#keerthi

Wikipedia bills it as a romantic sports comedy drama but while watching, I realized it was a dual-hero mass action film, too. You get a villain in the first half, and a new villain in the second half.

You get two heroes, Keerthi (Aishwarya Lekshmi) and Veera (Vishnu Vishal), both fighting personal and social battles. Keerthi is fighting her family, social expectations, and personal expectations when it comes to her responsibilities and her dreams. Veera — you will hate him in many scenes but you will also learn that he is unlearning the toxic things he has learned from his uncle and other men in his life.

Both Keerthi and Veera are given cool mass moments, but Veera has more mass action scenes (one man vs many), while Keerthi has the cool hero lines when she’s talking to the bad guys (stuff like “you’ll have to get through me to get to him”). Although, Veera still gets to be the one to make a big speech about men and women equality. (I really wished Keerthi could have done a bigger speech, too.)

All in all, it’s a good family entertainer. The songs are really nice. I’ve got the track on spotify now because they’re such bops. I’ll probably post some gifs tomorrow.

Also… does anyone have recs for Aishwarya Lekshmi? Vishnu Vashal is cool and all, but I think I fell in love with Aishwarya more. I want to see more of her movies. (Forgot to add that I already saw her in PS but I need her to be in the lead role 🥰)