Bubblegum Movie Review: Anchor Suma Kanakala's son Roshan has become a hero. He displayed a lot of heroism in promotions with his words. It was a bit over the top. He gave a lot of hype about his film 'Bubble Gum'. This hype is also very necessary for the name of director Ravikanth.
Ravikanth, the director of two films, made a hit thriller called 'Kshanam' with Adivi Sesh and a hit romantic OTT movie called 'Krishna and His Leela'. This time, Roshan made his third attempt as a hero by focusing on a youth love movie. Let's find out if this attempt was successful and if this will be a hit entry for Roshan...
Bubblegum Movie Story:
Adi (Roshan Kanakala), is the son of a middle-class mutton shop owner Yadagiri. He dreams of becoming a DJ. He tries for this in a pub. An upper-class girl, Janu (Manasa Chowdhury), comes to the same pub. She is planning to go abroad and do a fashion design course. Adi falls in love as soon as he sees her. Jaanu also makes eye contact.
She is the type who uses boys as toys and throws them away. He finds them as such toys. She chases him, gives him hunting trips, romances, Goa tours, gives him a lot of money and a car, makes him feel like a king, and then throws him away.
But she falls in love herself. After falling, she humiliates him terribly at a party. With this, Adi, who is on the road, decides that this is not love, but that his dreams are more important and focuses on becoming a dije. The rest of the story is how the two reconcile.
Bubblegum Movie Analysis:
This is another 'A' certified adult movie that was made targeting the youth like the recent hit 'Baby'. Lip locks and vulgarities are freely used as today's youth culture dictates. It seems that Roshan's entry movie was brought to the audience in such a rude manner. It was also given an 'Arjun Reddy' touch. All these together, Roshan's acting, mass heroism, and angry young man's dominance beyond his age were played by him in the first movie.
This story also seems to have broken away from the trend of outdated youth movies. This latest youth movie is similar to the youth movies that were released in droves under the name of 'lighter vein rom-com' with new directors and new heroes and heroines between 2000-2005, under the influence of 'Chitram' and 'Nuvve Kavali' youth movies.
In the trend of that time, there were only two types of weak stories - if it was a breakup due to misunderstandings, then it was not possible to say that you loved someone. The current story is a weak story of egos between two people, routine scenes, and very weak filming.
The first half is about both falling in love and breaking up, egos being the reason for the breakup, the hero's humiliation being dull, the second half is about focusing on the hero's dreams who doesn't want love, the heroine who doesn't want the hero chasing after his love... It tests patience with old amateur storylines. Although the ending seems good in the end, it doesn't give much relief to the patience that was lost by then.
It's not a storyline - it's a foolish attempt to do justice to the 'A' certificate, and to use vulgar language, thinking that these are the only things that are suitable for a film. If a Hyderabadi hero character uses vulgar language in Hyderabadi Urdu, the Telugu audience doesn't know much about their meaning. They have taken this path without having the courage to use the Urdu language in Telugu. The trailer itself tells us what the film is about with this language.
Performances – Techniques:
If it stays like this, it will be difficult to bear Roshan's acting in future films. His excess will be a curse on him. There is nothing more to say. Chaitu Jonnalagadda, who played his father's role, acted better than him without seeming like he was actually acting. Roshan should learn this in acting.
Telugu heroine Manasa Chowdhury is beautiful. Even if she is given a heavy role, she seems to act easily. The role has weight in the second half but lacks dignity. Harshavardhan, Bindu Chandramouli, Anu Haasan and others are seen in the remaining roles. Viva Harsha's comedy is poor.
Some effort has been made in terms of songs, cinematography and other techniques. The effort that should have been done with the content has not been done. Content like this does not even require effort.