Movie Review – Brochevarevarura

Fun Ride

I still couldn’t get the pronunciation of this movie right and its meaning. But that’s fine. In fact, the past few Telugu/Kannada films that I had watched, I didn’t know anything about it. That made the movie watching experience a pleasurable one.

The opening of the movie reminded me of ‘Soodhu Kavvum’. The quirky setup to kidnap a girl. I thought it’d go awry and the movie would follow that kidnapper’s story but I was wrong. The movie instead goes to a different story where an aspiring director narrates a story to a famous heroine. I loved the fact that there was no desperation in the director’s story. He was casually talking about meeting the heroine and narrating the story to his parents. And most of the places they meet would be cafes, generally these are the places which filmmakers meet to discuss stories.

My most favorite scene of the movie was the first one where an aspiring director Vishal (Satyadev Kancharana) meets star actress Shalini (Nivetha Pethuraj) for the first time. Shalini initially says “no” to Vishal but after another party comes, she asks him to sit and apologizes for the mistake. May be the director wanted to give us a clue of what to expect, through that scene. But whether or not it was that way, I loved the scene. For some reason Nivetha Pethuraj was not her usual self. She’s really good at being stylish but not here. I felt something was lacking, she was holding herself back too much.

Parallel to this story we get to see a story of school kids. Even though they didn’t really look like school kids, they were a lot of fun. Like the lead in this track, even in school track Mitra (Nivetha Thomas) has the same attitude. She along with the R3 gang of Rahul (Sree Vishnu), Rambabu “Rambo” (Rahul Ramakrishna), and Rakesh “Rocky” (Priyadarshi Pulikonda) form a great combo. For a change there was no love angle between the leads. This truly looked like friendship and even the swear words were so much fun to listen. Rahul Ramakrishna was impeccable with his timings.

Both the stories go really well and works even as a separate story but during the interval block, they both combine giving a ‘Lucia’ like twist. What was commendable was that, the sequence of events which happens post that too was interesting for the film to move. One of the major junctures of the movie was the point where Rahul loses his mobile. Instead of not being a one-off scene it was beautifully done in an elongated manner previously. He was shown as a person who has a habit of losing phone. So that scene was more organic.

The cat and mouse scene post that and the conclusion it follows too were really good and made for a great watch. If I had to point out one disappointment it’d be to have not used that ‘Saneeswaran’ angle better. The villain could have been given more weightage. That could have made us to be more on our toes. With the current set up it was all too convenient; we were sure that somehow Mithra would escape. If something related to Saneeswaran had been done it’d have become a complete movie. Even without that it’s still a pleasurable watch, may be the director wanted to maintain ‘all is well’ formula throughout so didn’t invest much on the kidnapper’s character.