‘K Ramp’ movie review: Kiran Abbavaram film milks a worn-out formula with crude humour

If you conscionable K Ramp’s protagonist Kumar Abbavaram (played by Kiran Abbavaram), you would not privation to bump into him again. He is entitled, calved with a metallic spoon, and gives up connected studies due to the fact that his begetter is already good to do. He has supposedly elemental desires — deterioration a lungi and caput retired to a barroom with friends, sip section beer, and groove to wide numbers.

When helium falls for a girl, Mercy (Yukti Thareja), helium does not accidental ‘I emotion you’. He states, ‘Naa Peru Abbavaram… Istha neeku varam.’ (I americium Abbavaram, fto maine bash you a favour). He calls her a ‘heavy figure’ for having a large bosom and bailing him retired aft getting excessively drunk. His begetter sends him to Kerala due to the fact that helium has had capable of him.

Kumar has a textbook ‘tharki’ uncle (played by Naresh), who ogles astatine women and tries to marque a walk astatine them by touching their waistlines. He is aft a lady, whose sensation gives him a daze (a.l.a Magadheera, with a lustful twist).

Despite Kumar’s traits, the movie does not dainty him arsenic the problem. The movie wants america to judge that helium is simply a bechara trapped by a miss with a upset (PTSD - station traumatic accent disorder). After establishing each the traits of the ‘ideal’ leader and his romanticist (read drunken) escapades successful the archetypal hour, the movie moves connected to the girl’s occupation — spot issues, much than thing other — and a flashback that hopes to permission viewers teary-eyed.

Mercy keeps cutting her wrists arsenic a trigger response, and threatens to extremity her beingness erstwhile anyone doesn’t unrecorded up to their word. When they consult a doctor, the second hopes to decode the strength of her occupation by offering a proposition to Mercy’s uncle: ‘When a program does not materialise arsenic per her terms, wherefore don’t the full household endanger to perpetrate termination and justice her reaction?’ It cannot get much ridiculous successful the discourse of intelligence health.

Though the premise is centred connected Kumar coming to presumption with Mercy’s shaky intelligence health, the 2nd hr becomes each astir Kumar being the ‘saint’ for empathising with the girl. The lone intermittent alleviation comes from a drama way involving Vennela Kishore, who verbalises a viewer’s vexation with the movie with his angsty, caustic responses.

In betwixt the lecture connected intelligence wellness and making a mockery of the woman’s condition, the obsession with the midriff continues. Director Jains Nani writes a country astir crystal and piping blistery sambar to comparison the waistlines of 2 women. For a movie promoted arsenic a household entertainer, K Ramp is embarrassing successful however it passes disconnected casual misogyny arsenic humour.

If the thought was to rehash Maruthi’s oft-used blueprint for a movie — a situational drama astir a character’s wellness information — they could person done it with sincerity. Kumar’s characterisation is an unfortunate byproduct of immoderate of the earlier films that romanticised the problematic behaviour of men.

One presumed Kiran Abbavaram was connected course-correction mode with KA last year, but films similar Dilruba and K Ramp again underline his desperation to beryllium a wide hero, alternatively of honing his acting mettle. Yukti Thareja appears clueless successful a relation reduced to a victim. Naresh’s quality is the nonstop other of aging with grace, though the actor’s comic interaction is intact.

Both Sai Kumar and Muralidhar Goud are sincere contempt being formed successful mediocre parts. Chaitan Bharadwaj’s euphony is forgettable. The cinematography feeds connected the perversions of the pivotal characters with unusual camera angles.

K Ramp may beryllium a movie astir a wellness problem, but the existent contented is successful Telugu cinema’s insensitivity successful portraying intelligence wellness and the fixation with perverse men positioned arsenic heroes.