Sekhar Kammula’s ‘Kuberaa’ (Dhanush, Nagarjuna, Rashmika Mandanna) has interesting Big Ideas, but ends up a middling movie
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jun 19
- 1 min read
The story is about an evil, rich man who recruits a beggar for a job, and the film wants to be a fable with a moral about haves and have-nots. But the themes and ideas don’t fit in easily, and the film ends up occasionally engaging at best. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Sekhar Kammula’s new film is named after the Hindu god of wealth, and it is a story of haves and have-nots. Sekhar explored this zone in a lighter vein in Life is Beautiful, but this time, he is dead serious. Kuberaa opens with oil being found in the sea. Does this belong to all of India (i.e., can it be used to benefit the country), or can it be used to make a few rich men even richer? Jim Sarbh plays the rich villain, Neeraj. He wants it all, like we hear in the lyrics for Devi Sri Prasad’s ‘Trance of Kuberaa’. On the other hand, we have the poorest of the poor, the people who beg. Dhanush plays Deva, a beggar in Tirupati who ends up in Neeraj’s orbit for a reason he does not know. He is recruited for a job. He does not know that this job comes with a death sentence.
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