Thikka, Directed by Sunil Reddy, Story and Screenplay by Sheik Dawood G, getting released in August

I'am very happy to announce that, Thikka the Telugu film starring Sai Dharam Tej, for which I had written the story and screenplay is going to get  released in August. Here is the Teaser of the film. Please do watch it and share it.
Love you all.

Thikka Movie Teaser

Express Raja, Super Hit - Thanks everybody

I have been here in Hyderabad since 2011. Telugu Film industry has given everything that what i have today, and made me into a person as what i am today, thanks for that. Today i am very proud to say that, i come from the school of Director Krishna Vamsi garu. I worked with Director Krishna Vamsi garu for almost a year on Mogudu, that was a great learning experience from the master himself. I am thankful to him for giving me a identity and a passport to enter into this industry. It is that knowledge which has brought me here today. I owe him a lot.
All the credit of success goes to Mr. John. E sir, my teacher, who has always been standing beside me, and been showing me the right path, without whom i would have never met Director Krishna Vamsi garu. Thank you sir.
Gandhi is more of a brother than a friend to me. I remember the days when we use to live in a 10 X 10 room for almost a year at Venkatagiri, when we were writing Venkatadri Express. That turned things up side down. Nothing speaks like success, Gandhi brought that very 'success' in to my carrier. Thanks so much brother.
We have come a long way since then. The journey after Venkatadri Express was as fun and  racy as Express Raja. Those two years of working on Express Raja was one of the best experiences i ever had writing a film. I am very thankful to Gandhi for giving a second hit in row, and adding one more success into my story. Thanks machi..
Thanks to everybody for recognising and liking our films. Love you all. Thanks to the Cast and Crew of Express Raja, who really made it happen.
I hope and wish to get  the same love and support from audience for all my future projects. I have three more releases this year as of now Thikka ( starring Sai Dharam Tej garu,  Story and Screenplay, in Telugu), a Hindi film (untitled) and a Marathi film (untitled).
All this would have not been possible without the support of the audience, thanks so much. Love you all.
Thanks to my friends, family and well wishers, for all the love that they have been showering on me all these days. Love you all. Thank you...............

Paradesi - Climax, just a thought

As a writer i couldn't stop myself  thinking about the climax. Bala had a lot of options to end the film. 

One, is the usual way of killing the villains (this would have become very usual one). 

The other one would have been: the villains keep the small girl kid, so that she can repay the debt of  her dad and mom, and send hero as he is no more useful (for this hero should have done two three escape attempts earlier and each time the villains punish him so cruelly that he becomes useless). Hero refuses to leave with out the kid, he gets bashed up and thrown out. Hero walks along with the crowd of slaves who were thrown out and that's when the new batch of slaves arrive. Hero leaves the guarded gate of the estate as the last person in the crowd that leaves the estate and he turns around to look at the estate for the last time and finds heroine entering inside the gate with the kid and they meet(same as whats there in the film once they meet). this would have give more twist to the drama, but will make you forget the pain the characters suffered and just escape with the wow factor. 

But Iam sure they would have defanately thought of all the possibilities, but you really need not just a gut but also a conviction to choose such a climax, because it was a very minimalistic climax, but you carry it with you when you leave the theater. he just wrote whats required for the film, for which you really need clean conviction. every film maker should learn this, may be it comes with time i don know.

why i thought of putting this as a post is that, i have been working with a lot of first time directors and what i see is that they want to put everything that they have thought all their life in one single film(the first film) and forget what the film is all about. just a thought.

HTC one v, hands on

http://flpbd.it/o4nPy  the new HTC 1v, amazing phone of this season. Ice cream sandwich rocks, only issue is that the 1Gh processor is sluggish, may be the later update will help. Iam happy buying this in exchange of my htc sensation, which had issue of moisture entering inside because of sweating, it can not stand the heat of the chennai's 

Aravan, movie review

i saw this film called Aravan two days back.
1. the first 45 min of the film is not required. if you chop of the first 45 min still the film will tell what he wanted to tell.
2. the kind of tamil ascent they have used is belongs to a genre of film called 'Madurai film', i don know whether this is the kind of tamil they use to speak in those days, which ever days they were talking about. thank god no character spoke in chennai tamil.
3. full repeated scenes. they go steal, they go to steal, they go to steal, psaupathy is saved by adhi, pasupathy is saved by adhi, pasupathy is saved by adhi, adhi is saved pasupathy, adhi is saved by pasupathy and so thats the first 45 mins of the film. plus another 45 mins they spent in the crowd of people walking, moving and standing in front of the god statue. rest is the film.
4. when you know that you can not do proper cg work, either you should bring in good cg artists or you should not try. i think the cg artist worked in this film were picked up from some streets, where they were begging for some  work. if they could have spent two biryani packets and a bottle of water per cg artists, they could have got some better work. the scene where the second theft happenes and the tree is cut and the bull chase scene is pathetic cg work, who ever did that work should have run away from this country by now,, or else people will sure throw stones on them if come to know that they are the one.
5.last but not the least adhi and the producer were completely cheated by the director with big talk of tamil sentiments. what kind of tamil sentiments is this. such a tamil sentimental guy should have done some research and found what kind of language they were speaking those days, and could have found a better way to represent community than making some shit film about thieves.
6. this is a very good proof that just giving tamil sentiments or by characters growing long hair will not make a film run, or by colouring the characters teeth(pathetic colour).
7. the screenplay end of the day was very loose.
8.a crime mystery  in the olden days, with the same language as what we speak today, with bad cg work, bad make up and repeated scenes, where the hero gets fucked in the end some how is the story of the film, and some characters with colourful tooth.
8. iam really sorry vasantha balan, it was very bad and disappointing, and a waste of money, energy and time.

It's been one year, thanks everybody

Its been exactly one year ever since i moved to telugu industry. its been a great experience. it would have not been possible for me to survive or even get into it, if some people were not there. iam extremely thankful to those. Hariharan sir, LVP film and television academy, the other staffs and student (more than i taught, i learned a lot at LVP), my guru and godfather John.E sir (what ever little bit of film making i know, is from him), director, Krishna Vamsi sir, for taking me in for Mogudu (what ever i learned from him on indian cinema, i could have not learned from any one else).
thanks to bheem, dialogue writer for Mogudu, who helped me to get a better understanding of telugu films.
thanks to my family, for bearing with me for so long.
Thanks to all my friends (prem n family, swathi, varadan, saravanan, karthikeya manikandan, daniel balaji, arun, hyd : kosi mayan, ram and pavi,  special thanks). and all other friends and dudes.
iam on to my third project in telugu....thanks everyone. thanks telugu industry, love you.
thanks to all the hotels and guest house in jublee hills, banjara hills, film nagar and krishna nagar, where i stayed for 7 months. thanks to every one at first lancer road :) where i spent  four months.
thank you everyone.

Elam Arivu (7th sense)

I just saw the film at IMAX paying 250 bucks, so i felt i had the right to write a review of this film, that's the only reason iam writing it.

1. Bodhidharma story was good, but who ever was involved in the research of him from the direction department was just lazy that he/she went through four or five websites and wrote his story.
Why did he go to China from the south end of India, that's a long journey ?...............
2. The modern time Surya, Circus guy, the character was good. How come he understood about DNA and other scientific things in just one conversation and got convinced ?
3. China pavam (so pity), they spoiled their Government's name, they even gave permission to shoot in their country, without knowing that this film is going to spoil their Govt's name.
4. Amazing science that a DNA can be changed or manipulated by putting some one in a water tank with some wires. And Genetic engineers with no help from a doctor can do it, that's amazing. How did he become Bodhidharma, how did his DNA change.
5. The most amazing mistake they did was that they din know that DNA can not store peoples skill which is got out of training like Karate, kungfu or even the knowledge on medicine.
DNA AIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO how could you change some's DNA by dropping them in a water tank with blue light.
6. That chinese guy Hypnotises people, ok, but he also tranfers his knowledge of his fighting skills to people and the common man who has no knowledge and skill fights, amazing.
7. They spent atleast 30 min explaining some scientific terms, most of them were wrong.
8. Patriotism, that was a cheap stunt to save the film.
9. The last speech, or so called message, if that was the purpose, they could have sent the message through SMS, THEY DIN HAVE TO WAST 80 crores.
10. Last but the waste, IIT spoiled its own name by giving permission for a DNA research that can change some one DNA from 80% of Bodhidharma to 100%, woooow they have such facilities, a blue water tank.

On top of all this, the pace of the film din match in most of the sequences, may be they should have atleast tinkered by having the Bodhidharma's story in the middle, narrated by Shruthi to Surya, instead of it in the begining, that would have raised the pace and matched the rest. And songs were killing the pace altogather.

sorry to say this, i was disappointed paying 250 rupees.......

1. Who ever was in-charge of the research for the film 7th Sense had no sense.
2. Screenplay department had some poor writers.

Time management in Hyderabad

1.The following is what happened in my life today at 3 PM.
Location : My house in First Lancer Road. I was talking over the phone to my dear friend.

2.My dear friend was in Srinagar Colony when the following conversation happened.
Note : It takes minimum 30 min of travel time from my place to Srinagar colony, with the presence of normal traffic in Hyderabad.

3.Our office is in Madhapur.
Note: its takes another 30 mins to reach our office, from Srinagar Colony.

Now the conversation. Note: Me =Dawood, Mr.X = My dear friend

Me:  Hello Mr.X, so what time should we be there in office.
Mr.X: We should be in office by 4 PM, at any cost, so come to Srinagar Colony, we will go from here in my bike, we will not travel in two mikes, lets not pollute the world.
Me: Ok , cool idea, so when should  I come to Srinagar Colony.
Mr.X: Dawooooood, you start by 4PM, from you house, that's enough.
Me: but how willllll IIIIIII ...
Mr.X: Dawood, why don you understand, only if you reach here, (Srinagar Colony) by at least 4 PM we can be on time, in office.....

BIG SILENCE.........

First Lancer to Srinagar colony ----30 min
Srinagar Colony to Madhapur  -----30 min

I had to start at 4 PM, reach Srinagar Colony by 4 PM and be in office by 4 PM.
That was a adventure................................
I love Hyderabad timing 

iOS 5, cool update from Apple

This is the third update i got for my iPad 2, but the best one. Earlier updates were just fixing up some bugs sort, this one is real change in the UI, but some what looks similar to android......but faster than the earlier version

Three men, the third one, you did it, thank you.

One was responsible for all the insult it had in the past two millennium, since the Bible (Adam). The other, got his respect because, he observed it falling (Newton). The third kind, brought back the respect that Apple deserves today. Thank you Steve Jobs. Rest In Peace.
You did, what Newton din do, Newton should have named his theory as Apple, but he din.
You did what the writers of Bible din do. If bible is the truth, then we are here like this because of Apple, then Bible should have been named as Apple, but they din do it.
But you did it. Today Apple is Apple because of you.

iphone 5, what are your expectations

As far as i see, there nothing much further can be done with phones, whether its apps or speed and even usability. So what do we expect from Iphone 5, other than speed and design (thinner and sleeker), i don know. I use to download minimum 5 apps a day when i first started using a android phone and ipad, now its been months i downloaded any app from store.
and most of the apps i downloaded, i don use them now. some of the apps i use regularly other than angry birds(though its a game) is google maps and gmail.
with the kind of the 3g services provided by our service providers and the price at which its given there is no point in having a phone which has a 1.5Ghz processor and can access net very fast.
i have a 8 mp cam on my mobile, i use it only once in two three months.
more over, what ever features and enhancement ipone 5 is going to have is already there in htc sensation, still iphone is iphone, is that the answer....i don knowi am confused in the middle of the night at 3AM

iphone 5 release in few days :)

Iphone 5, the one which iam waiting for, is to be released next month. i have become a fan of apple after using Ipad for the past 6 months. the credit goes to the designers. i tried almost all the tablets starting from play book to hp touch pad, to the latest samsung tab nothing is as closer as ipad......i has changed my life so much. i have two laptops, one i use it as a desktop and the other, i thought il use it for meetings, now iam stuck to ipad, other two laptops have become junk at home. people like me who have got nothing to do with programining  or some high end graphic application, but just to read, write and to play games, ipad is the best........now after this, iam planning to convert everything else into apple product, starting from my phone next month.

u get addicted to ipad so much that, iam sure if i loose my ipad, i would some how buy one in a week, thats how it is......

Apple vs rest of the fruit (palam)

Iphone(a single model) vs five big names like HTC, Samsung, Motorola (when it was alive), LG and nokia with more than 20 different models of phone plus all those Chinese fake stuff.
IPad(a single model) vs hundreds of tablets. Mac book vs the whole of the laptop market.
Salute to the strong R&D and design team made by Steve, you did Ur job dude. Thanks for the ipod again a single model vs the still struggling market to come up with some thing 2% close to it. He brought the present close the future, as shown in some sci-fi films, otherwise, it would have been just a dream to touch and feel technology, in the form of things that we use.
Hats off Steve. All the best apple. Times change, hope people at samsung and HTC are happy, saving their jobs since one guy lost his job.

Bus un reliable

I have been travelling to Hyderabad all the time almost by bus. The reason is its faster than train, two to three hours. But after travelling almost 10 to 15 times I have realised that its the same. The travel time by bus is less but it's very un reliable. Today the 8.00 pm bus is shifted to 9 and last time the 7.00pm to 9.00.
I have almost travelled all the bus companies from kpn to kesaneini all the same.
I think I should think of train again. It's cheaper half the the price than bus too.

HTC sensation, hands on review

After going through almost twenty models starting from iPhone 4 to the local micromax android, searching for the ultimate phone of the year, I found HTC sensation. It's faster than ipone with 1.2 giga hertz processor, its better looking that galaxy s2 and has sexy user friendly UI better than Motorola atrix and reliable than LG optimus x2 . If you are looking for monster phone that be the everything of everything then go for HTC sensation . The best buy would be rupees 28000, if you bargain you can get for 28000 at reliance digital or any other authorised stores. Be careful with the grey pieces, u won't get the warranty. When Ur spending so much don see for a difference of thousand rupee, the grey piece comes for 27k in Burma bazar che and road no 1 shops in Hyderabad . I loved HTC sensation, this is my first post though sensation

Thank you Chickenpox :) (VZV)

for da past three months, i had no time for anything. I am being truthful, i had no time for anything, work, work, work, eat, sleep for 3 hours. I was very proud of my self telling every one that Iam very very busy, full busy, full work. Because, i don know it gives some kind of a kick when you tell people that you are busy. It makes you feel special for your self. so i was on that kick.
suddenly in between i would get some rashes in the night, evening or in mornings, i thought its some kind of food allergy. Since i had no time to meet the doctor, i became a doc my self and took avil all the time, when i get these allergies. busy man, this made me a doctor too :)
in between i use to get head aches, and use to feel low in terms of energy, some times will feel like shit. since i din had time to speak to people or meet a psychiatrist or some shit like that, i became a psychiatrist my self :)
i became this , i became that, i became everything...........in the end..........God came to me.....
on 11th i had itching all over my body, especially on my face, there were some bubbles filled with water sort, i busted them.
on 12th some one in my unit told me that i have been blessed by God to have Ammai (tamil, chickenpox). i was scared, paranoid, because i will not be a doing work and will not be a busy man for another 15 days. i was scared that i will get scars all over my face, i might not be able to pose for any calenders in the future.. i just took the bus and came to chennai.
On 13th, a doctor at Best hospital, kodambakkam confirmed that its chickenpox and gave me medicine for 5 days. i started taking them. i went into quarantine, in a separate room, i din allow anyone to come inside and stuff. some people were scared to come to my house.
on 14th and 15th, it was painfull and irritating,. i was cursing the disease.i was scared to see my face on the mirror.
on 16th a old lady came to my house, she actaually came close to me to check, she was not scared, i showed her the bubbles, i touched me and prayed, she said its a blessing and told my mom to place some neem leaves around me and some more procedures.
we followed it on 20th, there were no spots on my body.
all these 11 days i spoke to every one possible through phone, i read a lot, never saw TV. I was happy..........especially i spoke to five of friends, to whom i spoke long time back. with one of them, last i spoke was in 2002............
i made me feel like shit.............. Busy is nothing, there is no shit called busy shit, if we don find time to do certain things, those will find time on us...............
some lessons i learned:
1. indian culture and medicine is super cool, only thing is we should know the right people who know the stuff.
2. never be proud that you are busy.
3. shit happens, for good....
there are certain personal things happened which during these days, i couldn share here, but thanks to every one for the help during this period, especially, my mom and my family, who were there with me, the love they showered, and John sir and Chechi (who use  to bring neem leaves every day) thank you sir.
i got so much of love during these days........
thank you chickenpox, love you

I miss the white Rainbow

day before yesterday night, i kept my laptop for charging and slept off. I had kept it on a table open. I woke up in the morning and switched on the laptop. There was a rainbow on my screen, it was white in colour and it was there all the time. first i thought its some image, then i thought some scratch, then i realised its inside the screen. i din know what to do. since i had warranty covered, i was searching for the service centre in hyderabad. i found one, but they asked me to bring the laptop with the bill, usually i don carry the laptop bill all the time (i hope others too). i was frustrated, pissed and sad, because i had to finish some work and i was scared,  the screen will get conked off any time. i realised that there is some thing like this air pockets under screen guards surfacing on my screen, i don have a screen guard on my screen, but i got air bubbles, i realised its inside the screen. still the laptop was on the same table. i was still working on the laptop praying the Goddess of electronics. suddenly i could feel a water droplet on my finger. i was wondering where it came from, is it raining inside the room ?, nooooooooooooooooooo.......................... it was water from the split AC over the table. Now i realised that the whole night the AC has been sprinkling water on my laptop. shitttttt shit shitttttttttttt. I was scared now to take it to the service centre, because they would know, by their experience that this is a physical damage and will not get replaced by a new laptop, as i was wishing to.
I don know, but some how out of the common sense of a rat, i switched off AC and took the laptop away from the table and kept it open till today morning. now there is no rainbow on my screen but still the bubbles are there. I miss the white Rainbow .

Some times it just takes few seconds realise what life is

It was last sunday. I was driving a red dio, early in the morning. It was a usual day, and the speed was about 30 to 40 km, there was no one on the road, a small stone was lying on the road. I saw it, brake,back brake not working, front brake, a big sound,a skid, there was sand. Here iam with four wounds on my left foot, some scratches above the foot, some on da hand. Today its all ok. But for the past one week the fear of falling down had made me a handicap when it comes to driving. I din drive at all. I drove da bike after four five days. All i could see on da road is the possibility of accidents. I am not even able to travel in da auto. I am slowly recovering from fear as my wounds heal. Hope i get back on da road with no fear. I totally forgot to tell a incident that happened in between. Wen i went to da doc immediately after da accident, there was only one doc available in the emergency unit at best hospital. He din bother, he just gave me a injection, the nurse cleaned da wound thats it. I was angry with them and shouting at him to give me some oinment and antibiotic. The doc was cool and ignored me and said its just a scratch. I was furious. By then a tip top dressed sw engineer, you can make out he has been to us twice from the way he speaks. Comes in and says, doc i was standing in da parking lot and some thing bit my leg and i found its a snake, can you treat me. He showed his swollen leg. The doc got up and advices him to go to GH. Because only govnt hospitals have anti venom. He cooky said yes and was about to leave. The doc asked him about, how he came. He said he came by bike, alone. The doc insisted him to take a auto or the ambulance. But he just left in his bike. By seeing this all my pain turned into wonder and laughter. But i hope he is fine now. Later i came to know that panic can increase the spread of venom. The moral of the story.
When you have a snake bite, take some one with you in a auto or something and go to government hospital immediately and don panic, otherwise a guy with a normal wound might laugh at you.

19 years in Tiruppur, 4 years in Trichy, a year in Nashik, 8 years in Chennai, I'am still a software guy

It's been 8 years, since I came to Chennai. I suddenly remembered this now that, it was  in the month of April, I came to Chennai 8 years back. I don exactly remember the date, I could remember the month because I was making everyone April fool even after the 1st of April, in fact the whole month. It was that small house on the fourth floor in Mylapore. Sidin had taken the house, I came to Chennai thinking, I will stay for couple of days and move to Mumbai. I had just left my job at ACS, like a brave man, following Sidin, to do, what  I wanted to do.

What do I wanted to do ? I was not sure. But I was very sure about, what I din want to do. This is when Prem use to visit Chennai for his business meets. By the by I never wanted to be software engineer that was leading the list, It's not because its bad, but I couldn't solve SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK in the college or couldn't digest the Java codes(i realized it when I tried doing a project at Octa with Shakarasubbu in Java). I, some were had this thing that, sitting in front of computer and working on a software is a insane thing to do.


Four cities, three schools, two colleges, 9 jobs, I still use software. For the past one week, I was in front of my Laptop, continuously for  min 10 to 15 hours, working, using softwares, to write, to read, to design, to edit and to browse. I am exactly doing, what I never wanted to do, but I realize till today, because I have been happy doing this.


Sorry software guys, my friends, me and some of my friends use to abuse you guys badly in college, today I realize how wrong I was. Thanks to all those who spent their lives developing such beautiful things called Photoshop, Avid, MS Office, DOS,Windows, Final Draft, Combustion, FCP, Smoke, chrome, FB, Orkut, Gmail, Android and the list goes on and on. I just mentioned few that I have used and few that helped me. 
Thank you guys. Thanks a lot.

19 years in Tiruppur, 4 years in Trichy, a year in Nashik, 8 years in Chennai, I'am still a software guy

It's been 8 years, since I came to Chennai. I suddenly remembered this now that, it was  in the month of April, I came to Chennai 8 years back. I don exactly remember the date, I could remember the month because I was making everyone April fool even after the 1st of April, in fact the whole month. It was that small house on the fourth floor in Mylapore. Sidin had taken the house, I came to Chennai thinking, I will stay for couple of days and move to Mumbai. I had just left my job at ACS, like a brave man, following Sidin, to do, what  I wanted to do.

What do I wanted to do ? I was not sure. But I was very sure about, what I din want to do. This is when Prem use to visit Chennai for his business meets. By the by I never wanted to be software engineer that was leading the list, It's not because its bad, but I couldn't solve SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK in the college or couldn't digest the Java codes(i realized it when I tried doing a project at Octa with Shakarasubbu in Java). I, some were had this thing that, sitting in front of computer and working on a software is a insane thing to do.


Four cities, three schools, two colleges, 9 jobs, I still use software. For the past one week, I was in front of my Laptop, continuously for  min 10 to 15 hours, working, using softwares, to write, to read, to design, to edit and to browse. I am exactly doing, what I never wanted to do, but I realize till today, because I have been happy doing this.


Sorry software guys, my friends, me and some of my friends use to abuse you guys badly in college, today I realize how wrong I was. Thanks to all those who spent their lives developing such beautiful things called Photoshop, Avid, MS Office, DOS,Windows, Final Draft, Combustion, FCP, Smoke, chrome, FB, Orkut, Gmail, Android and the list goes on and on. I just mentioned few that I have used and few that helped me. 
Thank you guys. Thanks a lot.