27th October 2003
Detroit

Now its the Nagarjuna's turn to entertain the overseas Telugu movie lovers, I witnessed the huge response at Novi Town Center in Detroit. Being a hard core fan of Nag, I planned to see the movie on the first day, to my surprise by the time I reached at the theatre at 8.30PM, theatre was full, the ticket I got was the last ticket for that show. Exhibitors announced that they were not going to sell the tickets for the last two rows as it is inconvenient to the viewers. Some people took the advance booking for the Saturday and Sunday shows. In USA most of the theaters have only 200 to 250 seating capacity, fortunately this theatre has 500 seating capacity. I felt happy that I spent my time along with other Nag fans, Shivamani is a nice romantic movie and the ultimate attraction of the movie is Nagarjuna, I want to see this movie again tomorrow just for him.

Though it was publicized as mass movie, main theme is based on love story. Another attraction of the movie is the picturization of songs, each and every song in the movie is picturized so nice and everything goes in Puris style. I felt Puri is a talented director who always want to show anything in his own style which takes some time to get liked by the audience. But here in this movie, it is Nagarjuna who forced the Puris impact to reach the audience in the faster way. I am hoping that Shivamani going to be a third hit after his Nags Santosham and Manmadhudu. I want to write more about my experience, but every word is going to praise Nag, then songs. I took some of the photographs in the theater, please have a look.

Thanks and regards
Sateesh Kumar
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