This comedy-thriller is a mixed bag
Evaluate: Debutant director Damodara desires to do so much with Pushpaka Vimanam. He desires to indicate how odd organized marriages really are whereas additionally displaying that falling in love with an individual you didn’t know a couple of days in the past is feasible. He desires to indicate how a person is continually judged by his marital life and the way for a lady, ethical policing doesn’t often simply imply a couple of dangerous phrases; it might finish in one thing worse. And in a bid to inform this story that has a little bit little bit of comedy and a complete lot of twists, he doesn’t at all times achieve creating an interesting movie.
Chittilanka Sundar (Anand Deverakonda) is a authorities faculty trainer who has solely been married to Meenakshi (Geeth Saini) for a couple of days. The standard organized marriage set-up ensures that whereas he may know the flavour of her favorite milkshake, he doesn’t actually know so much about her and vice versa. So when she supposedly elopes with an ex-lover after a disagreement, he finds out extra about Meenakshi simply as we do, understanding her higher. What begins out as a bid to cover the very fact from the judgemental society round him turns into a private journey for him to know her higher in her absence. The one downside? It additionally lands him in authorized bother earlier than he will get too comfy.
Pushpaka Vimanam does a great job of displaying how simple it’s for misunderstandings to come up when two individuals who hardly know one another are thrown collectively and anticipated to make it work. The movie begins out as a light-hearted comedy of a wallflower who simply desires a standard life and finds it inconvenient that he has to deceive his colleagues and neighbours about his spouse’s absence. Rekha (Saanve Megghana), a short-film actress, makes life much more tough when she’s introduced in to assist issues. Hindolam (Harsha Vardham), a wannabe music composer and his neighbour, received’t cease asking the place his spouse is and the headmaster at his faculty (Naresh) insists him and the opposite colleagues meet her already. All this elicits laughs (barring a homophobic joke) whilst you marvel if that’s all of the movie has to supply.
However because the movie progresses, different gamers together with SI Rangam (Sunil) are launched and the movie takes a darker tone, even because it tries to herald a couple of laughs. This transition is the place Pushpaka Vimanam falters because the pre-interval bang is sudden, so is the large twist that units issues rolling within the climax. Scenes are arrange which might be speculated to make you are feeling for each Sundar and Meenakshi, and whereas this appears good on paper; it doesn’t actually transition properly on-screen. The non-linear narrative that sees the layers of their story peeled again isn’t as efficient because it’s speculated to be. Damodara has all of the components to make an interesting and tight darkish comedy however he gives a combined bag.
Homage can be paid to Anurag Kashyap’s type of quirk when two dancers (Mrinali Bramandapally and Amulya Manja) exhibit strikes choreographed by Geeth Saini in Aaha! and Ram Miriyala makes a cameo in Chilaka. The visuals give a peek into the protagonist’s head-space like such scenes do in Anurag’s movies and are certain are a delight to look at. Mark Ok Robin, Ram Miryala, Sidharth Sadasivuni and Amit Dasani’s music assist set the tone of the narrative.
Anand does a great job because the determined man who feels cornered in a scenario he hates. He may falter in some emotional scenes however he manages to shoulder a movie that unfolds from his point-of-view for essentially the most half. Saanve is a revelation each time she’s on-screen – she’s stunning, hilarious and may clearly dance like a professional. Geeth is nice sufficient within the function she’s supplied, Naresh and Sunil breeze by means of his components. Harsha Vardhan’s character may go away you wanting extra however his efficiency doesn’t. He nails his half even in a restricted screen-time.
All in all, Pushpaka Vimanam is not at all the right darkish comedy it units out to be, particularly when movies in the same style have already performed higher in Telugu. However watch it this weekend for those who’re recreation for a unusual movie with a pinch of comedy, spoon-full of twists and a stellar solid to again all of it up.
