Subham Movie Review: Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s debut as a producer – Subham is one of the most entertaining films in recent times and the credit goes to the writer Vasanth and director Praveen Kandregula
Review by Rajeshwari Kalyanam
Subham is a mad entertainer in the garb of a thriller that draws humour out of relatable situations. The story is set in the beautiful town of Bheemli and the time is before the cell phone generation.
This was when – come prime time the roads would be empty, and usually it’s the women of the house that would switch on the TV sets to watch their favourite serial, dwell on it and go through the roller coaster of emotions as dictated by the story that runs into 1000s of episodes with all its twists and turns. This is in fact their me time – which they wouldn’t trade for anything else. The latest serisl that enjoyed such popularity was Karthika Deepam. One can safely say that writer Vasanth Mariganti who also wrote Cinema Bandi took inspiration from the massive following Raja Babu and Vantalakka from the serial had while writing the film.
In Subham this obsession for soap operas
takes an interesting turn as the ghosts of the past come into fray to watch a prime time serial that has a hero named Raja Babu and is a never ending saga.
Every night at sharp 9pm young married women are mysteriously possessed and will do anything to watch the serial.
Three men are caught in the midst of it all – Harshith R , Charan Peri and Gavireddy Srinivas; one is recently wedded and runs cable network and is being influenced by his friends to be the dominant one in the marriage ; the second one runs a kirana shop and takes pride in controlling his wife and her choices and the third one calls himself an alpha male with a doting wife who indulges him to no end.
They soon realise their wives (Shriya Kontham, Shalini kondepudi and Shravani Lakshmi) and every other married woman in the town is similarly possessed.
Srinu (Harshith) has a competition Dish Kumar (Vamshidhar Gowd) who as his name suggests wants to shift every one from cable to Dish TV.
When they realise that things are getting out of control they seek the help of Maya. Samantha who is also the producer for the film plays the psychic adding her bit to the crazy drama.
With this premise the film lends itself to quirky comedy; the relatability of it all adding to the fun.
Rest of the film is about how the three manage to get out of trouble and drive the ghosts away.
The film is a horror comedy and the writing manages to keep the audience entertained and engaged – all the while carrying with it layer of sensible thought provoking under current of how the women are treated in a marriage and how the best of the intentions may not be the right ones. In this context the film has a lot to take away.
Subham is one of the most entertaining films in recent times and the credit goes to writer Vasanth and director Praveen Kandregula. They managed to keep the madness alive and humour intact. The cast mostly fresh faces have done well.
That said there are some scenes and twists in the second half that have had a lot of scope for better execution.
Background score by Vivek Sagar is non intrusive and just right for the film. Co produced by Himank Duvvuru, the film has Raj Nidimoru as Creative Producer, Mridul Sujit Sen as the Cinematograpgher and Dharmendra Kakarala as the editor. Shor Police composed the songs.
Subham is Samantha’s debut as a producer and, she has chosen well.
Subham Movie Review
Rating : 3/5
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