What: Romance, melodrama and liberal doses of comedy coalesce in the uneven but visually arresting Kushi, written and directed by Shiva Nirvana. The film’s primary theme hinges on a faith versus science debate, a phenomenon that plays spoilsport in the lives of a married couple essayed by Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha Ruth Prabhu.
Furthermore: If that sounds like an promising premise – it is definitely interesting to begin with – the film uses it only as a plot element to underscore the fact that a clash of worldviews can ruin a relationship. But since Kushi is a love story designed to give Vijay Deverakonda’s fans value for money, it finds a way of restoring order. It ties up in knots at times because the route it takes to a denouement would have been dismissed as convoluted had it not been visible from a mile away.
We say: It’s time Vijay Deverakonda starts looking for scripts with good content or else though he is immensely popular, he may lag behind in the rat race.
