In an early scene filmed like a joke, the hero and his friends disguise themselves as Naxalites and assault a corrupt officer at his official guest house. Tuck Jagadish belongs to the new Telugu cinema that borrows elements from the erstwhile leftist Erra Cinema that portrayed the struggles of the peasant community in the region, not because it endorses the ideology of the latter but because it looks cool. When the villain sets out to grab the peasants’ farm plots, the hero abandons his boyishness and assumes the role of the village’s guardian. Veerendra is the yin to Jagadish’s yang an uncouth villager diagonally opposite to an educated modern man who likes to dress like he is ready for office any time. He controls the local land revenue office, the film’s centre of conflicts, using money and muscle. A thoroughly remorseless murderer, the latter is also a habitual sexual harasser. At the same time, Veerendra (Daniel Balaji), the head of the second family, is a blown-up villain who flexes his muscles and clenches teeth for reasons as minor as a wailing infant. In an early scene, he is seen carefully tending to an injured fowl. Jagadish, the scion of one of the families, possesses a laughably heightened version of righteousness. In Tuck Jagadish, emotional continuity is as petty a concept as subtlety.Īt the centre of the film are two feudal families. The background score oscillates unevenly between mawkish and upbeat. In his palatial house, he reunites with a horde of relatives who, like diligent stage artistes, come forward one by one and perform soap-operatic melodrama. Jagadish (Nani) enters in a shiny car, rolling out deadpan humour. However, in the ninth minute, the film changes costume to become a comedy. Scenes of betrayal, high-pitched wailing and battered life in a village ruled by a brutal landlord. Within the first eight minutes of Tuck Jagadish, a Telugu language drama directed by Shiva Nirvana, four men are gruesomely murdered, in separate incidents of land disputes. Originally published on Silverscreen India on September 10, 2021
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