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Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

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Sangeetha Devi Dundoo
The Hindu
Hasith Goli and a brilliant Sree Vishnu strike again with a deceptive, layered satire

Director Hasith Goli’s Telugu film ‘Swag’ is a lot more than a satire on the battle of the sexes and he is helped immensely by the performances of Sree Vishnu, Ritu Varma and Meera Jasmine

When a man who wears his masculinity on his sleeve laments at how his son is growing up, displaying feminine traits, his wife tries to make him understand the importance of accepting an individual’s natural expression of gender. This segment and the portion that follows gives writer-director Hasith Goli’s Telugu film Swag the much-needed emotional anchor. Until then, the narrative is like a satire, with elements of farce and ‘absurd theatre’ as the several characters played by Sree Vishnu and the dual characters of Ritu Varma slug it out to assert the power of male versus female.

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