Satyam (2003)

I went into this film expecting it to be soft (something about the premise and the poster) but the joke was on me since it was the complete opposite. Not that I'm complaining- Telugu mass movies are my jam, especially ones with good comedy and music. The music!!! Bonus points for making Satyam the middle child (we really are the writers, the dreamers, and the ones most likely to get kicked out of the house and still loving our family to bits). 

Sumanth was surprisingly HAWT- surprisingly because I've only ever seen him in Godavari before this. Speaking of which, his roles in both these movies are so different, and yet, he shines in both???? The wrong grandsons of ANR get all the hype, smh. Genelia was good, as always, although her role here was eerily reminiscent of Happy (2006). I wonder what to make of that. Coming back to Sumanth though- his chemistry with Kota Srinivasa Rao was excellent, and made me that much more invested in the movie. But the person that made me love the movie most was obviously Brahmanandam, this time looking EXACTLY like Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. I swear, it is worth watching the movie just to see Brahmi garu being Brahmi garu in that get-up. The movie could have done without the r*pe joke, the h*mophobia, and of course, the bit where an AIIDS awareness campaign is used as a joke, though. And of course the whole regressive moral science lecture on asking a woman's father for marriage before asking the woman herself.  #MakeWholesomeMassMoviesPlease

In conclusion, I stan Sumanth as the angsty, yearning-and-pining-for-unrequited-love lover boy and you should too. 

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