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Jeevi rating: 3.5/5 Punchline : Man of masses and his mother Genre: Action / Sentiment Type: Straight Banner: Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra Cast : Prabhas, Sriya Saran, Bhanu Priya, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Pradeep Rawat, Venu Madhav, Narendra Jha, Shafi, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Jeeva, Sekhar, Ajay, Arti Agarwal, Surya, Mumaith Khan. Music : MM Keeravani Story : Vijayendra Prasad Dialogues : M Rathnam Lyrics : Veturi, Chandra Bose, Shivashakti Dutta Art : R Ravinder Editing : Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao Cinematography : K K Senthil Kumar Action : Peter Hynes Screenplay - direction : SS Rajamouli Producer : B V S N Prasad Theatrical release date : 29th September 2005

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Shivaji and his family are uprooted from their community in Sri Lanka and wind up as bonded labourers in Visakhapatnam. The situation worsens when his jealous stepbrother enters his life. Shivaji and his family are uprooted from their community in Sri Lanka and wind up as bonded labourers in Visakhapatnam. The situation worsens when his jealous stepbrother enters his life. Shivaji and his family are uprooted from their community in Sri Lanka and wind up as bonded labourers in Visakhapatnam. The situation worsens when his jealous stepbrother enters his life.

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Chatrapathi Review: Bellamkonda Sreenivas Film Tries To Be Salman Khan, Rohit Shetty Movie But Fails

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Chatrapathi U/A

• 12 May 2023 | Hindi
• 2 hrs 10 mins | Action drama
• Starring: Bellamkonda Sreenivas, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Sahil Vaid, Auroshikha Dey, Swapnil kiiran Kotriwar, Rajendra Gupta, Karan Singh Chhabra,...
• Director: V. V. Vinayak
• Music: Tanishk Bagchi

Chatrapathi Review: Bellamkonda Sreenivas starrer Chatrapathi is good on paper but deserved a better execution.

Chatrapathi Movie Review: There comes a scene in the second half of the film when our action hero Shiva (played by Bellamkonda Sreenivas) is seated in his car, confused with the turn of events in his life and tells his friends, “Ye sab kya ho raha hai.” I instantly replied to the on-screen character, “Same, ye kya ho raha hai!” Chatrapathi makes you ask this question time and again, probably every 20 minutes and surprisingly, the film is only two hours and a few odd minutes long.

A remake of the Telugu film of the same name, which released in 2005 and starred Prabhas, Chatrapathi marks Bellamkonda Sreenivas’ Bollywood debut. Helmed by V. V. Vinayak, best known for his action-comedy and masala films, Chatrapathi has Sreenivas sharing the screen with Nushrratt Bharuccha, Sharad Kelkar, Bhagyashree and Karan Singh Chhabra, among others.

The film is dated, set in what seems to be early 2000s — based on the old style phones being used in the movie — and revolves around a boy named Shiva and his half brother Ashok. Born in Pakistan, the siblings and their mother (played by Bhagyashree) are forced to migrate to a small sea-side village in Gujurat in 1985. Unfortunately though, Shiva is torn away from his family due to the chaos unfolding during the evacuation.

Shiva and a few local villagers take help from a powerful village head who orders the migrants to sign their life off to him. Shiva and his friends are forced to be slaves to the village head and performed illegal deeds to ensure their life is spared. Years go by and Shiva’s tolerance to the slavery is often tested. However, he refrains from acting on his anger. Instead, he decides to invest his time looking for his long lost mother and brother with the help of Nushrratt Bharuccha’s character. His search comes to an end soon enough but his hurdles are far from over. The movie follows his fight with injustice against his village folks and his path of reunion with his mother.

Now, I have not seen the original film so I won’t be the right person to compare. However, the concept of Chatrapathi on paper isn’t bad. Typical family lost in a chaos, one child turns good while others bad only to have them go through situations that tests their characters and upbringing formula is a tried and test one in Bollywood. The film’s story writer V. Vijayendra Prasad packs in all the elements and characters to make this a masala watch, even though it seems dated.

However, the screenplay, dialogues and uneven editing makes this film a tad difficult to sit through. Chatrapathi feels like a series of scenes just patched together to ensure timely release. A lot of continuity errors and location errors are visible. You could easily guess a few scenes were not shot in a small village in Bhavnagar (where the story is set) but at a luxury hotel in Mumbai’s Juhu area, leaving us wondering if director V. V. Vinayak even remotely tries to be factually right with the timeline.

Besides the error in locations, props were also conveniently introduced in scenes out of the blue, leaving you confused where it appeared from. For example, just before the climax scene, Shiva declares that he will be leading the village into freedom. While he stands in the rain and delivers the freedom speech at midnight, out of nowhere, an umbrella appears and he is escorted out of the venue underneath it, showing his upgraded prominence. In another scene, wherein Shiva and his lady love are attacked, it is shown that their car is at the edge of the road. However, suddenly, it is in the middle of the road and is surrounded by the enemies’ cars. These scenes feel like a lot was chopped in order to make the duration less and in the process, the makers turned a blind eye to the continuity.

Nevertheless, Chatrapathi boasts of some impressive, slow motion action scenes, a template very common in Telugu films. The action sequence are choreographed well and it surprisingly draws you into the movie more than the drama playing out in the film.

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The biggest disppointment from the film are the main four cast members. It is hard to gauge if it is bad writing or lack of direction focused for Bollywood audience but Bellamkonda Sreenivas, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Bhagyashree and Karan Singh Chhabra deliver uneven performances. Sreenivas tries his best to deliver a Rohit Shetty meets Salman Khan style massy performance and in a few places manages to deliver but there are scenes in which he looks confused about how to emote. The strange switch in scenes — from a relatively sad scene to an instant switch to a song — acts as a hinderance in his performance.

Nushrratt seems like she was roped in only to star in four songs of the film. She has only five scenes in which she is given the scope to act but that also goes by before you could even grasp as to what is going on. Honestly, Bhagyashree deserved a better and toned down role. Her emotional scenes are written so messily that it is difficult to empathise with her. Karan felt weak as a grey shaded brother.

The saving grace of Chatrapathi were Sharad Kelkar, Sahil Vaid, and Amit Shivdas Nair, among others. The cinematography is also kept grand, in order to match the massy vibe of the film.

Bottomline: Chatrapathi is good on paper but deserved a better execution. The film feels like it wants to be a Salman Khan massy movie with a vision of Rohit Shetty but doesn’t goes through with the idea.

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Helmed by VV Vinayak, the movie also features Nushrratt Bharuccha, Bhagyashree, Johny Lever, Sharad Kelkar, Shivam Patil, Freddy Daruwala and others in prominent roles.

Hyderabad : Tollywood actor Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas made his Bollywood debut with Hindi remake ‘ Chatrapathi ’.

The movie which hit theatre on May 12 failed to impress audiences at the box office. However, there is good news for his fans who couldn’t watch the movie in theatres.

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The action-entertainer is available for streaming on Amazon Prime platform from November 21.

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Brando is excellent, as is Okada (notwithstanding his Japanese ethnicity) as the two old friends find themselves on opposing political sides - both right, both wrong

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An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing. An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing. An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.

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Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite : I'd like to interrupt, eh, gentlemen, to point out that the only thing that is clear so far is that there's no clarity at all. So if you don't mind, we'll stop this squabbling and I'll present you with some facts. About three hours ago, there were several people trampled to death, a policeman was pistol-whipped until his face looked like raspberry jam, and the man who represents the person of the president of United States was almost killed, along with his wife, and other members of his party. Now I- I don't mind telling you that I was afraid out there this afternoon, but I didn't know what fear was until this meeting got started. You gentlemen have given me something to think about. Now, here's something for you. Confusion, ignorance, and indifference will cease as of this moment. Information about everything that happens in Sarkhan will kept up to date and that's seven days a week. That's seven days a week gentleman! And Sundays included, and I don't give a damn where you live! And the next time that there are six thousand people that begin a riot, or six people, without this embassy being aware of it, those responsible will be on the first plane out of here with my personal recommendation that they be dropped from the foreign service!

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Focal figure of the story is an American ambassador (Marlon Brando) to a Southeast Asian nation who, after jumping to conclusions in the course of dealing with an uprising of the natives of that country against the existing regime and what they interpret as Yankee imperialism comes to understand that there is more to modern political revolution than meets the casual or jaundiced bystander’s eye. As a result of his experience, he senses that Americans ‘can’t hope to win the cold war unless we remember what we’re for as well as what we’re against’.

Although skillfully and often explosively directed by George Englund and well played by Brando and others in the cast, the film tends to be overly talkative and lethargic in certain areas, vague and confusing in others. Probably the most jarring single flaw is the failure to clarify the exact nature of events during the ultimate upheaval.

Brando’s performance is a towering one; restrained, intelligent and always masculine. Japanese actor Eiji Okada of Hiroshima, mon amour renown, makes a strong impression.

Mass riot scene near the outset of the picture is frighteningly realistic. Art direction is outstanding, with a convincing replica of a Southeast Asian village on the Universal backlot.

• Production: Universal. Director George Englund; Producer George Englund; Screenplay Stewart Stern; Camera Clifford Stine; Editor Ted J. Kent; Music Frank Skinner; Art Director Alexander Golitzen, Alfred Sweeney
• Crew: (Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1963. Running time: 120 MIN.
• With: Marlon Brando Eiji Okada Sandra Church Arthur Hill Pat Hingle Jocelyn Brando

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The Ugly American movie storyline. An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he’s there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism.

He can’t accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman’s advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

The Ugly American is a 1963 American adventure film directed by George Englund, written by Stewart Stern, and starring Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt and Arthur Hill. It is based on the 1958 novel The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The film was released on April 2, 1963, by Universal Pictures.

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Focal figure of the story is an American ambassador (Marlon Brando) to a Southeast Asian nation who, after jumping to conclusions in the course of dealing with an uprising of the natives of that country against the existing regime and what they interpret as Yankee imperialism comes to understand that there is more to modern political revolution than meets the casual or jaundiced bystander’s eye. As a result of his experience, he senses that Americans ‘can’t hope to win the cold war unless we remember what we’re for as well as what we’re against’.

Brando’s performance is a towering one; restrained, intelligent and always masculine. Japanese actor Eiji Okada of Hiroshima, mon amour renown, makes a strong impression. Mass riot scene near the outset of the picture is frighteningly realistic. Art direction is outstanding, with a convincing replica of a Southeast Asian village on the Universal backlot.

Highly controversial, filming in Thailand was okayed only after intervention from President John F. Kennedy. Kukrit Pramoj, who plays Kwen Sai, the prime minister of fictional Sarkhan and served as the film’s technical consultant, later went on to become Thailand’s real-life premier. These bits of trivia provide some additional context for this cold war drama (set in 1960) in which Marlon Brando plays the ugly American of the title, as Ambassador MacWhite to Sarkhan – a fictional country that could pass for any one of a number of real Asian nations.

It’s been 15 years since MacWhite was last in Sarkhan, and his old friend Deong (Eiji Okada) was and is an influential figure. But now, to MacWhite’s bitter disappointment, Deong seems to have shifted his political stance and resents what he sees as America’s imperialist moves. MacWhite sees things differently; he sees America helping to keep Communism out of Sarkhan … The themes of American foreign policy in Asia are crucial to the plot, but since the film is meant to be mass entertainment, the detail is less than comprehensive and the result is a political thriller in an exotic setting. And with honourable intent. It’s relevance is ongoing.

Brando is excellent, as is Okada (notwithstanding his Japanese ethnicity) as the two old friends find themselves on opposing political sides – both right, both wrong. Also notable is Sandra Church as Mrs MacWhite, and the entire supporting cast.

Directed by: George Englund Starring: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle, Arthur Hill, Jocelyn Brando, Kukrit Pramoj, Judson Pratt, Reiko Sato, George Shibata, Judson Laire, Philip Ober Screenplay by: Stewart Stern Production Design by: Marshall Green Cinematography by: Clifford Stine Film Editing by: Ted J. Kent Costume Design by: Rosemary Odell Set Decoration by: Oliver Emert Art Direction by: Alexander Golitzen, Alfred Sweeney Music by: Frank Skinner MPAA Rating: None. Distributed by: Universal Pictures Release Date: April 2, 1963

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A SPECTER is haunting Iraq, the specter of Edward Lansdale. Most American troops now battling Iraqi insurgents are too young to know Lansdale's name. But during the cold war he was the Zelig of Washington's global counterinsurgency effort, squelching a rebellion in the Philippines, plotting the overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba and blocking a potential Communist takeover of Vietnam in the first days of America's involvement. As Jonathan Nashel, a professor of history at Indiana University, South Bend, plausibly asserts in his useful if workmanlike "Edward Lansdale's Cold War," Lansdale's exploits made him one of the few Central Intelligence Agency operatives known to Americans before Congress investigated the agency in the mid-1970's.

A journalism dropout from U.C.L.A. and a former adman with clients like Levi Strauss and Wells Fargo Bank, Lansdale joined the Army after Pearl Harbor. He was recruited into military intelligence by Wild Bill Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the C.I.A. In 1950, Lansdale was sent to the Philippines to quell a growing Communist insurgency. There, he orchestrated what one journalist later called "a brilliantly led counterrevolution," routing the rebels with sound military strategy, good governance and some flaky "psywar" gimmicks that played on villagers' fears of ghosts and vampires. Over the next three years, Lansdale helped to sell his friend Ramon Magsaysay, the defense secretary, to the Filipinos as their next president (even composing one of the campaign songs, "The Magsaysay March") and tried to influence Washington by persuading American journalists to write pieces like "Ramon Magsaysay: Our Best Friend in Asia."

"Do what you did in the Philippines," Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told Lansdale before sending him to Vietnam in 1954. "Lansdale went on to play an immense role in creating and maintaining the new regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam," Nashel writes. In 1956, Lansdale returned to the Pentagon, where he helped develop the counterinsurgency tactics used by the Green Berets and other special forces. John Kennedy thought of Lansdale as America's James Bond, and in the early 60's Robert Kennedy put him in charge of Operation Mongoose, a fantastical $50 million plan to topple Castro that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later characterized as "insane." (Lansdale's scheme to have submarines fire star shells over Havana on All Souls' Day as an omen of Castro's fall was derided by one wag as "elimination by illumination.") Lansdale remained involved with Vietnam, but after the death of Diem in a Washington-backed coup in 1963 and the introduction of American ground forces, he became what one Johnson administration aide called "a public nuisance . . . waiting around in an alcoholic haze for the Second Coming of Magsaysay."

Nashel is interested not so much in recounting Lansdale's life and career as in writing what he calls a "cultural mythography," exploring Lansdale's connection to American cold-war culture. Much of Lansdale's legend draws on the widespread belief that he was the inspiration for the main character in two books featuring an American fighting Communism in Southeast Asia -- Graham Greene's "Quiet American" (1955) and William Lederer and Eugene Burdick's "Ugly American" (1958). Both were defining literary works of the cold war. But Greene vehemently denied any link with Lansdale; his Alden Pyle, he said, was based on another, lesser-known American operative. That didn't stop Lansdale from using the book (which he disparaged as anti-American) to his advantage. Nashel shows how Lansdale collaborated with the Hollywood screenwriter Joseph Mankiewicz to turn the movie version of "The Quiet American" into what Greene called a pro-American "travesty," with the World War II hero Audie Murphy playing the role of Pyle.

But very little distance separated Lansdale from the fictional "Colonel Edwin Hillandale" of "The Ugly American." The novel was a warning that the United States was losing the cold war because of its ethnocentrism and arrogance. It suggested that only culturally savvy Americans like Hillandale, who were willing to take the time to understand the locals and get their hands dirty in the field (hence the "ugly" in the title), were going to be able to turn the tide.

In truth, as Nashel convincingly demonstrates, the folksy, harmonica-playing Lansdale may have been able to befriend Filipinos and Vietnamese, but he remained blind to the profound cultural differences that separated them from Americans. To Lansdale, the American revolutionaries at Concord and Valley Forge would have recognized the Vietnamese as "kindred souls." But his injunctions to Ngo Dinh Diem to imitate George Washington by becoming the father of his country were so maddening that one day Diem shouted at him, "Stop calling me papa!" As Nashel puts it, Lansdale "combined a nearly anthropological interest in the indigenous traditions and concerns of Southeast Asians with a passionate and fatal assumption that those traditions could only be leading in the direction of an American-style democracy."

Lansdale flickered on in the public consciousness after Vietnam, providing counsel to Oliver North in his effort to aid the contras in Nicaragua and conspiratorial fodder for the filmmaker Oliver Stone in his movie "JFK." But however well documented, Nashel's effort to portray Lansdale as purely a creature of the cold war seems misleading, if not mistaken. Some two decades after Lansdale's death in 1987, the flawed assumptions that guided his thinking still thrive. Just ask the American pundits and policy makers fond of calling people like the former Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi the "George Washington of Iraq."

'Edward Lansdale's Cold War,' by Jonathan Nashel James Gibney is the deputy editor of The Times's Op-Ed page.

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Harrison Carter MacWhite is appointed ambassador to the new nation of Sarkhan in Southeast Asia, despite objections from several members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A former newsman, MacWhite is a longtime friend of Deong, revolutionary leader of the government opposition who led the struggle for his country's independence. MacWhite and his wife, Marion, arrive in Sarkhan and fight off a rioting crowd which greets them at the airport. MacWhite contacts Deong and tries to persuade him to end his opposition to Freedom Road, a U. S.-built highway which the rebel leader considers to be an example of Western imperialism. Deong refuses, mouthing propaganda, and MacWhite brands him a Communist and terminates their relationship. He then ignores the advice of Homer Atkins, supervising engineer of the road project, by suggesting to Prime Minister Kwen Sai that they shift the path of the road northward, thereby driving a wedge into the heart of the Communist stronghold. In return, MacWhite assures Kwen Sai of U. S. military support should there be intervention by foreign Communist troops. Deong learns of the plan, aligns himself with the local Communists, and leads a revolt. He succeeds in forcing Kwen Sai to admit defeat, but he is betrayed by the Communists when they bring in outside troops, take over the northern part of the country, and then assassinate him. Before dying, he urges his followers to form a coalition with Kwen Sai and the local government. Realizing that despite his good intentions he has bungled his assignment, MacWhite resigns from his post. He explains in an interview with the press that to help the countries of Southeast Asia, Americans must understand their internal problems before inflicting a way of life upon them. As his words are carried to the United States by television, an uninterested viewer switches off his set.

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Location scenes filmed in Thailand.

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The Ugly American Blu-ray Review

• August 8, 2019

An Examination of National Self

A number of stark images from The Ugly American stand out, doubly so in retrospect. Consider The Ugly American came out in 1963, at the dawn of the United State’s involvement in Vietnam. Suddenly, an image of the American flag and that of a fictional Asian nation (Sarkhan) situated side-by-side, but with dead bodies visible in the space between is outright eerie. Foreshadowing, but for the real world and the war’s eventual quagmire.

Ugly American warned the country – not what or what not to do, rather to approach cautiously. Remembering Korea’s ferocity against totalitarianism and then recent divisiveness of McCarthyism, Marlon Brando stars as the newly elected Ambassador to Sarkhan. Fears of communism force him to take posture, rejecting friends and inciting riots over American brow-beating. It’s sensational political cinema.

Bull-headed Brando sees only the economics and capitalism, not the consequences of power

The script’s merciless honesty is an aberration, coming from a western studio. During a late night visit, Brando heatedly exchanges dialog with a Sarkhan friend, played by Japan’s great Eiji Okada in his only western role. Okada plays a rebel leader, standing for his country as America installs a “Freedom Road” on his land. Bull-headed Brando sees only the economics and capitalism, not the consequences of power. Okada laments, “Your democracy is a fraud. It’s fair to white people only,” a chilling, commanding line with enough power to transcend decades.

Credit a number of films for exposing lies when breaking free of Hollywood’s post-WWII propaganda; the ‘60s produced many, stepping into the counter-culture that came to define a tumultuous decade. Ugly American is one of them. This doesn’t come from a veteran or every man; Brando demands patriotism from a place of authority. Eventually, whittled down emotionally, Brando turns into an apologetic, empathetic figure who understands his country’s egregious mistakes.

With its final frames, Ugly American cuts from Sarkhan to an average living room in the U.S. Brando gives a speech over airwaves, critical of his own actions as much as those perpetrated by the government he represents. Before his final words, the TV is turned off; Brando was about to suggest fault for his nationalist policies and blame the U.S. for inciting war rather than stopping it. How telling to see the TV image shrink to black at that moment. Admitting fault, hearing truth – both continue to evade America, true for Vietnam, then later, the Iraq war founded on a falsehood. National ego and feelings of superiority implant at birth. Brando plays one of the few willing to admit that failing.

Mill Creek brings this Eastman color production to Blu-ray in a fair presentation, and from the looks of it, pulled an older SD master. Resolution simply isn’t here to suggest anything near HD. It’s persistently soft with meager grain washed out by the lack of clarity. Ugly American looks like a digital presentation rather than projected film. The so-so print wavers in terms of damage and dirt; both persist, if not to any distracting tier.

Minimal detail is the result, sagging in definition. Scenery lacks the potency it deserves, although the encode appears up to handling this material. A few close-ups nearly bring out facial detail. Then, it’s lost in the haze of sub-par mastering.

It’s colorful at least. Shots from Thailand locations push saturation high. Western fashion pulls superb density from pastel blues and reds, with high brightness all around. Flesh tones and primaries excel. That’s helped by contrast, perky and pure with stable (if unremarkable) shadows.

Other than a messy action scene with coarse highs and lows, the DTS-HD track keeps integrity. The score holds back, rarely used, but pure for its age.

In some wider rooms with echoes, dialog fidelity lessens. Still, the lines stay audible.

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1963 Directed by George Englund

The most explosive adventure of our time!

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

Marlon Brando Eiji Okada Sandra Church Pat Hingle Arthur Hill Jocelyn Brando Reiko Sato Kukrit Pramoj Judson Pratt George Shibata Philip Ober Carl Benton Reid Stefan Schnabel Judson Laire Yee Tak Yip Frances Helm James Yagi John Daheim Leon Lontoc Bill Stout Simon Scott

Director Director

Producer producer.

Writer writer.

Original Writers Original Writers

Eugene Burdick William J. Lederer

Editor Editor

Ted J. Kent

Cinematography Cinematography

Clifford Stine

Stunts Stunts

George Robotham John Daheim Larry Duran Carol Daniels Paul Baxley

Composer Composer

Frank Skinner

Universal International Pictures

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02 apr 1963, 09 aug 1963, releases by country.

• Theatrical 16
• Theatrical NR Certificate #20329

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Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★

Cinematic Time Capsule 1963 Marathon - Film #14

”If we’re not on the first flight outta here, there’s gonna be hell to pay!”

Can you imagine landing a film role and then finding out that you’ll have to perform in an eight minute drunken debate with Marlon Brando?

I don’t care who you are, that’d scare the hell out of anyone.

And speaking of terrifying…

BONUS POINTS to that stuntman who was in the opening truck crash. I rewound it three times and then examined it frame for frame and I still don’t believe it. What kind of country do we live in that stuntwork like this isn’t considered a major Oscar-worthy category?

”I think you’re a dangerously misinformed man with a sinister notion about what the United States stands for”

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Review by Tyler MacGregor ★★★ 1

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

There’s a stunt pulled off about 5 minutes in that actually made me jump out of my seat and yell “HOLY SHIT." I can’t even begin to fathom how they pulled it off without actually killing a man. That’s a feeling I rarely, rarely feel watching movies today. Unfortunately the film never quite reached that level of hype from me again. I credit it for being very blunt in what it had to say about American foreign policy during a very tumultuous point in history, but it’s storytelling is just so plain and unremarkable. Scene after scene of characters discussing plot and themes with little variation or nuance. None of the actors are really bad, but Marlon Brando is the…

Review by Fint ★★★ 2

Brando sweats! Marlon has put as much attention to the droplets on his brow and the damp stains on his shirts as to his acting in this Saigon-in-all-but-name political drama. Actually, mentioning those whiffs of humidity is unfair to his performance which has flashes of his habitual intensity. The problem is him acting opposite performers who don’t approach his talent. It’s like Gulliver among the Lilliputians. 

All the way through, I was unsure if The Ugly American  was going to defend or condemn Vietnam-style intervention. Brando’s Ambassador character certainly spouts some ugly ideology but the film seems critical of his once friend, now opponent, whom he brands a Communist. There is one long dialogue scene between the two which could have…

Review by Xebeche ★★★½

This movie has absolutely no problem announcing that force-fed democracy abroad is just a smokescreen for financial and militaristic gain. For a movie that was made when the Cold War was at a fever pitch, The Ugly American is admirably blunt and decidedly un-American (by McCarthy's standards). One scene shows a drunken debate between our two leads, Marlon Brando and Eiji Okada, who play old friends torn apart by the interests of the parties they represent. Their argument is an impassioned deconstruction of American naivety, communist paranoia, and every other facet of their competing ideals. The movie has a few of the trappings of American exceptionalism, there's not much of an emotional throughline, and the "prestige picture" efforts are underwhelming, but it exhibits so much empathy and finger-wagging that it has a special "time and place" quality that's worthy of preservation.

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Review by Justin Decloux ★★★

A movie about the Vietnam war, starring Marlon Brandon, directed by the man behind the weirdo western ZACHARIA!?

Ah, it's too good to be true.

A respectable, but straight-faced, tale about how a country's people AREN'T COMMUNISTS, but just want to have the same freedom the good old US of A has. NOT COMMUNISTS. Also, Americans in power are dumb and wrong. Nothing new here folks. Move along.

Review by Sed. Dine ★★★★

The ugliness of being so underrated ...

Like other cinematic oddities as "A Face in the Crowd" or "Johnny Guitar", "The Ugly American" invites for several questionings. Why didn't the film get much more recognition? Why did it fail to reach the same status as a lesser movie like "The Sound of Music"? Why even those who pretend to be movie fans tend to overlook it or didn't even hear about the title? Is it because it's a Marlon Brando picture that is not from the 50's or the 70's? Is it the title? The unknown director: who ever heard of George Englund anyway? The exotic setting that makes it look like another mindless escapist movie?

In fact, the only…

Review by Grandt from Savages ★★

This has its merit, and GOD DAMN was that car stunt in the opening something else. That one guy almost died.

Review by Gabe Rodríguez ★★★★½

"Pretty soon, this country, Sarkhan, is going to end up just the way Cuba did." "Cuba? Cuba is what you've made it."

THE UGLY AMERICAN is a film I’ve always felt is criminally underrated, to the point that I think it should have at least received a Best Picture nomination for 1963. It’s a very in-depth (for its time) look at the failures of US diplomacy.

The film is based on a 1958 novel that caused a lot of political scandal when published; in fact the Peace Corps was established by the Kennedy administration partly as a result of the book. Though, from what I’ve read, the film is a very loose adaptation.

Harrison MacWhite (Marlon Brando) is made the…

Review by Lee Demarbre ★★★

Marlon Brando plays Ambassador Harrison Carter, the new U.S. Ambassador to a fictional South Asian country named 'Sarkan'. Harrison is appointed to the position because his old War buddy Deong is now the leader of the revolution in Sarkan; and hopefully knowing Deong will allow Harrison to negotiate peace. However peace never comes after Harrison meets with Deong and suspects him of now being a communist. "The Ugly American" has a decent first two acts, which Marlon Brando carrying the entire picture; making it seem Brando's star power the only worth while thing about watching the film. However the 3rd Act is strong and the end is satisfying. There is a stunt that goes wrong in the opening of the…

Review by Dave Lee ★★★

A bit of a slow, trudgy thriller; but Brando delivers an absolute killer performance which is solely worth watching for!

Review by The Godfather 🥀 ★★★★

I cannot unsee Brando as The Godfather.

In all seriousness though, pretty good political film, worth checking out.

Review by blossom11_97 ★★★½

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• Post published: August 5, 2019
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(director: George Englund; screenwriters: Stewart Stern/based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer; cinematographer: Clifford Stine; editor: Ted J. Kent; music: Frank Skinner; cast: Marlon Brando (Harrison Carter MacWhite), Eiji Okada (Deong), Pat Hingle (Homer Atkins), Sandra Church (Marion MacWhite), Jocelyn Brando (Emma Atkins), Arthur Hill (Grainger), Judson Laire (Senator Brenner), Kukrit Pramoj (Prime Minister Kwen Sai); Runtime: 121; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: George Englund; Universal; 1963)

“Too talky, conventional, vague and ponderous.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Better known as a TV director, George Englund (“Signpost to Murder”), does only a fair job as he helms this uneven muted political drama, that never quite spells out the hard lessons the best-selling book it was based on said about U.S. foreign policy in Asia; it’s loosely based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer, and is written by Stewart Stern.

It’s set in 1960 in the mythical southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan (most resembles Vietnam), a monarchy with an unstable democracy that’s supported by American aid and arms against Communist advances from the north. Ex-journalist Harrison Carter MacWhite (Marlon Brando) is appointed the new ambassador to the strife-torn country. His arrival causes a bloody anti-American riot at the airport, which has him chew out his staff for being uninformed. MacWhite’s old rice farmer friend from WWII days, Deong (Eiji Okada, Japanese star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour), is now a high-profile political activist who wants the Yankees to go home, and is suspected by many in Washington of being a Communist. Deong’s opposition does not suit MacWhite who endorses his country’s plan to build a ‘Freedom Road’ to the country’s Northern border, which is an important road into the country’s inaccessible interior. The American enemies, which are made up of many different groups, claim it will extend the American influence in the country, and will be used only to support a military effort against the commies in the north.

Their reunion sours over this disagreement, as Deong sides with those who want to see the American-supported regime in the south topple. Kukrit Pramoj plays the calculating Prime Minister in the south. Mr. Pramoj, who doubled as adviser on this project, served as a former Minister of Finance in Thailand and later went on to become Thailand’s real-life premier.

In its liberal message, which is often muddled and diluted, the film offers its take on the ambiguities and problems over cold war politics. It’s well acted, especially by a likable Brando as the ‘ugly American’ who is blinded by his arrogance and gullibility; but it’s still too talky, conventional, vague and ponderous to be more than a modest drama.

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Chatrapathi Review: 2005లో వచ్చిన ‘ఛత్రపతి’ ప్రభాస్‌ను స్టార్ హీరోను చేసింది. ప్రస్తుతం మనదేశంలో హీరోలని మించిన స్టార్ అయిన డైరెక్టర్ ఎస్ఎస్ రాజమౌళి దర్శకత్వంలో తెరకెక్కిన ఈ సినిమా బ్లాక్‌బస్టర్‌గా నిలిచింది. ‘అల్లుడు శీను’ సినిమాతో తెలుగు తెరకు పరిచయమైన బెల్లంకొండ సాయి శ్రీనివాస్ యాక్షన్ సినిమాలతో హిందీ ఆడియన్స్‌లో మంచి క్రేజ్ తెచ్చుకున్నాడు. దీంతో బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్ బాలీవుడ్ ఎంట్రీకి ‘ఛత్రపతి’ రీమేక్‌ను ఎంచుకున్నారు. మాస్ సినిమాలు తీయడంలో సిద్ధహస్తుడైన వి.వి.వినాయక్‌కు దర్శకత్వ బాధ్యతలు అందించారు. టీజర్లు, ట్రైలర్లు యాక్షన్ ప్యాక్డ్‌గా కట్ చేశారు. మరి ఇంతకీ సినిమా ఎలా ఉంది?

కథ (Chatrapathi Hindi Movie Story): శివ (బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్) తన తల్లి (భాగ్యశ్రీ), తమ్ముడితో (కరణ్ సింగ్ ఛబ్రా) కలిసి పాకిస్తాన్‌లో ఉంటాడు. కానీ అక్కడ జరిగిన గొడవల కారణంగా చిన్నతనంలో పాకిస్తాన్ నుంచి వెళ్లిపోవాల్సిన పరిస్థితి ఏర్పడుతుంది. అప్పుడు ఏర్పడ్డ గందరగోళంలో తల్లి, తమ్ముడు తప్పిపోతారు. పడవలో తప్పించుకున్న శివ గుజరాత్ తీరప్రాంతానికి చేరుకుంటాడు. శివతో పాటు ఉన్న శరణార్థులు అందరినీ గుజరాత్‌లోని లోకల్ రౌడీ భైరవ్ (ఫ్రెడ్డీ దారూవాలా) బానిసల్లా చూస్తూ ఉంటాడు. ఒకానొక సమయంలో జరిగిన గొడవలో భైరవ్‌ని శివ చంపేసి ఛత్రపతిగా మారతాడు. ఆ తర్వాత ఏం జరిగింది? భైరవ్ అన్న భవాని (శరద్ ఖేల్కర్) ఏం చేశాడు? శివ తన తల్లిని, తమ్ముడిని ఎలా కనుక్కున్నాడు? అనేది మిగతా కథ.

విశ్లేషణ (Chatrapathi Hindi Movie Review in Telugu): ‘ఛత్రపతి’ కథ తెలుగు ప్రేక్షకులకు కొత్తేమీ కాదు. ఎప్పుడో 18 సంవత్సరాల క్రితం విడుదల అయిన ఈ సినిమాని ఎన్నో సార్లు టీవీల్లో కూడా చూసేసి ఉంటాం. వేరే భాషలో రీమేక్ అవుతుందన్నా ఎక్కువ ఆసక్తి ఉండేది కాదు. కానీ ఒక తెలుగు హీరో, ఒకప్పటి తెలుగు స్టార్ డైరెక్టర్ ఈ సినిమాని బాలీవుడ్‌లో రీమేక్ చేయడమే ‘ఛత్రపతి’ని వార్తల్లో నిలిచేలా చేసింది. బాలీవుడ్ ఆడియన్స్ కంటే ఈ సినిమాను ఎలా తీసి ఉంటారో అని తెలుగు ఆడియన్స్‌కే ఎక్కువ ఆసక్తి నెలకొంది.

కొన్ని క్లాసిక్ సినిమాలను టచ్ చేయకూడదు. ఎందుకంటే మక్కీకి మక్కీ దించినా ఆడియన్స్ అవుట్ రైట్‌గా రిజెక్ట్ చేసే ప్రమాదం ఉంది. గతంలో కొన్ని సినిమాలతో ఇది రుజువు అయింది కూడా. ప్రభాస్ కెరీర్‌లో ‘ఛత్రపతి’ ఒక క్లాసిక్. ‘బాహుబలి’ కంటే ‘ఛత్రపతి’నే బెస్ట్ అనే ఫ్యాన్స్ కూడా ఉన్నారు ఈ సినిమాకి. ఇలాంటి రీమేక్‌ను నెత్తికి ఎత్తుకున్న వీవీ వినాయక్, బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్ దీనికి న్యాయం చేశారా? అంటే దిక్కులు చూడాల్సిన పరిస్థితి. ఒక సినిమాను రీమేక్ చేసేటప్పుడు అందులో ఉన్న ప్లస్ పాయింట్లను మరింత ఎలివేట్ చేస్తూ, మైనస్ పాయింట్లను తగ్గించడానికి ప్రయత్నిస్తారు. కానీ ‘ఛత్రపతి’ విషయంలో మొత్తం రివర్స్ అయింది. సినిమాకి హైలెట్ అనిపించే కొన్ని సీన్లను పూర్తిగా తీసేశారు.

‘ఛత్రపతి’ రిలీజ్ అయినప్పుడు టాక్ ఆఫ్ ది టౌన్‌గా మారింది ప్రభాస్ ఇంట్రో ఫైట్. అప్పట్లోనే షార్క్‌తో ఇంట్రడక్షన్ ఫైట్ చేసి ఇన్‌స్టంట్ గూస్‌బంప్స్ తెప్పించారు రాజమౌళి. కానీ గ్రాఫిక్స్ బడ్జెట్ కోసం కాంప్రమైజ్ అయ్యారో ఏమో కానీ ఇందులో రెగ్యులర్ ఫైట్‌తో హీరో ఇంట్రడక్షన్ ఉంటుంది. హిందీ ఆడియన్స్‌కు ఇది ఓకే అనిపించవచ్చు కానీ తెలుగు వారికి మాత్రం డిజప్పాయింట్‌మెంట్ ఇక్కడి నుంచే స్టార్ట్ అవుతుంది. ఒరిజినల్‌లో ఎంతో బాగా పండిన మదర్ సెంటిమెంట్ ఇందులో అస్సలు సెట్ కాలేదు. ఆ ఎమోషన్‌ను హిందీ ఆడియన్స్ ఫీల్ అవ్వడం కూడా కష్టమే. యాక్షన్ సన్నివేశాలు అయితే ఫ్రేమ్ టు ఫ్రేమ్ దించేశారు. ట్రెండ్ సెట్టర్‌గా నిలిచిన ఇంటర్వెల్ బ్యాంగ్ ఇందులో చాలా సాదా సీదాగా అనిపిస్తుంది.

ఇక సెకండాఫ్ మరింత పేలవంగా సాగుతుంది. విలన్ల పాత్రలు చాలా వీక్‌గా కనిపిస్తాయి. ఇక ప్రీ క్లైమ్యాక్స్, క్లైమ్యాక్స్‌లను అయితే చుట్టేశారు. జయంతిలాల్ గడా ఇంత ఖర్చు పెట్టి రీమేక్‌గా తీసే బదులు ఒరిజినల్ ‘ఛత్రపతి’ని జస్ట్ డబ్బింగ్ చేసి వదిలేసినా ప్రభాస్‌కు ఉన్న హిందీ మార్కెట్‌తో చెప్పుకోదగ్గ వసూళ్లు వచ్చేవేమో. బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్ బాలీవుడ్ ఎంట్రీకి ఒక ఒరిజినల్ మాస్ కథ తీసుకుని ఉంటే ఆడియన్స్‌కు కొంచెం అయినా ఇంట్రస్ట్ వచ్చేది.

సినిమాలో ఒక్క పాట కూడా ఆకట్టుకోదు. అదేంటో ఒకే పాటకు రెండు వెర్షన్లు తీసి రెండూ సినిమాలో పెట్టారు. ‘బరేలి కా బజార్’ పాట మొదట స్పెషల్ సాంగ్‌గా వస్తుంది. తర్వాత హీరో, హీరోయిన్ల మీద చిత్రీకరించిన వెర్షన్ చివర్లో ఎండ్ క్రెడిట్స్‌కు ముందు వస్తుంది. ఇక సినిమాలో ఒక్క సాంగ్ కూడా సరైన టైమింగ్‌లో పడలేదు. తనిష్క్ బగ్చి ఇచ్చిన ట్యూన్లూ ఆకట్టుకోవు. ఇక రవి బస్రూర్ అందించిన బ్యాక్‌గ్రౌండ్ స్కోర్ గురించి ఎంత తక్కువ మాట్లాడుకుంటే అంత మంచిది. ‘అగ్ని స్కలన’ మ్యూజిక్ ఇప్పటికీ రింగ్ టోన్‌గా ఉపయోగించే వాళ్లు ఉన్నారు. కానీ రవి బస్రూర్ ఇచ్చిన రీ రికార్డింగ్ అస్సలు గుర్తుండదు. సినిమాటోగ్రఫీ జస్ట్ ఓకే.

ఇక నటీనటుల విషయానికి వస్తే... యాక్టింగ్ పరంగా బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్ కొంత మెరుగయ్యారు. ‘ఛత్రపతి’ రిలీజ్ అయినప్పుడు ప్రభాస్‌కు అది ఆరో సినిమానే. కానీ ఛత్రపతి పాత్రలోని బరువు మొత్తాన్ని మోశారు. కానీ బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్‌కు ఈ పాత్ర మరీ భారం అయిందేమో అనిపించింది. ఇక తన ప్లస్ పాయింట్లు అయిన డ్యాన్స్‌లు, ఫైట్స్‌లో మాత్రం బెల్లంకొండ శ్రీనివాస్ చెలరేగిపోయారు. ఎమోషనల్ సీన్స్‌లో మాత్రం మరింత మెరుగవ్వాల్సి ఉంది. నుష్రత్ బరుచ అందంగా కనిపిస్తుంది. నెగిటివ్ పాత్రల్లో కనిపించిన ఫ్రెడ్డీ దారువాలా, శరద్ ఖేల్కర్ పర్వాలేదనిపించారు. తల్లి పాత్ర నిడివి తగ్గడంతో భాగ్యశ్రీకి కొన్ని సీన్లే దక్కాయి. తన అనుభవాన్ని ఆవిడ నటనలో చూపించారు.

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ఓవరాల్‌గా చెప్పాలంటే... ‘ఛత్రపతి’ ఒక డిజప్పాయింటింగ్ రీమేక్. ఒరిజినల్ చూడని హిందీ ఆడియన్స్‌కు సినిమా ఏ మేరకు ఎక్కుతుందో చూడాలి. ఒరిజినల్ చూసిన వారు మాత్రం కచ్చితంగా నిరాశ పడతారు.

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• What is the release date of 'Chatrapathi'? Release date of Bellamkonda Sreenivas and Nushrat Bharucha starrer 'Chatrapathi' is 2023-05-12.
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Chatrapathi ott: బెల్లంకొండ 'ఛత్రపతి'కి మోక్షం.. ఇన్నాళ్లకు ఓటీటీలో.

ఈ ఏడాది మే 12న రిలీజైన ఈ సినిమాని థియేటర్లలో జనాలు చూడలేకపోయారు. దీనికి తోడు సోషల్ మీడియాలో విపరీతంగా ట్రోల్ చేశారు. ఆ తర్వాత కొన్నాళ్లకు ఈ మూవీ గురించి మర్చిపోయారు. ఓటీటీలో కూడా రిలీజ్ చేయలేదు. అలాంటిది ఇప్పుడు సడన్‌గా అమెజాన్ ప్రైమ్‌లో స్ట్రీమింగ్ అవుతున్నట్లు తెలిసింది. దీంతో మళ్లీ ట్రోలర్స్ బెల్లంకొండ మూవీపై విరుచుకుపడుతున్నారు. థియేటర్లలో చూడటానికి చాలా కష్టపడ్డారు. మరి ఓటీటీలో ఎలాంటి ఆదరణ దక్కించుకుంటుందో చూడాలి?

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Bellamkonda Srinivas is currently immersed in the shooting of his latest film directed by Sagar K Chandra, known for Bheemla Nayak. Meanwhile, there’s an update on the actor’s debut Bollywood project, Chatrapathi: For The People.

The Bollywood adaptation, an official remake of SS Rajamouli’s super hit Chatrapathi, was released theatrically on May 12, 2023, but it faced challenges at the box office. The latest development is that the movie is now available on Amazon Prime Video. Interestingly, the film had its world TV premiere in August 2023.

Directed by VV Vinayak, the movie stars Nushrratt Bharuccha as the female lead, with key roles played by Bhagya Sree, Sharad Kelkar, Karan Singh Chhabra, Freddy Daruwala, Rajendra Gupta, and Rajesh Sharma. Dr. Jayantilal Gada of Pen Studios is the producer, and Tanishk Bagchi is the music composer for the film.

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