Keedaa Cola Review: This Eccentric Cocktail Of Comedy And Philosophy Mistakes Hastiness For Raciness – FILM COMPANION
A Mad Remedy For A Mad Journey
What follows is a mad journey that retains making an attempt to amuse us by inserting these outlandish characters in absurd conditions, and it principally succeeds on the humour entrance, regardless of being tough across the edges.
There are quite a few situations in Keedaa Cola the place the eccentricity in writing enhances the equally quirky visuals, all heightened by Vivek Sagar’s spirited music. When these three sides come collectively, there is no stopping Keedaa Cola, and all you see is a filmmaker having all of the enjoyable he can, along with his characters, concepts, framing, enhancing, and music. I significantly beloved the sequence within the second half that’s crafted like a Western. The whole lot about this sequence is a blast — from the bizarre, deadpan alternate between Naidu, Jeevan, and Sikandar about their footwear to the latter doubling up as a messenger, solely to mispronounce ‘give up’ as ‘Surender’.
It feels pleasant to see a filmmaker commit himself to the absurdity and craft these moments of silliness with a ardour that is evident on display screen. And there is a hilarious shot of Lancham (Rag Mayur) being kidnapped. All you see is the person strolling in direction of the digital camera in slow-motion whereas smoking a cigarette, and an Omni (the official kidnap car) cruises by. The person is not within the body and we simply see the cigarette falling on the bottom. However the weaker hyperlinks additionally emerge from an identical option to create a Man Ritchie-esque over-the-top villains within the type of a CEO (Ravindra Vijay) of a mushy drink producer and his fixer, Shotts (Raghu Ram). Each scene centered on the duo reeks of artificiality, and the meant comical impact feels extremely jaded. It is throughout these moments within the second half Keedaa Cola turns into as lifeless as a model.
And talking of mannequins, the movie makes use of ‘Barbee’, a affected person simulator as a stand-in for a Telugu movie heroine, fairly actually. It is an unbelievably outlandish concept that’s executed in an equally eccentric means. “She will not transfer, and her make-up stays untouched, similar to a heroine,” Naidu says. The sheer concept of together with Barbee in what’s in any other case an out-and-out boys movie and making it truly part of the story is such a intelligent and humorous concept.
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