Director: Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Bahudhanam
Author: Nagesh Kukunoor, Shashi Sudigala and Bahaish Kapoor
Forged: Aadhi Pinisetty, Nithya Menen, Ritu Varma, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathy, Naresh, Malavika Nair, Abijeet Duddala, Naresh Agastya, Komalee Prasad and Ulka Gupta.
Why Did She Go away Me Right here?
I don’t know in case you’ve felt this watching Telugu movies however youngster actors are inclined to ham it as much as the purpose of being annoying. However every so often a toddler actor comes alongside and robs each body away from different actors.
If C/O Kancharapalem gave us Kesava Karri and Nithyasree Goru, in Fashionable Love’s first episode directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, we get Advitej Reddy Chaklet who performs Ramulu, the youthful model of Rohan (Naresh Agastya). Thoughts you Advitej shares body for essentially the most half with Suhasini Maniratnam who performs his grandmother Gangamma and it doesn’t take an bizarre actor to outshine her. However because the petulant, however lovable and all the time hungry Ramulu, Advitej is great in capturing despair. There aren’t too many administrators like Nagesh Kukunoor who can inform youngsters’s tales which are removed from infantile. Basically, this story is that of Ramulu’s tragedy. It posits his success as a CEO and rebirth as Rohan after adoption, and the emotional price it has on him.
Suhasini is the soul of the movie. Whereas her Telangana diction is labored, it’s a minor grievance in an in any other case mild efficiency. One other actor-director duo may need amped up the melodrama, however Kukunoor and Suhasini tone it down and thus go away the viewers filling the blanks of the depth of the tragedy. It really works. Watch her lay a plate out of behavior for somebody who’s no extra after which shortly retract earlier than Ramulu notices it and also you understand for this reason Suhasini was chosen for this half. The sequence has the feel-good issue of a child tasting a lime for the primary time. Kukunoor, regardless of some weak writing, gently pulls us into the present with the assistance of some seasoned performing.
Discovering Your Penguin
How typically in Telugu cinema will we get to see a lady’s quest for love and an lively relationship life with out being villainized or hyper sexualized? And the way typically will we get to see feminine camaraderie that looks like a sisterhood with heat?
Venkatesh Maha’s Discovering Your Penguin is one such story of a microbiologist Indu (Komalee Prasad) who goes via the trials and tribulation of relationship after a foul breakup. However her guiding philosophy is dictated by her occupation and she or he tends to see herself as an animal in search of one other animal. So which animal is she? Which animal does she want?
I instantly fell in love with the movie when it gave me insights into the characters by revealing their opinions in regards to the micro organism cultures they have been observing. What I notably love is that whereas trendy filmmakers impressed by the brand new age comedy minds of Edgar Wright and Taika Waititi are inclined to get carried away by the thrives, right here, the director does simply the correct quantity. You’ll be able to see this restraint between the scenes with Indu and her father.
Komalee Prasad performs Indu to perfection. When she rejects a mate (a hilarious Rag Mayur) as a result of he’s simply so boring, you snigger at her plight as a result of he has performed every thing ‘proper’ – like a Telugu hero – however he’s simply so rattling boring. Barring the odd dialogues written for Ayesha, Indu’s Muslim buddy, Devika Bahudhanam writes some hilarious dialogue and she or he will get the vibe of the movie. I can’t wait to see extra such work from her. The episode is the proper combine of heat and quirkiness that makes it stand out within the anthology.
My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Companion
Thematically, this story is essentially the most rooted in Hyderabad and also you perceive why this story might be advised in Hyderabad solely. It’s not within the plot factors of the story however relatively within the secondary arcs that present the intertwined nature of the communal concord between an Urdu/Telugu-speaking Muslim household and a Telugu-speaking Hindu household which are neighbours. The Hyderabadi love for meals acts as a lubricant between the seemingly distant cultures.
The story speaks of the mending of the fractured relationship between Noori (Nithya Menen) and her mom after Noori leaves dwelling to marry the person she loves. Mehernussia (Revathy), for all her kindness and heat, has strict beliefs in social hierarchy and expects the identical from her daughter. Almost six years later when they’re compelled to spend time collectively due to the lockdown in 2020, they start wanting inwards.
This movie, like Haleem and a lot of the opposite flavorsome meals it exhibits, takes its time to change into a scrumptious movie. Like within the first movie, Kukunoor, the director, leaves the central battle and never the stylistic selections to do the heavy lifting. It’s totally predictable however very similar to the Khatti Dal that Mehernussia makes, it’s by no means bland.
It’s neither an formidable movie nor a recent one, however as a result of it’s so lovable and well-acted, that it’s straightforward to bask in it. You forgive the sins of the movie as simply because the mom and daughter forgive one another.
About That Rustle in The Bushes
About That Rustle in The Bushes, directed by Devika Bahudhanam, is closest in resemblance to mainstream Telugu cinema, and never essentially in a foul manner. The central battle of the movie explores the connection between an overprotective father and a younger daughter, who finds herself on the cusp of modernity and custom. You’ve seen it in movies like Nenu Native, Ninnu Kori, Nuvve Nuvve and so on. However in these movies, the ladies have been deified and steeped in ethical goodness and the fathers have been tragic heroes.
Fortunately, this episode isn’t involved with the ethical side of this relationship and is prepared to discover uncomfortable areas. Till the disappointing climax. The movie is about Sneha (Ulka Gupta) and her quest to search out love in Hyderabad via matrimonial web sites and dates arrange by mates. Besides her father (performed by Naresh) consistently checks on her to make sure that she doesn’t “stray” morally.
I beloved Ulka Gupta’s Sneha. Devika, the director, vegetation a intelligent secret up Sneha’s sleeve which tells us why Sneha is meek or relatively why Sneha thinks she needs to be meek. If folks discover out Sneha’s secret, they’d reject her so then she has to place up with a variety of BS from the boys she dates and much more rustling within the bushes from her father as he stalks her. Even the overprotectiveness isn’t outlined by Sreedhar being a dad alone. There’s a cause he’s like that and Naresh is ideal within the function.
However this meaty premise culminates in a tear-jerker climax that leaves one with a foul style within the mouth. It might have been the fitting climax for some movie however not this one. And that’s why after ending About That Rustle in The Bushes, one is not sure if an amazing premise has been wasted or whether or not a melodramatic movie had some splendidly pure moments.
What Clown Wrote this Script
What Clown Wrote this Script, directed by Uday Gurrala, left me with essentially the most questions. An formidable younger producer, Ashwin (Abhijit Duddala) bored with his job producing Telugu soaps, probabilities upon a younger comic Vandana ‘Vinnie’ Bharadwaj. Vinnie has a stand-up comedy act that explores ‘The stereotypical Telugu man’. Ashwin needs to transform it right into a actuality present – like Seinfeld, however for Telugu girls. However the studio overlords produce other plans for them.
This one feels the oddest amongst all of the others as a result of it’s laborious to see Hyderabad on this movie. The exterior texture of the present is in fact Hyderabad – the presence of Imax, a Jandhyala movie competition, the regressive Telugu soaps and the tantrums of their stars, and so on. However the essence of the story remains to be New York thus making the quick movie really feel like a dosa wrapped round a bagel.
Equally, the issue with stand-up comedy on display is that it’s by no means as humorous or insightful because the viewers finds it on display. Quite it’s normally bland, lame and terribly unfunny. India as a nation remains to be grappling with stand-up comedy in English and the Telugu stand-up house feels distant from being totally realized. The fabric on display is odd and feels tonally off. However it’s Abhijit Duddala’s stoic Ashwin that retains you hooked to the movie. I’m undecided if I’m being unfair to him however I sensed a Vijay Devarakonda-esque twang in his supply and that works. However barring that the movie feels tonally off and the closest to Fashionable Love New York and furthest from Fashionable Love Hyderabad.
Fuzzy, Purple, and Filled with Thorns
Can we obsess over the smallest issues to the purpose of ruining an exquisite relationship? Are we allowed to maintain elements of our earlier romances as relics of an intimate house as soon as shared?
These are just a few questions Fuzzy, Purple, and Filled with Thorns needs to reply. It tells the story of Renuka (Ritu Verma) who finds purple heels that belonged to her live-in companion Uday’s (Aadhi Pinisetty) ex. His refusal to do away with them upsets Renu a lot that it begins to create cracks of their relationship. Is she justified? Or is she making a mountain out of a heel? Are there larger secrets and techniques?
That is director Nagesh Kukonoor’s funniest quick movie of the three nevertheless it’s nonetheless by no means as humorous as it may possibly get. It’s evident that humor isn’t his sturdy go well with. However he’s spot on within the breezy remedy of the movie, which has vignettes interspersed with cartoon construction to it. The cartoons are vital as a result of Renu is a cartoonist and possibly the occupation is an extension of her character. And we see her pine for Uday’s consideration, do odd issues and make a idiot of herself over these slippers. However I believe this movie wanted to inform us slightly extra about Uday to create curiosity in him.
However the movie’s largest disservice is completed to Hyderabad as it’s lowered to Nazneen (Zee Aly), a personality within the movie who speaks a mixture of Urdu, Hindi, English, Urdu-fied Telugu. This feels extra like tokenism than precise illustration. Worse, on the finish, it looks like an afterthought. Very similar to What Clown Wrote This Script, this story feels oddly tailored in that, one by no means senses Hyderabad.
Fashionable Love Hyderabad
I’d have beloved to see slightly extra of Hyderabad in all of the tales and to me those who don’t work, don’t work exactly as a result of they ignored the cultural components going into the setting. It isn’t a coincidence that Venkatesh Maha’s Discovering Your Penguin and Nagesh Kukunoor’s My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Companion stand out simply amongst the others.
My difficulty with the anthology started after they introduced the sequence – the dominant presence of Nagesh Kukunoor because the director and his broad artistic voice. This isn’t to say that his voice is weak however relatively it may be too sturdy. Telugu cinema is bustling with younger expertise that’s struggling to get house inside mainstream cinema. Would they not be higher served with such alternatives relatively than limiting the broad voice to at least one filmmaker?
For now Fashionable Love Hyderabad is partly mediocre however principally feels good. And who can say no to really feel good?