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Cinematography
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Few Good Sequences
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Climax
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Music
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Lead Characters
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Drags a small theme
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Slow Narration
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Editing
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Lot of flaws
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Over adult content
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Few situation less tracks.
Bottom Line: Kumari 21F – Quite a MiXED BAG!
Story
Meena Kumari (Hebah Patel)
is a free spirited, pretty and fun lass. She is a model, and works in
film industry. One such night, she meets up with happy go lucky guy
Siddhu (Raj Tarun) and falls in love in the first instance. Suddenly,
Kumari is on a mission, to woo the guy of her dreams, no matter what it
costs. The string unbinding both Kumari and Siddhu is the past of her
with some serious issue. On the other side, his best friends Shankar
(Noel Sean) – Photolu Suresh (Naveen Neni) – Seenu (Sudhershan) do their
living by doing some illegal stuff. As Siddhu’s budding love starts to
blossom, he finds out some unbelievable truths regarding Kumari from the
besties. How did she react the doubt? What’s that shocking incident
Siddhu found out? Will Siddhu ever be able to understand the magic in
unconditional love forms the rest of the storyline.
Star Performance
Raj Tarun fits the bill
perfectly with his debonair demeanor and elusive acting. Emoting well
with his eyes, he is fantastic outright in emotional and important
sequences. Hebah Patel looks pretty as a free spirited gal and she
spends most of the movie stealing the show from the lead character.
Credit should go to her dubbing artist Lipsika too, as the combined
output was the one impressed that me to the core. Raj Tarun’s friends
Noel, Sudhershan and Naveen did quite a good job in their roles and Noel
deserves a special brownie point for his mean histrionics. Hema,
Tagubothu Ramesh and the actor who did Siddhu’s father role are
spontaneous in their short roles. Zara Khan is fine in the special song.
Techinical Team
Story of Kumari 21Ftries to
portray the contemporary love, where relations are based on conditional
love and less emotional empathy. Sukumar has handled some heavy duty
themes in the past and in this latest outing, Kumari 21F, he tries to
convey, Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who
they will be with unconditional acceptance. Sukumar and director Surya
Pratap have opted for a common place and yet highly identifiable theme
for Kumari 21F that pokes two figures on the present day love and asks
to stand up for true love of their life. And In short it remind us of
film Lila Says (2004) in parts. The films story is somewhat half baked.
It doesn’t force you to think, or drag us into the characters which are
flawed, thirsting for love and relations are bogged down by the past.
Debutant director Surya Pratap pits the film wrong and had he presented
it as a realistic love story more and fiction tale less, it would have
worked better. If Sukumar had handled the megaphone, the things could
have been a lot better. The problem with the film is it doesn’t
culminate correct. Its weak in many places and pics up slow. The tempo
flatters in Many Places and mostly blighted with loopy myopia that
despite a different storytelling and narration the only problem is its
vision limited to films beauty.
Coming to other
technicalities, Cinematographer R Rathnavelu’s frames are slick and
togged up and the musical score by Devi Sri Prasad leave significant
mark on the audience. Editing is the biggest letdown in the film. Good
editor could have taken the film up by many notches. Production Values
of Sukumar Writing is good.
Analysis
Kumari 21F is not the usual
run of the mil movie which is designed to entertain audience. Watching
it with such an intent can be disappointing. Also labelling it as a
Sukumar film will heighten the expectation. Instead watch the movie for
its different depiction and muse over some of the questions that the
movie poses. All in all, Kumari 21F is a mixed bag. Its not an
interesting film. But its sincere and largely piece of cinema about
unconditional love in present day relations.
Cast & Crew
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Star Cast :
Raj Tarun,
Hebah Patel
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Producer :
Vijaya Prasad Bandreddi,Thomas Reddy Aduri
- Director :
Palnati Surya Pratap
- Music :
Devi Sri Prasad
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Released on:
20-11-2015
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