Review‘Kushi’ isn’t strikingly original. But the treatment of a familiar story, with a gentle push towards introspection, makes all the difference.Kushi, directed by Shiva Nirvana who is known for his films on messy relationships, brings together an atheist and a conservative Brahmin in a marriage that goes against the wishes of their respective families. Religion is an especially touchy subject in our current political climate, and it takes a fair amount of courage to place it at the heart of a romcom. The intervention of art is sometimes needed to remind us that the angry, volatile debates we have around such issues don’t exist in a vacuum, but concern human beings who come with their share of baggage and complexities. Vijay Deverakonda plays Viplav – meaning revolution – a Bsnl employee and the son of Lenin Satyam (Sachin Khedekar), a renowned atheist. He’s a Mani Ratnam fan...
- 9/1/2023
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
Review‘Kushi’ isn’t strikingly original. But the treatment of a familiar story, with a gentle push towards introspection, makes all the difference.Kushi, directed by Shiva Nirvana who is known for his films on messy relationships, brings together an atheist and a conservative Brahmin in a marriage that goes against the wishes of their respective families. Religion is an especially touchy subject in our current political climate, and it takes a fair amount of courage to place it at the heart of a romcom. The intervention of art is sometimes needed to remind us that the angry, volatile debates we have around such issues don’t exist in a vacuum, but concern human beings who come with their share of baggage and complexities. Vijay Deverakonda plays Viplav – meaning revolution – a Bsnl employee and the son of Lenin Satyam (Sachin Khedekar), a renowned atheist. He’s a Mani Ratnam fan...
- 9/1/2023
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
CinemaThe trailer of 'Kushi' shows a glimpse of the love story between Aaradhya, a Brahmin woman played by Samantha, and Viplav, played by Vijay Deverakonda. YouTube/Mythri Movie MakersThe trailer of Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha’s upcoming romantic comedy-drama Kushi, directed by Shiva Nirvana, is now out. The trailer shows Vijay and Samantha’s characters, Viplav and Aaradhya, getting married despite objections from the woman’s family. While they decide to disprove her family’s misgivings by living as an ‘ideal’ married couple, differences eventually crop up in their relationship. The trailer ends with Vijay Deverakonda’s character assuring a woman not to be afraid of him, and that despite his bad reputation he is actually a “feminist”. The trailer has a couple of references to Deverakonda’s blockbuster film Arjun Reddy that catapulted him to stardom in 2017. The trailer begins with scenes from Kashmir, where Viplav sees...
- 8/9/2023
- by Jahnavi
- The News Minute
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