The story of Hari Babu (Varun Tej) and Seetha Devi (Pragya Jaiswal), lovers separated by caste – she is the daughter of a zamindar household and he is the grandson of a barber who also plays instruments at festive occasions – is narrated in the backdrop of pre-independent India. There are tons of films on World War II made in Hollywood and in various European languages.
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Kanche is directed by Krish and it mainly focuses, Varun Tej, Pragya Jaiswal, Srinivas Avasarala and Nikitin Dheer in lead roles. They meet, fall in love and the story begins there. She had attractive fresh looks which binds the viewers.
Drawing interesting parallels to the discrimination meted out to Jews in Hitler-ruled Germany Hari Babu love letters from the line of fire during WW II are revelatory to say the least.
Eshwar and Hari also end up in the same battalion fighting the Germans in Italy. Moreover, the second half has several flaws in war scenes, and at a time, they even test the patience of the audience. To get these answers, on should watch the movie on silver screen.
The movie is entertaining, there’s no doubt about that (if you ignore the hilarious war sequences). But it took a Telugu director – Krish Jagarlamudi – to daringly dream and achieve it with aplomb. The collections have been quite strong in overseas areas in which the movie witnessed huge occupancy. Unless the idea was to only show the movie to an audience that wouldn’t know better? More importantly, for a film like this, one expects an earth-shattering climax, which is otherwise falling short by just a few notches.
Krish has a reputation to live up to. You can not be the maker of films like Gamyam, Vedam and Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum and then make a Kanché.
Varun Tej as soldier and young guy in 1940’s is suited well to the character.
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But Krish’s attempt at giving an outsider’s insight into an event which happened almost 75-80 years ago is appreciable because he manages to recreate an era gone by and the attention to detail can be seen with special care to the attires – except for Pragya who looks too fancy and made up for those times – and their props. With 2.5 million Indians up in arms in the greatest war of the 20th century, we could have had as many stories. Megastar Chiranjeevi would be sharing his opinion about the movie to the media. Those should be good enough reasons, no?
