Kumari 21 F Review, What’s Behind:
Telugu movie lovers are very well acknowledged with Sukumar’s
creatively complex, eccentric writing skills. Assigning the direction
responsibility to Palnati Surya Pratap, this time Sukku took lot of
freedom just to pen the story, script. Raj Tharun, Hebah Patel in main
leads and DSP, Rathnavelu forming the primary technical crew, how bold
is our Kumari 21 F… come on, go through the review.
Kumari 21 F Story:
One midnight, Siddhu (Raj Tharun) is arrested by Police in connection
with a crime case. In Police lock up, Siddhu begins to narrate his own
flashback on where, how he met an alluring young Mumbai girl Kumari
(Hebah Patel) in KGB Colony, Hyderabad. Siddhu, a middle class young guy
with mother (Hema) separated from husband has future goal to join as a
Chef in Royal Celebrity Cruise. Going by the bold and matured nature of
Kumari, doubts arise in Siddhu’s brain about her virginity. Here begins
Sidhdhu’s trials to check on Kumari’s sincerity in love taking help of
his three rogue friends (Noel, Naveen, Sudarshan). Things take ugly turn
as Kumari’s philosophy to admit her present life, love without drawing
any inferences from past brings in more apprehensions for Siddhu. What
is Kumari’s Mumbai flashback? What is her actual name? How Siddhu’s
three friends affect Kumari, Siddhu’s affair? Why is Siddhu currently in
custody? All these form rest.
Kumari 21 F Artists and Technicians:
To highlight on top, Sukumar hand-picked a bold, youth centered,
controversial dark theme which is again not so easy and not so complex
to understand. Friendship, love, sincerity, betrayal, rape and above all
deadly crime; there are many components amalgamated into this one
semi-realistically conceived heavy weight theme. Screenplay has its own
share of highs and lows with effectively presented episodes in bits and
pieces. Much of the time, characterizations behave over-board with
unconvincing definitions to contemporary love. The tracks written on
hero and his friends or hero and heroine tracks or hero and his family
aren’t really persuasive. Where do we find a girl in real time who
boasts her provocative physical dimensions when asked about her name?
Such boldness in name of fresh treatment can’t be easily accepted.
Direction wise, Surya Pratap appears to have just followed the script
and story offered by Sukku. Though he took some time for audience to get
into grove of Kumari character drive, there was no scope left for Surya
Pratap to dominate his direction above and over the excellence in
script. Finally, we see only Sukku’s idiosyncratic talent in every frame
with Surya Pratap lying under its shadow. Thanks for Rathna Velu’s
lighting schema. The camera work is so exclusive and has set in a
special mood for overall narrative. Along with cream in theme, it is
Rathna Velu who haunts you even after end of show. Devi Sri Prasad
scored awesome musical score. Couple of the songs Bangkok and Love
Cheyala Vadda stood best of picks among all. Amar Reddy’s editing is a
sure let-down. Dialogues from Sukku and team obviously need a special
underlining. Into dance compositions by Prem Rakshit and Nixon, they
added more value to songs. Production values from Vijay Prasad Bandreddi
and Thomas Reddy are quite praiseworthy.
Raj Tharun is developing as a wonderful
artist with each film. In a character which has plenty of loopholes, Raj
Tharun has fit in perfectly. He emotes well in family track and as a
confused youngster with apprehensions towards girl friend and a member
of tapori batch; he is well justified in all three shades. If Raj Tharun
is the hero on cards, it is Hebah Patel the hero on screen. As a girl
with independent thoughts, unconstrained by conventions, Hebah was
bubbly, beautiful and also sexy. This role gave lot of scope for Hebah
to take precedence over remaining artists and she has easily done it.
There is a unique stamp of Sukku visible in Hebah Patel
characterization. Noel, Naveen and Sudarshan are the main story
twisters, who did a fair job. Hema, Thagubothu Ramesh and others were
just fine.
Kumari 21 F Rating Analysis:
as a writer Sukumar has many ways of defining love. May it be
conditional or unconditional; pure or impure: one side or two side…
every time he touches the peak juicing his characterizations only in
extreme sides! Kumari 21 F is one more heavy duty theme from Sukku with
contemporary format given an unrealistic treatment. Unworried about the
unmatchable maturity levels in his thought process compared to common
audience thinking levels, Sukku forcibly tries to rub his high
intelligence quotient on us. If the core purpose of Sukku is to
restitute purity in love with a dark and off-the-beaten-track climax,
entire process to achieve this can also have been done in much better,
convincing way.
The central plot is interesting and Raj
Tharun is an instant connect with present day teenagers. But, how far is
it justifiable for a goal striving Raj Tharun to have hopeless,
insensible friends batch or how can we rationalize the family track
played on Hema and her husband. Such humiliating cinematic freedoms just
for the sake of bringing in coherence for climax can’t be expected from
Sukku’s standards. Hebah’s characterization is also a bumpy ride with
many inconsistencies. Despite a brutal rape (thanks for Censor Board),
Hebah gets up normally to accept the marriage proposal simply forwarded
by Raj Tharun? Where does this sudden transition come in our hero and
heroine? Beyond all such stumbling blocks, ‘Kumari 21 F’ stands tall for
depiction of pure, unconditional love in a different light something as
haunting as ‘7/G Brindavan Colony.’
Commercially, ‘Kumari’ is going to pay
off at Box Office only and only if youth are connected because families
should strictly stay out of this hard-hitting rawness from Sukumar. So,
Cinejosh gives Kumari a 3 star rating for delivering us a different
movie watch experience.
Kumari 21 F Verdict: Bold, Unusual and Sukumarised Version of Love.
Kumari 21 F Rating: 3/5
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