‘Krishna Vrinda Vihari’ movie review: A plot similar to ‘Ante Sundaraniki’, but needed a far better script

Whereas watching director Anish Krishna’s Telugu movie Krishna Vrinda Vihari (KVV) starring Naga Shaurya and Shirley Setia, it’s powerful to not be reminded of Ante Sundaranikii, which was launched three months in the past. The crux of KVV is much like Ante… An orthodox household realising its hypocrisy of not being empathetic to a girl, whereas it is able to bend backwards for a male in a troublesome scenario. There are some ‘lies’ packed into this story as properly. The household in query, once more, is a conservative Telugu Brahmin family. Nonetheless, KVV isn’t clear on the way it needs to current its story; it finally ends up as a random mixture of comedy, romance and unwarranted motion drama.

Krishna (Naga Shaurya) hails from a village within the West Godavari district the place his mom Amruthavalli (Radhika) has the final phrase. Within the phrases of a bus driver, she is to that village what Sivagami is to Mahishmati. Younger ladies in that village want to name Krishna anna (brother) than danger courting him. 

When Krishna strikes to the town to work in a company workplace, we get a staple dose of workplace humour, with Sathya and Rahul Ramakrishna as colleagues. The workplace can also be stuffed with a bunch of people that look and behave like thugs. When Krishna takes a liking to his group lead Vrinda (Shirley Setia), a challenge supervisor makes use of these bouncer-like colleagues to place Krishna in his place. There may be additionally a random motion sequence by which the hero flaunts his six-pack abs and drives house the purpose that vegetarians can even have critical muscle energy. 

It takes some time earlier than Krishna and Vrinda, after a lacklustre wooing sport, fall in love and determine to face a difficulty that may be a hindrance to their marriage ceremony. Krishna concocts a lie, with the assist of Dr Sathya (Vennela Kishore), after which his conservative household will get down from its excessive horse and is prepared to look previous cultural variations — Vrinda is from Punjab and her household isn’t so culture-appropriate (learn, they drink and smoke).

In contrast to Ante…, the female and male leads don’t frankly talk about the ‘lie’ that was concocted to deliver them collectively. Had they accomplished that, the movie would have ended on the midpoint and saved us the remainder of the movie. What ensues is a chronic tv cleaning soap form of face-off involving Vrinda, Amruthavalli and Krishna’s grandmother (Annapurna). That challenge supervisor additionally resurfaces, serving to create bother within the climax portion when Krishna has to sprint to the airport (the place else! even in 2022?) to make amends with Vrinda.

To be truthful, the male lead’s character is written with some sensitivity — the way by which he makes Vrinda really feel protected even throughout an evening out, how he understands her plight in an important scenario and is prepared to take a call that his household wouldn’t approve of, and in the long run displaying a mirror to his mom’s hypocrisy. The feminine lead can also be written pretty properly, together with her making an attempt to make peace with Krishna’s household and asserting herself solely when issues go too far. Sometimes the comedy works, with Satya, Vennela Kishore, Rahul Ramakrishna and Brahmaji, however the comedy in one in every of Anish’s earlier movies Ala Ela was much more easy, and a riot.

Naga Shaurya places up a spirited efficiency and Radhika and Annapurna, regardless of the one-sided and caricaturish characters written for them, have their moments. However, surprise why Radhika is at all times made to put on heavy jewelry. Shirley Setia tries to do her greatest however has an extended method to go as an actor. 

Krishna Vrinda Vihari is like a kind of movies we would watch when there may be nothing else to do, however get disinterested after a degree.