Review of the Telugu movie "The Family Star"

The Director of the movie Parasuram Petla made Telugu film ‘Family Star’, starring Vijay Deverakonda and Mrunal Thakur, is an scramble chaos.

In the intermission of the Telugu film "The Family Star", when an interesting twist is revealed, the protagonist Govardhan (Vijay Deverakonda) walks away, slowly realising the magnitude of what has just unfolded. He rolls his eyes, shrugs his shoulders and tries to walk with his swag, letting reality sink in. A similar reaction and emotion might describe how this reviewer felt at different times of the film, trying to decipher what exactly the film’s director Parasuram Petla, who was co-written the film with Vasu Varma, intended to convey. The second collaboration of the director Parasuram and the actor Vijay Deverakonda, years after Geetha Govindam, starring Mrunal Thakur as the female lead, is neither interesting nor entertaining.

The film  depicts that how Govardhan, a middle-class family man who shoulders responsibilities, is a star who wears his attitude on his sleeve. He might be heavily budgeting his household expenses (he makes gossamer-thin dosas to make the batter last longer!) that includes his grandmother (Rohini Hattangadi), two brothers, sisters-in-law and their children. He considers his responsibilities as his duty rather than a burden. And, he is no pushover. He can flex his muscles and bend iron if needed, the star playing the middle-class man. All these small things, one hopes, will eventually add up to the masala family entertainer