Netflix Miss India Review in one word is Keerthy Suresh is all over the movie, she adds all the spark in this Telegu movie with her acting persona. The director has put in lot of work to make the rag to riches story convincing. Yet, it does not leave much to desire, and if not for the brilliance of Keerthy the movie wouldnt have lead us anywhere.
Story: Miss India, is a tale of a female entrepreneur who works her way up to set up a business in the US. The rags-to-riches story of Manasa Samyuktha (Keerthy Suresh) aims to aspire women to beat all odds to emerge victorious in a man’s world. But, according to Manasa’s family, business is not a woman’s cup of tea. Even when it is a cup of tea.
Even when Manasa is less than 10 years old, her dad is shown disregarding her academic results because being a topper doesn’t matter if one doesn’t have a goal. She grows up with her grandfather who brews herbal tea in their village of Lambasingi. The herbal tea, as we are told, will cure people of stomach ache and other issues.
Back to back tragedies push Manasa and her family to the US. Though this has opened up a new world for Manasa, her mom and brother still keep her wings clipped saying that they’re middle-class family and cannot set up a business. They say all this despite living in a villa.
Whether Keerthy’s Manasa manages to set up her tea business in the US and take on KSK Coffee, a competitive coffee chain in the States, forms the story.
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The premise of the story is empowering, about a woman entrepreneur needs to be appreciation though. What’s missing is the way it has be dealt with. Firstly, the chai that her grandfather brews relieves people of pain. But, Manasa’s tea doesn’t do that. In her customer’s words, however, it’s 10 times tastier than the rival KSK coffee owned by Kailash Shiva Kumar (Jagapathi Babu).
The camera is obsessed with Keerthy. There is hardly a frame without her, and the camera keeps following her focusing on her shoes, her arms before studying her rather bland expressions as she keeps walking from one office to another, along several corridors and through the many ups and downs in her life. At other times, the camera trains rather aimlessly on the San Francisco skyline or the gurgling streams in the city.
The story leaves you much to ask for, Suresh’s Manasa Samyuktha grows up in a middle-class home in Andhra Pradesh with a grandfather, who believes that tea has great medicinal properties, a hard-working father, a mother, who believes that every girl’s aim in life must be to marry, have children and sink into domestic bliss. Her brother oozes with male chauvinism.
The initial stretches in the film go on to show how Manasa’s family struggles to make ends meet. In a span of a few minutes, her sister elopes, dad has Alzheimer’s and grandfather passes away. These tragedies are supposed to make you feel for the lead character. Yet, it doesn’t invoke a sense of emotion in you.
Samyukta is a dreamer, and dreams big, and when the brother gets a job in San Francisco, the entire family moves along with him. There must have been some guardian angel at the US Immigration, who allowed the whole family to migrate together!
In her new home, Samyuktha finds a job, but she wants to do business – which is strongly opposed by her mother and brother. But she is determined to start a venture, and having grown up on tea, she believes that introducing “chai” to mostly coffee gulpers would be a great idea, and she sets about doing this.
The film aims to highlight the struggles of women in a male-dominated society, yet on the flip side, it gives space to make them an object of the male gaze.
The dialogues are not upto the mark as well, and let you down many a times. So are the strategies Keerthy and Jagapathi Babu which they play up against each other. You can see them coming from a mile away.
But, it is Keerthy Suresh who tries hard to salvage the film. But, there’s only so much she can do. Even the serious scenes turn out to be unintentionally funny because of the dialogues.
After her stellar performance in Mahanati and films we followed, we did expect, the writers of the film to etch a stronger story line for her which can set new standards and give her fans lot to cheer for. While, she is outstanding, there is little an actor can do to salvage a story that doesn’t back you up.
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Watch it for keerthy Suresh. She is the Miss India with all focus on her. Her dialogue stands out tall….”I’m born to do business” such an ambitious dialogue.”