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Release Date : Sep 1st, 2023

123telugu.com Rating : 3.25/5

Starring: Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha, Jayaram, Sachin Khedakar, Murali Sharma, Lakshmi, Ali, Rohini Molleti, Vennela Kishore, Rahul Ramakrishna, Srikanth Iyenger, Saranya Pradeep

Director: Shiva Nirvana

Producers: Naveen Yerneni, Ravi Shankar

Music Director: Hesham Abdul Wahab

Cinematographer: G. Murali

Editor: Prawin Pudi

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In recent times, Kushi is one film that has garnered tremendous hype with its songs. This Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha starrer was well-promoted. Shiva Nirvana, who delivered adorable films like Majili and Ninnu Kori, directed this rom-com. The film has hit the screens today, and let’s see how it is.

Viplav (Vijay Deverakonda), who works at BSNL, falls for Aaradhya (Samantha) the moment he sees her. But Aaradhya pretends to be a Pakistani Muslim to avoid Viplav. Eventually, Aaradhya falls for Viplav, and the former reveals to the latter that she is from a conservative Brahmin family. But little do Viplav and Aaradhya know that their fathers, Lenin Satyam (Sachin Khedekar) and Chadarangam Srinivasa Rao (Murali Sharma), are at loggerheads. Viplav and Aaradhya marry against their parents’ wishes, and soon they encounter unexpected issues in their married life. How they sort them out forms the crux of the story.

Plus Points:

The film doesn’t deal with any out-of-the-box concept, but it is about the common and petty issues faced by people in their relationships. This has been showcased in a light-hearted manner in the second half. The conflict point is nicely complemented by good music and rich visuals.

All the scenes that come between the lead pair in the latter hour will go well with family audiences and this is where the film shines. The scenes aren’t new, but they are presented in a convincing manner. Vijay Deverakonda is simply superb as Viplav. The actor sheds his mass image and does what his character exactly demands. He looked uber cool throughout the film. Vijay’s comedy timing and his performance in crucial scenes are adorable.

Star actress Samantha is lovely in Kushi. She looked super cute and performed with finesse. Her chemistry with Vijay Deverakonda is good, and she is effortless in the emotional sequences, too. The fun is decent, and the emotions in the latter hour came out well. Sharanya, Murali Sharma, Rohini, Sharanya Pradeep, Sachin Khedekar, and Rahul Ramakrishna pass muster.

Minus Points:

The movie becomes quite predictable after a point in time, and this bogs down the impact to an extent. As one can guess what would happen next, the movie becomes slightly underwhelming at times. The Kerala episode could have been executed in a better manner.

The movie is lengthy, and the editing team could have trimmed down a few sequences. Especially the Kashmir portions are a bit prolonged, and this could have been taken care of. The momentum is not that great in the first half, and the film gets into the right track from the pre- interval scene. During the promotions, director Shiva Nirvana mentioned that the film deals with a sensitive issue, but this aspect isn’t new and reminds us of a few films.

Technical Aspects:

Hesham Abdul Wahab’s music is the second hero of Kushi. The songs are superb, and they are also shot captivatingly by cinematographer Murali. The rich visuals enhance the viewing experience. Mythri Movie Makers didn’t compromise on the production values. The editing could have been a lot better.

Coming to the director, Shiva Nirvana, he did a decent job with Kushi. Shiva Nirvana chose a simple concept that resonates with the married people and delivered it in his style. All the director’s films deal with simple life issues, and Kushi too falls in the same category. The casting was very good, and also the director got a solid technical team.

On the whole, Kushi is a likeable rom-com with a neat second half. The main point of the film unfolds in the latter hour, which is packed with good drama and emotions. Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha are adorable, and they are well-supported by other artists. But as mentioned earlier, the initial portions of the film aren’t great. Also, Kushi could have done with a shorter runtime for better impact. Nonetheless, Shiva Nirvana delivers a film that is relatable to family audiences. Hence, Kushi ends up being a good watch this weekend.

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Kushi Movie Review

Article by Suman M Published by GulteDesk --> Published on: 9:06 am, 1 September 2023

2 hr 45 min   |   Romance   |   01-09-2023

Cast - Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha, Murli Sharma, Sachin Khedkar, Rohini, Lakshmi, Vennela Kishore, Rahul Ramakrishna, Shatru and others

Director - Shiva Nirvana

Producer - Naveen Yerneni, Ravi Shankar

Banner - Mythri Movie Makers

Music - Hesham Abdul Wahab

Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha paired up for a romantic drama Kushi in Siva Nirvana’s direction. All three of them are waiting for Kushi to become a success given their respective previous films did not fare well at the box office.

The songs turned chartbusters and the trailer appeared to be having romantic and fun moments along with the needed emotions. The movie Kushi is releasing today in theaters and it has to be seen how well the chemistry of Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha worked. And here is the review from one of the US Premieres.

What Is It About?

A BSNL employee Viplav (Vijay Deverakonda) falls in love with Aradhya (Samantha) in Kashmir and she too loves him. They realize later that their marriage is almost impossible because Viplav is the son of a popular atheist Lenin Sathyam (Sachin Khedkar) and Aradhya is the daughter of his arch rival popular Pravachanakartha Chadarangam Srinivasa Rao (Murli Sharma). How Viplav and Aaradhya get married and what happens in their married life is all about Kushi.

Performances

Samantha performed really well and she excelled in a few scenes reminding us of her performances from her first films. Vijay Deverakonda too did well in Kushi. Vijay’s performance, looks and role remind his Geetha Govindam many a time. The chemistry between Vijay and Samantha worked big although the story has it own flaws. Murli Sharma and Sachin Khedkar did their part, while Rohini and Jayaram looked routine. Veteran actress Lakshmi, Sharanya Pradeep, Shatru did fine in their given roles. Rahul Ramakrishna and Vennela Kishore tried their best but the comedy worked only in parts.

Technicalities

Kushi has rich visuals and the cinematography is extraordinary. The production values are really good. Except for the party song, all the melodies and the pathos song are soothing. The Kashmir part in the first half has got good frames all over. The background music is good. Apart from the performances, the overall plot of Kushi has more than one topic that fails to establish a proper connection with each other. The dialogues are fine.

Vijay & Samantha Songs Kashmir Visuals

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Ineffective Conflict Lack of emotional depth Over-the-top scenes

We have some cult movies like Sakhi with the eloped couples getting married and later facing the struggle of compatibility in married life. Kushi deals with a similar plot but with additional elements like belief in god included within.

The first half has mostly a breezy romance in Kashmir. Though the scenic visuals and songs enthrall us in the first half, the story moves at a snail’s pace keeping us waiting until the actual plot is revealed before the interval. The comedy of Vennela Kishore worked in parts.

While the first half is only about Viplav and Aradhya, the second half is a complete gear shift to family and emotional drama. Again, the story runs at a slow pace with a good number of missing logics, the emotions and comedy becomes the saviors working in parts. One particular scene of Vijay Deverakonda’s Arjun Reddy reference brings out laughs. Some prolonged comedy episodes in the second half manage to entertain the audience.

Kushi has a good share of narrative going flat and pale. Due to the lengthy second half the graph took a fall. The climax episodes with Sachin Khedkar and a few dialogues by Murli Sharma are impressive and they helped it pick up. Many emotional scenes worked well only due to the actors’ performances but the lack of depth in the scenes stuck out like a sore thumb.

The ego war between the fathers of the lead couple appears to be not justified by the misunderstandings they had. Also, the impact of another couple revealing their past is not shown well.

Overall, Kushi is a mixed plot of topics like marriage, misunderstandings, and parents’ egos that work only in parts. The songs, picturization, and a few comedy scenes make it a passable entertainer on the whole. Kushi gets decent marks compared to those disasters attacking audiences every week and it has to be seen how it fares at B & C centers.

Bottomline: Music Rocks – Story Has Cracks

Rating: 2.75 /5

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Kushi Review: This Sweet Love Story About Our Differences Needed More Originality

Writer and Director: Shiva Nirvana

Cast: Vijay Deverakonda , Samantha , Sachin Khedekar, Murali Sharma, Jayaram, Rohini

Duration: 165 minutes

Available in: Theatres

Kushi , like its title, wants to keep the mood pleasant and gleeful. The decision ends up being a double-edged sword. The light-hearted mood ensures that the film is pleasing and easily watchable for the most part, even though large chunks of it are not unique by any means. However, at times, this simplicity comes in the way of the broad concept at its centre, refraining the film from leveraging on its full potential. On the flip side (let me also double up as the devil's advocate here), had the film gone full throttle on the 'science vs faith' argument, I might have complained about the film's indulgence and preachy tone. So, I understand the filmmaker's choice to restrict the argument to the undercurrent, but still, a little more depth would have exalted  Kushi  from being a simple entertainer to a remarkable mainstream outing.

Generic but breezy

Viplav (Vijay Deverakonda) and Aaradhya (Samantha) come from families with different ideologies. Viplav is the son of Lenin Satyam (Sachin Khedekar), a staunch atheist whose house has Ayn Rand quotes mounted on the wall, whereas Aaradhya is the daughter of Chandarangam Sreenivas Rao (Murali Sharma), a popular Hindu guru. The clash of these two worlds means not only their cultures differ but also their ideologies. We have seen enough inter-caste and inter-faith love stories— Mani Ratnam 's  Bombay  comes to mind instantly and there are enough references to the filmmaker here — but  Kushi  is more interested in the ideological differences between the families and of course, the couple.

It's a delightful, relevant premise. In fact, the film's interval centered on a common belief or, say, superstition, that a black cat is a bad omen, is a wonderful, funny touch. But to get there, we need to sit through a large chunk of the generic first-act set in Kashmir. Shiva Nirvana tips his hat to  Roja , and there's a hilarious pun about the romanticisation of the valley's picturesque geography. This entire stretch, charting the origin of the couple's love story sparked by a lie runs its course pretty soon and feels bloated after a point. It's also during this act we get an unnecessary, terribly set-up, and haphazardly shot bike chase sequence that makes you wonder if filmmakers don't realise that the audience can see through the fakeness of a green matte. But I don't have major complaints because most of the Kashmir sequence is breezy, even if its stretched beyond a limit.

The central conflict needed more depth

Things become interesting and dramatic when the families get involved. It's fascinating how the marriage of Viplav and Aaradhya becomes a tool for their fathers and ideological rivals, to prove each other wrong, unaware that it's the happiness of their children that's at stake. The dynamic shared by Chandarangam and Lenin (even though the characters are caricatures of a specific belief) feels far more interesting than the relationship between Viplav and Aaradhya, because it's original. This is an angle that I wish was explored more. At one point in the film, a tragedy occurs and Aaradhya becomes a 'subject' for these two men to corroborate their ideologies, forgetting that she's a grieving individual. Also, it's weird that this loss feels only like Aaradhya's and not Viplav's too. It becomes hard to understand Viplav after a point because of the inconsistency in writing. The gravity of the situation demanded more depth. What does Aaradhya think about her father's belief? What does Viplav's mother (Saranya Ponvannan), a believer who has been married to an atheist for almost three decades, feel about her husband's stand on their son's marriage?

Viplav's parents are living examples of leading a happy (?) life despite having different belief systems and you wish the film used their super interesting relationship to lend beauty to the idea of co-existence, which the film posits. It feels like a missed opportunity. There's a very  2 States -ish moment towards the end and I was wishing Viplav's mother gets a scene with her husband. Sure, Rohini's confrontation with her conservative family in  Ante Sundaraniki  comes to mind but  Kushi  needed one such moment between the elder couple. 

Trades complexity for entertainment

We also get a highly predictable but lovely arc featuring a senior inter-faith couple, Zoya and Thomas, played by Rohini and Jayaram respectively. It's an element that proves why cliches exist for the millionth time: because they work when done well. The bond they share is reminiscent of Ganapathy uncle and Bhavani aunty from  Ok Kanmani  but they add to the film's lively world. Logically speaking, the placement of the reveal in Zoya-Thomas' arc feels a bit off because it shares a common factor with Aaradhya's tragedy and I was wondering where this couple was when the younger couple could have used their help during a turbulent period.

When the film can spend time on a tasteless comedy scene in a fertility clinic (which is bound to evoke heavy laughter in theatres, without a doubt), why not let Zoya and Aaradhya have a moment in private? This is the depth the film's world lacks. It's all cute on the surface level, like a small, sweet scene featuring Thomas and Aaradhya, where he teaches her how to cook fish curry, but you wish for stronger, heartfelt moments. There's a great scene in which Zoya scolds Viplav for generalising women, but it's also a film in which there's a dance number generalising wives. Kushi  is not perfect, but it wants to be honest and is sweet enough to convince you to let go of its flaws, and most of this admiration can be attributed to the presence of its leads, Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha.

Murali G and Hesham Abdul Wahab neatly complement Shiva Nirvana in keeping the mood pleasant and cheerful, with pleasing colours. Murali G beautifies even a normal flat, even if you know it's not realistic. Again, when the magic works, logic can rest. Even during its most dramatic moments, Kushi is never melodramatic, making it Shiva Nirvana's most controlled and mellow film yet. And what the film does with its climax is delightful. It's an edgy climax because, like Viplav and Aaradhya, Shiva doesn't take a side and how he deals with it is, once again, incredibly simple but lovely — something that applies to the most part of  Kushi .

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Kushi Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes

Director: Shiva Nirvana

Starcast: Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Sachin Khedekar, Saranya Ponvannan, Murali Sharma & Lakshmi

Platform: Theatres

Kushi Review

Sirf Pyaar Kaafi Hai! That’s what Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s feel-good love story Kushi is all about. It does talk about a bigger issue also but without being too preachy about it. Written and directed by Shiva Nirvana, Kushi sets hearts aflutter and celebrates ‘love’. It gives us a glimpse of a sweet romantic story and how love wins when two different worlds collide. The pan-India film hit the theatres this morning in five languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

Watch the trailer while reading Kushi Review :

Viplav (Vijay Deverakonda), an employee in BSNL falls in love with Aradhya (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) – a corporate professional – while they are in Kashmir. Mumbai-based Viplav convinces Aradhya to marry him and convince her family in Pune. However, much to their misery, the couples’ fathers are arch-enemies, because one believes in science and logic and the other in god and religion. While Aaradhya’s father, Chandrangam Srinivasa Rao (Murali Sharma) believes in the Almighty, Viplav’s father, Lenin Sathya (Sachin Khedekar), is an atheist and terms faith in God as rubbish. He is a man of reason and feels that what the other man has is nothing but blind faith.

But Viplav and Aradhya – madly in love – opt for a court marriage, going against the will of their fathers. However, the couple soon faces relationship problems due to insecurities, jealousy and a clash of mindsets. What makes their relationship stronger than ever and brings ‘Kushi’ into their married life is the crux of this romantic drama. And oh, that Arjun Reddy reference scene just takes the cake.

Performances

Vijay and Samantha spread the magic of their romance beautifully in Kushi. Their chemistry is bang on in this one. The duo represents modern-day couples with much realism and reliability. Kudos to Sachin Khedekar and Murali Sharma for portraying two completely contrasting characters with pure honesty. The entire supporting cast including Saranya Ponvannan, Lakshmi, Vennela Kishore and Rohini add a humourous punch to the romantic film.

Technical Aspect

Shiva Nirvana has done a decent job with his writing and direction. The storyline, however, feels a little dragged at some points. Murali G’s cinematography is praise-worthy. The way he has shot all locations, including the beautiful Kashmir, is commendable. Prawin Pudi’s editing could have been much crispier. Hesham Abdul Wahab’s music is soulful and a treat to our ears.

Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha’s chemistry in Khushi

What’s great about the Shiva Nirvana-directed Kushi

Vijay & Samantha’s impeccable chemistry: What makes Kushi a sweet watch is Vijay and Samantha’s impeccable chemistry. Not only does it feel extremely effortless but also very real. The on-screen couple makes sure to make everyone go ‘aww’ with their romance.

Love vs. Faith: The story is based on the angle of love vs. faith in God and well, the makers have done a good job in portraying the message of ‘love is enough’. The film teaches us to have faith in our love and how everything eventually falls into place if you are with the right partner.

Dragged Storyline: At some points, the storyline feels dragged. Sure it keeps us entertained but it also feels just too stretched in some particular scenes. Kushi could have been a much crispier film – making it even more delightful for the audiences.

If you’re looking for a feel-good romantic film this weekend, then Kushi is the right film for you. Vijay and Samantha are sure to leave you impressed with their smooth chemistry and fairytale-like love story.

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Raised in an atheist household, a young man falls in love with the daughter of his father's arch-rival, a devout Hindu leader. Raised in an atheist household, a young man falls in love with the daughter of his father's arch-rival, a devout Hindu leader. Raised in an atheist household, a young man falls in love with the daughter of his father's arch-rival, a devout Hindu leader.

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• Trivia Principal photography commenced in April 2022, with the first schedule in Kashmir, which concluded in May. The shooting of the film took place in several places in Kashmir valley - Anantnag, Pampore railway station in Pulwama, Mamaleshwar Temple in Pahalgam and Dal Lake in Srinagar. The second schedule began in June and took place in Hyderabad, Vizag and Alappuzha. The third schedule began in November 2022.In May 2023, the title song of the film was filmed in Turkey.
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Kushi Movie Review: Shiva Nirvana's 'Kushi' is more about star power (Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha Ruth Prabhu) than convincing storytelling

• 06 Sep 2023
• Release Date: 01 Sep 2023

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Vijay Deverakonda gets to turn on every bit of his star wattage in Shiva Nirvana's Kushi . I personally prefer to watch this actor express angst: few young performers are better at locating so precisely the scabs and scars and ripped-open wounds in one's soul. But here, he is in his Geetha Govindam mode. In that review, I wrote: "Vijay Deverakonda is canny enough to realise that the new-fangled films that got him noticed may be better cinema , but to become a huge box-office draw, you need to be a popcorn entertainer who's a bit of everything to everyone." You could say the same about Kushi . It is a safe movie. It is a family movie. It is a movie that makes a joke about Arjun Reddy and says: "This is not that movie. This is a safe movie. This is a family movie." And Vijay handles it all like a pro, like a supermodel who knows exactly where to look and how to turn for Murali G's camera to record him at his starriest.

His character is named Viplav. He works for a government company (BSNL) the way Shah Rukh Khan's character worked for AIR in Dil Se . When the first track from Hesham Abdul Wahab's lovely album ( 'Na Roja nuvve' ) , was released, many people noted that the lyrics were filled with the names of Mani Ratnam's movies. It was no accident. The main story of Kushi is about science vs. superstition, but a parallel narrative is about the many Mani Ratnam-esque storylines in here. Viplav falls for the burqa -clad Aaradhya (Samantha Ruth Prabhu), in Kashmir, and when they decide to get married, their families find there's too much incompatibility, too much friction. Aaradhya's father throws her out. Viplav/Aaradhya take up a place of their own, and negotiate married life with all its ups and downs with a guest appearance-making older couple (Rohini / Jayaram)...

This is an inelegant screenplay, which throws plot points at you instead of easing you into them. For instance, how do we know that Viplav's father (Sachin Khedekar) is a science-loving atheist? Because, in the very first scene , he's called to the podium on World Science Day and he rants against superstition. Now that that checkbox is cleared, how do we know that Aaradhya's father (Murali Sharma) is a scripture-quoting theist? Because in a train, in Kashmir , the man right behind Aaradhya plays… scripture being quoted by her father! If Viplav's devout mother (Saranya Ponvannan) is so afraid of incurring his father's wrath, then why would she conduct a ritual in the living room for all to see? When Viplav lands in Kashmir for his posting, he seems surprised to see an explosion – but afterwards, nothing occurs that marks this state as particularly troubled, nor is Viplav wary about moving around. So why have this scene suggesting a war-torn state? So on and so forth. 

Kashmir is simply the place Viplav meets Aaradhya, whose reason for wearing that burqa may make some eyes roll. What Kushi needed to do in the first half is establish their romance firmly. But his is a case of love at first sight (which, again, might be a Mani Ratnam nod), and we waste a lot of time over a bizarrely over-the-top subplot about her missing brother. Neither Viplav nor Aaradhya behaves like a real person. They are exaggerated caricatures doing things we are meant to find "sweet" and "cute" and "romantic". I admit I giggled at the sight of Vennela Kishore taking a shit in the snow while listening to Lag jaa gale . And a joke involving apples is mildly amusing. But all this does nothing for the love story we are meant to be rooting for, and there is literally no basis for why Aaradhya should fall for Viplav. 

But at the end of this tiresome "brother" subplot (it goes on and on in this 2:45-hour movie) Samantha sells her reason beautifully. Aaradhya believes in destiny and God, and she feels Viplav is the man for her. It can't be explained rationally, but Samantha is so good (and so old-world gorgeous) that she makes you feel what she is feeling. And the early parts of the second half are where you finally feel the chemistry between the two stars, the two actors. Over a song that breezes through a year of screen time, we see Viplav and Aaradhya do small things (instead of the big, exaggerated things earlier) that make them believable as a couple. Knowing his atheism, she hesitates to buy a small statue of Ganesha, but then, he surprises her with… a small statue of Ganesha. This bit in the song tells us everything about living with another person: that you can do your own thing, and yet respect your partner's beliefs. 

Had this flavour continued, we might have had an excellent second half that touched on this core (and universal) concept of being true to yourself and yet… adjusting, compromising… to an extent that doesn't break that true self of yours. Instead, we get into exaggerations again to escalate the conflict between this couple. Out of nowhere, Viplav turns into this man who says things like "Women should be put in their place." And a scene at a fertility centre is treated as broad comedy, which destroys the emotion behind going to that fertility centre in the first place. I could overlook the two unnecessarily overblown action sequences: art and the box office need as much adjustment and compromise as a couple does. But what to do with a scene where Aaradhya's foreign client says he would have married her had she been single – just so that Viplav can overhear this and get more conflicted?

I liked the ending. I liked Viplav's small confrontation with his father. When the older man does something that goes against his beliefs, you realise the power of good melodrama. And when the science vs. superstition dilemma is resolved apparently by God or Nature (depending on which side of the divide you fall on), it's the perfect ending. Because not all debates have conclusive answers. This last stretch captures that balance that Alaipaayuthey did, between heightening something for cinematic effect and yet keeping things real. But it's when some things are done so well that the rest of it rankles. If all you want is pretty people in pretty surroundings and a pretty soundtrack, I suppose Kushi fits the bill. But I'd say the film is a missed opportunity. The sort of writing where Viplav wakes up and finds Aaradhya missing (and the resolution to this) – it's shock value for the sake of shock value. It tells us not to take this couple seriously. And when that doesn't happen, where's the movie?

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Kushi movie review: When love and acceptance is convoluted

In that vein, Kushi is a missed chance. In a country where extremists seek life in the name of love jihad, it could have really fostered love and acceptance

Cast: Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Director: Shiva Nirvana

Kashmir, religion, love jihad, Hindutva and superstitious. Kushi , starring Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu takes on all of these socio-political conflicts, not to portray a visceral and effecting story but romance and melodrama. These conflicts provide fodder that is clickbaity enough to draw the crowd in as it is laced with humor. So it is no surprise then that the film ends up becoming way too convoluted. Viplav (Vijay Deverakonda) works at the telephone exchange in Kashmir, and after his chance meeting with Ara ‘Begum’ (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) he falls in love.

In an attempt to establish that Viplav’s love is beyond religion, the film chooses Kashmir as a set-up. Is it tone-deaf? Yes! Will filmmakers continue to use the Kashmir conflict as a plot device? Looks like it. In fact, from the very beginning, Kushi made me uncomfortable. The film tries to tell audiences that only women in burqa are safe in a place such as Kashmir. It has a Hindu girl dressed in a burqa visiting a temple. After the hijab row, and the apparent Islamophobia in our country, this set-up could have been used to portray inclusivity and a sense of brotherhood and belonging. Instead, we get men dressed in Muslim attire drawing weapon against a group of people belonging to another religion.

As if this weren’t enough, there is another layer to this story. What happens when an atheist falls in love with a believer? This is not a believer who keeps her faith personal, but the kind that also believes in superstitions, to the extent that she a black cat is bad omen in her life. Her father speaks of nothing but the God, God’s teaching and so on. Viplav’s father, on the other hand, believes in nothing but science. Can Aradhya and Viplav really overcome the differences in their belief system and their upbringing? In the honeymoon period, none of this seem to matter. However, as days pass and conflict of a failed pregnancy enters their relationship, everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

Aradhya, who buries the believer in her and forsakes her faith for the time being is forced to ponder on the words of her father, a pandit who had foretold that her relationship with Viplav was fated to fail. She wonders if one ‘homam’ can really resolve all the issues and misunderstanding that had recently cropped up in her relationship and addresses the same to Viplav. Her father is after all not a quack in her eyes. It is at this moment that we begin to wonder, what of love and acceptance beyond faith?

The film did find its way to acceptance towards the very end, yes, but what of all the moments before. Ones where the film did nothing but establish the fact that differences would only lead to misery in a relationship? To establish that the opposite of the conflict is true, no time in spent and instead, we now see the focus of the film shift from differences in faith to pregnancy. Convoluted sounds like an understatement at this point.

In that vein, Kushi is a missed chance. In a country where extremists seek life in the name of love jihad, it could have really fostered love and acceptance. It could have been heart melting and mesmerizing. Instead, we have something forgettable. The music is honestly the only redeeming factor in this film that is ridden with too many ideas.

Rating: 2 (out of 5 stars)

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Kushi Review: Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu's love-story is sweet and endearing but problematic

Kushi directed by Shiva Nirvana and starring Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu is now playing at a theatre near you.

• Kushi stars Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in lead roles.
• Kushi now plays at a theatre near you.

Name: Kushi

Cast: vijay deverakonda,samantha ruth prabhu,jayaram, rating: 2.5, where to watch: netflix.

Kushi is the story of 2 families where the patriarchs Lenin Sathya (Sachin Khedekar) and Chadarangam Srinivasa Rao (Murali Sharma) have diametrically opposite views on God and faith. The daughter of Chadarangam, Aradhya ( Samantha Ruth Prabhu ) and the son of Lenin Sathya, Viplav ( Vijay Deverakonda ) fall in love with one another in Kashmir, unaware of eachother's family backgrounds. Despite their horoscopes not matching and foresigns of adversities in married life, the two, against the wishes of the patriachs, decide to marry eachother and prove that they are an ideal couple and their bond is stronger than the adversities that they may face.

What works:

Kushi has a very strong foundation and its subject matter makes for an interesting theatrical watch. Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu have a really beautiful chemistry. The supporting cast is excellent. The film blends humour and drama seamlessly. The meta references are sure to make you chuckle. Songs in the film are melodious, especially 'Aradhya'. The film has been captured on camera, breathtakingly.

What doesn't:

Kushi's stereotypical gags are a major turnoff. Many dialogues and moments in the film come off as problematic. The haphazard use of Hindi in the first half is quite testing. The film is lengthy and could do with atleast 20 minutes of trimming. The couple of action blocks in Kushi lack conviction and just don't fit well with the tone of the film.

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Kushi Acting Performances:

Vijay Deverakonda as Viplav is in good form and embodies his character with ease.  Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Aradhya is very graceful and endearing to watch.  Murali Sharma and Sachin Khedekar play their parts extremely well and their confrontational scenes add to the film's merits. Other cast members only elevate the film further.

Kushi Movie Final Verdict:

Kushi is definitely an interesting film conceptually with solid acting performances and other technical aspects. However, its excessive length, incoherent screenplay and questionable approach don't let it become a defining film which it could have become. You can watch Kushi at a theatre near you.

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