Written & Directed by: Ravi Kiran Kola
Available on Amazon Prime Video
I can't recall a Telugu film being this high on style other than Mathu Vadalara in the past few years. The cinematography and the especially the edit is recognisable and though they haven't used it to push storytelling, they have used them as stylistic choices. The editor of this film would've had a blast working on this film. The story of the film is simple and it sounds cliche when told, but this film isn't about the story. This film is beyond the story, it is about the experience and being there with the characters. It gave me Richard Linklater vibes, where you don't tell stories of the most dramatic moments in life, but you tell those small moments which usually everyone ignores.
The film is about Raja and Rani and how Raja struggles to express his love for Rani. Kiran Abbavaram who plays Raja, his performance is more absorbing and reacting than being active and this worked brilliantly for this character. At a point, it felt repetitive that all the film is only about Raja attempting to express to Rani and somehow he doesn't. At a point it feels like he doesn't want to express and he's just lying to himself that he wants to express. Naidu and Chowdary are memorable characters who're well performed and consistently written. The only problem I had with the film, is Rani's character. She's written like a man's idea/fantasy of a woman and not like a real woman.
The vibes of the village, is well captured through the greenery. Although a lot of times the costumes were matching the background and it seemed a little off. In Premam, we see a lot of black used because it kinds of contrasts with the green but here a lot of times we see matching costumes and backgrounds. The color of the film seemed off in some frames although in most of the film, the frames were so good.
The soundscape of the film deserves a mention, the director Ravi Kiran Kola said in an interview that they dubbed with a certain distance from the mic to get a sync sound vibe and it totally worked for the film. Sometimes I couldn't figure out the exact dialogue clearly and it's a good sign because that's how real life is. The sound is mixed in a way that when a scene is cut, we don't observe the cut through the change in ambiance. That is because the ambiance isn't pushed as much, which I think they should've done.
The film deals with a simple plot and as I wrote earlier, this film is beyond it's story. The ending was satisfying, but it was a step below brilliance.
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