Geeth is good enough in the role she’s offered, Naresh and Sunil breeze through his parts. Saanve is a revelation whenever she’s on-screen – she’s beautiful, hilarious and can clearly dance like a pro. He might falter in some emotional scenes but he manages to shoulder a film that unfolds from his point-of-view for the most part. Mark K Robin, Ram Miryala, Sidharth Sadasivuni and Amit Dasani’s music help set the tone of the narrative.Īnand does a good job as the desperate man who feels cornered in a situation he hates. The visuals give a peek into the protagonist’s head-space like such scenes do in Anurag’s films and are sure are a delight to watch. Homage is also paid to Anurag Kashyap’s style of quirk when two dancers (Mrinali Bramandapally and Amulya Manja) show off moves choreographed by Geeth Saini in Aaha! and Ram Miriyala makes a cameo in Chilaka. Damodara has all the ingredients to make an engaging and tight dark comedy but he offers a mixed bag. The non-linear narrative that sees the layers of their story peeled back isn’t as effective as it’s supposed to be. Scenes are set up that are supposed to make you feel for both Sundar and Meenakshi, and while this seems good on paper it doesn’t really transition well on-screen.
This transition is where Pushpaka Vimanam falters as the pre-interval bang is sudden, so is the big twist that sets things rolling in the climax. All this elicits laughs (barring a homophobic joke) even as you wonder if that’s all the film has to offer.īut as the film progresses, other players including SI Rangam (Sunil) are introduced and the film takes a darker tone, even as it tries to bring in a few laughs. Hindolam (Harsha Vardham), a wannabe music composer and his neighbour, won’t stop asking where his wife is and the headmaster at his school (Naresh) insists him and the other colleagues meet her already. Rekha (Saanve Megghana), a short-film actress, makes life even more difficult when she’s brought in to help matters. The film starts out as a light-hearted comedy of a wallflower who just wants a normal life and finds it inconvenient that he has to lie to his colleagues and neighbours about his wife’s absence. Pushpaka Vimanam does a good job of showing how easy it is for misunderstandings to arise when two people who hardly know each other are thrown together and expected to make it work. The only problem? It also lands him in legal trouble before he gets too comfortable. What starts out as a bid to hide the fact from the judgemental society around him turns into a personal journey for him to know her better in her absence. So when she supposedly elopes with an ex-lover after a disagreement, he finds out more about Meenakshi just as we do, understanding her better. The typical arranged marriage set-up ensures that while he might know the flavour of her favourite milkshake, he doesn’t really know a lot about her and vice versa. And in a bid to tell this tale that has a little bit of comedy and a whole lot of twists, he doesn’t always succeed in creating an engaging film.Ĭhittilanka Sundar (Anand Deverakonda) is a government school teacher who has only been married to Meenakshi (Geeth Saini) for a few days. He wants to show how a man is constantly judged by his marital life and how for a woman, moral policing doesn’t usually just mean a few harmful words it could end in something worse. He wants to show how odd arranged marriages truly are while also showing that falling in love with a person you didn’t know a few days ago is possible. Review: Debutant director Damodara wants to do a lot with Pushpaka Vimanam. But the more he tries, the more cornered he finds himself. Story: A recently married government school teacher is trying to cover up the fact that his wife has eloped.
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