Committee Kurrollu Cast: Sandeep Saroj, Yaswanth Pendyala, Eshwar Rachiraju, Trinadh Varma, Prasad Behara, Manikanta Parasu, Lokesh Kumar Parimi, Shyam Kalyan, Raghuvaran, Shiva Kumar Matta, Akshay Srinivas, Raadhya, Tejaswi Rao, Teena Sravya, Shanmukhi Nagumanthri, Sai Kumar, Goparaju Ramana, Balagam Jayaram, Sri Lakhsmi, Kancherapalem Kishore
Crew:
Dialogues: Venkata Subhash Cheerla, Kondal Rao Addagalla
Associate Dialogues: Kiran Kumar Sathyavolu
DOP: Raju Edurolu
Music Director: Anudeep Dev
Editor: Anwar Ali
Writer-Director : Yadhu Vamsi
Producers: Padmaja Konidela & Jayalakshmi Adapaka
Presented by Niharika Konidela
Telugu Cinema has not been regular in offering “young” films and ensemble films. Committee Kurrollu tries to give an ensemble film with rural setting. Niharika Konidela on her Pink Elephant banner gave young director Yadhu Vamsi, the chance to narrate his story. Let’s discuss about the film, in detail.
Committee Kurrollu Movie Rating: 2.5/5
Plot:
A group of friends from a rural village connect with each other from school days. They live their life as an extended family but some of them stay back in village while others leave to live their lives. Siva(Sandeep Saroj), who is trying to fight in panchayat elections, decides to re-unite all of them after 12 years and conduct Jathara. He feels guilty that because of their ruckus among their group, village stopped conducting Jathara.
The group re-unites but each of them still bear the brunt of the accident happened during their last Jathara. Siva tries to unite everyone despite the fact, but Subbu and Surya, still have some animosity from the time. Finally, due to local politics, they decide to become Committee Kurrollu to conduct Jathara and iron out the communal issues. What is the incident? What did they do to correct it? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis::
Telugu Cinema did not produce many ensemble films and in that aspect, Committee Kurrollu is different. It doesn’t try to concentrate on only one person’s story but tries to be a story of the group. While this acts as a positive to the film, it also acts as a negative. The film finds it difficult to focus on one point and the narrative goes from being a nostalgic re-union story to political revolution.
The idea of the director, Yadhu Vamsi, is plausible. He wanted to narrate the story of a group of friends from rural village trying to figure out how “system” can bring, encourage and thrive on the communal differences playing with trump cards like financial issues, greed, gratitude. With too many things cramped in, Committee Kurrollu fails to really connect us with one issue or one path of narrative.
Yes, it is a story of evolution and director tries to narrate it as such. But his solution that is, change in “existing system”, should have been core point of the film. With focus being on that aspect, Committee Kurrollu might have been more hard-hitting drama that arrests us and forces us to think. Here, the ideas are visible and appreciable but they seem to be narrated in a very zigzag way. Hence, the film remains a decent effort in trying to narrate a cohesive evolution of a group against “systematic oppression” yet remains incohesive.
Ensemble cast performances are life of the film. Each and everyone are cast perfectly to their roles. They even managed to carry the narrative on their shoulders with likeable performances. Singer turned composer Anudeep Dev’s music also works like a soul to this film. On the whole, these Committee Kurrollu manage to entertain but don’t realise their full potential.
Positives:
Nostalgic moments
Rural vibe
Ensemble cast performances
Songs and BGM
Negatives:
Unfocused narrative
Lack of cohesive flow
Lacks clarity in final goal
Depends too much on nostalgia
Committee Kurrollu Bottom-line: Decent effort
