‘Uppu Kapramumbu’ Movie Review: Kirti Suresh and Suhas anchor life and death a partial dramade

It is a landscape that is directly out of the most wild dreams, or bad dreams. An entire village, which was wearing festive clothes, gathers around a particularly built platform. There is anticipation in the air, a festive mood. But the master of the ceremonies (Vishnu Oi), a person called a person from a neighbor, when he learns the purpose of the event, he is abandoned: to determine that a lucky draw is now close to the space to determine who the village buried will win in the ground.

Director Annie IV Sasi, who first controlled the offbeat Telugu romance Ninila NinilaReturns with Uppu Kaprambu – A crazy satire that takes on death, land and heritage politics. Screen writer Vasant Mringanti weaves in layered subtux touching the gender, caste, wealth and power, which highlights the disinterest of fighting on the ground for someone’s final comfort.

Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, this eccentric comedy gets a big boost from an artist which includes the Kirti Suresh, Suhas and veteran Babu Mohan and Talluri Ramswari.

In the 1990s, Chitti in undivided Andhra Pradesh, located in the fictional village of Jaipurum, makes a universe that finds both external and unnatural. The disinterest is deliberately, but pay attention to the expansion-it is in the production design of Shri Nagendra Tangla, the Pujita Tadikonda’s pitch-perfect costumes, or Diwakar Mani’s mud cinematic-story gives the ground in a very real millu. The music of Swakekar Agasthi also hits the right notes, without whispering his hand without an overplay.

The film takes some time to settle in the Persian, Rugna tone. An early scene determines the stage after the death of a village head – his burial is reduced to a serious opportunity and is completed with a social gathering, useless gossip, performing and irreversible humor. His daughter, Apoorva (Karthi Suresh), reluctantly is in the headlines as the successor of the post – a role passed through generations.

Things spiral when Chinna (Suha), the acting of the village cemetery finds out that the burial place is running fast. This simple logical issue triggers a snowballing crisis of power, privilege and abdominal power. Apoorva, strangely inexperienced, stumbles through its new responsibilities. His disgusting efforts in diplomacy are placed with satire cutting, especially in a scene where he tries to cancel the investigation by bringing the Iran war and tomato prices in the same breath.

Babu Mohan closes a well-closed, elderly aspirational for his position, and enemies as a fiery young challenge, embodies the absurd politics that outlines this death-centric story. Sasi and Maringanti crafts a village that thrives on argument on argument, but after a point, humor is replaced. The fresh starting craze begins to feel highly exaggerated and even cartoonish in tone.

Amidst anarchy, it is Chinna and her mother (played by a grounded Talluri Rameshwari) that emerges as the conscience of the film. The years of working as the care of the cemetery have given him knowledge about death, which is the great equalist, or is it? Eventually, the elite class still manages to secure premium buried plots and ornate headstones.

As the film spreads in many subplots, Uppu Kaprambu Loses some of its sharpness. The 2-hour-14-minute runtime begins to drag, weighed by gags and a waveing ​​tone.

However, the story re -achieves some traction in its final work. The film ends on a poignant note, indicating that the situation and pride, often derived from strength and wealth, can prove fruitless in mortality. The development of Apoorva in a village leader is ideologically hypnotized, but his arc is lacking emotional dizziness. Kerthi Suresh gives it his best, yet the comedic beats written for their character are rarely on the ground. This is only in the final scenes, when she considers the symbolism of the title of the film, that she finds her legs.

Suhas brings nuances and relativity to Chinna, sometimes reliable, chinna. Their performance, which is still effective, bears emotional weight that the film sometimes stumbles elsewhere.

Uppu Kaprambu There is a complicated base and glow of glow, but its inconsistent execution prevents it from becoming a really memorable satire.

(The film is streaming on Amazon Prime Video)

Published – July 04, 2025 07:17 AM IST