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Maa Vintha Gadha Vinuma - The Gen Z Romantic Drama shoulders on a balance of relevance and satire.
Siddharth Jonnalagadla, the writer, brings out interesting and quirky conversations from his writing style and treatment of this genre. In a recent interview, he said that he would always prefer to keep the dialogues surreal and life-like rather being very archetypical and filmy. That works. It works beyond just the dialogue, but even to the narrative. So well, that a “Strange” tale which never irks us beyond a limit when put out as bullet points of timeline ends being much more than flat.
Sidhu understands the mentality and status quo of the Smartphone-youth of being Impulsive, Quickly taking decisions, having a #YOLO tattooed at heart, and the most important of all is obsession in their life with Social media. He knows a screw up won’t take much time to have an i(r)conic response in the form of memes, tweets, youtube views, WhatsApp shares, tik-tok ( shit it’s banned ) reels and you know the rest of the list if you’re the target audience of this movie. Which is, not just -18+!
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There is a playfulness in the initial proceedings,
especially from Tanikella Bharani’s character, who is, actually the audience's
connecting point, being very casual and free for some fun – for a story like Siddhu’s.
The narration is even funnier with the lingo of the protagonist and the
flashback itself. You even have the logic spelt out from the protagonist when
asked – “ How do you know the happenings in the place where you weren’t even
there?", the reply is convenient – “ My friend spelt it out for me
afterwards”.
The college episodes are more fun, be it the stereotypical
ragging, first love, professors, supply etc. are all very much familiar (–
thanks to the separate genre of Engineering
Student/college Drama which
incepted ) but never been there seen that type of stuff. It may be because
these elements aren’t as forced as they were in the other movies, they're just
a plot device but not plot inclusions.
This Gen Z Romantic Drama shoulders on a balance of
relevance and satire. It’s just the right amount of buzzword friendly gags and nags until the fun starts
collapsing and messaging starts kicking in. The sudden, omnipotent
seriousness and mature talks, be it between a guy’n gal or a Dad’n lad are
superfluous and forcefully created, because you need these people to have a
noble reaction and transformation at the end, that you miss the hookups with
the young-at-heart charm when the plot was flinging and partying in Goa (
literally and figuratively ).
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The casting choices are full of references and easter eggs extending beyond the roles people play. You see Rana Daggupati commenting “Baaga Pulihora Kalipadu”, Fish Venkat mentioning himself as an established cine-field artist from his part in Gabbar Singh anthakshari scene. You have Lakshmi Manchu, Idream Anjali, Adarsh many more known faces playing themselves. Again, these are those fine touches that make you realize how refreshingly entertaining the blanks in the story are filled.
Sidharth, was very affable and effortless in playing Sidhu, like he made it look easy when he played Krishna. Both
the characters are coined as having a lack of clarity, seriousness but full of
love and life. Seerat Kapoor’s performance was consciously underplayed and
restrained, the way the character is, but the dubbing had a quality of
over-exposition of feelings which created a detachment of what’s being seen and
what’s being heard.
You have to give it to the movie for being very open and
considerate of “Cinematic Taboo” which are very unspoken and cleared off in
Mainstream Cinema – and MVGV is a mainstream Cinema just benefitted from the
OTT platform release. As of the movie as a whole-singular rom-com, it was
always merry and chill when the journey of Sidhu (
and plot too ) was at his boyish naughtiness than a Manly graciousness.
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