Darling Cast: Priyadarshi, Nabha Natesh, Madusudan Goud, Ananya Nagalla, Vishnu Oi, Krishna Tej, Brahmanandam
Crew:
Music by Vivek Sagar
Cinematography by Naresh Ramadurai
Editing by Pradeep E. Raghav
Written & Directed by Aswin Raam
Produced by Niranjan Reddy & Chaitanya Reddy
Darling Movie Rating: 2/5
After a gap, Nabha Natesh is back to the silver screen with Darling. While Priyadarshi is billed as the leading man, this movie majorly belongs to her. From the promotional material, it is clear that she is playing a character with ‘Multiple Personality Disorder’. With such a different and unique premise, let’s discuss about the movie in detail.
Plot:
Raghav(Priyadarshi) is brainwashed from young age that getting married is ultimate goal in life. For him, going to Honeymoon with his wife to Paris becomes life-long dream. But he gets left at altar by his psychology doctor friend(Ananya Nagalla). Unable to comprehend with the trolls and cheap remarks aimed at him by everyone, he decides to commit suicide. Anandi(Nabha Natesh) saves him at the very moment.
She asks him to take his life into his own hands and take a decision. He thinks on spot and takes a decision to marry her. She also accepts and he takes her to his house to show to his parents. This all happens in just 6 hours and without knowing anything about her, he marries her. But he finds out that she has Multiple Personality Disorder on first night. What happens next? How will he solve the issue? Watch the movie Darling to know more.
Analysis:
Dealing with a plot that has a lead suffering with Multiple Personality Disorder, any writer should be able to balance comedy with emotions. With several characters coming out of one person, either you need an exceptional actor or convincing character writing. Darling makers fail to capture emotions and don’t get the tone right, too. The comedy scenes try hard to evoke laughter and even emotional scenes don’t sit right.
Their attempt at slapstick comedy fall flat as we don’t emotionally connect with characters. If we connect with Raghav, we can understand his necessity to stick to his decision or his love for Aanandi. If we connect with Aanandi or any of her characters, we can hope for her to find solace in Raghav’s embrace. With no emotional connection, Darling, ends up being a wafer-thin plot dragged out for no reason.
A person going through trauma might not be always happen to comprehend with ways to express it. So, maybe they do need several personalities to express it all out. Psychological science and doctors around the world are trying to figure out the reason behind such disorder. While making a movie, makers needed to try and find ways to connect the audiences with the character. Just like Aparichitudu, but Darling ends up being an unintentional spoof of that movie.
Priyadarshi tried his best to carry the film on his shoulders. But he needed support from writing team and even he needs to improve his skills in handling emotional scenes. Nabha Natesh tried her best to fit in to all the personalities but she also couldn’t convince in every personality. Rest of them are fine but writing and directing let everyone down. On the whole, Darling ends up being a bad attempt with a good plotline.
Positives:
Production Values
Vivek Sagar Songs
Interesting Premise
Negatives:
Irritating Scenes
Underwhelming Screenplay
Bad Writing
Draggy Narrative
Darling Movie Bottom-line: Very Unromantic Date!
