![]() ![]() ![]() A disgruntled Chandra marries Veerendra Naidu’s brother, as Jagadish does not reciprocate her love. However, her character is not well-defined. Aishwarya Rajesh is adequate as Chandra, the naive niece who is determined to marry Jagadish. The film has two female leads - Ritu Varma (Varalakshmi) and Aishwarya Rajesh (Chandra). In "mass” films, the audience are made to overlook certain aspects of reality, but how can one be convinced that a man who was preparing to leave the country, had been writing Group 2 exams all along, in secret? However, the background score by Gopi Sundar, particularly during the action sequences, is impressive. He described the village as a “sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism.” But in films like Tuck Jagadish, village life is made to seem like a paradise, with none of these aspects being represented for what they are.Įven if we are to ignore the politics of the film, the plot still has gaping holes in the logic. ![]() The love for villages by upper castes was best observed by Dr BR Ambedkar several years ago. “The love of the intellectual Indian for the village community is of course infinite, if not pathetic,” he wrote more than 70 years ago. Defying caste codes will result in violence of various degrees. Unfortunately, Tollywood films have always looked at village life from the perspective of Gandhi, or to be more precise, from an upper caste perspective that romanticises it. Perhaps, the only saving grace of the film is that it is not outrightly one Naidu family against the other. In this village, while Aadishesh Naidu is a modern day Gandhian with Vinobha Bhave characteristics, his rival is Veerendra Naidu, another zamindar, played by Daniel Balaji, the evil person who is set to encroach upon lands and turn the village into his private fiefdom. The film keeps reiterating that having a joint family is a bigger asset than owning vast amounts of wealth. The reason for Jagadish imparting family values whenever a dispute arises is because his own family is a wreck. What Jagadish’s father, Aadishesh Naidu (Nasser) was doing as a feudal lord without government authority, Jagadish continues to do from an official position. And it becomes Jagadish’s (Nani) responsibility to teach them family values and overcome these disputes. In the fictional rural village of Bhudevipuram, the residents are violent and land disputes within family members often result in revenge killings. ![]()
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