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Sankranthiki Vasthunam

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Sankranthiki Vasthunam
Sangeetha Devi Dundoo
The Hindu
Anil Ravipudi and Venkatesh’s film delivers mindless laughs

Anil Ravipudi and Venkatesh Daggubati go all out to entertain in their third collaboration, ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’, not too weighed down by the need to be politically correct

A character named Bulli Raju, played by child actor Revanth, mouths expletives that send grown-ups into a tizzy. We hear some of these words while the rest is masked by the background score. A section of the audience may wonder why the filmmaker makes a boy say things beyond his age. The very next minute, writer-director Anil Ravipudi’s Telugu film Sankranthiki Vasthunam reasons that the young mind has been corrupted by an overdose of content on digital platforms! Bulli Raju’s antics in an early scene bring the house down and set the tone for the film. Teaming up with Venkatesh Daggubati for the third time, after the farcical comedies F2 and F3, Anil is aware that all his target audiences want are a few good laughs. Logical reasoning and political correctness can take a backseat. Within that framework, the film delivers several laughs.

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