Krishnamma Kalipindi Iddarini intermittently has moments that are innocent throwbacks to those born in the 90's and are an assemblage of a material, hinted at making them sulk with the slightest reminder of their past.
The screen puts across those times where a boy draws a portrait of her girl on a chart on a Friendship Day to throw a hint of his love and writes his intention on a riverside rock, obviously on which the film's named. Alongside these, there are time-bound reminders that are sincere in their intent, the kind that could have pushed the cause of a period teenage romance like Andhra Pori ahead too.
There are a set of bindi stickers that the mother sacrifices and her child uses the money to buy a pen for his childhood crush. The kid lies that it was for him to write and the mother has a guileless spark on her face. The boy, years later is a man earning his first salary who gifts a sari and the bindi, as a symbolic statement that we've moved ahead of the helpless stages.
An Autograph-like touch surfaces, when he sits across an idli-stall run by an elderly woman where he reminisces his childhood memories at once. It's a Shree 420 moment when a teacher puts his gold medal at stake to clear his debts. Also, you're told there's a meta film unfolding, whose story is supposedly the epic romance between the two, as seen by a classmate of theirs.
A section of the film tries to undo these purist efforts, where everything about an urban backdrop are snapshots of pace and recklessness. There's a fight sequence for the girl's dignity you can't avoid. A nearly politically correct Posani and Saptagiri give the quintessential bar-scene of a conventional film. Otherwise, everything about the romance that unfolds on screen is an opportunity utilized to liberally dose the importance of responsibility over adrenaline rushes of love.
R Chandru, the director, you would've realised by now isn't at any point selling you a series of fabricated old-school ideas. He's rather honest in his attempt to make an 80's styled drama, keeping aside the fact that he doesn't totally succeed.
It isn't an honorary coincidence to think of Veer Zaara, too. The musical score by Hari is a better reflection of his ideas, where it's primarily, the melody that's sprinkled along. The mood is thus ensured, but everything about the film is so flowery and goody that the pacing becomes a major worry.
Sudheer Babu and Nanditha are no Sobhan Babu and Jayaprada, but their genuine efforts to perform nearly make up for the lack of accomplished technique. There's surely a chaste quality hidden in Krishnamma Kalipindi Iddarini, but you miss the craft that could've taken over the drama. May be, this is a hint towards Mohit Suri.
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