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9:45 am - 10/01/2003

Bellary Report

The first show started at 6 am. The last song of the film (Nayudori Pilla) has got tremendous response. Last 20 minutes of the film is excellent. As per the first show reports, Naaga has got average to below average talk. None of the theaters in Ceded have been given DTS disks so far and the benefit shows were started without DTS disks.

Kurnool Report:

Due to some unknown reasons, the 7 am show got delayed and it started at 8:30 am.

9:30 am - 10/01/2003

Interval Report (from Srinivasa, Mangalagiri) - show started at 7:30 am

Brief Story: Raghuvaran is a low-level employee in a court and NTR (Raghuvaran's son) is a law student. Nazar is the Chief Minister and is a good man. Rajan P Dev, a traitor by nature, is the home minister working under Nazar. The gang of Shakeela and Rajiv Kanakala gets into the house of NTR and injures his father. NTR retaliates and fights against them. That's how NTR enters into student's politics. He proposes a candidate against Shakeela for youth political leader elections. That candidate wins over Shakeela by 9 votes. Meanwhile the CM starts fast-unto-death for the water issue with the central government. In the process, a situation comes where Raghuvaran attempts to immolate himself with kerosene. The opponents take it as an opportunity and throw a lighted matchstick on Raghuvaran, which results in his demise.

Observations:
1. First half-an-hour of the film is good.
2. First fight of the film is pretty good
3. The logic thrown by NTR in court to amend constitutional laws got good response

Over all impression: First half is average

Disclaimer: This information is provided by the fans who watched the film in the theater above mentioned. We depend on those particular individuals in writing this information. We cannot guarantee the veracity of the same!

7:00 am - 10/01/2003

Second half Report (from Ratna Mahal, Ongole)

Brief Story: Second half of the film meanders around politics like Naaga becoming an MLA, the villain (Rajan P Dev) kidnapping MLAs etc. After the climax the CM offers Naaga a ministerial berth, but Naaga rejects by saying that there are lots of seniors who deserve the minister position.

Observations:
1. The order of songs in second half is Megham Karigenu, Entha Chinna Muddu and Nayudori Pilla respectively. Among the songs Nayudori Pilla (Rambha special train song) is highlight of the film.
2. 4-5 dialogues are good in the film
3. The entire film revolves around NTR with none of the other actors getting enough footage. The heroines in the film are disappointments.

Over all impression: In Ongole, the talk of the film for the first half is average. The second half is disappointing. As per the fans report, Naaga is a 50 days film.

5:25 am - 10/01/2003

Interval Report (from Ratna Mahal, Ongole)

Brief Story: The story of first half is about how an energetic law student Naaga gets dragged into student politics and then how he grabs the attention of CM (Nazar) with his plea to amend the laws in constitution. An impressed CM makes Naaga the youth leader of the city. By interval time, Naaga's father (Raghuvaran) gets murdered due to ploy played by some politicians.

Observations:
1. The first three songs in the film are Macerina, Oka Kontepillane and Dhool respectively. First two songs are good and third one is average.
2. The first fight in the film is good
3. There is slack in narration for 20 minutes where heroine is introduced.
4. There is very little role for heroines (Sada and Jennifer)

Over all impression: First half is average

4:15 am - 10/01/2003

The show at Naaga has begun at Ratna Mahal in Ongole at 3:45 am. By now (4:15 am), two songs are over. Interval report from fans expected at 5:30 am.

1:30 am - 10/01/2003

The excitement has begun! NTR's latest film 'Naaga' - where he plays the role of student leader Nagaraju - is releasing with lot of hungama and excitement all over Andhra, USA and UK on 10th of January 2003. We gathered some limited information about how Naaga is going to storm in few towns.

Ongole: Naaga is releasing in Ratna Mahal, Ongole. Benefit shows were arranged at 4 am, 7 am and 10 am with a flat rate of Rs. 80/- per ticket.

Bellary: Naaga is releasing in Nataraj and Uma theaters in Bellary. Morning show would start at 7:30 am.

Kurnool: Naaga is releasing in Kurnool in 5 theaters. Three theaters are located in Venkatesh complex and 2 theaters are located in Alankar complex.

Guntur: In Guntur, this film is releasing in 5 theaters - Krishna Picture Palace, Harihar Mahal, Swamy, Venkatrama and Saraswathy. Due to strict vigilance, no benefit shows were arranged.

Mangalagiri: In Mangalagiri, Naaga is releasing in srinivasa theater. A benefit show was arranged at 7 am with a flat rate of Rs. 50/- per ticket.

We try to get updates from benefit shows on the morning of 10th January 2003 by 7 am. Stay tuned with idlebrain.com