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Fahim Farook
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Of the various sub-genre of love stories that you find in Indian cinema, the they-fall-in-love-without-ever-having seen each other is one of the rarer ones. I like this genre because it’s harder to tell a story which is is believable for this scenario. And yet, some manage to do it …
“Butta Bomma” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23490324) appeared to be one such movie. The last such movie I recall seeing is from the ‘90s when mobile phones weren’t prevalent and the love story was built around letters.
This one makes full use of modern tech (or at least, somewhat modern tech since some of the plot revolves around not having a smartphone with a camera) where the love story developes between two people via phone.
The first half is a simple, sweet love story where two people find each other against odds. And then it all changes in the second half …
Revealing the rest of the plot would spoil things and so I’m not going to, but all I’ll say is that it takes a much darker turn at this point and diverges quite a bit from the sweet love story I’d expected. If you want a love story, this is not the movie for you, but if you want to be surprised it might work.
How the story goes is probably closer to life than the love story (and there is a somewhat happy ending to at least one love story in the movie) but if I wanted real-life, I’d watch the news instead 😛
#MiniReview #Movies #Telugu
“Butta Bomma” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23490324) appeared to be one such movie. The last such movie I recall seeing is from the ‘90s when mobile phones weren’t prevalent and the love story was built around letters.
This one makes full use of modern tech (or at least, somewhat modern tech since some of the plot revolves around not having a smartphone with a camera) where the love story developes between two people via phone.
The first half is a simple, sweet love story where two people find each other against odds. And then it all changes in the second half …
Revealing the rest of the plot would spoil things and so I’m not going to, but all I’ll say is that it takes a much darker turn at this point and diverges quite a bit from the sweet love story I’d expected. If you want a love story, this is not the movie for you, but if you want to be surprised it might work.
How the story goes is probably closer to life than the love story (and there is a somewhat happy ending to at least one love story in the movie) but if I wanted real-life, I’d watch the news instead 😛
#MiniReview #Movies #Telugu
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