Okay Ramp film evaluation: Kiran Abbavaram movie milks a worn-out system with crude humour

If you meet Okay Ramp’s protagonist Kumar Abbavaram (performed by Kiran Abbavaram), you wouldn’t wish to stumble upon him once more. He is entitled, born with a silver spoon, and provides up on research as a result of his father is already properly to do. He has supposedly easy wishes — put on a lungi and head out to a bar with pals, sip native beer, and groove to mass numbers.

When he falls for a woman, Mercy (Yukti Thareja), he doesn’t say ‘I like you’. He states, ‘Naa Peru Abbavaram… Istha neeku varam.’ (I’m Abbavaram, let me do you a favour). He calls her a ‘heavy determine’ for having an enormous coronary heart and bailing him out after getting too drunk. His father sends him to Kerala as a result of he has had sufficient of him.

Kumar has a textbook ‘tharki’ uncle (performed by Naresh), who ogles at ladies and tries to make a move at them by touching their waistlines. He is after a woman, whose sensation provides him a shock (a.l.a Magadheera, with a lustful twist).

Despite Kumar’s traits, the movie doesn’t deal with him as the issue. The movie needs us to imagine that he’s a bechara trapped by a woman with a dysfunction (PTSD – submit traumatic stress dysfunction). After establishing all of the traits of the ‘best’ hero and his romantic (learn drunken) escapades within the first hour, the movie strikes on to the lady’s downside — belief points, greater than the rest — and a flashback that hopes to go away viewers teary-eyed.

Mercy retains reducing her wrists as a set off response, and threatens to finish her life when anybody doesn’t stay as much as their phrase. When they seek the advice of a physician, the latter hopes to decode the depth of her downside by providing a suggestion to Mercy’s uncle: ‘When a plan doesn’t materialise as per her phrases, why don’t your complete household threaten to commit suicide and choose her response?’ It can’t get extra ridiculous within the context of psychological well being.

Though the premise is centred on Kumar coming to phrases with Mercy’s shaky psychological well being, the second hour turns into all about Kumar being the ‘saint’ for empathising with the lady. The solely intermittent aid comes from a comedy monitor involving Vennela Kishore, who verbalises a viewer’s frustration with the movie along with his angsty, caustic responses.

In between the lecture on psychological well being and making a mockery of the lady’s situation, the obsession with the midriff continues. Director Jains Nani writes a scene round ice and piping scorching sambar to match the waistlines of two ladies. For a movie promoted as a household entertainer, Okay Ramp is embarrassing in the way it passes off informal misogyny as humour.

If the concept was to rehash Maruthi’s oft-used blueprint for a movie — a situational comedy round a personality’s well being situation — they may have accomplished it with sincerity. Kumar’s characterisation is an unlucky byproduct of a number of the earlier movies that romanticised the problematic behaviour of males.

One presumed Kiran Abbavaram was on course-correction mode with KA final yr, however movies like Dilruba and Okay Ramp once more underline his desperation to be a mass hero, as an alternative of honing his performing mettle. Yukti Thareja seems clueless in a job decreased to a sufferer. Naresh’s character is the precise reverse of getting older with grace, although the actor’s comedian contact is undamaged.

Both Sai Kumar and Muralidhar Goud are honest regardless of being forged in mediocre elements. Chaitan Bharadwaj’s music is forgettable. The cinematography feeds on the perversions of the pivotal characters with odd digicam angles.

Okay Ramp could also be a movie a few well being downside, however the actual subject is in Telugu cinema’s insensitivity in portraying psychological well being and the fixation with perverse males positioned as heroes.