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Maa Nanna Superhero

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Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

Maa Nanna Superhero
Sangeetha Devi Dundoo
The Hindu
Sudheer Babu shoulders a patchy relationship drama

Sudheer Babu and Saichand’s performances anchor ‘Maa Nanna Superhero’, an uneven relationship drama that scores in a few segments

A scene in director Abhilash Reddy Kankara’s Telugu film Maa Nanna Superhero (my dad is a superhero) shows the protagonist Johnny (Sudheer Babu) taking his house owner to task and abruptly pausing when the latter’s daughter comes into the picture. He does not want to make the man seem a lesser mortal to his child. The narrative attempts to ride on the universal emotion of children seeing their father as a superhero. Abhilash wonders how far a son would go to save his father, with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship. The plot becomes more complex as it involves a father Srinivas (Sayaji Shinde) and his adopted son Johnny, and later, the biological father also returns. This idea might seem intriguing at the script level, but the film seems uneven and is held together by a few endearing moments.

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