srikanth Kondeti
VA, USA
Think about REVIEWS before you write -- Srikanth Kondeti
Dear 123Telugu Editor n OTHERS,
First of all, Thanks for your +ve reviews on Magadheera.
I just read about new feature of HIT or PHUT program.
I would like request Shyam Prasad Reddy(I guess the owner of 123Telugu is him) to cooridinate with other people like Jeevi, Sirasri, Ganesh, Sunitha Chow, Prabhu (all reviewers) to STOP review concept. I am not sure how easy that would be in this Internet world? But I am really NOT favor of reviews.
Though its a good or bad review it should not effect the Viewer's mind before they are goto Theatres.
I strongly oppose the concept of reviews. I know that Jeevi had put big impact on Reviews though his reviews in Idlebrain were good. He came with the new concept which is good when the time of Idlebrain launch. But that idea eventually KILLING the Cinema Industry. For the God sake, Telugu people are movie lovers and still going for movie though some times movie got bad reviews like Gopi Gopika n Godavari.
WHO ARE YOU GUYS(Reviewers) decide the movie fate? That should come from the people. There are several bullshit movies which I thought went as Blockbusters and some of them which I thought very good movies bombed at Box office. So movies fate should be decide by PEOPLE and NOT by the ONE or TWO persons.
For EX: (This is NOT reviewers fault)
Gharshana(Tamil remake from Kaka Kaka) -- Very good one become flop
Chandramukhi (Certainly doesn't required Rajni for that) -- Become good hit
SankarDada Zindabad (very good hit in Hindi) -- become flop though it didn't change anything in Telugu
Yamadonga n Vikramarkudu( D graded Comedy romance) -- Became hits
Even in Magadheera (I heard that comedy is bad)
So I am NOT blaming the idea of HIT or PHUT idea by 123Telugu.com. This should ERASE totally from all the sites include Idlebrain.com, GreatAndhra.com, AndhraCafe.com, AndhraVilas.com, CineGoer.com and rest of the sites.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM IF REVIEWER DOESN'T LIKE THE FILM. BUT THAT SHOULD NOT EFFECT MENTALLY TO OTHER VIEWERS/READERS WHILE THEY WATCH THE MOVIE.
LET US NJOY OUR FREEDOM OF THE MOVIE with our own mindset.
You can say if you are NOT care about reviews, why do you Read our websites? Thats CORRECT from your angle. But as a movie lover(I can say better as Oka Cinema Picchodu), I couldn't resist myself to stop watching movie websites. So Excuse me.
Please take +ve side of my intention though I use harsh words.
People say in US, Why do we need to spend $10 per Ticket if movie is BAD?? Thats why Reviews are required. IF YOU ARE DAMN ABOUT MONEY, WHY DO YOU WATCH MOVIE. BETTER DON'T WATCH by depending on Movie Reviews.
Though I am living in USA since 2005, I Strongly OPPOSE THE CONCEPT of REVIEWS because I LOVE CINEMA. CINEMA SHOULD LIVE FOR NEXT GENERATIONS.
Already we are in the situation that we could NOT able to see 100 DAYS anymore in this world. May be in future(20 years later), there will be 25 DAYS CELEBRATIONS if movie becomes SUPERHIT or 15 days celebrations if movie becomes HIT... I guess this will happen if there is Biased Reviews.
Fortunately MAGADHEERA got very good reviews. Otherwise what would be the Fate of Producer? I don't mind about Allu Aravind...(as he got enough money). I CARE ABOUT BUYERS n DISTRIBUTORS who will be on ROADS due to this BIASED REVIEWS..
I am not blaming all the sites are giving Biased Reviews. But I know couple of sites does that.
I HATE REVIEWS idea.... Better STOP these from ALL THE SITES.
Note: (The Impact)
When Yesterday first review about Magadheera(posted by GreatAndhra) came out, I came to know my friend who is distributor's friend here in VA, massive 500 tickets sold online within just 1-2 hours after the review. That really makes the IMPACT.
As movie is +ve, Its appreciated. What would happen if its -ve???
BIG REQUEST:
PLEAE DO NOT POST ANY REVIEW AT LEAST IF MOVIE IS BAD. THANKS TO JEEVI YOU ARE DOING THAT SO. I remember when you did first time for BALU(PawanKalyan movie) as I am aware of. You didn't post the review for a while. At least that is better option.
THINK ABOUT ONE MORE TIME.
PS: I am not connected to any form Cine Industry but I am Movie Lover. (Mainly very big Fan of Chiru and hence fan of Pawan Kalyan, I love him as person more than Chiru)
Thanks & Regards,
Srikanth Kondeti
VA, USA
This is not first time when so called "care-takers" of telugu cinema industry complain abt the reviewing process by internet websites.
Firstly, it has to be noted that, people dont believe any stupid guy's reviews. People believe the reviews of the reviewers whom they have trusted for years and who give genuine reviews. We believe them because their opinion matches with that of us.
And people want to know abt the movie before-hand they go to the theatre bcoz they want decide on whether they can actually sit and watch the movie...!!! For example, there are many films (of good directors and actors) which cannot be watched with a family.
If the author of above post thinks that every movie has to be watched so as to keep the telugu film industry alive, then producers will start producing really crap movies, thinking people are really fools and they watch it no matter how bad it is..!!!
so lack of reviewing process actually kills the "creativity" of producers and directors, which I believe, is the backbone of any art industry.
The author expressed the concern of the fate of distributors and buyers. If a producer truly produces a movie for art sake, then he should return money to distributors and buyers, when a movie is flop.
Reviewing process keeps reminding producers and directors that people wont watch their movies if they make bad films. And we would want to waste our time and money to decide it is a bad film. Reviewers do it for us.
Reviewing is like journalism. D0 you read editorials in newspapers..? If reviewing has to be stopped, then such newspapers' editorials should also be banned.
That is it..!!